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My Fedi account gets more spam than my email does at this point (thanks to all the brutal postfix milters I've got on). And if we broaden it to not just unsolicited commercial email but also include outright jerks, then it's even more.

Email has spent a lot of effort on trying to implement a world-writable inbox and I'm really impressed with what they've got, with DMARC, DKIM, SPF and such.

But just to devil's advocate for Fedi for three seconds: one of the main drivers of spam was spoofing (and unsecured SMTP relays) and that's something the HTTP signatures in ActivityPub curbs.

The big fear I have with Fedi is a "domain mill", a harassment (or unsolicited commercial promotion) site that can automatically register thousands of domains and use those to set up an overwhelming amount of spamming and harassing instances.

He did ask! He asked "Is this a significant cause of concern for you?"

When we hear from a man that a mechanized world would not be a pleasant one in which to live, quite the contrary, it should be true. And it can be true, if the fine minds which have accomplished so much in the realms of applied science would unite with the same enthusiasm to control our creation against social misuse.

Obviously, research regarding technological unemployment is as vital today as further refinement or production of labor-saving and comfort-giving devices.

Thanks for your patience with how I misread your comment. I appreciate that a lot, and I agree fully with what you're saying re the limits of solar punk and minimalism compared to more complex system solutions.

I agree that this is possible and that the Gemini project might be futile because of this.

Thank you for that♥

Almost everyone [on Gemini] is of the same leftist, punk, ecological mindset.

I definitively am (my capsule is gemini://idiomdrottning.org and I write about all three of those things) but I often feel kind of alone with that perspective. There's a lot of "let's go Branden" type curmudgeonliness which I'm not into, or weird Time Cube type stuff. I only know of a handful of other leftist capsules (love them ♥).

Also, While the merits of left-wing policies and of punk aesthetics can certainly be called into question, criticizing "ecological" is like saying "and the posters on there are subject to gravity! They fall downwards, and they have the gall to live their lives going forwards in time!" We all live on the same Earth and wrecking it affects all of us.

Maybe if you don't have many leftist friends you'll find it more novel, but I found it full of the same talking points and little else.

It's not my intention to re-harp on the same points already made a thousand times but to instead afford a new way of thinking about systems and markets. I try to update older posts rather than make new ones about the same thing.

I also find the place way too judgemental. The community loves to hate on anyone that doesn't share their aesthetic.

Here, I can only agree, and I'm often guilty of this, too. I see how people wanna warp or distort the aesthetic (for example, produce spec-breaking sites or accessibility obstacles) but as I try to clarify it I end up inadvertently slamming those who aren't into the whole minimalism brain trip and that's a real problem.