Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
Olives
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Capita is an outsourcing company, paid millions of pounds to help the Home Office track the GPS location of non-British people 24/7 using ankle tags or portable devices.
This practice has been described as “psychological torture” by those subjected to it.
#DignityNotData
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/tornado-cash-civil-decision-limits-reach-treasury-departments-actions-while I'm generally in favor of a strong First Amendment, so I'll support the EFF here.
I used to post *a lot* more human rights content and not really that much anime content, lol.
I changed that a bit for a few reasons, one is that I want to spread a bit more positivity.
Of course, Discord cheated a fair bit by using a lower level language to circumvent Elixir's limitations.
Matrix will still be better than Discord though, because it actually supports end-to-end encryption, and you can install it on your own hardware.
Also, you don't have to rely on yet another unreliable tech giant.
From what I remember, Discord used Elixir for guilds (although, they use a lot of languages for a lot of things), so the more you know.
Who knows if they still do it though.
Unfortunately, practically everything wants to collect telemetry on you these days and you have to keep your wits about you.
Research is fairly important, otherwise I might jump in without fully understanding the problem space (leading to wasted efforts, although I suppose that no effort here is really that wasted).
The joke about it being hip is kind of a joke, but I'd also like to look into what can be done in this ecosystem, because I'm seeing quite a few gaps.
Consider it an experiment.
I think that developers sometimes undervalue the importance of UX and instead focus a fair bit on raw functionality.
I remember that a few years ago, that ecosystem (and related ones) were far more prominent than they appear to be now.
While that has largely stagnated, others have risen up. And frankly, it's probably the UX.
I think I upset someone by saying the UI on Pleroma isn't pretty, but it kind of isn't, and that kind of matters (as does usability).
Hehe, should I post more human rights content, more anime content, or... maybe... both...?
Multiple standards can be useful.
Someone might opt for a far more free speech arena (particularly, if not everyone wants to be housed in with the shitposters).
That said, the existence of multiple standards doesn't really excuse arbitrary policymaking, petty high school drama, a lack of consideration of free expression, or the poor UX around this.
I think that HOA type drama and inter-instance censorship is a really difficult thing for someone to wrap their minds around. This presents a significant challenge in UX and user expectations (although, it's not the only UX challenge). It also presents a threat to the expansion of the fediverse.
There isn't even a reference to necessity or proportionality there, or any human rights standard, it mainly comes down to unilateral decision making.
It's totally possible to ignore this and to just focus on getting out software with strong UX, but this really is a large part of someone's experience.
At the same time, I can kind of see the argument for being able to effectively deal with harassment.
Olives
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Imagine you have a software that only federates with Mastodon, what's the best term to describe what it's doing? #Mastodon #Fediverse
Since building AP enabled software seems to be the hip thing to do, let's do so.
Stage: Researching.
Ideas: Efficiency. UX.
UI: Hopefully prettier than Pleroma 1... (they did that deliberately 2, lol)
Stack: I'm leaning away from Node.js, Rails, Elixir.
Questions: How to avoid centralization (and HOA drama)?
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma "Pleroma (Koinē Greek: πλήρωμα, literally "fullness") generally refers to the totality of divine powers." The word Pleroma is likely a reference to this.
2 https://wedistribute.org/2018/04/blushy-crushy-fediverse-idol-a-chat-with-lain-about-pleroma/
Olives
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Well, it's probably not surprising.
There are probably a certain number of people who go in, go meh, and leave... for now (and a number who stay).
Apart from possibly improving on sync, another thing which could be done is to improve the messaging on profiles, so that users understand what's going on.
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
