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This community is broadly about network neutrality. It’s important to note a major component of #netneutrality is access equality and thus #digitalInclusion.
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https://fedia.io/m/Brussels/t/1066667/Belgian-tax-law-FisconetPlus-exclusively-accessible-to-those-willing-to
Surely the tax law must be reachable in other forms like Moniteur Belge publications which are openly public. But it’s still alarming that any public service would operate exclusively. I’m not sure what FisconetPlus is exactly and if it *uniquely* gives access to any information....
https://fedia.io/m/Brussels/t/1066667/Belgian-tax-law-FisconetPlus-exclusively-accessible-to-those-willing-to
Surely the tax law must be reachable in other forms like Moniteur Belge publications which are openly public. But it’s still alarming that any public service would operate exclusively. I’m not sure what FisconetPlus is exactly and if it *uniquely* gives access to any information....
https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-316
One quite annoying Lemmy behaviour is when you search for a community that has many results spanning multiple screens (e.g. query “software”), the list is largely clusterfucked with crappy centralised instances that go against the #fedi philosophy (e.g. #lemmyWorld, #ShItjustWorks, #lemmyCa, #LemmEE, #LemmyZip, #programmingDev, etc).
I discovered a fix: ctrl-rt-click on every community in the list to open each in a tab. Then click “block community”, then repeat the search. It works the way it should: blocked communities are excluded from search results.
Wish I realised that sooner.. would have saved me some effort and frustration in trying to search only for communities in the decentralised free world.
The problem:
Most #fedi authors post links with no idea if the hosting server discriminates against people, or who. The consequence is that the fedi is muddied with references to exclusive venues that do not treat people equally, which wastes the time of readers who are impacted by discrimination. A variety of walled gardens pollute our threadiverse experience. So how can we remedy this?
Proposed fix:
Suppose we create a community and designate it as a testing area which welcomes bots. So e.g. I post something in the test community, and a bot that is paywall-aware replies yes or no whether the link is paywall-free. A bot that is Cloudflare-aware does the same. A regional bot, such as a bot in Poland can check that Polish IP addresses can reach the URL and make noise if the website blocks Poland. Etc. It need not be just bots.. someone in some oppressed region might manually attempt to visit links and report access problems. We would certainly like a bot in a GDPR region to test whether access is refused on the basis of a data controller’s unwillingness to respect GDPR rules. The OONI project could have a bot that reports anything interesting in their database.
There could also be anti-enshitification bots, which point out things like cookie walls.
There are bots that find better links to replace Cloudflare links. Those bots could help direct authors to better URLs to share.
There could be a TL-DR bot that replies with a summary or even the full text, so an author can decide before posting in the target community whether to omit a shitty link and just post the content.
(update) It’s worth noting that for Mastodon there an ad hoc tool. If you follow @mg@101010.pl, that bot will follow you back and analyze every URL you share for whether it is Cloudflared. If yes, it will DM you with alternative URLs.
Note that the mitigator bot is quite loose it its judgement. If the host is not Cloudflared but another host on the same domain is Cloudflared, it is treated as a positive because it’s assumed that when you visit the host it will link to other hosts on the same domain.
The linked¹ #gemini article is the political platform of the French green party in Belguim w.r.t. digital rights. It was translated from French.
I’m overall impressed enough to vote for them. But I do have some concerns:
“At the Belgian level, we propose to establish a legal guarantee of 5 years for new electronic devices.”
Yikes, waaay too short. Needs to be at least 10 years. But it helps that they advocate FOSS:
“Generalize the ability to use free software on all devices to decrease software obsolescence.”
Though this statement is far too vague. If a maker of hardware with proprietary non-free software only gives 5 years of support, there needs to be a legal obligation that they port FOSS to the device at the end of the warranty. This is missing in the green party’s plan.
A lot of other things are missing in their plan, but generally their principles are sensible.
¹ (edit) actually it cannot be linked using the URL field due to a #LemmyBug. But at least it was linkable in the msg body.
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/unbelauscht/6d4a4533acbb54618f7e564eb30d16c4/raw/3067453455f9856d686fff77c9a25117d6b1bd5d/siteatcf.py
When an image is posted by someone on a Cloudflared instance like the following:
the image is inaccessible to all demographics of people who Cloudflare discriminates against because images are not mirrored to federated nodes.
We expect corporations to not give a shit about marginising people who are not profitable enough to care about. But when naive asshole users outnumber progressive egalitarians, it highlights a problem with the fedi, which still lacks the tooling needed to keep oppression at bay.
The six listed nodes above effectively host the AOL users of our time. Lacking the sophistication needed to detect and grasp situations of eroded digital rights with a degree of blindness and lack of concern for centralised corporate control.
Suggestions needed for Lemmy nodes that are defederated from the above listed six.