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@troed @dalai @foone The problem will be that one will have to reimplement the "#API" as #api0 from scratch by running inspectors in browsers all the time...

  • Remember: The platforms that run these are hostile to the very idea of said phat client.

It'll necessitate all api 0 calls to come from the same #IPv4 and/or #IPv6 as the end-user and hide itself with a fake #UserAgent to prevent countermeasures like #RateLimiting and #blocking.

digipres.clubFoone🏳️‍⚧️ (@foone@digipres.club)The basic philosophy of adversarial automation is that the software/website is the enemy.

"#Safari is one of Apple’s most financially successful #products and the highest margin product Apple has ever made."

TL;DR: Apple’s rules and technical #restrictions are #blocking other #browser vendors from successfully offering their own #engines to users in the EU.
Apple is not in compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) regarding browsers and web apps.

long read - but well worth it!

#dma #apple #europe #market #monopoly

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Open Web AdvocacyApple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA - Open Web Advocacy

First step: Stop being a prat

We have strong passive #blocking forces stopping the real change and challenge we need before we have any hope of changing the world, thus we as a community have to change our stance towards this blocking. And the first step – the most important one – is painfully simple: Stop being a prat.

That means:

Stop pretending you don’t understand the stakes.

Stop making perfect the enemy of good.

Stop whining about how broken things are while refusing to touch the tools that exist.

Stop […]

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The #mainstreaming is talking about the #deathcult – So why are you still waiting?

It took four decades of sleepwalking through #neoliberalism, cultural decay, ecological collapse, and social atomisation, but at last, the #mainstreaming is starting to talk about the #deathcult we’ve been worshipping.

Case in point: Steve Coogan – yes, Alan Partridge – is now publicly accusing Keir Starmer and Labour of “paving the way for Reform UK,” the rising hard-right threat. Here’s the article. It’s not satire, it’s despair. Coogan’s right, and a few years ago, such a […]

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@woe2you @James Britt This may come as a surprise to you, but: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. And it has never been only Mastodon. It was neither invented by Eugen Rochko nor exclusively for purist microblogging.

For example, there is also Friendica (https://en.wikipedia.org/Friendica, https://friendi.ca, https://github.com/friendica, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Friendica). It was launched in July, 2010, 15 years ago, five and a half years before Mastodon. It is Facebook-like, but designed to be better than Facebook rather than an all-out clone and to be fully capable of long-form blogging. It has a character limit of 200,000, its culture does not enforce brevity, and it staunchly refuses to ditch its own culture and adopt Mastodon's culture instead. It can also do other things that don't belong into purist microblogging such as bold type, italics, underlines, bullet-point lists and multiple levels of headlines.

Here are lists of Friendica nodes for you to block:

Then there is Hubzilla (https://hubzilla.org, https://framagit.org/hubzilla, https://joinfediverse.wiki/Hubzilla), first launched in March, 2015, ten years ago, ten months before Mastodon. It's based on Friendica with many more features that make it a CMS as well. It has a character limit of over 16.7 million (maximum size of the database field).

I'm commenting from Hubzilla myself right now.

Here are lists of Hubzilla hubs for you to block:

More recently and from the same family, there are (streams) (https://codeberg.org/streams/streams) from 2021 and Forte (https://codeberg.org/fortified/forte) from 2024. Again, they are Facebook-like, just like Friendica. Their character limit is over 24 million.

Again, here are lists of servers for you to block:

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #CharacterLimit #CharacterLimits #Block #Blocking

When we block thinking, it’s pratish #dotcons behaviour

We’re living through a cultural shift. The #Fediverse, the #openweb, and grassroots tech projects like #OMN were born to challenge the values of the corporate web, not to reproduce them.But what are we doing instead?

We’re seeing people attacked simply for linking to context and history. Linking is native to the open web. Attacking people for linking? That’s native to #dotcons. Take this example: When we post links to hamishcampbell.com, a site with over 20 years of radical media […]

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Maybe it's time to get some blocking mats? 🤔
Sultan cotton poncho FINALLY finished and wet blocking over night. Really happy with the length and the colour distribution. This took one whole sultan kings cake, plus cirka another ¼-⅓ of the second cake. I know a lot of people hate working with yarn that splits but honestly yall, the way this fabric feels on my skin and how good it drapes it worthhh itttt.
#knitting #handmade #wip #poncho #cotton #ombre #greyscale #blocking #finished

A call-out for collective tech with teeth

It’s important to be honest about the landscape we’re working in. Just about every so-called “alternative tech” or #opensocialweb event – especially those run under the #NGO banner – is riddled with institutional parasites. They talk a big game about ethics, governance, and decentralisation, but their main role is to capture energy, not release it. The value in these spaces is minimal, maybe a few decent corridor chats, but structurally, they serve the status quo.

What we’re seeing […]

hamishcampbell.com/a-call-out-

Periodic PSA for the inattentive folks in the back:

I vet everyone who follows me. If I don't like what I see when I look at your profile, I don't accept the request.

Things I don't like:

* No profile.

* Short history in the fediverse.

* No posts of your own.

* Looking like you're trying to extract something from me.

Specifically, when an account that is evidently linked to a business, I wonder what their deal is.

Are they following people as some sort of marketing tactic?

I don't like being used this way.

So I reject the request.

If they come again with another request, guess what? They get blocked.

Let me put it simply: abusing follow requests is not a costless proposition.

I've just blocked a company for this. I *might* have been interested in their products, but now I won't have the opportunity to show interests, because they are blocked.

I'll just buy my shit somewhere else.

The Mess – If You Don’t Value Things, You Destroy Them

DRAFT We live under a system, global capitalism, where value is determined not by care, connection, or any collective well-being, but by market logic. If something is not valued in that narrow logic, it is treated as waste. If you don't actively value the alternatives - you will "accidentally" destroy them. This applies to tech, culture, nature, and community.Tech has a problem of misplaced value, people still keep using #mainstreaming tools - the platforms and apps of the #dotcons - […]

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