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@Hrefna (DHC)If your server disappeared tomorrow with no ability to export your follower graph, how would you rebuild it?
If you do a server move, what happens to your post history?
Widespread adoption of Nomadic Identity, if it ever happens, may help with this.
I am sure you already know this, but for other readers, these two 2017 articles explain how Nomadic Identity works in Hubzilla, which is based on the Nomad/Zot protocol.
#^https://medium.com/@tamanning/nomadic-identity-brought-to-you-by-hubzilla-67eadce13c3b
#^https://medium.com/@tamanning/getting-started-with-nomadic-identity-how-to-create-a-personal-channel-on-hubzilla-7d9666a428b
Mike Macgirvin recently got Nomadic Identity working on ActivityPub too.
#^https://fediversity.site/item/b69ce5a0-0c22-4933-8393-dce7100f4584
Unfortunately, the ActivityPub world keeps pretending that Mike Macgirvin and his work does not exist (Nomadic Identity has been around and working in Hubzilla for roughly a decade).
There's also OpenWebAuth (Federated Single Sign On). As Sean Tilley explains in this March 2024 article, Nomadic Identity and OpenWebAuth together can enable network resilience, censorship resistance, and ease of migration.
#^https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/
No idea whether Nomadic Identity, OpenWebAuth, conversation containers, etc. will ever get widespread adoption. At present, the user base of software such as Hubzilla, Forte etc. (which have these features) is negligible. And at least in case of Hubzilla (which I am using), the UI and UX needs a lot of work; don't know about Forte (which is based on ActivityPub).
And yes, all the other problems with the Fediverse that you listed will still remain. At this point, I doubt if the Fedi will ever become socially and politically relevant.
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@hrefna The aspect I find most surprising about it is that it didn't happen earlier. #boilingfrogs -
@hrefna you're so deeply right in this thread. this essentially defines the early and formative years of #RDF and #RDFS around some key decisions. There is so much worry about errors from mishandling, but the very possibility of expressing something that could be wrong. There is so much here it's hard to even know where to start but from the very start of the rdf-core and especially rdf-logic mailing lists the emphasis on correctness of expression vs. agency of interpretation is heated. This is a pretty unsubtle example: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Nov/0423.html
"Summary: RDF is not just a data model. The RDF specs should define a semantics so that an RDF statement on the web is interpreted as an assertion of that statement such that its author would be responsible in law as if it had been published in, say, a newspaper."
affirmed by this text: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2002Jun/0180.html
"The RDFCore WG takes the view that RDF/XML documents, ie. encodings of
RDF graphs, are represenations of claims or assertions about the world. [...] we note that RDF graphs are the kind of things that can be true or false (rather than 'mere bytes'). For each linear syntax of RDF, there will be conventions (social, legal) for indicating which chunks of data are encodings of RDF graphs in that syntax, and thus of propositional content."So ya very very early they had decided that RDF was intended to be platonic representation of the world - it is a method of making propositions that must directly bear on the world, there is no ambiguity, there are only true or false things. (There's a lot of subtlety in that but yno.)
Another thing that comes to mind is the discussion of monotonicity that happens throughout, that's also tied up with the discussion of closed worldedness, containers, and whether or not things belong in sets for the purpose of local meaning or need to belong to the One Great Uniform Graph. It must be impossible for adding new triples into the reasoner to make it less certain of some outcome (ie. if it was possible for ambiguity to be introduced eg. by tangled type hierarchies etc.). This thread is all very illustrative but this message is super spicy and also touches on what you're talking about re using the level of granularity you care about: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Nov/0363.html
this quote from D bricks is also pretty telling of the epistemological commitments:
"RDF Schema is not about policing the content of specific descriptions
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The most unsafe part about #fediverse is master-don dominates with its #antiFeatures.
M'don is not much decentralised as many assume (see #CDNs). We just had a little rant about it.
We cannot protect fedizens, without protecting instances themselves. Adoption of I2P and/or at least proposals like #GlutPlug to help decentralise #contentDelivery will protect instances, but such discussions are nowhere.
Case in point, even slow-moving #bitcoin has #I2P support now.
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The most unsafe part about #fediverse is master-don dominates with its #antiFeatures.
M'don is not much decentralised as many assume (see #CDNs). We just had a little rant about it.
We cannot protect fedizens, without protecting instances themselves. Adoption of I2P and/or at least proposals like #GlutPlug to help decentralise #contentDelivery will protect instances, but such discussions are nowhere.
Case in point, even slow-moving #bitcoin has #I2P support now.
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The most unsafe part about #fediverse is master-don dominates with its #antiFeatures.
M'don is not much decentralised as many assume (see #CDNs). We just had a little rant about it.
We cannot protect fedizens, without protecting instances themselves. Adoption of I2P and/or at least proposals like #GlutPlug to help decentralise #contentDelivery will protect instances, but such discussions are nowhere.
Case in point, even slow-moving #bitcoin has #I2P support now.
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The most unsafe part about #fediverse is master-don dominates with its #antiFeatures.
M'don is not much decentralised as many assume (see #CDNs). We just had a little rant about it.
We cannot protect fedizens, without protecting instances themselves. Adoption of I2P and/or at least proposals like #GlutPlug to help decentralise #contentDelivery will protect instances, but such discussions are nowhere.
Case in point, even slow-moving #bitcoin has #I2P support now.
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> Unsafe
The most unsafe part about #fediverse is master-don dominates with its #antiFeatures.
M'don is not much decentralised as many assume (see #CDNs). We just had a little rant about it.
We cannot protect fedizens, without protecting instances themselves. Adoption of I2P and/or at least proposals like #GlutPlug to help decentralise #contentDelivery will protect instances, but such discussions are nowhere.
Case in point, even slow-moving #bitcoin has #I2P support now.
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@hrefna Just imagine what would happen if you had a national sys admin Union with idk, 80% of all sys admins.
And then you go on strike.
All servers just run online Doom deathmatches. The entire internet is just doom. #GeneralStrike #TechUnion
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@hrefna Interesting when CEOs do a bad job, they fire employees who had absolutely no responsibility for Exec actions. #GoldenParachutes for corporate, nothing for people who do the actual labor.
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@hrefna Interesting when CEOs do a bad job, they fire employees who had absolutely no responsibility for Exec actions. #GoldenParachutes for corporate, nothing for people who do the actual labor.
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@hrefna Interesting when CEOs do a bad job, they fire employees who had absolutely no responsibility for Exec actions. #GoldenParachutes for corporate, nothing for people who do the actual labor.
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@hrefna Interesting when CEOs do a bad job, they fire employees who had absolutely no responsibility for Exec actions. #GoldenParachutes for corporate, nothing for people who do the actual labor.
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@hrefna Interesting when CEOs do a bad job, they fire employees who had absolutely no responsibility for Exec actions. #GoldenParachutes for corporate, nothing for people who do the actual labor.
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Surveys, coincidences, statistical significance 🧵
"What Educated Citizens Should Know About Statistics and Probability"
By Jessica Utts, in 2003: https://ics.uci.edu/~jutts/AmerStat2003.pdf via @hrefna#nullHypothesis #probability #probabilities #pValues #statistics #stats #education #higherEd #statisticalLiteracy #bias #media #causalInference
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So far, in a one week time period, I have:
* Written go
* Written C++
* Written Python
* Written protobufs
* Written SQL
* Written documentation
* Filled out my expectations ("what I'm planning to get done this year, updated for the quarter")yesh x_x
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So #Dimension20's new series, City Council of Darkness, as far as I can tell is based on the following premise:
What if we took the LEAST COMPETENT group of vampires we could find. The kind of vampires where typically we'd kill their sires and their grandsires for not terminating them. The kind that their best case prospects are being used for canon fodder or scientific experiments.
Take that group and put them in charge of a Court of a small town. For some reason.
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Setting aside the deliberately provocative lead-in, I'd like to talk about something about how unions work that I think a lot of leftists could learn from.
When you see a worker in trouble you have solidarity with them _first_. It doesn't matter if it has never happened to you personally, or if you don't know the specifics, you can figure out a time when you were degraded, or hurt, or treated without regard for your humanity by management. You can empathize and show up regardless because we are all victims under the capitalist system.
It's not about who this person is, what they might have done previously, whether the policy affects someone you know personally, or anything like that. You show up for them because they are a _fellow worker_.
It also goes back to: find ways to connect it back to how we are treated as workers. Every time.
https://workerorganizing.org/trans-workers-belong-in-unions-15299/
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This is one of the major things you'll find in the literature: women's health literature more broadly began to hone in on the difference between synthetic progestins and micronized #P4 a long while back.
So you'll find some review talking about the risks associated with #progesterone but then find out that their entire research is based on synthetic progestins in a combination of mice and postmenopausal women.
(The pharmacodynamics and safety of progesterone, Piette, 2020)
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It just really continues to feel like #w3c is trying push #JsonLD into everything and the kitchen sink… regardless of if it fits and doing a "beat to fit paint to match" when it doesn't, the JSON-LD working groups and such are busy trying to figure out how to do a #YamlLD, and the rest of us are trying to figure out how to do this practically in production in a way that doesn't ignore all of JSON-LD, or just doing "JSON + a weird context obj."
The situation feels untenable on a few levels.
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Here we see several things coming together, but the one I want to emphasize is that this is an explicit statement that #Haidra would like to help train models on (potentially) stolen data.
It's again hard to claim that you are ethically neutral middleware when this is a stated and expressed goal.
I'd also like to highlight exactly what "open" might mean in this context, specifically with this paper on the topic, which was just published: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
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Here we see several things coming together, but the one I want to emphasize is that this is an explicit statement that #Haidra would like to help train models on (potentially) stolen data.
It's again hard to claim that you are ethically neutral middleware when this is a stated and expressed goal.
I'd also like to highlight exactly what "open" might mean in this context, specifically with this paper on the topic, which was just published: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
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Here we see several things coming together, but the one I want to emphasize is that this is an explicit statement that #Haidra would like to help train models on (potentially) stolen data.
It's again hard to claim that you are ethically neutral middleware when this is a stated and expressed goal.
I'd also like to highlight exactly what "open" might mean in this context, specifically with this paper on the topic, which was just published: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
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Here we see several things coming together, but the one I want to emphasize is that this is an explicit statement that #Haidra would like to help train models on (potentially) stolen data.
It's again hard to claim that you are ethically neutral middleware when this is a stated and expressed goal.
I'd also like to highlight exactly what "open" might mean in this context, specifically with this paper on the topic, which was just published: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
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Here we see several things coming together, but the one I want to emphasize is that this is an explicit statement that #Haidra would like to help train models on (potentially) stolen data.
It's again hard to claim that you are ethically neutral middleware when this is a stated and expressed goal.
I'd also like to highlight exactly what "open" might mean in this context, specifically with this paper on the topic, which was just published: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4543807
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Let's not mince words.
It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.
This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."
#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.
There are other problems, but start there.
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Let's not mince words.
It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.
This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."
#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.
There are other problems, but start there.
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Let's not mince words.
It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.
This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."
#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.
There are other problems, but start there.
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Let's not mince words.
It is the creator saying outright that they were trying to solve their problem of being unable to get people to work #ForExposure at a mass scale.
This is why I'm describing what they are doing with language as a "shell game."
#Haidra _cannot_ be ethically neutral middleware when the author's stated purpose in building and running the system is to make it so that people can avoid needing to pay artists for their work.
There are other problems, but start there.
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