what does it mean for a thing to be true?
@harrymccracken the original iphone.
if looks could bill i’d be in debtors prison, baby.
@DeanBaker13 it’s morning in America!
@guan @bergmayer perhaps they might specify a duration in light years.
@paninid i just saw this in the bad place and got excited about it… don’t know what to think about how right it is but i hope so, i don’t like a future where even more than now we are serfs to tech only very large players provide.
the most hopeful thing i’ve read about LLMs lately (the part before the paywall at least…) https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither ht Stephen Pimentel
i don’t know why joni is always both-sidesing everything now. https://youtu.be/jxiluPSmAF8
@Artifex @timbray Fair enough. I think it’s probably worth breaking “moderation” up a bit. Managing what comes in across federation boundaries is a different kind of problem in a lot of respects from moderating direct participants in a forum. Handling inbound stuff really does need to scale with the whole network, and yeah, almost inevitably it’ll revert to tooling, shared blocklists etc. But local speech should be moderated according to distinct local norms, I’d hope.
@Artifex @timbray Sure. Some things are spam to just about everyone, and I don't disagree that it might be useful if services spring up to provide a floor and help manage these cases.
But once things start to get even a bit gray, that's when moderating the chatter should get, well, artisanal.
Inadequate moderation is a terrible risk. But so is a world where federation just means incredible pressure to conform to a narrow intersection of every community's standards.
@timbray (reiterating from a different thread… leaving the nazis to their isolated homes on gab or truth social or whatever, what constitutes crypto spam vs information about potentially interesting crypto projects will and should vary across forums. creating space for heterogeneous norms is perhaps what i most seek from a fediverse. a centralized site can enforce homogeneous norms just fine. if we want that, we should just mutually own/build one.)
@John @timbray if you are a single user, it’s a pretty different problem. there’s you, and there’s the fediverse, you block what you don’t want to see.
but what if you ran, say, a community of crypto tech enthusiasts? their standards for what constitutes crypto spam might be looser than most instances (for whom promotion of almost any crypto project is probably unwanted). 1/
@John @timbray i think the wrong choice is to restrict within forum conversations to what other forums want to federate with. that creates a least-common-denominator world. but widespread defederation is bad too.
the right choice imho is to have distinct standards for local-only and into-the-fediverse posts, with the latter much more homogeneous and cautious than the former. /fin
@timbray i kind of think the whole virtue of moderation is it’s not scalable. each forum can and should make very different kinds of choices. there’s a risk federation homogenizes moderation. i wish more forums adopted hometown-like local only scope, so that moderation for internal consumption and export for participation in the fediverse could be managed differently.
does anyone know of any description of the privacy characteristics of ACH bank transfers? do ACH transfers leave customer-level data with clearinghouses or other parties outside of the participating banks? how do the privacy characteristics of ACH compare with those of something like the upcoming FedNow?
(thanks @chrisp for posing this question, to which i'd given oddly little thought.)
(how does one select the "at-risk youth" one means to help?)
@catastrophile it’s kind of you, but it’s a bit like passing along a recording of someone asking you out. it isn’t transitive like that. i don’t feel special.
i’m a bit deflated by the spam i haven’t received.
(i finally got mine!)
“Most corrupt acts don't take the form of clearly immoral choices. People fight those. Corruption thrives where there is a tension between institutional and interpersonal ethics. There is ‘the right thing’ in abstract, but there are also very human impulses towards empathy, kindness, and reciprocity that result from relationships with flesh and blood people.” me, long ago. https://www.interfluidity.com/posts/1257407150.shtml
this is the moment when our future is about to begin.