The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:
"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
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I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect *them*.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
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@zkat Yeah it'd be cool if community blocklists had more nuance like "incidental transphobia by organization" vs "enabling individuals to do targeted transphobia" vs "federates with instance that has known transphobes on it" since this is nuance which might mean different things to different groups which I see tagged as just "transphobia" without elaboration in most cases.
@EtherNRhum Yeah, I'd love to! Feel free to DM me or email me at contact@mauve.moe :)
@jonny might be relevant? https://www.tiktok.com/@cat_tigrous/video/7260997329631661313
@izaya Me when I was in the park the other day with a head mounted display and my steam deck coding federated software and listening to squirrels fight.
@Are0h@ubiqueros.com Oh cool, that's what https://thebad.space/about is
Ty for working on this. :)
@dym Oh!! I didn't know .ink was even an option.
K, ty for the brainstorm, I'll run these by some artsy folks in meatspace to get their reactions. :P
@dym postaboot.art is pretty cheap too and kinda describes what folks would do on there. I feel like aboot.ca misses the art aspect.
abootart.ca is cool too?
Neat! I love how we're getting a new class of mobile devices with these #ar glasses based things like the XReal Beam.
I'm excited to be able to get a lil compute puck that I can run Linux + @stardustxr on as my primary device.
@dym @thisismissem Nice. 180 dollars to sign up though so I'll need to think if I wanna spend that much on a domain. :P
Maybe something-aboot.art or aboot-something.art?
talkaboot.art is an order of magnitude cheaper. 🤔
@thisismissem Oh yeah! That's a great idea actually. I think having some very "canadian" sounding words could be fun.
From my experience most other Canadians I know are pretty chill with the stereotypes they're assigned. :P
I feel like "beaver" would be a good one but the connotations with genitalia would be a problem. 😅
Hey folks, I'm thinking of starting a #ottawa / #toronto / #ontario based #PixelFed instance for #artists and #makers
I think it'd be a great intro to different types of folks to the #Fediverse that aren't necessarily into the twitter-style on mastodon.
Any thoughts for names? I'm thinking of some sort of `.art` or `.ca` domain.
gender, non-binary identity woes
Kinda excited for the day I'll get to hang out in spaces where it/its pronouns are taken seriously instead of with eye boggling.
I think I only have like one person in my life that consistently uses them and it also uses it/its pronouns. It's like how when I came out as a they/them I had to start constantly proving myself, but now it's even with other queer people. 😅
I can see how it'd be hard given how novel it'd be for most folks to encounter though.
Oopsie, looks like my server filled up overnight and now I need to do more clearning. :x
Looks like I'll want to do a more aggressive purge of old attachments. Maybe I should really upgrade to 4+ so I can use the `tootctl accounts prune` API.
Also I think this speaks to there being merit in caching more stuff client side and using content addressing + p2p instead of large central caches.
@nf lmao yeah. The default rental form 410 even encourages applicants to give their SIN even though it's marked as optional it seems kinda dangerous to set that precedent
@jonny looks like it could be related to mating cycles?
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.