#indieweb 2021-01-22
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@jacknicas Two members of Congress, @RepAnnaEshoo & @Malinowski, just sent well-researched letters to the CEOs of Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter, urging them to fix their algorithms that promote conspiracy theories and push people to political extremes. The letters to FB and Google: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsStj-GW4AAPsom.jpg (twitter.com/_/status/1352396931537006595)
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[KevinMarks] yay for my rep Anna Eshoo
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[timothy_chambe] ↩️ Yeah it is listed in the "related" to activity pub section:
# [timothy_chambe] "The IndieWeb protocols and community are also related to ActivityPub through a shared vision of social federation developed around the same time period. The IndieWeb was inspired by the Federated Social Web Summit in 2010and formed around the idea of interconnecting individual websites rather than federating social platforms. A co-founder described the vision as, "someone should be able to take their web site and be able to use their web
# [timothy_chambe] site to participate in the same distributed social network —federated social network."
# cbradford[m] <Loqi "[@jacknicas] Two members of Cong"> Elected officials advocating for censorship is a sad thing. One more good reason to move away from centralized systems.
# [KevinMarks] Did you read them? they're advocating for more care in algorithmic amplification
# cbradford[m] <[KevinMarks] "Did you read them? they're advoc"> Yes I did. And their premise is that the current algorithms are "bad" because speech they don't like was being allowed and spread. Anyone that points out QAnon as the basis for their thesis has lost before they even start.
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[schmarty] "Censorship" does not seem like an accurate word in this case. The letter's main call is for a change in what Facebook promotes and recommends. The letter says acknowledges that takedowns are an ineffective game of whack-a-mole.
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[chrisaldrich] Twitter << criticism of moderation due to misinformation https://hapgood.us/2021/01/21/twitter-should-cancel-the-appeals-process-or-make-it-work-also-im-in-twitter-jail-in-case-youve-missed-me/
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Loqi ok, I added "criticism of moderation due to misinformation https://hapgood.us/2021/01/21/twitter-should-cancel-the-appeals-process-or-make-it-work-also-im-in-twitter-jail-in-case-youve-missed-me/" to the "See Also" section of /Twitter https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=74333&oldid=74269
# [chrisaldrich] chiragdi On putting notes into one's WordPress site, there are a number of various ways of doing it, some potentially depending on one's needs wishes and maybe thought for their pre-existing followers. Some have everything in one site in one big feed (it's easier to search and people can subscribe to sub-feeds if they need) while others will use subdomains or other sub-paths to do something separate.
# [chrisaldrich] We've got a #indieweb-wordpress channel we can move to if you'd like to go more in depth.
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# [chrisaldrich] Re: Twitter paper: I'll delve into it more deeply later, but I'm shocked that so many technologists writing about social media platforms have almost every protocol out there (including some that don't really have working implementations) listed and no one thought to add HTML.
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# [chrisaldrich] What is 1feed?
# Loqi It looks like we don't have a page for "1feed" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "1feed is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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# [Keith_Axline] ↩️ looks like the verge picked it up: https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/21/22242718/twitter-bluesky-decentralized-social-media-team-project-update
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[colinwalker] Wow! I think I’ve actually got a webmention endpoint (semi)working!
# [schmarty] colinwalker++ 🎉
# [colinwalker] I just need to sort out comment display based on type but fingers crossed.
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# [KevinMarks] there are some existing things to base comment display on, if you want pointers
# [KevinMarks] what are you building in?
# [KevinMarks] nymwars << SlateStarCodex at great length about having his pseudonym exposed https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive
# Loqi ok, I added "SlateStarCodex at great length about having his pseudonym exposed https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/still-alive" to the "See Also" section of /nymwars https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=74335&oldid=72332
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