I'm cautiously optimistic, mainly because the people who've been growing it for the past six years seem to have thought very hard about these topics and invested a huge amount of work in them But I agree that it's v. uncertain how it will cope with growing 100x in a few weeks!
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Language Models as Realistic Tabular Data Generators
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Language Models are Realistic Tabular Data Generators Borisov et al.: https://
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Interview on Rule of the Robots with The Miilk
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My interview on my latest book #RuleoftheRobots with "The Miilk" (in Korean)
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Decentralized Moderation: Distributed Responsibility Across Thousands
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I really do think that's one of its strengths though: there are genuinely thousands of servers, so the moderation responsibility is shared by a very wide set of volunteers
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Server Administration Responsibility in Decentralized Technology
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Running a server for other people is definitely not a responsibility to be taken lightly! This post really influenced my thinking about that https://
ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-
technology-shutdown/
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Mastodon Moderation Scale and Server Covenant Standards
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My hunch is the Mastodon moderation scheme should scale well – there have been alt-right Mastodon instances for years now (Gab and Truth Social both use it) and most of the reputable servers just straight up block them See also the Mastodon covenant: https://
blog.joinmastodon.org/amp/2019/05/in
troducing-the-mastodon-server-covenant/
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Mastodon Moderation Strategy: Six Years of Careful Platform Governance
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Depends on your server and who you follow: I've had no problems at all but I'm not exactly in a demographic that gets harassed first! They've been thinking about moderation carefully for 6 years. This interview with the founder has useful thoughts on that https://
time.com/6229230/mastod
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Mastodon API reveals follower activity timestamps via toot history
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I actually think it IS possible to figure that out on Mastodon – there's an API that returns a list of your followers that includes their last_status_at timestamp (so not their last browse activity, but last time they tooted) https://
docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/accoun
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Mastodon Privacy: No Analytics Tracking Implementation
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There is genuinely no way of telling – Mastodon not only avoids implementing those kinds of analytics, it puts rel="noreferrer" on links so external analytics tools can't see it either
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ActivityPub recognized as essential protocol for decentralized networks
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And thank you very much for your many years of work on ActivityPub, it appears to be exactly what we need right now!