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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of all things to hate Reddit for, giving data to AI isn't something fediverse users can really criticize it for, though making money from it perhaps.
  Remember: All data in federated platforms is available for free and likely already being compiled into datasets. Don't be surprised if this post and its comments end up in GPT5 or 6 training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"...is not supported in this browser", fuck you Discord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you want to block their telemetry?
  It is not like they're using it to serve ads to you, and it should be better for everyone for developers to make decisions based on how users are actually using their app, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child Safety on Federated Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not "in the whole fediverse", it is out of approximately 325,000 posts analyzed over a two day period.
  And that is just for known images that matched the hash.

  Quoting the entire paragraph:

  Out of approximately 325,000 posts analyzed over a two day period, we detected
  112 instances of known CSAM, as well as 554 instances of content identified as
  sexually explicit with highest confidence by Google SafeSearch in posts that also
  matched hashtags or keywords commonly used by child exploitation communities.
  We also found 713 uses of the top 20 CSAM-related hashtags on the Fediverse
  on posts containing media, as well as 1,217 posts containing no media (the text
  content of which primarily related to off-site CSAM trading or grooming of minors).
  From post metadata, we observed the presence of emerging content categories
  including Computer-Generated CSAM (CG-CSAM) as well as Self-Generated CSAM
  (SG-CSAM).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Child Safety on Federated Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Here's a link to the report: https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:vb515nd6874/20230724-fediverse-csam-report.pdf
  It is from 2023-07-24, so there's a considerable chance it is not the one you were thinking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"ActivityPub not suitable for implementation as the base federation layer in diaspora"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Their arguments still hold up pretty well as far as I can tell. If anything "improved" since then, you could argue that what the biggest platforms decided to use (Mastodon, Lemmy) became the de-facto dialect in use, but you still have to explicitly refer to how certain projects do things if you want to implement ActivityPub, which can be pretty demotivating for developers, and doesn't makes the user experience any better.

  ...and nothing prevents new apps such as Threads from using ActivityPub differently, being incompatible with existing apps and further dividing the space