”But Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threads“It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fed...

Tamitha

@thisismissem Regardless of what they offer... many of us don't want anything to do with Meta. Or Twitter. It's a poisoned chalice as far as many of us are concerned.

Emelia 👸🏻

It's also hella interesting to see this cropped poll result because the last options were "no" options which actually received a significant portion of the votes, but the poll now appears to be deleted (or I just can't find it anymore)

Like, it's one thing to run a poll snd get unfavourable results, it's another thing to crop the poll responses to portray it as giving favourable results.

Risotto Voted

@tamitha @thisismissem right and part of this is that it's incredibly frustrating to see how immature the never-threads people are on so many levels

They just can't be pleased

And their ideas and asks are so disjoint from reality as far as current staffing and funding.

So it's just... So... Exhausting. Because they don't understand how open source development and maintenance works.

And I think MissEm does.

Emelia 👸🏻

@risottobias @tamitha it's also 100% okay to not take software anyone offers. Whether that's from Meta or what I work on at IFTAS.

But there's certainly things we can all learn from others. e.g., I've some Ideas for improving moderation in mastodon & pixelfed, directly inspired by Software I've seen elsewhere for moderation purposes.

Andy Piper

@thisismissem as I posted last night... the conspiracy theories and other speculations are (as you rightly pointed out in this thread) exhausting! https://macaw.social/@andypiper/112350599989018985

Emelia 👸🏻

@andypiper yeah, only, as now mentioned in that article at the end, I thoroughly rebuked it in this: https://medium.com/@thisismissem/why-a-hard-fork-of-mastodon-isnt-the-way-b37aecfe5c86

Andy Piper

@thisismissem *nods vigorously*

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@thisismissem @risottobias @tamitha Learning from each other is good. Yet we still have to keep in mind that Meta is, as a whole, an abusive and outright dangerous company no matter how nice those who work there are. Those who make the calls are not.

I shall be damned if those tools Meta will offer can be self-hosted without any legal or technical catch to them.

Emelia 👸🏻

@Natanox @risottobias @tamitha short answer is "we don't know" regarding those tools.

Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

@thisismissem @risottobias @tamitha That is technically correct. That doesn't mean one should give Meta even a slither of trust about anything.

If they want to contribute tools by making them Open-Source and self-hostable with a proper license like AGPL, sure. However doing or accepting anything else with/from Meta would just be ridiculously ignorant at this point.

Emelia 👸🏻

@Natanox @risottobias @tamitha for what it's worth, Meta has already been opensourcing tooling for trust and safety, e.g., https://github.com/facebook/ThreatExchange/

The algorithms from which power StopNCII.org to my knowledge.

Hrefna (DHC)

@thisismissem This is a seriously disingenuous crop to do and not explicitly disclaim what you did and why.

Laurens Hof

@thisismissem full poll results are here: https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/112294665652523312

Emelia 👸🏻

@hrefna yeah, I honestly expected better.

Shoq

@thisismissem You often make perfect sense, and I often feel a bit guilty going on about quoted posts. But only because I saw us in a race to capture journalists. That ship has sailed. But we can now pivot and let Threads lure them in, then contribute new tools to support them and everyone else.

Emelia 👸🏻

@shoq quote posts now has funding from NLNet for both several FEPs and implementation in Mastodon backend, web, and mobile.

Scheduled for 4.4: https://oisaur.com/@renchap/112299860209222424

Emelia 👸🏻

@shoq fwiw, 4.3 is shipping "soon" apparently. I'm trying to land a bunch of OAuth changes still and other things if I can rebase them in time.

Shoq

@ThisIsMissEm I don’t pretend to grok all the issues, but I think a massive funding drive to support the core team would make a lot more sense than the distraction of a hard fork which would be unlikey to have the cred, team, or experience to raise much money. And money changes everything.

Emelia 👸🏻

@shoq yeah, that's why the 501(c)3 just setup by Mastodon is so important. It allows tax deductible donations to the project for US residents / tax citizens.

e.g., there's been recently two $100k donations (which is why Mastodon is hiring, iirc)

small patatas

@hrefna
The poll is still there; to me at least, the crop is far less disingenuous than it's been made out to be, if at all https://infosec.exchange/@thenexusofprivacy/112294665652523312