Olives @olives@qoto.org

Apparently, folks on the fediverse don't like it when the silver bullet mythology *and* the way a few individuals cling to it are described as being like a cult.

The fediverse has issues. Inter-instance censorship. Ones referred to as "HOA". Unprofessional mod / admin practices. #FreeSpeech

If someone is a believer in the fediverse, it's not like it's going to improve, if someone doesn't interrogate aspects of it.

"fans" (particularly concern trolls who crave attention) who "watched a couple of titles" stand out like a supernova.

In fact, a lot of these titles being adapted now are titles which I saw around a decade ago.

Anyone who has been reading light novels for around a decade could have seen the "transported to another world" titles long in advance. It's not something out of thin air, it's like "Oh, they are adapting those ones now?"

A light novel might care quite a bit less about censoring something for the television than an anime adaptation of it.

Full nudity? Yeah, whatever, just throw it in.

Sex scenes? Yeah, just throw that in.

Nipples? Even some anime have historically had those.

I'm surprised no one has thought of something that is like Nostr (relays which transmit messages for a community) and like Cwtch.

Maybe, Veilid will become more interesting as the development of it progresses. It could take a few years though.

I like a lot of the frankness you get from the developers of Cwtch about how performance and security is a trade-off.

Veilid reminds me a lot of Cwtch but it's also less mature than Cwtch (development only started a year ago). The requirements for developing it also seem higher than Cwtch.

I don't understand what the Veilid's appeal is.

https://veilid.com/about-us/community/ The point of not using Discord is to show a commitment to privacy by not collecting as much data. Something you'd think a privacy project would do.

Private censorship exists.

I should take a closer look at Nostr but I never get the time to do so.

"Is this censorship bill a censorship bill?"

It might also be a sign that Silicon Valley (and in the case of Mastodon, Berlin) are just not delivering. Federation is sold as a silver bullet for everything. Bluesky pretends to be decentralized.

I'd hope that "safe" isn't a synonym for being censorious here (the article mainly talks about minors being banned from the site rather than censoring content).

https://www.an-yal.com/blog/mixi-2-the-revival-of-japans-social-media-pioneer Mixi 2 is a name which has come up lately.

What's probably confusing is that Facebook *also* said they were going to lean on automated moderation less. So, I wonder if they're still working on that, or if "cybersecurity" is a special category.

There are people assuming that Facebook is censoring Linux related topics deliberately but it could well just be an algorithm going crazy.

Not too long ago, Facebook was bragging about how they were going to adopt LLMs for their moderation, so it might have something to do with that.