Shiri Bailem

@Emerald @Melatonin honestly it’s just that we have a very different social style in general.

Allistic social patterns are focused heavily on social hierarchy and group dynamics, which we couldn’t care less about (see identity theory of autism, “group/organization/association based identity vs values based identity”.

As far as allistics are concerned we tend to be “overly blunt”, “too matter of fact”, “condescending”, etc etc… mostly because we don’t include all the subtle nods to social standings and hierarchy in our communication.

@thezeesystem I feel you, these are the best I’ve gotten. They also have in-ear which I’ve used and are equally good.

App isn’t required, but very recommended (firmware updates, calibrating the audio and noise cancelling to your hearing, managing multipoint ie. switching connections between devices)

Also has incredible pass through mode (allowing you to optionally hear people without taking them off, almost as good as without wearing them at all imo).

Plus insane battery life, advertised as 40 hours… enough that by the time I get the low battery warning I’ve completely forgetten when I charged them last.

us.soundcore.com/products/spac…

@Melatonin Yeah, I usually run into people who either assume everything is a hallucination or don’t understand that hallucinations happen and are unavoidable. Even less people even understand why or how they happen (ie. if you ask a question about anything not in the provided info, it’ll most likely hallucinate as if the answer was there)

@finkrat @Melatonin if you read it’s output and learn nothing then you’ve only saved yourself time, if you don’t understand and learn nothing, then you shouldn’t use it because you can’t vouch for it

@Melatonin @plactagonic just be sure to double check all references for hallucinations

@Melatonin just leaving this here…

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@[email protected] @[email protected] it used to work with a different protocol, Friendica has been ActivityPub based longer than Mastodon has been alive.

Always remember that Mastodon is well established to be a poor neighbor in the AP community, not supporting the full spec and often implementing their own non-standard solutions.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Some platforms have specifically gone out of their way to support Mastodon’s non-standard functions… that doesn’t make them standard or a platform as deficient for not supporting them.

A lot of that has to do with the relationship between them, where many of those are newer platforms inspired by and emulating Mastodon. Friendica on the other hand is one of the old school platforms that looooong predates Mastodon, so supporting any of their non-standard stuff is a monumental task (it’s easy to support something when you’re starting from scratch)

Like I said before, all of that is non-standard functions that the vast majority of the fediverse doesn’t even support.

I think you might be confusing ease and possibility. Few people even when moving instances within the fediverse are going to have that option (save for those moving between two instances of the same platform).

It’s not whether there’s some convenient tool to move your posts or other data.

It’s about whether after the move you can still get the same updates and talk to the same people.

Think of it in terms of the oldest surviving federated network: changing email accounts.

Before SMTP (the federated email protocol), you had to have accounts on every server with people you wanted to talk to. After you only had to have one account, but could readily move about the network to other servers if you got fed up with your server’s bullshit or another offered better services.

(And for the record, public bridges with no opt-out methods exist for email as well)

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The alternative is making a new account and re-adding the same people.

I had to do that when I moved from Mastodon to Friendica.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] missed this earlier, but the way out isn’t usually account migration, that’s a very specific and non-standard function that Mastodon implemented (Mastodon has a bad habit of only half-implementing ActivityPub and then rolling out it’s own features and forcing everyone else to comply with their non-standard nonsense… they’re kinda the internet explorer of the fediverse)

The way out is because you can leave without severing connections. I’m not saying you won’t have to re-add people… but that you still have the option to re-add people. If someone deletes their Twitter account… they lose access to everyone that’s only on Twitter. If Bluesky is bridged (and no ifs ands or buts, open bridges will exist despite people’s complaints) and they delete their Bluesky account… they’d still have access to those same people.

The whole reason Facebook sticks around and maintains enormous power is because so many people don’t have the option to leave without making themselves second class citizens in their communities. (Literally the only reason I have a facebook account… if I could access them over fedi, I’d delete my account in a heartbeat)

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Hell, I’m aware of a few bridges and don’t use them and have never even seen traffic from them… There’s a few that I’m wary about, but again… I’ve never even seen any of the traffic from them.

Unless it was recently added, groups are not a thing on Mastodon itself. I do know in the Mastodon side of things a lot of people use Guppe: a.gup.pe/ for groups, which work in the same fashion as Friendica groups, just with no moderator/admin.

In the case of the groups, all 3 have it in their description that they’re groups.

Because Mastodon has no support for groups there’s no indicator anywhere other than the description that an account is a group account.

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For journalists the value of the fediverse is in not getting silenced. It’s here to amplify voices in that fashion so that nobody can be silenced, for good or ill (ie. you can block Nazi instances so you don’t see them, but you can’t stop a Nazi instance from existing or sharing content).

If you operate in a “I control where my message goes” manner, then you’re operating in a manner that can be very easily silenced. It drastically limits your reach.

It’s one of those fundamental things where you can’t have it both ways, control over your reach is inherently limiting to your reach.

And when talking about the fight against fascism, uncontrolled spread is very much preferable as they can’t silence you. If you are careful in your security you can post from an account until the fascists shut down your server… but the post will still be out there floating around. And you can just as easily stay on the network by starting a new account every time they shut down a server… they’d have to shut down the whole network to stop you.

Bridges make it even harder for them because then you can also jump between platforms and if they can’t shut down your server they’d have to shut down every single bridge… which new ones can be started with trivial ease (a lot less work and resources than starting up normal instances).

There’s nothing they can do to you over a bridge that they can’t already do without a bridge, in fact they have less control through a bridge. But you on the other hand have your voice amplified even further.

Additionally the whole fediverse gets stronger as it encourages development on both sides, if one starts lagging behind in features/quality it permits users to move without “leaving” the fediverse.

If Bluesky starts pumping hardcore propaganda and silencing leftist voices… then the bridge offers a light, showing the abuse and giving them a way out that doesn’t involve starting over from scratch.

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It’s because that’s not the bridge, that’s a Friendica group about working on such bridges. Friendica supports group accounts that you post to by tagging the group.

Group accounts work by boosting every post that tags them.

The initial post was made to the Fediverse News, Fediverse Developer Discussion, and AP-AT-Bridge Group groups, which is why you’ll see them boosting almost every comment throughout this entire thread. Anyone who didn’t explicitly removed them from the references is posting to that group as well.

The bridge will not appear as a single account. The bridge will translate accounts through it, so if I made an account named Shiri on the official bluesky server, then followed you through the bridge you would see a follow request from shiri:[email protected] (name formatting probably will differ slightly), likewise that would be the name that would appear for everything I do through the bridge with your account.

If you wanted to block my specific bluesky account from accessing your account, you could block it as normal and it’ll work just the same as it always has.

With # NoBridge in your bio, when I go to look up your account through the bridge I either won’t get anything at all as if you don’t exist or it’ll tell me that you’ve opted out of the bridge.

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The gist is that if you want to prevent your posts from being shared outside of screenshots and quote-posts (where the contents of the post are just copied) the only option is to join a whitelist-only server.

These are servers that federate only with explicitly approved servers, ie. if someone tries to connect from any instance not on that list they’re blocked by default.

That’s kinda the root of the argument here where a great many people have a false assumption that the fediverse is about control of your data when it is quite the opposite. It’s like trying to protect your art from being used by others… by marking it Creative Commons.

The entire design of all federated systems is around open sharing, you can only get control over how your posts spread in a closed system with little or no federation.

As far as whether or not you use those platforms, my example was regardless of whether you’re a user.

My server federates across multiple different protocols, if I boost your post then your post is probably being made available to multiple different networks automatically.

The protections and control involved in federated networks is not in how your data is shared, but in how your access is controlled.

In the fediverse you don’t have to worry about a bad admin blocking your access to everyone you know, you can freely move accounts between instances. If you piss of Elon for instance, you’re cut off from Twitter and everyone on it… full stop… but if you piss off your instance admin, you just move instances and can still connect with everyone.

It’s also control over your experience in that you’re not relying purely on what their algorithms think you should see. If the instance your on has an algorithm set up that you don’t like, then you can move instances to one that has the algorithm you like.

You also have protections against enshittification (the process by which those other networks will draw you in with great features, and then once you’re locked in slowly shut down or degrade those features). If features that are important to you start getting shut down on your server… you can move to one that keeps them. If a platform developer does it, another developer can fork the project to keep those features alive.

You also have choice in terms of clients and experiences. You’re using Mastodon and I’m on Friendica (I know your instance type because Friendica shows me a little icon beside posts). I vastly prefer the Friendica experience, and I have the choice to use that. And I can use that without forcing you to use the same interface.

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] a boost in this case will operate the same as with normal ActivityPub, in which case the block should remain honored. It’ll be the exact same as someone boosting your post and whether someone you blocked on AP can see that post.

I’ll note however that the bridge should not be a concern if you’re worried about that, instead you should be concerned of the thousands of instances like mine (Friendica and Hubzilla) that will natively support Bluesky. If we boost your post, then it’ll be copied over to Bluesky with no actual connection to you in the network, so your blocks will not apply and you will have no control over the post afterwards.

@[email protected] @[email protected] reporting you to your server admins for violating rule 7 on your server…

Bridges are a dime a dozen (literally there are so many out there already and this is open source so good luck de-federating them all without just joining a whitelist server), the fediverse doesn’t work the way you think it does, bridges probably don’t work the way you think they do, and dogpiling on someone for sharing their project for feedback, especially for offering a polite feature to exclude yourself from the bridge which no other bridge I’ve seen offers just makes it clear you’re an asshole.

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@flowerpot @ashleyspencer If you have the option for stimulant meds: take it.

Basically the situation with ADHD is that stimulant meds work the vast vast majority of the time, work immediately, and work dramatically.

And issues or not, try both (there’s basically two families of stimulant medications for ADHD). Usually one will work better for someone than the other. And if you have issues with one, the other will probably work just fine.

I’m on Straterra myself because I can’t access the stimulant medications at this time. It helps but barely, the only reason I can even really tell is because one area of my job is significantly affected by ADHD and it’s slightly better performance when the medication is working (stimulant meds on the other hand I notice the impact in all tasks and am incredible at that part of my job)