Can you impersonate someone as a joke? No. Parody is not identity theft. When a comedian "impersonates" a politicians we all partake in a temporary delusion aided by the comic's ability to mimick the politician.…
If the whole point of your account is to make people laugh with the imaginary pretense that your posts are coming from another person/institution then yes, the potential readers should know it's fake. A comic strip…
unlabelled satirical identity theft is identity theft
I believe I can afford posting a little "trope" since HN's frontpage is being flooded (spammed) by Mastodon posts
I hate to break it to you, but Elon Musk and Twitter at large have more to lose from a reputational damage caused by blatant moderation misuse than an anonymous kid with an anime profile picture has
First they came for the "stupid" opinions, but I didn't care because I was sure mine weren't. Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to defend me
But now your post won't be taken down by a paid employee of a corporation with actual contractual obligations and custom made moderation tools to limit collateral damage, instead a 17yo Discord friend of the admin will…
I didn't literally say that and you are making things up. "Tearing down" someone has a strong and violent connotation, nothing to do with a few snarky comments.
That's your own personal baseless speculation, do you go through life randomly accusing people? Not very healthy, I would suggest being less hasty
People who write posts like yours tend to ascertain their moral superiority by psychoanalyzing people on the internet based on a few badly interpreted words
Yes, in a pub, which social media is the digital equivalent of. If you can't handle some mean banter (in this case even surrounded by a majority of praise) I suggest you make your profile private and only follow people…
Allowing people to join Facetime calls through a browser is not "opening up" the platform. Until they have an API I can write a custom client for it's just a different kind o closure
My only assumption is that most people will choose an instance based on its reputation and that reputable instances will be far fewer than amateurish and unreliable ones. This is a very generous assumption and if we…
So let's say a lot of people think in that way and avoid instances managed by nameless accounts. Where does that leave us? Well, maybe people will flock to the few instances ran by transparent, accountable and competent…
A Mastodon instance owner can read everything you've ever posted, log everything even if you deleted it, doxx your IP and your private messages, delete or modify everything about your account on a whim and block you…
We know many things about Musk because he's a well known public figure which has attracted the attention of plenty of investigative journalists. But what do you know about the owners of the Mastodon instance you…
It would actually be funny if this were a realistic lettuce made of plastic
It doesn't seem sensible to invest yourself so much into Mastodon without having thorougly explored it. I too was fascinated with the fediverse, until I used it for more than a month and realized the people posting…
lobste.rs/s is a missed oppurtunity
Do you think a streaming website which barely has actual categories to browse from, routinely autocompletes unlicensed shows in the search bar as if they were available and doesn't have a database to search which show…
Count me in! In my mind my smartwatch doesn't need more computing power or complexity than your average microcontroller, so as long as it lasts I'm keeping mine in good use
Every nation has its own. Nations that want to make their citizens safer when surfing the web could open up a standard API to make such automated queries
I mean, if you sell stuff on the internet I should be able to make sure you're an actual reachable entity with legal responsibility. Now, it they made it into a standard that could be included into the browser's UI...
Can you impersonate someone as a joke? No. Parody is not identity theft. When a comedian "impersonates" a politicians we all partake in a temporary delusion aided by the comic's ability to mimick the politician.…
If the whole point of your account is to make people laugh with the imaginary pretense that your posts are coming from another person/institution then yes, the potential readers should know it's fake. A comic strip…
unlabelled satirical identity theft is identity theft
I believe I can afford posting a little "trope" since HN's frontpage is being flooded (spammed) by Mastodon posts
I hate to break it to you, but Elon Musk and Twitter at large have more to lose from a reputational damage caused by blatant moderation misuse than an anonymous kid with an anime profile picture has
First they came for the "stupid" opinions, but I didn't care because I was sure mine weren't. Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to defend me
But now your post won't be taken down by a paid employee of a corporation with actual contractual obligations and custom made moderation tools to limit collateral damage, instead a 17yo Discord friend of the admin will…
I didn't literally say that and you are making things up. "Tearing down" someone has a strong and violent connotation, nothing to do with a few snarky comments.
That's your own personal baseless speculation, do you go through life randomly accusing people? Not very healthy, I would suggest being less hasty
People who write posts like yours tend to ascertain their moral superiority by psychoanalyzing people on the internet based on a few badly interpreted words
Yes, in a pub, which social media is the digital equivalent of. If you can't handle some mean banter (in this case even surrounded by a majority of praise) I suggest you make your profile private and only follow people…
Allowing people to join Facetime calls through a browser is not "opening up" the platform. Until they have an API I can write a custom client for it's just a different kind o closure
My only assumption is that most people will choose an instance based on its reputation and that reputable instances will be far fewer than amateurish and unreliable ones. This is a very generous assumption and if we…
So let's say a lot of people think in that way and avoid instances managed by nameless accounts. Where does that leave us? Well, maybe people will flock to the few instances ran by transparent, accountable and competent…
A Mastodon instance owner can read everything you've ever posted, log everything even if you deleted it, doxx your IP and your private messages, delete or modify everything about your account on a whim and block you…
We know many things about Musk because he's a well known public figure which has attracted the attention of plenty of investigative journalists. But what do you know about the owners of the Mastodon instance you…
It would actually be funny if this were a realistic lettuce made of plastic
It doesn't seem sensible to invest yourself so much into Mastodon without having thorougly explored it. I too was fascinated with the fediverse, until I used it for more than a month and realized the people posting…
lobste.rs/s is a missed oppurtunity
Do you think a streaming website which barely has actual categories to browse from, routinely autocompletes unlicensed shows in the search bar as if they were available and doesn't have a database to search which show…
Count me in! In my mind my smartwatch doesn't need more computing power or complexity than your average microcontroller, so as long as it lasts I'm keeping mine in good use
Every nation has its own. Nations that want to make their citizens safer when surfing the web could open up a standard API to make such automated queries
I mean, if you sell stuff on the internet I should be able to make sure you're an actual reachable entity with legal responsibility. Now, it they made it into a standard that could be included into the browser's UI...