Floyd @Floyd@qoto.org

The world has recently become less democratic.

Many more people have democratic rights than in the past. Some of this progress has recently been reversed.

Read our post: https://ourworldindata.org/less-democratic

The Internet Archive have added a Mastodon Server http://blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we-have-added-a-mastodon-server/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/29/twitter-covid-misinformation-policy-enforcement-elon-musk?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

a verdict spreadsheet courtesy of @JordanFischer:

Back out there in the real world, there is skepticism that people are really spending more time on #Mastodon and driving traffic etc.

This is impeding some take up.

And one BIG reason is that Mastodon hides HTTP referrer information for privacy reasons, so you cannot see Mastodon traffic in your web stats.

I agree with this decision – but I want to warm about this consequence, as I suspect organisations are underestimating the shift that has taken place. #webstats #analytics

Sony and Lexar's encryption provider leaked sensitive #data for over a year

You know you're in for a fun time when they say "military-grade #encryption."

I don't even know what that means, folks.

#cybersecurity #security #infosec #opsec

https://cybernews.com/security/encsecurity-leaked-sensitive-data/

#Twitter #data #leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts
The dump includes private phone numbers and email address. https://www.engadget.com/twitter-data-for-54-million-users-leaked-online-095040426.html

Having now been on #Mastodon for 1 month, a few observations:

- Mastodon makes me realize how much the #Twitter algorithm maximized user outrage to boost engagement for profit. Gross. Here, my feed is interesting & supportive.

- There's a culture of kindness - at least so far. It's extremely appealing & should be normalized on & offline.

- Beyond reactions to toots, people share songs, poetry & ask great questions. I can't remember the last time I found social media to be fun.

My #SpecialInterest at the moment is #Allistic vs #Autistic communication styles and I have a lot to say about it, but I wanted to ask other autistic people something first. In general, how would you describe allistic communication? Please feel free to boost, I'd love to hear a wide variety of opinions.

NOTE: If anyone wants to be added to this list just let me know.

Ok so this seems to be most of the people who publicly stated they had interest in developing the "United Federation of Instances". All of you should have gotten the first draft and opinions were heard and discussed.

Today I will be moving the first draft over to git (either git.qoto.org or gitlab.com). From there I will encourage each of you to provide suggestions as to edits there, and raise discussions in issues. This way we will be public and have an open transparent forum that keeps the changes on record.

While public feedback is being debated on the proposal I will begin a rough draft on the complete by laws (which will try to represent the broader points in the proposal document). That too will be on gitlab and open to discussion

From there as the movement grows we can begin discussing launching it.

I suggest all communication on the fediverse about this use the #UFI hashtag so it is easily searchable.

Since this is a public post I will now share the link to the early draft here, please keep in mind everything here is open for discussion so if anyone doesnt like the current direction, please speak up, we want you to be heard.

https://jeffreyfreeman.me/files/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

@skanman @floppy @john @stevenclyman @robryk @ejg @dashrandom @Romaq @ichoran @AlanOutback @tsomof @aebrockwell @Ryle @tatzelbrumm @Gaythia @ichoran @realcaseyrollins @stux@mstdn.social @stux@masto.ai @trinsec @khird @darnell @jq #mastoadmin #fediblock