Apart from not being that interesting for now, the first line of defence for most is manually-approved sign ups, as far as I can tell.

When the Fediverse grows, I think that weeding out accounts that post slop will be the “easy” part; the hardest part will be to identify the silent bot accounts that do nothing but upvote.

Licensing terms only govern the legal aspects, not social and moral aspects.

And not to forget: FUTO is evil.

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Keep organizing and slowly things will get better

Not to say such knowledge gaps can’t limit her effectiveness, but from what (little) I’ve read and heard of her, she seems to be fundamentally a community organizer and as mayor will probably work accordingly: She may or may not successfully make up for such gaps by knowing whom to trust both integrity- and competence-wise.

Not to forget: FUTO is evil.

With permissive licenses, companies can co-opt the fruit of volunteer labour to build a proprietary fork. With sufficient resources, they can bring that fork to wide adoption, leading users and potential contributors away from the free ecosystem. This is why I vastly prefer copyleft licenses, either GPL 3.0 or AGPL 3.0, and preferentially AGPL, given how many things nowadays run as web services. Always remember: The GPL is what gave us OpenWrt.

Also in contributing, I strongly prefer projects under a copyleft license. That’s because of this:

People who contribute to the development of a program released with a permissive license must be aware that the program could become proprietary at any time. For example, when a company hires the original team of developers.

https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/licensing/#copyleft-vs.-permissive

Here’s why you’re getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don’t have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don’t compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they’ve amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about “fighting for the user.” Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.

You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you’re going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

Poincaré? (I know, his insight somehow still came short of Einstein’s, but it’s interesting how close he came.)

I appreciate that. It’s important to note though that there’s much more wrong with their headline and subtitle than just the word “spam”. They’re trying hard to make it look as if it was really just some single peasant, who didn’t stay in his lane, abusing the powers accorded to him through modern technology, and the policymakers were so foolish as to fall for it:

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

They seem to think the only person allowed to have an outsized influence is Friede Springer, their owner.

It’s that need to eat that drives people who have the opportunity into being grifter-celebs because they often don’t see a way to keep doing what they’re doing without finding something that pays the bills.

What is it that they’re doing then, though?

Things that have helped me with this are (a) having all sources of evening light be dimmable, preferably automatically, (b) having learnt that a certain feeling of sleepiness actually means that I’m actually entering the “too late zone”, © having a whiteboard where I note down the time I go to sleep and the time I get up.

Non plus ultra: Download the video and then upload to whichever PeerTube instance you use. At least if you’re confident enough that this won’t cause you legal trouble (e.g. cases like “fair use” should be safe).

FreeTube has a neat function to download comfortably (but make sure to pick an option with both audio and video).

I LOVE Freetube, but can it be linked to?

Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

Relevant Doctorow post: The enshittification of tech jobs (27 Apr 2025)

I think nothing stands in the way of doing this on local metal, as far as technology goes. Something similar has already been achieved for personal photo sorting, e.g. https://ente.io/

so sometimes i just press it and eat it raw

Oh wow, just tried that, and it actually tastes pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!

The Tofu of their in-house brand Vemondo is really great. 350 grams for 2.20€ or so where I live. With comparatively little plastic, I think. It comes in the varieties “smoked” and “natural”. And I actually feel healthier after eating it, in a similar way as eating large quantities of green vegetables makes me feel physically healthier. (This could easily be true of other Tofu brands as well, as I haven’t yet eaten others that much.)