sparr

joined 2 years ago
[–] sparr 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

For the simplest users, my initial idea is just a binary "do you trust them?" for each person (aka "friends") and non-person (aka "follow"), and maybe one global binary of "do you trust who they trust?" that defaults to yes. anything more complex than that can be optional.

[–] sparr 37 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (12 children)

I am sad that the current generation of federated social media/networks still doesn't have much, if any, implementation of web of trust functionality. I believe that's the only solution to bots/AI/etc content in the future. Show me content from people/accounts/profiles I trust, and accounts they trust, etc. When I see spam or scams or other misbehavior, show me the trust chain connecting me to it so I can sever it at the appropriate level instead of having to block individual accounts. (e.g. "sorry mom, you've trusted too many political frauds, I'm going to stop trusting people you trust")

[–] sparr 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

just keep the system up to date…

The idea that downloading gigabytes of packages every week is a normal and required aspect of using a computer is part of why I left Windows...

[–] sparr 20 points 8 months ago

Who runs their email servers? You can outsource fediverse server hosting too...

[–] sparr 1 points 8 months ago

Yes. It's been disappearing since before I was born in the 80s, and is mostly gone now.

[–] sparr 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] sparr 1 points 10 months ago

Mastodon has timed muting, but only permanent blocking.

[–] sparr 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Some day most people are going to understand that "I want to post something visible to everyone in the world EXCEPT these specific people" is not a viable or reasonable or even possible approach to communication, and any attempts to make it work are doomed to failure.

[–] sparr 1 points 11 months ago

It's extremely unlikely ... YOU, sure. But it's absolutely certain that legit people will be blocked from contacting from those numbers to hundreds or thousands of other people.

[–] sparr 48 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Take everything you feel about this, and apply it to everyone you know who looks down on their peers who don't drink.

[–] sparr 6 points 11 months ago

I switched to Arch[-based distros] when I realized I had been getting 90% of my support from the Arch wiki for years

[–] sparr 16 points 11 months ago

most applications on Linux are design / depend on [GNOME's] components

[[citation needed]]

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