sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

@paoloredaelli additionally, if i were a terrible or repugnant person as some of those blocks claim, i am prevented from following/reading any of the virtuous and good users and content on those instances from my homeserver.

@paoloredaelli indeed, nobody on those instances (some with 10k-20k members) can even see that my account exists.

https://www.google.com/search?q=inurl%3A%2Fabout%2Fmore+sneak.berlin

this is a good read.

https://reason.com/2017/04/18/drupal-developer-ousted-over-kink/

ultimately i think our mammalian pack hierarchy brain wants to scream "unfair" when people who, in our view, did nothing wrong, are ousted.

sometimes, though, "causing a controversy" even if you're totally right and correct is sufficient grounds for other people, especially those with a profit or PR motive, to rightfully choose to distance themselves from you.

@ElfLord how do you feel about the quantity of gun-cocking sounds

it turns out that the #1 most popular tv show "ow my balls" started off many decades ago as a cryptocurrency vendor called "own my balls":

https://rarible.com/balls69

imagine being pro-revenge-porn. :(

https://twitter.com/holly/status/1374441493516095491

imagine being on an instance that the admin who runs it has decided for you what you're allowed to read or follow or see. now imagine *wanting* that state of affairs.

i only learned recently the sheer number of instances that have blocked this, my single user instance, and 90% of them based on rumor/speculation/because other instances said it was bad.

federated systems are unreliable.

@footjamfan @r000t people's rms kevin bacon number does not make their predictions about the future any more or less valid :P

if we are fedi friends, make sure you add me on signal, my number's on my website.

signal should extend groupchats to allow you to publish an e2e encrypted, expiring feed of photos/videos to a selected set of friends/contacts. being e2e it would have to remain chronological and not be sorted algorithmically.

basically, Signal Stories would be the ultimate "add stories to the product like snapchat did" win, because it would be the one good social network.

if a personal computer is a bicycle for your mind, then what is a smartphone?

@mindspillage if only rms were as intelligent as you. be well and good luck.

@footjamfan @r000t there's no reason to do that, software licensed "gpl-3 or later" is always available under gpl-3.

who would have thought i'd have to youtube-dl an item on the internet archive and it wouldn't just have a download link? what's this "stream only" bullshit?

i have long maintained that both uncritical extremes of hyperpolarization on any topic are fools that got duped

@r000t you don't get to choose what licenses other projects use for their code. also, re ten years ago, see my latest toot re jwz