(Please note. Due to screen reader accessibility problems on Friendica, I have mostly switched to Akkoma. I can now be found here, though I may occasionally still post to Friendica.
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Hello. Georgiana Brummell is not my legal name, but it is what I prefer to be called. I chose it in honour of Beau Brummell. I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, nature and historical documentaries, old BBC radio shows, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I am starting to learn about opera, with my main focus being singers from the 1940's and earlier, due to the change in singing style that began roughly in the 1950's. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a gay rights supporter. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity. I am happily childfree and am not religious. My main goal in life is simply to enjoy it, and have fun learning new things along the way. I am also single and searching. If you are or know a genuine dandy, or at least, a single, childfree, intelligent, well-dressed man, preferably over sixty, please tell him about me.
Please note. I don't write about American politics, race, anticapitalism or world affairs (wars, poverty, oppression, etc.), and will not add those who do, as I don't want it filling my timelines. While I am interested in technology to an extent (particularly website accessibility), I am not a programmer or gamer, do not use Linux,and don't care what social network you use. I tend to get along better with people much older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, loneliness, etc. so if you need help with that, I'm not the one to ask. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, animals and nature, antiques, and interesting facts and life stories.
You can also find me on Dreamwidth. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
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The Nexus of Privacy
in reply to Connected Places • • •A good report as always, and agreed about the importance of @nodebb's release.
With @pixelfed , it's important to highlight that the moderation story is a disaster waiting to happen. @dansup himself has said that he still needs to implement key functionality like moderation roles and a dashboard, and that he doesn't have a moderation team in place. Others have pointed out multiple unfixed bugs related to reporting.
A high-profile Pixelfed fiasco (or worse, blatantly illegal content) could not only destroy the reputation of Pixelfed, but the sharpnel could have an impact on fedi as a whole -- especially at a time when regulators in the UK are clarifying enforcement of the Online Safety Act, and anti-LGBTQIA2S+ fascist oligarch who run social networks that compete with fedi are in po
... Show more...A good report as always, and agreed about the importance of @nodebb's release.
With @pixelfed , it's important to highlight that the moderation story is a disaster waiting to happen. @dansup himself has said that he still needs to implement key functionality like moderation roles and a dashboard, and that he doesn't have a moderation team in place. Others have pointed out multiple unfixed bugs related to reporting.
A high-profile Pixelfed fiasco (or worse, blatantly illegal content) could not only destroy the reputation of Pixelfed, but the sharpnel could have an impact on fedi as a whole -- especially at a time when regulators in the UK are clarifying enforcement of the Online Safety Act, and anti-LGBTQIA2S+ fascist oligarch who run social networks that compete with fedi are in power in the US.
It would be great if Dan changes his stance -- turning off open registration on pixelfed.social until he has the moderation situation under control would be an easy first step that could make a big difference.
And also, we really need to think about what we can collectively do to limit the damage to fedi as a whole.
@fediversereport @fediversenews
#fediverse #pixelfed
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Laurens Hof
in reply to The Nexus of Privacy • • •@thenexusofprivacy
thanks!
yeah totally agreed with you. Its quite disheartening to see fedi promote itself as a network with better governance and be completely uncritical about the governance on their own platforms
ill try to get a confirmation from dansup on mod team after growth, that is very concerning
The Nexus of Privacy
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •@laurenshof disheartening indeed.
On a different subject, you mentioned Meta still isn't prioritizing account portability. Mosseri was actually quite candid about this back when Threads was announced -- perhaps more than he actually intended.
... Show more...From their perspective, the important thing is a story so people don't feel like they have to trust Meta. Of course if you actually think about it, they don't have any incentive to make the portability real any time soon; for chat applications, when portability is legally mandated, they're engaging in malicious compliance. But hey it's a story. From @doc
@laurenshof disheartening indeed.
On a different subject, you mentioned Meta still isn't prioritizing account portability. Mosseri was actually quite candid about this back when Threads was announced -- perhaps more than he actually intended.
From their perspective, the important thing is a story so people don't feel like they have to trust Meta. Of course if you actually think about it, they don't have any incentive to make the portability real any time soon; for chat applications, when portability is legally mandated, they're engaging in malicious compliance. But hey it's a story. From @doctorow's latest
Wait a second. 99% of Threads users haven't turned on federation so you can't maintain your connections with them. Threads blocks domains unless they have public feeds so if you want to turn a privacy-friendly platform like GoToSocial you won't be able to maintain your connections with your friends on Meta. You can't even export your followers lists!
But hey, it's a good story, and it feels like people have options. Mission accomplished, I guess!
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Laurens Hof
in reply to The Nexus of Privacy • • •@thenexusofprivacy @doctorow
omg he actually posted that jesus
also you cut to the core very well, it is fundamentally about the story
*insert baudrillard picture here*
The Nexus of Privacy
in reply to Laurens Hof • • •Hahaha from Cory's latest
No that's not even remotely what a relay is and no relays aren't the expensive thing to run.
@laurenshof
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦
in reply to The Nexus of Privacy • • •The Nexus of Privacy
in reply to Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 • • •He also says
NO! The loose Fediverse analog to relays is (wait for it ...) relays! HOW HARD CAN THIS BE??????
@mackuba.eu
nev
in reply to The Nexus of Privacy • • •@thenexusofprivacy @fediversenews The biggest fedi disasters / dumpster fires I've seen have generally been a result of a server growing too fast to be effectively moderated, with inexperienced or simply overwhelmed mods/admin(s) experiencing meltdown or burnout.
E. g. a couple fiascos involved admins accidentally or capriciously suspending rather than silencing another instance, permanently severing users' follows/followers—the kind of thing that would be relatively inconsequential on a little instance run for a friend group, but disastrous with thousands of users.
At least one other fiasco involved a white admin absolutely melting down and threatening to flounce when called out on racism, which I understand is very distressing for white people but which should absolutely not be a stumbling block for a seasoned admin/mod. ("Able t
... Show more...@thenexusofprivacy @fediversenews The biggest fedi disasters / dumpster fires I've seen have generally been a result of a server growing too fast to be effectively moderated, with inexperienced or simply overwhelmed mods/admin(s) experiencing meltdown or burnout.
E. g. a couple fiascos involved admins accidentally or capriciously suspending rather than silencing another instance, permanently severing users' follows/followers—the kind of thing that would be relatively inconsequential on a little instance run for a friend group, but disastrous with thousands of users.
At least one other fiasco involved a white admin absolutely melting down and threatening to flounce when called out on racism, which I understand is very distressing for white people but which should absolutely not be a stumbling block for a seasoned admin/mod. ("Able to cope with being called a Nazi for your moderation decisions" is like…mod kindergarten???)
Some minor dustups have occurred because open registrations led to spammers or hate accounts setting up shop, with the expected backlash from other instances.
Mark
in reply to Connected Places • • •Cool. I have an account @MarkBrigham@pixelfed.photos but I haven’t used it much because my friends and relations are on the hellsites. So my posts are to the great cybervoid. But I have my stake in the ground, and welcome humane human followers. #pixelfed
pixelfed.photos/p/MarkBrigham/…
Mark Brigham
2023-03-09 16:50:38
Michael Foster
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Laurens Hof
in reply to Michael Foster • • •@michael
thank you so much!
Ulrike Hahn
in reply to Connected Places • • •one comment on the Pixelfed boom: the fact that Bluesky immediately felt moved to announce a future photo sharing app of their own (Flashes), to me, illustrated the uneasy relationship between fediverse and ATproto….
it doesn’t feel to me like there is a ‘you do this, we focus on that’ future envisioned there. More a ‘we’ll do it all, and our growth goal is to dominate all’.
I hope I’m really wrong in that.