i’m sure you’ll be *shocked* to hear that the STOP CSAM act has nothing to do with actually stopping CSAM and everything to do with undermining end to end encryption
these laws always skew towards FUD. FUD about pedophiles. FUD about human trafficking. both of those concerns are to some degree legitimate, of course, and while pedophiles and human traffickers do benefit from end to end encryption, so does everyone else. they want you to forget that everyone benefits and focus on the criminal element instead.
pretty funny watching white fedi’s response to black twitter embracing bluesky after being burned by activitypub’s broken moderation and threat model 🙃
look i’m with you on bluesky being bad. but there are lessons to be learned and postmortems to be had. and anyone claiming there isn’t is in denial. you all were told by me and others all the way back in the early days of ActivityPub that we needed to take the abuse and trust problems seriously.
To be clear, no, Mastodon gGmbH cannot just "be sold to a VC or an equity fund."
By the way, anyone claiming things get "sold to VCs" probably doesn't actually know what they are talking about. The venture market definitely does not work that way.
@ariadne I am currently writing Vocata, which does ActivityStreams right™ by strictly seeing the Fediverse as an RDF graph. It can use Neo4j as storage backend.
to be absolutely clear, i have added (and am adding more) features to my instance because my community asked for them.
we do not care about the tacit approval of communities outside our own. if you want to have real conversations, great, but if you just want to bark orders at us at the threat of defederation, you're better off just hitting that defederate button now, because we are entirely disinterested in playing with white bullies.
i went with my gut on this one and silenced the nafo instance.
at the very least it’s nationalist propaganda spread by white liberals. and in the worst case it’s a literal cointelpro op.
either way, i have issues with people who gleefully enjoy the thought of weapons systems transfers and the thought of those weapons systems being used to murder people, regardless of their nationality.
all of those people have very clearly never seen a battlefield in their life. if they had they wouldn’t find enjoyment in this war.
war is an ugly business, be it a public war like this one, or a private war waged by industrially-funded warlords, and perhaps if you’ve never actually been involved in one, you shouldn’t find enjoyment in the transference of armaments or their usage against an enemy which isn’t actually yours (last i checked putin was not waging a ground war against the white liberals of the democratic party).
yes, absolutely, fuck putin, but deriving pleasure in the death and misery of his conscripts is immoral.
we should oppose war — including this one, and including putin’s attempts to annex ukraine — but it is possible to oppose state violence without deriving pleasure from the observation of counter violence.
i went with my gut on this one and silenced the nafo instance.
at the very least it’s nationalist propaganda spread by white liberals. and in the worst case it’s a literal cointelpro op.
either way, i have issues with people who gleefully enjoy the thought of weapons systems transfers and the thought of those weapons systems being used to murder people, regardless of their nationality.
see i think it’s pretty wild that there is a holiday that celebrates white people dunning-kruegering themselves into starvation and then getting bailed out. it’s like, the most white thing ever really.
these laws always skew towards FUD. FUD about pedophiles. FUD about human trafficking. both of those concerns are to some degree legitimate, of course, and while pedophiles and human traffickers do benefit from end to end encryption, so does everyone else. they want you to forget that everyone benefits and focus on the criminal element instead.