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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!

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  • Lots of thought clearly already gone into it

    And that’s the key to the legislation. Small sites need only read the summary documents then run through the online tools, what it is designed to do, at least for us, is to make us think about our systems and processes, then tighten things up (we needed more contact email addresses) and more explicitly state what you are doing.

    The bulk of the legislation is aimed at the large social media firms to make sure they look after their users - TikTok is currently being sued by British parents because the algorithm seems to have promoted a dangerous challenge that killed their kids (the OSA gets a mention in some news articles about it).


  • I was just talking about the funding. A number of users do pay for the servers, because of the relatively low cost of running an instance a small percentage of them cover all the bills.

    On ownership, that’s the way of the beast on what usually start out as hobby instances. I’m sure as things mature and grow a lot of us will move to establish nonprofits.

    Worth noting that, for feddit.uk, I run the server and GA runs the domains, so we’d both have to agree to a sell-out. Also we didn’t start the instance, just took it over when the original Admin went AWOL, so we’ve successfully transferred the assets before and, if Lemmy lasts long enough, we’ll do it again as we get too decrepit to keep things going.

    The funding is key to this as it is all done through Open Collective, so it isn’t in an Admin’s bank account and so changing Admins is straightforward on that front.


  • So AT, but not necessarily to Bluesky itself per se (or rather, not “just” to it), as opposed to ActivityPub?

    Yeah, there are apps launching that filter BS for images (Instagram) or videos (TikTok) but they are quick and easy to deploy - BS could build those filters in itself.

    The killer services will be standalone ones running on the AT Protocol. They’ll get a tonne of buzz and will see similar numbers of users switching to them from the Big Web but, without safeguards, they will be indistinguishable from the older Big Web services and have the potential to enshittify.

    I think if people writing open source software e.g. underpinning Mastodon would simply listen to potential users, then people would actually join it.

    The problem is, BS has millions of VC capital (including from blockchain bros) and, at some point, they’ll want paying. If the Fediverse had a fraction of that a lot of wrinkles would be ironed out.

    Perhaps dansup’s successful Kickstarter and the rocketing success of his Pixelfed show we can push projects on to bigger things. However, we’ll always lag behind.







  • First mention of Flohmarkt in a meme! The Fediverse needs more commercial offerings like that. Unfortunately, it does seem like it needs a critical mass of users to work but it has a regional focus, so it might work best bolted onto a regional instance with a built-in audience. I’m just unsure if it’d work on a countrywide basis or if it’d need to be on a city or county level and we don’t yet have the numbers in the Fediverse for that.









  • I suppose a lot of it comes down to how nsfw is handled. If there are no means to access it on the home instance, then what you’re doing is probably A-OK.

    It was the decision of the original Admin but it has made life easier (as in the CSAM spam attacks - we don’t need to figure out if it’s real or not, if it’s porn, it’s gone) and will make complying with the OSA simpler. I suspect there’s a way to navigate those waters but I am focused on our own needs to get this boxed off and then I’ll have a ponder on that topic. We’ve been discussing this with DGR for a while now and that is the main hurdle we’ve struggled with.

    The only problem I can see would be other federated instances that may feed poorly filtered or flat out unfiltered/untagged nsfw into yours.

    It’s like porn spam - it gets flagged up quickly and dealt with. One bonus of federation is that if it is removed from the home instance it is gone for us too, so it often gets sorted before we even realise there’s a problem.

    I imagine that’s going to be a decent chunk of the risk assessment, given that federation with others is the main point of lemmy as a whole.

    The OSA document we’ll post is 50% risk assessment, 50% mitigation - the law accepts that, in spite of your best efforts, shit happens, the more important thing is what processes and systems are in place to deal with it quickly and efficiently when it does.



















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