“Keeping Unwanted Messages off the Fediverse” – Serge Wroclawski


Good talk. I totally agree that we can't rely on moderators on the fediverse, and for that matter anywhere else.

The best way to deal with moderation on the fediverse is this:

  • Make sure you allow admins to curate their own instance by showcasing/promoting what they think is best. I call this positive moderation. Not banning, but promoting.
  • Make sure users have easy and powerful tools at their disposal to ban/block anyone and curate their online presence.
  • Transparency at the instance level. Inform users when your instance has blocked any other or any user, and for what reason. Inform users when they are banned from instances and so forth. As transparent as possible.

Video URL here videos.trom.tf/w/8TLrJAfKcViUY…

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This is the issue we've been talking about. But I feel like this problem has been going on for a lot longer, and users from other instances have also reported stuff like this. So maybe they're not related..... 🤔
@hankg

Oh look, an article about how humans smuggle rare birds and make tens of millions of euros a year - occrp.org/en/investigations/as…

Guess why they are doing that?

Their genes? No.
Their ego? What is that!?
Lack of laws? No.
Laws not tough enough? No.

They are doing it because we live in a trade-based society and everyone is forced, compelled, then lured into playing it. People need it, people learn to love it. Accumulate shit, trade for survival, all that. This will never stop as long as the core of our society is to TRADE TRADE TRADE, while no one has access to even their basic needs unless they trade.

Fucked up society.

Wanna change it? Provide a basic life for humans. Give them access to their needs as trade-free, so that you can start to decouple them from these bad incentives. Then promote and encourage and support volunteer projects, so that we end up creating stuff, without having to trade it.

This way you create much saner and more relaxed humans.

Else nothing will change. Laws? What a joke! #tromlive

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This is one of the coolest apps I've seen recently. You can create a second screen in seconds out of any device. Highly recommended!


The trade-free app of the day:

Deskreen

tromjaro.com/deskreen/

Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer.


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Anotehr productive TROM II night. So I wanted for a while to make a sort of compilation of automation - machines that can replace most jobs. And now I finally did it and integrated it into TROM II. I had to cut down some 20h of robots/automation in like 1 minute. Am happy with it. I also kinda know where to insert the leftover bits into the second part. That means I should be done with the second part soon. Can't wait to be done with that :D.

These days I plan to release a new TROMjaro ISO and try to get in sync with the Manjaro updates, so that our ISOs are more up to date. Not planning any huge changes. #tromlive

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I have made an article kinda debunking the myth that we need libadwaita, a reaction to this theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2022… article. Read the post on the TROMjaro forum forum.tromjaro.com/t/libadwait…

And I show you why TROMjaro is better than PoP OS or Ubuntu.

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Yeah watch this documentary....what we are talking about for years now, how trade fucks things up. It is not just about money, money is just a form of trade. Likes, shares, comments, can be traded for products. #TradeRuinsEverything

Kids nowadays are growing up in an even more fucked up society. We are FoCkEd. #tromlive


Newly added documentary on VideoNeat.com:

Fake Famous

Fake Famous is a 2021 documentary film directed by Nick Bilton. It is a social experiment involving three non-famous people who attempt to become social media influencers by “faking” fame.

Watch it here:

videoneat.com/documentaries/22…


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The friendica friendly developers already implemented two new and useful features: the ability to export/import blacklisted urls from one instance to another, and notifications to all users of an instance when any url is added/removed from the blocklist, so that all users see these decisions.

Friendica is leading the way on the fediverse! Big thanks to @Hypolite Petovan @Tobias @Michael Vogel and the rest of the developers at Friendica.

It is really on my list of things to do in teh future, to get more closely involved with them and perhaps help with the main website, with design stuff, themes, etc.. I think it would be a pleasure to do these. :) - First the documentary, then these new things!

Kdenlive failed on me :( - cannot open my last project for the TROM II second part....neither the appimage or repo. What is true is that I have added a fuck ton of videos, thousands in total....luckily an older appimage works so I can continue the work. I reported it and usually the kdenlive devs are quick to answer, let's see...

I am testing Kddenlive to the max, with a 6h documentary, 4 parts, tens of thousands of clips, over 1TB project....lots of effects, custom stuff, and so on...

So far, generally, all good. #tromlive

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Larbs is good stuff, I've been using it for a long time now, a lot longer than I've used any other system. But if wanna use it then you should be somewhat familiar with the linux terminal and everything. And everything on Larbs is based on vim key bindings, so if you're a vim user then you'll love it. If you don't know vim then I recommend learning it, not for Larbs but its just good to know vim in general.
@tio @inference

Great amount of work today with TROM II. I think I know how to and where to add all of the leftovers for this parts. Already added lots of it. But it will take a week or so to finish this I guess. I have asked for some help on our TROM Discussions chat with some things. Join here matrix.to/#/#chat:matrix.trom.… . #tromlive

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An adblock-like solution for the fediverse. Thoughts?


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@Tio @utzer ~Friendica~ @Michael Vogel @Amolith @Eugen @Hypolite Petovan @Snopyta @Hank G @Humane Tech Now @ar.al🌻 @Jeena @dansup @Cory Doctorow's linkblog @TBlock @xantulon @Informa Pirata @Cleo McKee

So the last time we talked about this topic I explained how most of these censorship issues could be avoided by using peer to peer systems. But now I wanna take a look at the fediverse itself and see how we can make things better. I have an idea that I want to share with you all, because I think it could solve a lot of issues with our current method of moderation. I felt like it was better to make a separate post for it so explained it here - social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…

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@Humane Tech Now @Emacsen @CSDUMMI✝️🕊️🏛️ @utzer ~Friendica~ @Michael Vogel @Tio @Amolith @Eugen @Hypolite Petovan @Snopyta @Hank G @ar.al🌻 @Jeena @dansup @Cory Doctorow's linkblog @TBlock @xantulon @Informa Pirata @Cleo McKee

I have made another post to explain about the social impacts of moderation & censorship - social.trom.tf/display/dbc8dc4…

So far we've been talking only about the technical side of things, to see how we can improve moderation by giving more power and choice to the users. But looking at some of the replies I got on my last post I felt like maybe a lot of people don't understand why we're doing it in the first place, why should we give more power to the users over admins? So I wrote this post, to answer that question, but also to make people understand how much of a complex topic moderation actually is, it isn't just simply "blocking bad content".

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I started to work on TROM II again today. Did a bit of work. Happy with it. Still a lot more to do for the second part. Sometimes I'm thinking...is it worth spending 3 hours to do this little video effect for this little part of the documentary!?...but it takes time. Even a simple thing you have to keyframe it, move, mask, add a sound effect and all that...I try not to go too nuts with it tho so let's see if I can finish this second part in a week or so. It is also fucking hot... #tromlive

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Damn I went through all of the TROM Memes....from yesterday to today, I checked some 4-5 thousand...not healthy! But I am done. I have reduced them down to 2.8 thousand in total, the rest were duplicates or the ones we did not need anymore. I have added them to social.tromsite.com - and now our system will kick in and randomly take 1 of the 2.849 photos that we have, and post it as new. That will then be reshared on our @TROM Friendica page in ActivityPub format.

Also thank you @Airton for helping with some of them!

Now that's done! I wanted to do that for the past 3-4 years and never had the time to do it. No more memes to post for the next many months. But if we are to post the ones we have, every day, one a day, it will take 7-8 YEARS to post them all. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. I made so many memes that it will take some 8 years to post one a day hahahaha.

TROM has so much content people have no idea. And we will make more, regardless if anyone is interested or not :P #tromlive

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