@deadsuperhero

Instructive to read #Maven's #About page and see who's behind it.

Here: https://www.heymaven.com/about

Selected excerpts from "Who is behind Maven?"

"CEO Ken Stanley is an expert on open-ended discovery in both AI and human systems and ... (most recently leading the Open-Endedness Team at #OpenAI )."

At: "Is Maven part of a larger company?"

"No, Maven is an independent startup."

But

"Here are a few of our investors, who also commented on their reasons for supporting Maven:

-- Ev Williams, co-founder of #Twitter: “Maven lets you follow your deepest curiosities instead of the trends of the day.”

-- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: ”In Maven, there is a chance for AI to play a role in fixing much that is broken in our online discourse.”

-- Rana El Kaliouby, co-founder of Affectiva..."

Sam Altman

#SamAltman

Where have I heard that name before?

@deadsuperhero

Been looking into #Maven all morning

Just going to copy-paste two posts

The head admin/dev @jsecretan claims:

"Happy to remove any of your posts from Maven and cease ingestion from those servers going forward"

So, after the fact, individuals on Mastodon have to contact you personally and ask you to stop?

Is that your position?

Reminds me of Byron Miller (@Supernovae @universeodon.com) and his since-deleted "In four months of having full text seach [we haven't heard from anyone who has be directly harmed]..."

That last is a paraphrase because Supernovae has pretty much removed any mention of himself from the Fediverse, right down to deleting his involvement with Mastodon on Github, causing renchap to opine:

"I suspect that @Supernovae closed it because they do not want to be involved with Mastodon anymore."

here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21398#issuecomment-2145321855

Executive summary: there are a lot of people On Here(tm) who don't appreciated every new idea all you bright-eyed young creatives can come up with

@Deadman

Couple thoughts, because I read some common misunderstandings

1. The Fediverse is a broad, generic concept like "democracy"

No one is running "Fediverse" anywhere or is homed on a "Fediverse" instance

2. #ActivityPub is a protocol, a specification if you will

It must be *implemented* in a specific software distribution (to varying degrees of accuracy) to exist

Again, no one is running "ActivityPub" anywhere or is homed on an "ActivityPub" instance

3. "Viewing content from other #instances, one needs to follow a profile from that instance"

and

"Explicitly viewing instance content, user needs to sign up on their instance"

No

I can go to your instance in a web browser, to /public/local/ and read the public posts on your specific instance

Here: https://mstdn.social/public/local

But no, I cannot see anyone's Home feed unless I follow that person, or follow hashtags which we use and Follow in common

Which is the only reason I saw your post in the first place, the hashtag #Fediverse

cc @technology

@sab

"Furthermore, what's even the point of open standards if you don't want them to be adopted"

JFC

Didn't I reply to exactly this point somewhere else yesterday?

Here:

"Using "open protocols/standards" does not translate to "accept any content from anywhere"

It's just like "Free Speech"

You can say any damn thing you want, but I am under no obligation whatsoever to read or listen to anything you say

Right?"

Nor does it require any sysadmin to accept any content from anywhere

cc @0x1C3B00DA @lemonflavoured

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568

"If #Threads were to somehow get an influence in #Mastodon, just switch to #lemmy switch to #pixelfed switch to #firefish So many choices"

This exposes how little (if anything) the writer understands about any of those #Fediverse distributions

Mastodon is not interchangeable with Lemmy

Mastodon is not interchangeable with Pixelfed

Mastodon is not interchangeable with Firefish

Period

cc @rob299