CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@kath@qlub.social look at all that subtle qlub merch placement <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f914.png?v=1966e26b58b" title="" /> <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f606.png?v=1966e26b58b" title="" />

@julian @lps that's the plan, I'm still waiting on the go-ahead to pickup my SSD from the team that filmed it.

@nuwagaba2 by the link right now!

@anton @evan @iftas as I kinda said but have said elsewhere, social media is like the web plus email. and my view is we should maximize following (browsing) users on any server while limiting the ability of users to unwanted tag (spam) our users.so afaik email servers have a system of spammer blocklists they can subscribe to, managed by orgs. fedi servers should have that too for unwanted taggers.the question imo is whether that should include non tagging hate speech.

@marcia that's an excellent initiaitive!

@scarpentier @meadmin 🫶

@julian @deborahh I am not sure! I believe lepointdevente.com uses their own in-house solution.

@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca @scarpentier@pataterie.ca Yes, but it's not what anybody means when they say "the algorithm"

@Recalcitrant I mean, it's more of a confederacy than a federal system, anyway, but thankfully we didn't call it the confediverse when it started

#FediMTL excellent comment about government funds supporting local media for promoting their work, and all that money going overseas to FAANG companies. Correct point that this is bullshit!

@info oooh. Omw!

Moving on with our next speaker Julian Lam @julian who shows how forums help overcome infinite scrolling news feeds.He's the co-founder of @nodebb, an open-source community forum platform with built-in #ActivityPub support, connecting traditional forums to the #SocialWeb.#FediMTL #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty

"People are co-participants in the distribution of messaging. Which is something the Fediverse has.""If data isthe new oil, then data centers are the new pipelines.""Where are the centralization points of our technology?""Data centers are a centralization of power."Incredible pull quotes from @cwebber.#FediMTL

@tommi @info @cwebber @spritely She was a very engaging, full-body presenter! We didn't get to see that screen-to-screen at the FediForums. At least with only some of the audience being remote, we get to see the enthusiasm on stage, it's great.

So, I have a little assignment to do - "Crafting the Mayor's Brief". It's a data communications exercise, in how researchers might get their message across to non-technical key stakeholders.Topic is irrelevant, we just have to choose something we know about.#FediMTL has inspired me to pull up some sources from our speakers and pitch "Sovereign Municipal Digital Systems" to my hypothetical mayor. Doctorow's reminder that John Deer can brick Canadian Agriculture is pretty powerful.

@johannab I can imagine @pluralistic being jolting. LOL#fedimtl

@n00q Yeah like I said - I more or less knew the answer, but Cory often surprises with his answers. I'm looking forward to @paige's talk later today.

@evan I would like to be!

Psyched to have been here!

@box464 I think having choice will have a positive effect on ad-supported networks too. Right now there's very little resistance to cranking up the engagement optimization and ad visibility. If people have realistic choices and actually leave when things get bad, then maybe businesses won't make those changes.