🤔 this might be a hard problem for Bluesky Different services on different layers run by different third parties for different purposes There's a spike in traffic, how to decide which services are critical and which can be burnt and what rate limits to set

There is no concept in this Fediverse Report of censorship resistance having any social effect beyond 'Nazis can post' Like for example, what incentives does a pluralist society offer vs one where tribal actions can deplatform individuals. How does free speech affect development of empathy. The more and more I see of mainstream Fediverse culture the more deeply underwhelming it is.

fediversereport.com

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 81

A major report on governance on the fediverse, conversations about public or private votes on the content-aggregator side of the fediverse, ⁂ as ...

Which kinda motivates trying the servers on the Mastodon.social blocklist 😄

Surveillance capitalism is a voracious business model

Eiko Fried

Welcome to Hotel Elsevier: you can check-out any time you like … not » Eiko Fried

A journey by Robin Kok and Eiko Fried trying to understand what private data Elsevier collects; what private data Elsevier sells; and what to do ab...

Meredith Whittaker on being nonprofit to keep Signal privacy

WIRED

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s fre...

@brugeman something weird happened to nostr stats? The sudden drop to 10k looks unnatural

In freely associating networks the topology emerges from the interplay between the constraints of the protocol and market forces The Fediverse is a classic federated topology Blue represents clients and orange represents servers ("instances" in Fediverse parlance) Servers may choose not to federate to other servers Users may self-host (one server per client) in which case the distinction between client and server is more a matter of code and computing distribution than a meaningful feature of the topology Nostr is kind of half-federated with even greater fungibility between client and server There is nothing stopping Nostr from rearranging into a Fediverse topology There is nothing stopping Nostr or the Fediverse from rearranging into a centralized topology Or even a distributed topology

Big influx from Brazil into Bluesky One report of 500k signups over the last two days Many won't care about decentralization and all that jazz 20% chance Bluesky is targetted by Justice Mordor before the end of the year

"lots of countries are now pushing for these laws that require internet companies to have local employees in order to arrest them if the company doesn’t do the government’s bidding"

Techdirt

Elon’s Standoff With Brazil Reveals Hypocrisy & Overreach By Both Sides

In the battle between Elon Musk and Brazil, there are no heroes — only two sides engaged in an epic display of hypocrisy and overreach. You may h...

"When we attempted to defend ourselves in court, Judge de Moraes threatened our Brazilian legal representative with imprisonment. Even after she resigned, he froze all of her bank accounts."

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Judge Orders X Ban in Brazil, Threatens People Accessing X via VPN with $8,874 Daily Fine

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes suspended Elon Musk's social media platform X in Brazil after Musk missed a 24-hour deadline to...

"Elon Musk showed his total disrespect for Brazilian sovereignty and, in particular, for the judiciary, setting himself up as a true supranational entity and immune to the laws of each country,"

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Judge Orders X Ban in Brazil, Threatens People Accessing X via VPN with $8,874 Daily Fine

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes suspended Elon Musk's social media platform X in Brazil after Musk missed a 24-hour deadline to...

Fuck-Droid are awful

GitLab

remove spinster app (!6013) · Merge requests · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

Let's remove spinster from the f-droid main repo. So, there are already a few people who want this app removed because of - allow me to...

4W - Feminist News

F-Droid Bans Feminist Social Media Site Spinster, Then Bans Female Dev for Asking Questions

Admin Marcus Hoffman states, "We will not have feminism discussion here."

Public Statement on Neutrality of Free Software | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

In the past week, a controversy around F-Droid took place at its forum and in the fediverse. We feel like we have to put out a public statement to ...

I love the way that slidestr.net juxtaposes images in my art feed (it's a list) And the distraction-free presentation fading in. Ah so peaceful 🤗 The artists in the screenshot are @Laan Tungir (top row) and @Karine Studio (bottom row). And slidestr is made by @florian If you want to copy my "Art plebs" list (44 artists) and make it your own, login to listr.lol Then visit this link and click duplicate...

Listr

Listr is the best way to curate, organize, and discover everything that Nostr has to offer. Build new lists, stay organized, and browse collections.

It should now appear under "Your lists" in slidestr (scroll down below "Topics") Just to note that when you first click on the list in slidestr it will load some random images from elsewhere, wait a little while for it to refresh and load images from the list, then it's fine

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