2026-04-09T05:07:26Z https://yabu.me Dan https://yabu.me/npub1v8je48cwm80u5pkqhc2gfmu9jzzqka7r8yedxmyrzv5z67dr8ytsfmdf94 https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/032/752/original/dcbcbe7e9be57a3d.png https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/000/032/752/original/dcbcbe7e9be57a3d.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdd7c6c7yju0c3lyg85grep70fuhluw7t8rcmk4rs906cnrw42gsszyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w0p6py5 <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1uxxt9pykuv93qwx3m247gv69unvjhs56vsdyhcypgyv8p9nzdkfqxegdg9" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>mandy knight</span> (<span class="italic">npub1uxx…gdg9</span>)</a></span> Welcome to the fediverse! 2026-01-01T06:07:16Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvucpgecpekdqp0qlr7dr0fk9mhp0ytt63y08jyjrjpavc2x3z49qzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w92zfna In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0l6vzz9lyzgdnm60zun2hlefrvnce5kppy6f9gnq0f0jpazzrztq55j9w5'>nevent1q…j9w5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hmm... Good call, but that&#39;s like one song right? But it&#39;s a clever little reference. Probably some other bands that have done this one-off. 2025-07-18T03:13:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9v04jf68jnjp7930hrdxg3aga00s3pcsrw3pmhxpzeh9s90960hszyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w7el8dr Musical acts that like to say their own name in their songs:<br/><br/>* Every rapper<br/>* KMFDM<br/><br/>I think that&#39;s it? 2025-07-18T03:03:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyknqcp0qw8jg06c3ws0cat7kx3p9cj6ke5kzf7644pm8w3m8423szyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wk4yvnm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsthdjztq0p7j7wjt6ng0h3a6pngq8pranunhjpc9kp6ec036zv3lggjaaa6'>nevent1q…aaa6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>But did the monster write the poem? 2025-07-11T18:22:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx2564hjazcglwwupgzzcfrkrtfh6gjv5cymzwtzq4s0skmstkywczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wthqudr I hate that &#34;algorithm&#34; was stolen by pop culture from math and computer people to mean something different without anyone realizing it.<br/><br/>But I&#39;ll admit they are gesturing toward something. They sometimes mean &#34;recommendation engine&#34;. They sometimes mean &#34;spam filter&#34;. Basically anything machine learning related. There&#39;s an overarching theme to how it affects us.<br/><br/>I could live with them coining &#34;algo&#34; as a slang term. 2025-03-19T13:34:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9cjecda5et98vad7hc7yl9vg424d09mt583q8n4wsxh6jemar3mqzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wl0266p Some people in my circles do certain privacy mitigations that I deem &#34;beyond my level&#34;, like sticking to cash or privacy preserving credit cards.<br/><br/>And then I see my recent Whole Foods purchase in my Amazon order history. 2025-03-09T19:29:26Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrja0539kanm7takywfpevng7y52j2s098s8v9t6dr7yjrxft26xczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wnhjxmy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfdgf9llcucekhl0kpqapgq9nfqlqppng4rhue0vq859ncnph73csq0n29l'>nevent1q…n29l</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Okay I got your point now.<br/><br/>So one thing that PayPal and cryptocurrency have over the legacy financial system is that you&#39;re not constantly sharing your secrets. &#34;Here&#39;s your credit card number. Don&#39;t share it with anyone other than *every single merchant you ever interact with*&#34;.<br/><br/>If ACH had a username/password system instead of having to share your bank account number to send and receive, we&#39;d go a long way toward your idea. 2025-02-10T18:06:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9982cgd2mgwysltwdq3qrhh3jn63ht2svk0j9ena7ttgc6uq8dqgzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wpkhdtn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst27mzvspyq2hm6p5sxpcxxda4e2u58t0a3pf4g6qthl0dunwyfnq7qy6ek'>nevent1q…y6ek</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Yeah actually-existing crypto is often using Coinbase like a bank sadly.<br/><br/>It sounds like what you want is something like ACH? I think that&#39;s kind of like email for money. Some apps might let you do it. I feel like I heard that it&#39;s easier in some other countries.<br/><br/>I think a lot of the lack of direct control comes from fraud prevention (which, granted, is a downside of cryptocurrency today). If it&#39;s truly &#34;open&#34; and &#34;in our control&#34; we can&#39;t have banks prevent fraud for us like they do. 2025-02-10T17:49:42Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgs50z9fv0hlrj7n4dva4xd7tgv36t0t2xzt5kmx4r4zl0cq70azgzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wkhk2yc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrpp2wldznz9kjzsy6zgsxl2wtf39ahxw99u8twp96yg3cmd7d5eqr2379d'>nevent1q…379d</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also crypto can be made safer I think, if that&#39;s what you mean by walking around with money. 2025-02-10T16:41:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrpp2wldznz9kjzsy6zgsxl2wtf39ahxw99u8twp96yg3cmd7d5eqzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wgyu8gr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgp0wjd8l2r3yhgtm4vejyjklvytugd8gkulerl84wrds862gnxgsay5ryn'>nevent1q…5ryn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If we could make it easier to start a bank then sure. I can run my own server if I want to put in the time. 2025-02-10T16:38:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqadvn92mnyhx3udmk04ld6c2ejej7tsy66782kz6mf4c9nhc05rgzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w7h3r86 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspy048prghym0c80ka3p34yssewakjvqkp07gxzmq7qksu69krnvgtkzu7a'>nevent1q…zu7a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s bank to bank though right? I think peer to peer would have to be something at least inspired by cryptocurrency. 2025-02-10T16:11:52Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvvrhh34p5w5qv7v9mc6mtnusmcnml8vnls2ral8u4w64n3krc7gczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w9s94c8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8fg030h05gs2yx8pt6vn6dpjswfvrphjd2m05hz36elhymcfw5fgzfn6ly'>nevent1q…n6ly</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Re Community Notes: On X it requires more than voting. X has a ideological profile on users. Notes need a high rating across the political spectrum to show up.<br/><br/>For the fedi: it could be interesting if there were self-appointed fact checking accounts that readers could *opt in* to (I&#39;d personally opt-in to fact checkers across the spectrum). And maybe readers flag posts as &#34;please fact check this&#34;. I wonder if it could even be an overlay system without Mastodon&#39;s help or even approval. 2025-01-07T16:03:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxykvn6axqpq7eflrv3e4xgzlxe563qht09z97q7yus8axsht0x2gzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w64dyyf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8fg030h05gs2yx8pt6vn6dpjswfvrphjd2m05hz36elhymcfw5fgzfn6ly'>nevent1q…n6ly</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mark seems a lot more level headed than Elon. Maybe Facebook will actually become the free speech platform.<br/><br/>It&#39;s concerning that they have to bend over for any president. Trump will probably be better here but I understand some people being worried about his influence too. And what about the next president?<br/><br/>Moving trust and safety from California to Texas will please some people but concern others. Is there no a purple state with a Meta office? 2025-01-07T15:51:25Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9h7hlevf5e3lhsfk8mhv3rwhkud5yhx0tpph7gypnpp0ukv73zkqzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wn4984z In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqdegnn0zflg3eqpnpn9p20rkggxrg7mmm4yadurfalwzulc2qtdcyz7jne'>nevent1q…7jne</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If you could have it be the platform where the musicians are actually paid, you could have &#34;trending&#34; artists based on activity there. That&#39;s less corruptible. (Arguably LBRY/Odysee is/was something like that) But that requires fixing the music gift economy problem. 2024-12-31T20:22:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqdegnn0zflg3eqpnpn9p20rkggxrg7mmm4yadurfalwzulc2qtdczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w7knf3f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxps83am2ad057grtvu8ve83nxgnte6j9qenjm5puhljtwjg0ujhcqqfxns'>nevent1q…fxns</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The only type of database that is immune to being fucked with that I can think of is a blockchain. The hardesr problem is that you&#39;d need a way to limit one person to a vote. I think you&#39;d need an ID system of some sort. But maybe there&#39;s some other clever system.<br/><br/>You could have people pay some crypto coin to &#34;vote&#34;. It&#39;s obviously corruptible but it has the benefit of limiting votes, and also distinguishing &#34;liking&#34; from &#34;really liking&#34;. 2024-12-31T20:20:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx8j2tq2456e0uhgmlmvwt952yvz6rcnwgc0d7uuwkd4auttk8d9czyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wjwlyka In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx27f0uppe4h5avstr28j42dptv77hsgth0ry5qzr5wmxaw6742hgdn2jc5'>nevent1q…2jc5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like I figured that Gab (when it federated on ActivityPub) and Mastodon solved Twitter&#39;s &#34;Free Speech&#34; / &#34;Safe Space&#34; dilemma. They were never connected to each other but some servers connected to both. Instead of complaining to (at the time) Jack Dorsey, you could join the network through the portal that fit your preference. Someone on Gab couldn&#39;t access anyone on Mastodon dot social but if you&#39;re a Gab user those people would likely block you anyway. 2024-12-14T06:06:32Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx27f0uppe4h5avstr28j42dptv77hsgth0ry5qzr5wmxaw6742hgzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w6mtndq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst5k4z7thtunte8gd55ujrj8cwqv0kc5l2rwl7apag9e29j8tpltg3s276a'>nevent1q…276a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think the primary culture in the network (mastodon dot social, not liberal city) are people who don&#39;t want to be censored on certain things, but want a restrictive content policy on other things. They want to spread far and wide with other servers with similar content policies.<br/><br/>Those of us in this thread prefer the same, but with a less restrictive content policy.<br/><br/>I think the point of federation is a global network where you get to pick a content policy. 2024-12-14T06:03:31Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsfn2tusryjmau7sfhgf7xmtu49nytkv46t088569cdcyf5w9n7ulqzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w7n25zg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0cp03kgcuuvlwnhxxwyjlae4ta7sa0d73zhenfc0nd3xqj2h3adqw3fllk'>nevent1q…fllk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What would happen if you joined Liberal City and duked it out with people, not on Mastodon dot Social, who don&#39;t mind it? You wouldn&#39;t get banned from Mastodon dot Social if you didn&#39;t bother anyone on that server, right?<br/><br/>I agree that you should be able to fight with others who want to fight, but if people want to insulate themselves I personally think it&#39;s fair to do (even if I might try to convince them to open up a bit). 2024-12-12T17:55:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsyumnwfk7tmgnfu9u5ll35d5zp70umyp92r4llqcvkvl5w2tgk34gzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wddlwak In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfyrn06ud5ltm9tuywshywxysldarlzrdkkqd4hy8kvsfzpqzjasq644c43'>nevent1q…4c43</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe they could just federate Truth Social<br/><br/><a href="https://help.truthsocial.com/legal/open-source/">https://help.truthsocial.com/legal/open-source/</a> 2024-11-13T06:05:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs807man33e8pjw8ecqu9aqnnzh6qtcq6fxnxjpt0dgf0yd2er6e0szyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wwa2zsz In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvxp8ehzz3740xartznnuuat28qlmyqvgyd8e5xqcldh4v9lmuf7s2puhrw'>nevent1q…uhrw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Computer companies have been greedflating this whole time, but over the years they have less and less of an &#34;excuse&#34; (this seems to be the operative word) to gouge us so they&#39;re forced to lower their prices. I think that follows their logic. Where the excuse would come from in this case, I&#39;d still need to work out. 2024-10-30T11:45:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgwnxnwg0wgvj0amsvu58993mgpwhfkd3c9qldrj88r7jm52rtwvczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wpke0cu Looks like Rogan dropped the Trump episode on RSS before Spotify or YouTube. Respect. (Even if it&#39;s a meaningless accident) 2024-10-26T02:34:19Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrrj9apk7tjg666a8gfvfmltyarqhh2xrm4nqvq5ca8zm8nav4jxczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wh32qkr <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1hmqpppze78n5s8du8r3zyvzn6lydah0mk2ccxpwjc7u2y38atdnqxtrlex" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>william.maggos</span> (<span class="italic">npub1hmq…rlex</span>)</a></span> Since you like to talk about (let&#39;s broadly say) an alternate economy for music, I wanted to point you to a couple things I recently heard about:<br/><br/><a href="https://bandwagon.fm">https://bandwagon.fm</a> - bandcamp-like site for the fediverse. Created by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub17gq5ww2fth3xnatp8sjra949u2mjqqr7n063ddvfqwnczrznhp0qyz8hhz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Ben Pate 🤘🏻</span> (<span class="italic">npub17gq…8hhz</span>)</a></span><br/><br/><a href="https://subvert.fm">https://subvert.fm</a> - plans for a cooperatively owned bandcamp-like site. Found on hacker news, not on the fediverse now afaik. 2024-10-22T16:46:23Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrjk380kunnnad6349llcgtzsueefd7fgzhyyxl3z5u079qjaueaczyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3w27w9ac In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgssgqa8vue780snxcm95slkpnhkjeappvk306tp92ac770fcqfscq42ag3'>nevent1q…2ag3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I interpret AP here as saying &#34;[China] denied these claims, saying that they are lies&#34;<br/><br/>As I read it now, the text of the article says &#34;refuted the claims *as* lies&#34; (emphasis mine). AP is not themselves calling them lies. And looking up &#34;refute&#34; in MW, while the first definition is disproving, the second definition is denying.<br/><br/>In general, pro-China is not a bias I&#39;d expect from a mainstream western news source. 2024-10-03T12:25:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswge9ty9cc7432vv53p5jpf6j24rv2edp555tqj5xl2fssg2apvkgzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wlmyg08 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz4c0vn87z6e2aqkv75ku0jql902287csm522k2t7399l25zkyvususkxvr'>nevent1q…kxvr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What&#39;s stopping you from doing it now? WiFi is limited in scope so it&#39;s not a very attractive prospect but I&#39;m not sure how you&#39;re hoping to improve it. 2024-09-30T21:54:36Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvh7mufp8mjd53jkc7c0e924vyyufg73jx7pcm95f6rcpc77mfdpgzyps7tx5lpmvaljsxczlpfp80skgggzmhcvun95mvsvfjstte5vu3wtyjexy People complain about the existence of genres. &#34;If it&#39;s good music it&#39;s good music! You don&#39;t need to categorize everything, man.&#34;<br/><br/>I&#39;ll give their point credit that genres can close people off from appreciating something that doesn&#39;t fit what they expect.<br/><br/>But I still think they&#39;re missing a value in genres. Musicians and fans sometimes find a new wavelength. They give it a name because there&#39;s something specific they like about it. They want more of it and they don&#39;t want it adulterated. 2024-09-10T00:15:32Z