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@darnell @ravenonthill Do we know if any laws were broken?

@JonKramer I think there are many reasonable ways to approach it. It would be cool to have tools to track warnings. I would probably do it if there were. I don't like blocking people, but it's also hard to justify spending my attention on people who are jerks from the very first interaction.

I try to chime in if I see someone being a dick on someone else's post, if it hasn't been called out already. But I think the pile-ons that can happen on Twitter can be excessive.

@roq yeah, I'm sure abuse would be possible, but I don't know that it would be any worse than the current system. This is really just an automated workflow on top of existing features.

Not sure if the reply channel from the instance admin exists. If not, it could be used by bad faith instance operators to send more abuse.

@trinsec @freemo I haven't tried fediblock yet. Maybe that pretty much solves the problem.

I think walled gardens is the last thing I want to see. I see it as a major problem right now.

I blocked some dude who was a jerk in his first interaction with me. That sort of thing I think is fine to handle as an individual. I wouldn't report someone for being a jerk.

I'm talking about serially abusive people who interject slurs into threads. There's no reason every Fediverse user should have to individually deal with these people and the instances that facilitate their behavior. And to the extent that they have to, give them good tools.

#fediverse #mastodon #moderation

@peterweyand I'm coming at this from a perspective of how you build a place that works for a broader community work. I see the Fediverse as a potential alternative to the centralized social networks. But I don't think that actually happens with replacing the moderation layer with something decentralized.

But since you can't make your points without being abusive, this is the last you'll hear from me. Consider yourself liberated from my opinions.

We're badly in need of better decentralized moderation tools.

Individuals blocking individuals is not an effective way to handle abuse.

I want the ability to have an automated way to block instances if they do not handle abuse reports. If I see an abusive user from an unfamiliar instance, it's not easy for me to know whether their behavior is the norm or will go unpunished. It would be nice to have a one-click:

1. Block this user for me from an abusive post
2. Report to *their* instance admin "If the linked behavior is acceptable on your instance, I will block your instance."
3. Autoblock the instance if no response in, say, 3 days
4. If the admin responds, give the option to block the instance.

#fediverse #mastodon #moderation

@atomicpoet I don't think it's going to be Big Social. I think it's going to be the Big Tech platform companies: Google and Microsoft. E.g. the people who provide free email hosting. Both of them failed at social, but the Fediverse presents a 2nd chance on a platter.

They won't be able to seize control of the Fediverse, but they will be able to own the onramps and experiences of most users. Finding the right onramp and avoiding instance admin politics are probably the 2 biggest pain points to adoption right now!

It will be increasingly niche to self-host or use small independent instances. A power-user thing. Especially if the growth of the Fediverse (accelerated by Big Tech) increases the costs of hosting.

#fediverse #TwitterMigration #mastodon

@davidnewman Go anti-woke, go broke, it seems.

Just released a new blog post!

It's a pretty quick read on the counterintuitive ways in which I see AI changing the world. In short, look past the impressive demos and simplistic solutionism towards the ways in which technologies might be combined to create entirely new phenomena.

https://acjay.com/2022/12/23/the-ai-big-bang/

#ai #generativeAI #chatgpt #llm #technology #tech #futurism

@Nishan3000 @josh @academicchatter I wouldn't say it's nonsense. Portions of the industry have pivoted towards planning, beyond investment management, and behavioral finance. I think these services are still really valuable.

But I'm pretty sure you're right that the majority of the industry is still predicated on the idea of beating the market, whether we're talking about broker-dealer wealth managers or hedge funds.

Tesla is making a play at being the worst performing stock in the S&P 500 of 2022.

Keep an eye on https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/performance. Right now, it's reflecting Friday 12/23's close, but TSLA is getting hammered today.

#tesla #tsla #stocks #market

@wagnerblog Ah, I hope we see that!