#federati — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #federati, aggregated by home.social.
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@jwildeboer love #fedinauts and members of the clan of the #Federati :toot: :BlobhajTinyHeart:
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@acor3 or mi sovviene che devo controllare come son #federati i miei blog #WordPress. Sono in un (piccolissimo) network (senza sottodomini) e se non ricordo male faceva un po' di confusione nel trovare il profilo del proprietario 😅 @admin @pfefferle @fediverso @blogverso
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#Federati: Do you think it's acceptable to use #Lemmy given that the developer is a hardcore #tankie?
#Fediverse #RedditMigration #KBin
(Boost for reach is appreciated).
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What #Mastodon / #ActivityPub brings back to the internet is the #SharingByDefault attitude. The joy of sharing to people that genuinely value your messages and interact accordingly. This threatens the ad-driven, centralised model. It has the power to break it. So keep on tooting, fellow #federati ;)
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In 2013-09-29, Bob Jonkman said this: “The #Fediverse is not undergoing fragmentation, but more diverse federation.”
Nine years later, is it still true that the Fediverse is not undergoing #fragmentation, but is experiencing a diverse #federation?
What do you think, #Fedizens?
* Original post: https://twitter.com/BobJonkman/status/384155261557940225
* Archive of post: https://archive.md/InBuV
#Federati #Fedizen -
A piece of #Fediverse #history.
#UFoS or the "United Federation of Statusnets".
* Date: 2013-06-04 14:41:02Z
* First(?) coined by: Erkan Yilmaz
* From instance: oracle.skilledtests.comIt was cool, you know, the United Federation of Planets. #LLAP
#FlashbackFriday (local time); or #ThrowbackThursday still for other countries
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A non-representative, probably very biased observation: German posts often have a negative tendency. Dutch posts are often direct and rude but not in a negative way. The fresh NewHere crowd coming over from birdsite often start here in a German style ;) Surrounding yourself with other ex-birdsite folks instead of looking for the “native” #federati makes you stay negative for longer.
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Starting to think it was a mistake to use #fedifinder and follow all those from birdsite that also have an account here. This infected my timeline with the negativity that defined Twitter for me in the last few months. I guess I will unfollow them all again and hope for more mature #federati to follow :)
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@taylorlorenz We elders of the fediverse prefer to be called #federati ;)
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Do bubbles exist here that are stuck in negativity? Oh, yes! Damn sure. Are these bubbles growing? ATM, due to the influx of #twitterati that are still used to gaining traction by controversy - absolutely. But they will either stay a rather closed group or they will understand and become better citizens of the fediverse. Give it time. And gently offer a helping hand through being a good #federati ;) I’m trying to do just that.
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Do bubbles exist here that are stuck in negativity? Oh, yes! Damn sure. Are these bubbles growing? ATM, due to the influx of #twitterati that are still used to gaining traction by controversy - absolutely. But they will either stay a rather closed group or they will understand and become better citizens of the fediverse. Give it time. And gently offer a helping hand through being a good #federati ;) I’m trying to do just that.
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Do bubbles exist here that are stuck in negativity? Oh, yes! Damn sure. Are these bubbles growing? ATM, due to the influx of #twitterati that are still used to gaining traction by controversy - absolutely. But they will either stay a rather closed group or they will understand and become better citizens of the fediverse. Give it time. And gently offer a helping hand through being a good #federati ;) I’m trying to do just that.
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Do bubbles exist here that are stuck in negativity? Oh, yes! Damn sure. Are these bubbles growing? ATM, due to the influx of #twitterati that are still used to gaining traction by controversy - absolutely. But they will either stay a rather closed group or they will understand and become better citizens of the fediverse. Give it time. And gently offer a helping hand through being a good #federati ;) I’m trying to do just that.
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CW: Ugly Privacy Realities
So if you opened this, I am going to assume you want to read about #MastodonPrivacy issues and form your own opinion on whether these things are a concern or not.
So the #fediverse we have going on is a very cool system, so much potential. However, it comes with some worrying #privacy issues, one of which I will outline here quickly. Lets get to it.
Each #mastodon server has a set of public API's, that anyone with a browser/curl/what ever can get to. One of those is /api/v1/instance/peers - this is a list of all the other #mastodonservers that it connects to. It's often over 10k or more on many servers. Each of those, should you be able to connect to it, has it's own peers list, and before you know it, you're 7 degrees into a massive graph of #mastodonservers. Sweet.
So another thing each of them has is a public list of the top tags over the last week. /api/v1/trends with how many accounts, and how many uses per day. SWeet.
So combining those 2 public endpoints, you get something like this: https://hashtags.fyi (and https://hashtags.fyi/status if so interested). Now this is just a listing of the top used hashtags across a bunch of servers, and really, this is not dangerous, it's not violating anyone's privacy, no one can see what tags of those you used.
In fact, given how important tags are to forming communities, the real reason I built that is to help people discovery cool interesting new topics to follow and join in on.
Anyhow, no #privacy thing yet you whacko, what gives?
Well, see that top tag, #introduction ? Well its one that people are being encouraged to spill their lifes stories in (hell I did too) and add all the tags associated with the various groups they associated with, including potentially fringe/attacked/sensitive tags too.
So that big list of servers we got earlier? Yeah so if we run over that, and do like this (demo on this server) https://infosec.exchange/api/v1/timelines/tag/introduction
Suddenly we have info about every person on that server posting about that hashtag, and we have their introduction post, with their lifes story, and all their other tags. Do this across all the server, and .. woah.. yeah now we have a #MastodonPrivacy issue.
There are other ones we could dig into, but lets sit with this one a bit.
Recently there was a witch hunt, and a burning at the stake for a person who was just wanting to build some tools to make peoples experience here better. The #Federati got wind of it, and he was turfed from the server and shut down the project. That is #bullying
Not a peep about how you build a system like this, and make claims about how you'd like the experience and do not build controls to do it like that. Why are these endpoints public?
Now there are some personal controls that users can adopt, things like changing the default visibility of their posts and such, but not all/many of them are set in a "Private by default" kind of way.
On top of that, we're encouraging users to throw out a bunch of private/personal info across this platform, that has not been setup to protect the privacy of those users.
Now I think people should be able to do an #introduction upon joining and also not have to go and unfuck the privacy settings on their account before they do so.
So, I think we can do better around #MastodonPrivacy, #MastodonIntegrity also.
There are reasons large social networks have generally large Privacy, Security and Integrity teams (Trust Teams), and if we want this place to be successful, we're going to need the #Fediverse equivalent . No I don't mean some big Trust org etc, but I do mean that we all have distributed responsibility, especially those who work in the Trust field, to try and help make this place better, safer for all.
Damn, that was long, well if you made it this far, thanks. Now you know about one of my biggest passions, User Trust.
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@paco @hacks4pancakes Need to watch out for the #Federati / #FediverseMafia - they are not huge on lists etc ;)
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To help new #federati fill their timeliene, I will continue to almost immediately follow back when you follow me. HOWEVER - only when you have profile picture and at least one short sentence in your bio. Deal? :) !t
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Just as I like the term #Twitterati, even though it is a bit derogatory, I'd love to be called a #Federati because I prefer federated, open systems like Mastodon ;)
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Just as I like the term #Twitterati, even though it is a bit derogatory, I'd love to be called a #Federati because I prefer federated, open systems like Mastodon ;)
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Just as I like the term #Twitterati, even though it is a bit derogatory, I'd love to be called a #Federati because I prefer federated, open systems like Mastodon ;)
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Just as I like the term #Twitterati, even though it is a bit derogatory, I'd love to be called a #Federati because I prefer federated, open systems like Mastodon ;)
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ok #Federati, i hope you can answer this question for me: What if #twitter joins the #Federation? How easy is it for them to join? And What's stopping them from spinning up an instance with their "brand"? etc
What are your thoughts, #Fediverse? Do share. Thanks!
