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@mairin@fosstodon.org @dscl @aral @brecht I'm intrigued by this in the article:

'ActivityPub and Mastodon are designed the same way Big Tech/Big Web is: to encourage services that host as many “users” as they can.'

Is this inherent in the ActivityPub protocol? And are there tweaks that could help?

Or does it come from the particular implementation of the standard Mastodon server? Is it just because it's overly complex?

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@mairin@fosstodon.org @dscl @aral @brecht I'm intrigued by this in the article:

'ActivityPub and Mastodon are designed the same way Big Tech/Big Web is: to encourage services that host as many “users” as they can.'

Is this inherent in the ActivityPub protocol? And are there tweaks that could help?

Or does it come from the particular implementation of the standard Mastodon server? Is it just because it's overly complex?

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I've been trying out the CW for the last few toots, just to see how the mechanism works, and because I post on different topics that might not be of interest to everyone.

I've seen some heated debates in the last day about the common Mastodon practice of using CW a lot.

Does it promote mental health by preventing Mastodon from becoming a place for doomscrolling?

Or is it preventing people from being confronted with hard truths that they should see?

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I've been trying out the CW for the last few toots, just to see how the mechanism works, and because I post on different topics that might not be of interest to everyone.

I've seen some heated debates in the last day about the common Mastodon practice of using CW a lot.

Does it promote mental health by preventing Mastodon from becoming a place for doomscrolling?

Or is it preventing people from being confronted with hard truths that they should see?

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Dusk over San Francisco Bay

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Dusk over San Francisco Bay

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My understanding of Twitter infrastructure is that dealing with large fanout (i.e. accounts with millions of followers) is particularly challenging and costly.

In Mastodon, what happens if one popular user gets a million followers from instances all over the fediverse?

Would anything break? How would the machine costs be shared between the popular user's instance and the followers' instances?

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My understanding of Twitter infrastructure is that dealing with large fanout (i.e. accounts with millions of followers) is particularly challenging and costly.

In Mastodon, what happens if one popular user gets a million followers from instances all over the fediverse?

Would anything break? How would the machine costs be shared between the popular user's instance and the followers' instances?

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@resing The guidelines don't require listing the company a bio. I've updated mine to make clear I don't speak for my employer, but I don't want to foreground the company and pigeonhole me in people's mind.

I'll generally I'll only talk about things I work on that are already announced or are evident from using the product, but I'll also feel free to express opinion on the company's business model and regulatory environment where my opinions diverge from the company's.

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@resing The guidelines don't require listing the company a bio. I've updated mine to make clear I don't speak for my employer, but I don't want to foreground the company and pigeonhole me in people's mind.

I'll generally I'll only talk about things I work on that are already announced or are evident from using the product, but I'll also feel free to express opinion on the company's business model and regulatory environment where my opinions diverge from the company's.

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I just moved over to the social.coop instance.

My old posts are at

https://sfba.social/@eob

If you were following me there, you should be now automatically following me here.

I did this because I think Mastodon (like Wikipedia) offers hope of being a new significant part of the Internet that is not funded by advertising.

But Mastodon servers need to be funded somehow.

So I joined this co-op (which had a governance model I liked) and contributed a modest sum towards running it.

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I just moved over to the social.coop instance.

My old posts are at

https://sfba.social/@eob

If you were following me there, you should be now automatically following me here.

I did this because I think Mastodon (like Wikipedia) offers hope of being a new significant part of the Internet that is not funded by advertising.

But Mastodon servers need to be funded somehow.

So I joined this co-op (which had a governance model I liked) and contributed a modest sum towards running it.

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@resing Oh sorry, I just realized I was a bit obscure about where I work in the original post in this thread. I'm a full time employee there, a software engineering manager leading a "Trust Experience" team which handles compliance features (like cookie consent) but also adds new features that give users agency in the management of their privacy and safety.

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@resing Oh sorry, I just realized I was a bit obscure about where I work in the original post in this thread. I'm a full time employee there, a software engineering manager leading a "Trust Experience" team which handles compliance features (like cookie consent) but also adds new features that give users agency in the management of their privacy and safety.

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@resing a more interesting feature that we're working on is "quick delete" of the last 15 minutes of your search history.

https://www. cnet.com/google-amp/news/feel-awkward-over-last-google-search-on-your-phone-heres-how-to-delete-it/

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@resing a more interesting feature that we're working on is "quick delete" of the last 15 minutes of your search history.

https://www. cnet.com/google-amp/news/feel-awkward-over-last-google-search-on-your-phone-heres-how-to-delete-it/

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Screenshot of article "Feel Awkward Over the Last Google Search on Your Phone? Here's How to Delete It

No worries. With just two easy steps, you can wipe out your most recent searches."

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@resing The cookie consent feature is only visible if you're in Europe (or VPNed into Europe) and do a Google search in a brand-new browser session that's not signed in to Google, like for example if you open a new incognito/private browser window and search for something.

These cookie consents are super annoying to Europeans and we're generally trying to make them less annoying.

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@resing The cookie consent feature is only visible if you're in Europe (or VPNed into Europe) and do a Google search in a brand-new browser session that's not signed in to Google, like for example if you open a new incognito/private browser window and search for something.

These cookie consents are super annoying to Europeans and we're generally trying to make them less annoying.

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Screenshot of cookie consent dialog, showing "Reject all" button 

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@resing Well, in addition to the "reject all", we made it the dialog super fast, so that it appears instantly overlaying the search results, and disappears instantly as soon as you click either accept or reject.

Though actually there was even more work invisibly on the backend in the cookie-serving infrastructure, and making sure we didn't do anything non-essential with cookies when the user rejects.

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@resing Well, in addition to the "reject all", we made it the dialog super fast, so that it appears instantly overlaying the search results, and disappears instantly as soon as you click either accept or reject.

Though actually there was even more work invisibly on the backend in the cookie-serving infrastructure, and making sure we didn't do anything non-essential with cookies when the user rejects.

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@resing We usually don't publish anything; we just release our features. And unfortunately I can only talk about things that have been announced.

The last big thing we did announce was a change in Europe where we improved the cookie consent dialog to allow rejection of all non-essential uses of cookies with a single click of a "Reject All" button on the initial screen.

But our team is working on a lot of other worldwide privacy-enhancing changes.

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@resing We usually don't publish anything; we just release our features. And unfortunately I can only talk about things that have been announced.

The last big thing we did announce was a change in Europe where we improved the cookie consent dialog to allow rejection of all non-essential uses of cookies with a single click of a "Reject All" button on the initial screen.

But our team is working on a lot of other worldwide privacy-enhancing changes.

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@wetpaper Ce n'est pas une réponse à vos questions, mais j'aime ça: https://eupolicy.social/@SuVergnolle/1 09297818907278256

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@wetpaper Ce n'est pas une réponse à vos questions, mais j'aime ça: https://eupolicy.social/@SuVergnolle/1 09297818907278256

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This is an interesting take on why TikTok is different, and how it relates to the notion of technology extending our mind.

https://www. wired.com/story/tiktok-phones-extended-mind-philosophy/amp

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This is an interesting take on why TikTok is different, and how it relates to the notion of technology extending our mind.

https://www. wired.com/story/tiktok-phones-extended-mind-philosophy/amp

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@clivedurdle I suspect the term "instance" in the Mastodon system comes from it's usage in software engineering and computer science.

There, it is often used to refer to one particular example of a general class. (For example a particular dog named "Rover" is an instance of the general class "Dog".)

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@clivedurdle I suspect the term "instance" in the Mastodon system comes from it's usage in software engineering and computer science.

There, it is often used to refer to one particular example of a general class. (For example a particular dog named "Rover" is an instance of the general class "Dog".)

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@ZaneSelvans ¡Eso espero! Miré mastodon.ie, que parecía un buen ejemplo, pero solo permiten toots en inglés e irlandés, para que los moderadores puedan evaluar los toots.

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@ZaneSelvans ¡Eso espero! Miré mastodon.ie, que parecía un buen ejemplo, pero solo permiten toots en inglés e irlandés, para que los moderadores puedan evaluar los toots.

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@ZaneSelvans @Matt_Noyes One thing to bear in mind, is that there is no way to do a real global search.

You can only search in the parts of the Mastodon federation that the social.coop instance knows about. So for example if some other social.coop member has previously followed somebody on another instance then posts from that feed could appear in your search.

But if there's some obscure manga embroidery instance that no one on social.coop follows then those posts will not turn up in a search.

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@ZaneSelvans @Matt_Noyes One thing to bear in mind, is that there is no way to do a real global search.

You can only search in the parts of the Mastodon federation that the social.coop instance knows about. So for example if some other social.coop member has previously followed somebody on another instance then posts from that feed could appear in your search.

But if there's some obscure manga embroidery instance that no one on social.coop follows then those posts will not turn up in a search.

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#introduction

Glad to be here on social.coop. I’ve long been attracted to the co-op ideal, and looking forward to seeing how it works.

My socialist, anti-nationalist politics were formed growing up in working-class Dublin, sickened by the carnage from both sides in Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”.

I’m fighting the fight for privacy within a big-tech company in San Francisco, leading a team building user-interface changes that give people more transparency and control over their personal data.

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#introduction

Glad to be here on social.coop. I’ve long been attracted to the co-op ideal, and looking forward to seeing how it works.

My socialist, anti-nationalist politics were formed growing up in working-class Dublin, sickened by the carnage from both sides in Northern Ireland’s “Troubles”.

I’m fighting the fight for privacy within a big-tech company in San Francisco, leading a team building user-interface changes that give people more transparency and control over their personal data.