Inside an Elephant’s Trunk

https://tube.blueben.net/w/ooviAA17rhDJkFpVHGxndk

#brown and #trunk, same struggle.

We've built a bot to help federate our Mastodon instance and bring in content from other servers. @trunkbot periodically checks #Trunk for new accounts to follow, and the posts by these accounts then show on our live feeds and in the hashtag indexes.

https://www.qweb.co.uk/blog/trunkbot

Ugh. The General Data Protection Regulation says that consent must have been explicit for data collected and each purpose data is used for. @jdp23 wrote an excellent article back when, Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers. I guess you already know what's coming, right? Something I disagree with and that many of you might disagree with, too. 😓

Trunk is a small project of mine that was supposed to help people find a number of accounts to get started on fedi. No spammers, no bots, no orgs. Just people, or so we hoped. Well, today somebody sent me a message saying that they had been contacted by @trunkbot because they're listed by Trunk. And the person writing me that message reasonably believed that this bot was related to my project in some way. But no: it's "a bot created by QWeb Ltd to help with Mastodon server federation."

It also says: "If I've followed you, it's because you're in the trunk!" And that's where we get back to the question of consent and the lack thereof.

I guess the naming and shaming will continue until basic consent and ethics are in computer science curriculums. That is to say, for a very, very long time, as far as I can tell.

#Trunk

@Mayana Please add me to Photography. #Trunk

ps. I'm already there as @chriswright but that server is no more!

@austin Please add me to Anarchists, Anime and Manga, Atheist, Economics, Environmentalists, Ethics, Free Software, Functional Programming, Information Technology, Linux, Philosophy, Rustaceans, Secular Humanism, Socialists, Vegan, World Politics. #Trunk

#inktober day... oh wait, we're in November.
It became pretty clear that I wasn't going to finish my Inktober this year, so I decided to at least finish the story I started with sketches.

So the story continues after the deer stole the mustache!

day 6 - #pierce
day 7 - #starfish
day 8 - #reckless
day 9 - #heavy
day 10 - #sweep
day 11 - #sting
day 12 - #shredded
day 13 - #drink
day 14 - #trunk

To be continued tomorrow...

#inktober2025 #comic #krita

#askfedi

Our new Mastodon instance isn't very federated yet. I considered adding a relay server but concluded that this would pull in so much content that I'd very quickly need to upgrade our #mastohost plan, which seems a bit silly this early on...

So now I'm considering setting up an account that just follows everybody in #trunk ( https://communitywiki.org/trunk ) minus a couple of questionable categories. Roughly looks like about 20k accounts... is this wise? 👀

@alex Please add me to Anarchists, Board Games, Cats, Communists, Consensual Non-Monogamy, Furry, Gaming, Humour, LGBTQIA, Socialists, Video Games. #Trunk

[STICKER D'AUTOMNE]
Parmi les dessins de la prévente inktober se cache un sticker, tiré du dessin pour le prompt #trunk
Vous pouvez le precommander avec les dessins.
A terme il rejoindra la boutique en ligne!

#stickerart #autumnstickers #autumnvibes🍁 #autumndrawing #automnedessin #autumntree