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Scott M. Stolz

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a day ago
scott@loves.tech
Incoming winter storm. It just started snowing here, which is actually a good thing. With the temperatures they were predicting, I was afraid that it would rain, then freeze, then snow. So starting off with snow is much much better. Hopefully the power grid stays up.
a day ago
scott@loves.tech
Personally, I think that federated forums are the future of the fediverse.

Because anyone can join the fediverse and there is no centralized control, that means you are exposed to all types of people and content. But forums typically have membership requirements, community rules, and moderators. Since a lot of people are looking for a safe space, the safest space would be a fediverse-enabled forum that controls who can be a member and that moderates posts within the forum.

It also creates a sense of community that social media does not create. If you are looking for like-minded people, they are most likely to hang out in forums that have a specific topic, theme, or community. That makes it easier to discover new people to follow and interact with.

Combine federated social media and federated forums, and you have a powerful combination.

#forums #socialmedia #fediverse
a day ago
dwatney@hub.farthinghalearms.com
The monolithic "we can be all things to all people" platforms have certainly demonstrated that they can't be that.
a day ago
luca@sironi.tk
@scott that's the reason why lemmy/kbin are interesting, but i think nodebb has a much better interface/ web experience

(i miss usenet 🙂 )
5 days ago
scott@loves.tech
"Don't be afraid of losing people. Be afraid of losing yourself by trying to act like everyone around you...."

-- Tim Han
8 days ago
scott@loves.tech
Tom CoatesTom Coates wrote the following post 9 days ago
I think it’s important to keep reminding ourselves of the reasons we want decentralized social media or a Fediverse or anything like it to win. It’s because if implemented properly it makes the world a better place. It protects free speech, but it also makes it possible for people to choose the level of moderation they care about, to be in a place that corresponds with their values, and to feel safe in it.
13 days ago
scott@loves.tech
Hubzilla has an interesting opportunity right now. Due to the recent controversial changes made by #Facebook, many people are looking for a Facebook alternative. Well, Hubzilla is a #FacebookAlternative and this could be a great opportunity to attract new users to the Fediverse.

This is perfect timing, since we are launching several new things this month. We will start with some public servers that people can sign up for.

The first ones will be Hubzilla.Monster, Loves.Tech, and Conversation.Space. Then we will launch Mostly.Social and Infinity.Cafe after that. We are also working with some others that want to run their own public servers. So lots of new sites coming soon. And if you want your own domain, we offer Managed Hubzilla as well.

It is great that the fediverse has grown with Twitter-style platforms. But not everyone wants that. Some people want a Facebook alternative. And that is what we do. It's our time to shine.

#Hubzilla
8 days ago
billstatler@forum.statler.ws
the main reason why I don't offer any opinion on (streams) is that I still haven't gotten a chance to test-drive it.  I'm also bummed out that (from what I hear?) it doesn't federate with Diaspora.


You are correct, (streams) does not federate with Diaspora. And although it is substantially simpler than Hubzilla, it suffers from not having enough help files aimed at new users.

Best place for a test-drive is probably Waitman Gobble's instance, https://rumbly.net/
8 days ago
dynamic@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
@Bill Statler

Thanks, I just filled in a registration request.  Guess we'll see what happens.  There's a whole thing on the registration page about auto-filtering out email addresses with more than three dots, which claims to be about filtering out spammers but sounds weird to me.  I don't have extra dots in my email address, but I do have a hyphen in my username.
8 days ago
billstatler@forum.statler.ws
There's an old spammer registration trick -- I'm not sure if this still works on gmail, but you used to be able to add dots anywhere in your name. So a spammer would register as dynamichubzilla@gmail.com, get that address banned, and then come back as dynamic.hubzilla@gmail.com, dyna.michub.zilla@gmail.com, etc forever.
about a month ago
scott@loves.tech
Christine Lemmer-WebberChristine Lemmer-Webber wrote the following post about a month ago
Impersonation attacks happening on Bluesky with its domain integration stuff https://tedium.co/2024/12/17/bluesky-impersonation-risks/

This is one of the reasons @spritely has gone all-in on Petname Systems as our approach https://spritely.institute/news/two-petnames-papers-are-released.html

This type of attack can happen on any domain-based system since the attack involved buying a domain name and pretending to be someone else. For example, someone could buy a domain name with your name, and set up a Mastodon server. It is the same technique used in phishing, but in this case was used in an extortion scam against people with a large following.

If you are or plan on becoming relatively popular, it is recommended that you purchase the domain name with your name, if available.

about a month ago
scott@loves.tech
This is a test DM 2.
about a month ago
jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu
Not a DM, it's fully public.
about a month ago
scott@loves.tech
Test failed.
about a month ago
jrp@hub.kliklak.net
@Scott M. Stolz No DM nor PM, it's public.
2 months ago
scott@loves.tech
Christine Lemmer-WebberChristine Lemmer-Webber wrote the following post 2 months ago
We need to change the game so that it's *easy* to run decentralized tech that doesn't just scale up, it scales down.

We need decentralized tech that's easy to build and reason about.

We need tech that's safe.

And we need tech that's cooperative.
2 months ago
scott@loves.tech
Image/photo

A View into the Fediverse. Who talks to whom - and how?
2 months ago
scott@loves.tech
It appears that someone bought the enron.com domain name and turned it into a parody website. At least that is what the terms of service mentions. They hinted at some crypto launch, but their main source of revenue seems to be selling t-shirts and hoodies.

#enron #parody #cryptocurrency
2 months ago
feralferment@klacker.org
Enron's biggest overseas investment was the Dabhol Power Project, so in the 1990s, we in India knew a lot about Enron. At that point, the project was the most high-profile example of political lobbying and corruption, of huge losses incurred by the state of Maharashtra (that had been anticipated well in advance), and of adverse impacts on the environment and on local communities.

At present, the Adani group—with its close proximity to the Government of India, and with fingers in the power and infrastructure sectors of several countries—might end up being the new Enron. There was the Hindenburg report earlier, and now the group has been indicted by the USSEC.
2 months ago
lola@hubzilla.monster
@Scott M. Stolz They sent them a screwdriver? For real? That is messed up.
2 months ago
scott@loves.tech
@Lola According to a friend who worked at Enron, that actually happened. She even showed me the screwdriver with the Enron logo.

What she thinks is that someone was trying to warn the employees, but wasn't allowed or able to tell them directly. So it was sent as a hidden message. Unfortunately, many people did not understand the hidden message and lost most of their retirement.

She said their were a couple of other things that were odd, that in retrospect, were probably meant to be hidden messages too. It means that someone in the know saw this coming, but would not or could not explicitly say it at the time. It is unclear why.