#indieweb 2024-01-07

2024-01-07 UTC
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[tantek] real_devastatia I have IG on mobile and have never given my phone #. Is that a new thing for activating the mobile app?
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[tantek] lots of stuff entered the public domain if anyone is looking at adding some graphics or other materials from these sources to their personal site! https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/04/the-worlds-most-famous-mouse-joins-the-public-domain/
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gRegor Yeah I don't think I've ever had to give IG app my number. Though Meta probably has it already for years ago in my FB profile, or the shadow profiles they make based on FB friends.
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gRegor *from years ago
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[jeremycherfas] Like [Zegnat] I am sure I am doing IG wrong.
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Zegnat I use those social media silos very little. And when I do, it is for the original idea of socials: staying in touch with people I know. So on IG my account is private and I never use any of the discovery features. Just look at stories from friends, and sometimes send DMs to people who are not available in other places 🤷‍♀️
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[jeremycherfas] I never like things from people I don’t follow and am thorough about blocking intrusive accounts. I still see a lot of dross, but overall it is ok.
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r​eal_devastatia [tantek]: They require you to login on mobile app to add your website URL to your profile. The field is disabled in desktop browser. That's the only profile field with that requirement, which makes me suspicious.
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r​eal_devastatia [tantek]: The far left are having a field day making Steamboat Willy derived content.
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r​eal_devastatia [edit] [tantek]: The far right are having a field day making Steamboat Willy derived content.
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aaronpk afaik you don't need to provide your phone number to log in on the mobile app
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aaronpk phone number secrecy is overrated anyway
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Zegnat real_devastatia: I think the Steamboat Willy AI training showed me everything I feel is wrong with training models.
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Zegnat Specifically https://twitter.com/Dorialexander/status/1741619909426073834 which to me read as “the model is trained on public domain mickey but sometimes still shows features of non-public domain mickey, because that just happens to be in the model”
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Zegnat If you are going to train a model on public domain stuff, but the base you are training might also include the non-public domain stuff, what even is the use?!
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r​eal_devastatia I don't like the idea of training AI on proprietary content anyway. It's content theft.
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r​eal_devastatia aaronpk: I don't have either a mobile phone or the Instagram account anymore, so it's moot at this point.
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r​eal_devastatia I'm banned from Facebook and Twitter too. I'll soon be able to do anything on my personal site that I used to do on those platforms, so they're irrelevant to me.
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[snarfed] new one-way bridge from RSS/Atom, Bluesky, and Substack into the fediverse: https://rss-parrot.net/
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[tantek] Gotta be low fidelity conversion. I can't expect it does anything intelligent with Atom AS1 for example (would be a pleasant surprise if it did) e.g. my atom feed, nevermind @-mentions and hashtags
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[tantek] Naming it "RSS" something to me implies it is converting everything to the lowest common denominator of RSS which is quite lossy
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Loqi hey [tantek], it seems like this conversation is more appropriate for #indieweb-dev (ATOM, RSS)
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[tantek] Lol dev-sniped by [snarfed]. Classic
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[snarfed] 😎
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Loqi [indienews] New post: "Reducing Native Comment Spam" https://gregorlove.com/2024/01/reducing-native-comment-spam/
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Loqi gRegor has 7 karma in this channel over the last year (88 in all channels)
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[tantek] gRegor++ nicely done!
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gRegor Akismet does have a nice stat panel apparently, just signed in. 5,374 spam comments blocked in last year, 283 Ham, 126 missed spam (ones I reported back to them as spam).
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gRegor what is akismet
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Loqi Akismet is an anti-spam webservice from Automattic that has various levels of service both free and paid https://indieweb.org/Akismet
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[snarfed] akismet is good
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gRegor Yeah, I'm mostly pleased with it
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c​apjamesg aaronpk How did you publicise your book?
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aaronpk i think that is actually the reason i have this little featured section at the top of my home page
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[tantek] what is featured
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Loqi featured is a proposed mf2 property (typically as u-featured) for h-entry that indicates a representative image for a post https://indieweb.org/featured
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[tantek] well that deserves a user-centric update
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s​tarrwulfe so its like the OG:image or hero image of the post?