Lady @Lady@cat.family

@gaditb @djsundog @thegibson and it would definitely solve the use case of migrating posts between services hosted on the same domain name

@gaditb @djsundog @thegibson yeah this is why i think Tag URIs are a better fit than UUIDs, UUIDs are just more recognizable so i used them as the example

with a Tag URI the domain name of the issuer is part of the URI, so you could simply reject any posts where that didn't match. this might mean that posts would cease to be federatable once you moved them to a different domain name (unless you set up a mechanism by which the old domain could verify the new one), but it would at least mean the posts WOULD be movable

@djsundog @thegibson we need ark-style persistent-IDs-in-URLs for posts on the fediverse tbh

the short version: you navigate to a link like

/@xyz/statuses/urn:uuid:fc33bc35-2f63-49ec-865e-ac58cf86c811

your instance sees the urn:uuid:fc33bc35-2f63-49ec-865e-ac58cf86c811 and knows that is a status, even if it doesn't understand the rest of the path

your instance automatically redirects to

/user/xyz/status/urn:uuid:fc33bc35-2f63-49ec-865e-ac58cf86c811

it's not hard to retroactively generate PIDs for existing statuses e.g. as Tag URIs, but this should have been done from the beginning for a federated service. statuses only having local identifiers is a big part of the problem

(ARK: <https://arks.org/>)
(Tag URI: <https://taguri.org/>)

i love how ocarina of time was just unapologetically like “yes the three genders are Bear, Radfem, and Fish”

finally got the last tower in breath of the wild

« In the end, any excuse is valid to show a character partially or completely nude. »

@gaditb i enjoyed both nozaki-kun and comic girls

anime drawing of a person

the prototypical Guy

@caztastrophe i think blocking based on a protestant idea of like, moral purity is the wrong approach. the question for moderators isn’t “who is morally good and morally evil in this situation” but (a) how can i protect my users and (b) how can i do my job as a moderator

for the first question, it’s usually pretty obvious who is a threat, because they say or do things which are threatening to your users, or they have a pattern of not responding when other people they are accountable for do those things

the second question is harder, because sometimes as a moderator what you’re doing isn’t so much Responding To Active Threats but doing other things to keep the platform running smoothly, like talking out conflicts, de·escalating, etc. so you want to be sure that any instance you’re federating with is an instance which you feel comfortable having those sorts of negotiations with. if your feeling is “there’s no way i, as a moderator, am going to want to talk to the admins on this instance ever,” just IMO, you should defederate with them regardless of whether they did anything “wrong” or “bad” or regardless of why you might feel that way. because you need to be able to do that to do your job properly

bear in mind that many large instances (like mastodon.social) only do the first bit and don’t engage in the second bit at all. so this approach isn’t universal. but for people who view instances not just as technical services but as communities, being able to trust the people doing the community work is paramount. at the end of the day that’s a gut check, but you try your best to keep those feelings in accordance with reality

a linguist did not make this

when they consider “chinese” to be a single language but distinguish “german” and “pennyslvania dutch”

i am not sure i want to federate with a community of people united only in their choice of web browser

who is moderating the vivaldi social media instance

#DecRecs last night i mentioned this fic to @coriander so now i have to mention it here

The “Ocarina of Time Happened Because Zelda was Racist” series: https://archiveofourown.org/series/157736

the title sounds more controversial than the actual fic is; it is correct and also a great characterization of Zelda and especially Ganondorf, both of whom are redeemed (Zelda’s father is not)