Egregoros

@graf @Godsend @Mombi @DiamondMind @GhostOfMoshe @SilverDeth @p @thebitchisback @bonifartius @freemayonnaise @takao

well okay if you want to drag this out in public, I kept it private but fine

emailed me a bunch

“a bunch” = “twice” post-boot, to my recollection and the recollection of my outbox, the second being “forwarding to the correct address”

justify why I was banned

“justify”? what justification? I pissed you+your admins off, that’s about it and all the justification needed, really

misinterpreting me subpoasting other people or even at one point my irl gf

lmao, what? when the fuck did that happen? mostly I’ve been ignoring you

my thought process at the time was that I saw you getting into it with one of the mugichodes who was having a pre-ragequit meltdown (coincidentally the one that was clawing the most at my balls) and thought “huh, perhaps Graf can understand now why I was tired of hearing their constant screeching and decided to respond by vitriolically shitting on them, which was the proximate reason that my account got nuked”

so, I shot my shot (I’d prefer to keep my focus on a single account, I had a fair bit of content there, and you do run a great service), nothing happened, okay, whatever, your server, fine, I’ll take the L, pick a different one and respawn

you’ll notice I haven’t said shit about it since then or even brought it up, have I now? didn’t even see your @ on the list here (didn’t click the “+4 more” or whatever)

all this has very little to do with the social peculiarities of this particular communications protocol, or the fact that it seems that pretty much everything discussed here was discussed in the past via those different media with much higher fidelity and semantic richness; this medium favors the tactical aphorism and the amusing non-sequitur, which, for all its “punch”, lacks depth

that seems to be deeply rooted in three independent behavior dynamics: reactions (up/downvotes and rebroadcasts), janny powers, and blocking semantics, and all three of those things are qualitatively different than those previous technologies in crucial ways

unfortunately, because the behavior dynamics of Fediverse are essentially convergently-evolved to be the same as these other platforms (Twitter, Facebook, and clones, including Gab), it seems like identical pathologies are going to wind up moving, and in fact do move, smoothly between them as well…. and that is not something that’s going to be very obvious to anybody who hasn’t personally experienced the differences between these classes of platform

tl;dr is that for as much as Fedi denizens shit on “Gablins”, Twitteristas, or Facebook boomers…. everybody here essentially behaves in exactly the same ways, and that’s compelled by the design of the environment and isn’t going to change

@TrevorGoodchild @lain @Shlomo I don’t think it was even that, they probably just went around wardriving - Starlink terminals come with a builtin wi-fi access point, which probably has a default SSID of “Starlink-92f9c2” or whatever, and that gets you close enough to search the building

you already know that the antenna has to have an unobstructed sky view, so the number of places you have to search is extremely limited (and there are probably multiple antennas placed in those locations)

now, I’m sure that on-board wi-fi can be readily disabled and networking just done via plain Ethernet, but at least 50% of the people using it probably aren’t going to do that (“why make more work for yourself, habibi, just plug it in, the Americans are clever”)

of the other 50% who thought they were being clever, even if the SSID was renamed, I’m willing to bet that Starlink devices can be identified by their OUIs (prefix of MAC address); I guarantee that the Iranian security services have this information, and with a little research one could probably figure out which ones to look for

Barbie sez: “opsec is haaaaard”