@Mabande för att inte tala om pinsamt

A few weeks ago, we mentioned implementing messaging in Normals. Currently, only one-on-one calls are possible, but we've managed to get it working while maintaining privacy, the rules, and the philosophy. If it's well-received by the community, we might consider expanding the chat to group chats, but this is still a costly architectural decision that we would need to cover. However, we hope you find it useful. As Team Lead for https://normals.me, I'm available to answer any questions related to this, both functional and architectural.

The basic description, security and architecture information is in the announcements thread on Mastodon and Normals.

#fediverse #Chat #VideoCall

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As the Fediverse grows, the amount and frequency of harmful spam also increases. The feudalistic structure of the network creates notable moderation overhead as every instance admin has to ban offending remote accounts and remove their content themselves, if the originating instance does not act quick enough or such delete actions are not federated properly.
An example (and my motivation for this post) are reports from the last days about accounts which post CSAM content. This is especially problematic, as media content gets duplicated to every receiving instance.

The following idea came to my mind: A software which sits on top of Activity Pub and creates a kind of court. Instances of this software are independent courts. All users can elect admins / mods of their home instance as judge. Everyone can post a case via normal Fedi posts to the court and the elected judges give a verdict via majority vote (votes are also normal Fedi comments with special formatted content). Once a case has a verdict, all instances should immediately apply the decided action against the offending content / account. This can be done via a bot which is set as an instance moderator and follows the published verdicts of a court instance the local admin trusts.

This way swift action can be applied through all instances which follow the court at once. By having periodic elections it is kept democratic.

And the task of the court is to defend universal rules all following instances agree on. Not to handle politics between instances.

What are you thoughts on this matter? Or do other approaches to solve this issue already exist?

@ariadne
I agree that you should be allowed to choose whatever you want. It's absurd that they even have that field; it is totally unnecessary, and serves no purpose other than discrimonation. I'd be happier if they either removed the field from the license (and other government forms, etc.) entirely, or allow it to be left entirely blank (not even "X").

youth, beauty

@fesshole "5 pints of lunch". 🤐

Who up for a Voyager 1 full light-day party on the 18th Nov 2026 10:16:07 UTC

#Voyager1 #Space #Astronomy #NASA #Science #SolarSystem

https://whereisvoyager1.com/

Who up for a Voyager 1 full light-day party on the 18th Nov 2026 10:16:07 UTC

#Voyager1 #Space #Astronomy #NASA #Science #SolarSystem

https://whereisvoyager1.com/

@ai6yr
Video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-Pfd6QLew

Dozens of frat guys watching, and the two on fire seem to be willing participants to with whatever tf is going on. Just zero comprehension of what fire does apparently.

Fraternities should not exist, full stop.

"In order to get out of bed, one must first win the battle of the Mind" -- Sun Tzu

@janl @icing

https://ryancheley.com/2026/08/17/what-if-maintainer-burnout-isn-t-burnout/

"The social contract. The relationship.

The thing that made open source maintenance joyful was that someone cared enough about your work to try to improve it. You mentored them. They learned. The code got better. The community grew. That's the social contract.

AI slop doesn't add work. It replaces human connection with mechanized noise."

Yeah, it is totally appropriate for an LMS to only allow uploading 10 concurrent files… W-T-F?

@alexisbushnell

This is delightful!

solarpunk.au keeps an open lobby here:

https://matrixrooms.info/room/lobby:solarpunk.au

if you have a mind, please join us for discussion on tech, politics, and ecology.

i have managed to get federation visibility fixed on the server, so it should show up in public indexing sites soon.

in this slide from his talk at the computer game developers' convention in 1989, doug sharp predicts that "interactive fiction storymaking" will plateau at around 500 'milliprousts' by the year 2010, but by the year 2030, when we reach 'computer-human equivalence', will finally be overtaken by "interactive fiction generation"

have managed to fix federation visibility issues for the BASIC Programming matrix room that this project sponsors:

https://matrixrooms.info/room/basic:solarpunk.au

please join the discussion there for everything BASIC and BASIC-adjacent, such as #retrocomputing and #retrogaming

we also have a (largely dead! please help keep it active!) web forum @ https://basiclang.solarpunk.au/

#permacomputing #solarpunk #basic