Jim Jackson <
jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:
On 2022-12-11, A Dumas <alexandre@dumas.fr.invalid> wrote:
<scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us> wrote:
Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
About the Mastodon thing:
https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/
What a dumpster fire Mastodon has turned into. This makes pre-Elon Twitter >>> look like a beacon of sanity by comparison.
Bullshit. It was Raspberry Pi (Liz Upton herself, I suspect) who
fucked up.
I suspect not. She was wheeled in when things got hot.
As an occasional Raspberry Forum attendee, I've noticed that some of
their moderators are a bit close-down-happy - threads are closed down or people are warned they risk a banning. Yes I know some people don't know
when to stop when they are line - so some control is often necessary.
What I've read of this pile up, on the whole I'm a bit sorry for RPI -
the guy they've employed is an EX-copper. He just taken on a fun civvy
job doing some fun maker stuff with Pi.
It took me a while to even pick up that this was the issue based on
that article, which seems to assume that you already know that cops
are some sort of Twitter/Mastodon pressure-point. All very
peculiar if you ask me, but I don't really understand the appeal
of the platforms, so perhaps it's unsurprising that I don't
understand the people who use them.
Some of the "complaints" are
just lame. Anyone in open source just has just got to get used that open-source, SW & HW, is just that OPEN and people will use it in ways
you don't like. Get over it.
Indeed, and cops are obviously going to set up any surveillance
system they want one way or other anyway, they might as well
contribute to open-source projects while doing so rather than
funding alternative proprietary systems which others can't apply
to other applications.
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