Scripting News: Monday, October 21, 2024
Monday, October 21, 2024 Don't depend on Threads to validate the Fediverse. That's not what they're doing. Some of the people working there have good hearts and mean well, but Meta is a huge company, competing with other huge companies, and the goals of the Fediverse do not show up in their roadmap. # I got a notice that Threads had deleted one of my posts because they said it violated their rules. They thought I was claiming to have written something I had not written. I didn't keep the notice (it popped up when I signed on). I shrugged it off when I got it, but then realized that we are very far away from the web. It has been turned into Disneyland where the cops are algorithms and they err on the side of stopping innocent things. I was just passing on a link to someone else's blog , something I thought an informed person would want to know about (that's the idea behind every link I share). We really do need to dig our way out of this hole, ag...