Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers ( privacy.thenexus.today )
If you're a developer working on a fediverse app or service and want to get it right – or just don't want to be the center of the next firestorm – here are a few suggestions.
Federal privacy legislation update: the American Privacy Rights Act (APRA) ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/10889989...
It's possible to talk about The Bad Space without being racist or anti-trans – but it's not as easy as it sounds ( privacy.thenexus.today )
There's another wave of discourse about The Bad Space on the microblogging side of the fediverse, so here's my article from a couple of months ago....
Steps towards a safer fediverse ( privacy.thenexus.today )
The good news is that there are some straightforward opportunities for significant short-term safety improvements. If fediverse funders, developers, businesses, and "influencers" start prioritizing investing in safety, the fediverse can turn what's currently a big weakness into a huge strategic advantage....
Steps towards a safer fediverse (DRAFT) ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7992691...
Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7477620...
The free fediverses should make it easier to move between (and create) instances ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7371919...
The free fediverses should support concentric federations of instances ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7235896...
The free fediverses should emphasize networked communities ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7193618...
The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety ( privacy.thenexus.today )
The (annotated) case for a "big fedi" ( privacy.thenexus.today )
A response to Evan Prodromou’s “Big Fedi, Small Fedi”
Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse ( privacy.thenexus.today )
What’s Meta up to?...
Mastodon and today's fediverse are unsafe by design and unsafe by default ( privacy.thenexus.today )
Even though millions of people left Twitter in 2023 – and millions more are ready to move as soon as there’s a viable alternative – the fediverse isn’t growing.1 One reason why: today’s fediverse is unsafe by design and unsafe by default – especially for Black and Indigenous people, women of color, LGBTAIQ2S+...
Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! ( privacy.thenexus.today )
I'm changing my stance on the whole Meta/project92 thing after reading this article. I think the entire* fediverse should block project92 by default. Later, some instances can re-evaluate whether to maintain those blocks, once we have a better idea of what the benefits and consequences of federating will be:...
Don't tell people "it's easy", and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (UPDATED) ( privacy.thenexus.today )
I had shared an earlier version of this last week, and a draft of the updates a few days ago. Thanks to everybody for the feedback!...
Eight days later: KBin, Lemmy, the landed gentry, and the rise of the "threadiverse" (DRAFT) ( privacy.thenexus.today )
Draft! Work in Progress! Feedback welcome!...
Don't tell people "it's easy", and six more things KBin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon ( privacy.thenexus.today )
The fediverse has always grown in waves and we're at the start of one. It's worth looking at what tactics worked well in the past, to use them again or adapt them and build on them. It's also valuable to look at what went wrong or didn't work out as well in the past, to see if there are ways to do better....