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10 November 2022 18h27

Can you believe Sequoia boasted about this on their own website?

Legal Compliance Burden Shift to Engineers Criticized

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10 November 2022 18h17

> I have heard another leader in the Legal department say that because of the tight SLA's (of two weeks?!) between product inception > launch, Legal will "have to shift the burden to engineers" to self-certify compliance with FTC requirements and other laws. Just no.

Debirdify Tool Simplifies Twitter Content Migration

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10 November 2022 18h09

I've been using this tool for that, it's been working really well https://
pruvisto.org/debirdify/

Team staffing concerns for technical work implementation

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10 November 2022 4h13

I wonder how many people they have left on the team that has to do this work?

Platform Moderation Policy on Account Impersonation and Verification

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10 November 2022 4h12

Difference now is that they didn't use to have a policy of banning accounts that were impersonating people – that was the problem verification was meant to solve for them Now they have a new policy which means they constantly have to make those decisions in response to pranks

Twitter moderation challenges with verified account impersonation

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10 November 2022 3h27

So the Twitter moderation team are now having to ban verified accounts that imitate real people and brands Hate to ask the obvious question… but how do the moderation team verify which account is real and which is fake?

Building Private Search Engine for Federated Mastodon Content

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09 November 2022 23h31

There are cultural reasons that building global search against all Mastodon is unlikely to happen, but I've been playing with ingesting all of the federated content on my local instance into my own private search engine and that looks like it should work really well

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Mastodon Architecture: Decentralized Server Communication and Data Sharing

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09 November 2022 20h48

The UI is nothing like Google Reader, but the way it works under the hood is – your Mastodon server is constantly communicating with other hosts to get the latest updates, and sharing the workload of fetching that data for all of the other users on the same server