Comment on Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The ITEE department at my uni had a newsgroup. One professor actually actively used it for his course, circa 2015. That was pretty much the only time I ever used it.

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• Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ooh, not sure i should’ve asked this question! I really don’t get what i’m looking at here. Thats why i’ve taken so long to reply.

  The server-user diagram seems a bit like the structure of Activitypub. I think the use of the word ‘news’ is throwing me as well, they’re not using the word news in the common ‘news organisation delivers articles in some form’ sense but using the word in a more broad sense? So how is this different from Activitypub, maybe less open/connected? But its the connected servers that communicate with the Activitypub protocol as well.

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  • No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TBH, I haven’t paid much attention to the workings of ActivityPub etc to comment. I’m just an oblivious end user nowadays 😀

    If I really wanted to set up something like that nowadays, I’d probably use something like Lemmy anyways.

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    • Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ypu should go and find ypur firat post, tbh i’m surprised you think theres a server still running that would have it, if we’re predating the rise of social media here.

      Whats your assessment of bonfire networks?

      I really like the idea of the circles thing, i think it would be extemely useful for community organisation and maintenance purposes. But it seems like they’re having trouble getting traction, so maybe theres a problem with the idea i don’t see.

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      • No1@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is it effectively a competitor to Lemmy or Mastodon at it’s heart?

        Re Circles, to me it just comes across as groups or even simpler mailing lists. Overlaying security on top with Boundaries seems useful.

        Just from a high level, i nearly always end up looking at 2 issues:

        • is the social media/ app topic centric or people centric? Eg, I look at Lemmy being topic centric as it’s mainly split by Communities. Whereas, say, Facebook at least initially, was people centric as you effectively sub to your Friends. I’m a fan of topic based.
        • how does the social media/app scale with size, eg with thousands and millions of users/posts/comments. Eg, Lemmy does it via upvotes/downvotes, and you can sort comments in a post by Top. There’s also what I view as security aspects to this, but it’s really a huge topic to itself anyways.

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