Interesting Links for 04-12-2022

[andrewducker]

1. Who wants to give a tummy rub to a cute little kitty?

(tags:cats video cute leopard )

2. What did Susan Hussey say? Royal race row explained (with transcript)

(tags:racism UK royalty )

3. Twitter now reinstating neo-nazis

(tags:ElonMusk Nazis Twitter OhForFucksSake )

4. "I Was Wrong About Mastodon" (and moderation and scaling)

(tags:mastodon socialnetworking )

5. Labour's manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose

(tags:labour OhForFucksSake )

6. The Excel World Championship Is the Internet at Its Best

(tags:Excel spreadsheet competition )

7. EU Leader Uses Mastodon to Tell Elon Musk How Twitter Needs to Be Regulated

(tags:Twitter Mastodon regulation Europe ElonMusk )

8. How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years

(tags:UK India )

9. 53% of Britons are non-religious. Who are they and what do they believe?

(tags:religion UK atheism society )

10. Learning to play the piano improves people's ability to process sights and sounds

(tags:piano music psychology )

11. Female monkeys prioritise friends and actively reduce social circle as they age

(tags:monkey friendship family )

12. UK to let safety laws lapse. Because sovereignty.

(tags:safety UK Europe law OhForFucksSake )

Comments

[mellowtigger]

The huge instances (mstdn.social, if not also mastodon.online) are also threatened with defederation because their moderation isn't scaling upward fast enough. That's not a problem of policy but resources. Brandolini's Law can affect any instance of Mastodon, even the ones leading the calls for defederation. I think Mastodon is better technologically than Twitter, but the fact remains that zergs are an effective tactic. The problem can be automated, but Mastodon doesn't really have the automation to moderate yet, and that's a long term problem waiting to happen.