{"title": "Did Petitions Fail? How AI ruined it? A new Fediverse gimmick?", "timestamp": 1768417529.0949569, "description": "Talking about why Petitions failed. And thinking up a new idea of how to gamify engagement on the Fediverse. ", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. The writer and director of the 2023 film \"Moria's Race\" and the lead developer of it's game sequel \"Dani's Race\".\r\n\r\n[My Story](/about/who_is_blender_dumbass_)\r\n\r\nMore links to me ( view page source to see how I did those ):\r\n\r\n![internetarchive](https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22J.Y.Amihud%22) ![imdb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm15214305) ![notabug](http://notabug.org/jyamihud) ![odysee](https://odysee.com/@blenderdumbass:f) ![codeberg](https://codeberg.org/blenderdumbass/)", "invited": ["AngryAlien", "Erwinjitsu", "trueauracoral", "Cricetus", "elban", "Troler", "johny", "RowdyJoe", "adgbeveridge", "doublelion", "alkyilcycloalke", "jedi66", "WanchaiMike", "Trolli123", "ddd", "ByteBlast", "dolphinana", "Madiator2011", "Uriel_Cohen", "mk-la", "TestUser", "Mr._MotherFucker", "MorsMortium", "cptbichez", "dbbs", "Xavi", "test", "Ozoned"], "invited_by": "blenderdumbass", "title": "Blender Dumbass", "website": "blenderdumbass.org", "mastodon": "@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online", "username": "blenderdumbass", "email_verified": true, "jami": "", "peertube": "https://peer.madiator.cloud/c/blender_dumbass/videos", "activity_pub": {"pub": "-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----\nMIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAqzwMvWrEKQfGdoyZHn/x\n1XbAxaFagX29NlP7JVC8O7rZWB9jYMzJsn5jWC8+8aWOoBUVDTIY8CZQR+pUiIBc\nBr5XW760pgPGeVCqE50Ts9lhehjr2z+rh0sdeUrNbYyiZ9HB+Wz74M3b08Xde7lj\njzH416uxh1727m+wz04TC4pGOQq4Bzgqyid2RFG44bw150n7QhGwDBqN9vcyS8iR\nJnoUMABFHdu/AhDgoTjHIvXNieNwLKDDfp0a9aWfEEIPxo4SWm9y7azZASZY3KgC\n3JDHvGTtOnGG7nfMSsGSB1gU/vEG0HJ67dOmLt9HQlgkpJCiVYQ4ZuHUWdk1WExA\n7wIDAQAB\n-----END PUBLIC KEY-----\n", "followers": ["https://shark.madiator.com/users/a48b85shv6zk0001", "https://shark.madiator.com/users/a8nizbgfpor600c4", "https://social.dl4ax.radio/users/alexander", "https://mstdn.social/users/lefractal", "https://mitra.social/users/silverpill", "https://mastodon.online/users/blendernation", "https://freundica.de/profile/zeitverschreib", "https://swiss.social/users/rettichschnidi", "https://mastodon.world/users/lesmccann", "https://mstdn.social/users/gwendolenau", "https://sharkey.flauschbereich.de/users/aeeeefmt1fhn0007", "https://mementomori.social/users/levi", "https://mastodon.social/users/schnatterick", "https://mastodon.social/ap/users/115611070628088773", "https://mastodon.social/users/The_Escapist", "https://btfree.social/pub/actors/firesidefedi", "https://cupoftea.social/users/magnetichuman", "https://mastodon.online/users/troler", "https://btfree.social/pub/actors/ozoned", "https://mastodon.social/users/simonwood", "https://mastodon.social/users/rowdyjoe", "https://todon.nl/users/soloojos"]}, "css_posts": "", "css_personal": "", "css_user_global_priority": false, "fandomhood_gifts": {"@blenderdumbass@mastodon.online": 80, "@ozoned@btfree.social": 150, "@rowdyjoe@mastodon.social": 47}, "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/account/blenderdumbass"}, "thumbnail": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/thumbs/fa.jpg", "license": "cc-by-sa", "views": {"amount": 26, "dates": {"2026-01-14": 10, "2026-01-15": 5, "2026-01-17": 1, "2026-01-18": 3, "2026-01-19": 1, "2026-01-21": 1, "2026-01-24": 1, "2026-01-27": 1, "2026-02-22": 2, "2026-02-28": 1}}, "recording": "", "comments": {"comments": [{"id": 0, "activitypub": "https://mastodon.social/users/sysedit/statuses/115895034507975369", "deleted": true}, {"text": "> Say I want you to follow @rowdyjoe@mastodon.social. If you are following @rowdyjoe@mastodon.social you can claim say 10 FA ( Fedivese Actions ). And those 10 FA you can spend on petitions or unlockables or anything else on the server. \r\n\r\nAll I can it's one step away from a fediverse casino. Just allow users to buy Fediverse Actions for cash, and you're basically set!\r\n\r\nOn serious terms, can I use puppet accounts to boost rowdyjoe's follower count to the moon?", "username": "Troler", "id": 1, "timestamp": 1768418694.5628731}, {"text": "c:1\r\n\r\n@Troler technically you can follow him. But the damn thing will not update, for reasons stated above.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 2, "timestamp": 1768419002.5414119}, {"text": "I'm not sure AI killed petitioning system, and gladly Mastodon's and fork-of are working as intended.\r\n\r\nbut is that the same system as twitch viewing points? (watching a stream gives you points you can spend on the stream you're watching, you cannot keep those on someone else's stream, and they're perishable and you get like extra chat commands like highlighting your message, display special emotes and such), some \"silly gamification\" to create engagement during the stream.\r\n\r\nor is that a \"gamified client for mastodon\" because if you log on using your AP-based account, and give points-per-x and x being toot/like/retoot (mastodon functions) that might end like a casino a bit or a silent grind to get everything available for sake of collection and achivements or just stacking points.\r\n\r\ni think i remember some people talking about doing the same when NFTs were popular, like engagement is giving crypto points and with those crypto points you could buy NFTs and access new stuff on the website. on paper its grinding casino 101\r\n\r\nBut i'm still curious about it.", "username": "cptbichez", "id": 3, "timestamp": 1768444685.6862845}, {"text": "c:3\r\n\r\n@cptbichez I'm thinking the best way to do this is kind of like this:\r\n\r\nLet's say I want to publish the 3D model of the honda. Or make a tutorial, but only for the true fans. ( kind of like people are doing with patreon ). Or something like that. I could make it show up as: \r\n\r\n*this item is only for the fans* `Unlock` \r\n\r\nOr something.\r\n\r\nAnd when you click unlock it asks you to authenticate with your mastodon. And then shows you a page of your fandom-hood.\r\n\r\nOn the background it will look for your ActivityPub account in the website's metadata. If you have liked / boosted / commented / followed anything on the site. Or anything related to the author specifically. ( I need to think about it ). And add all those things together into a sort of Fandomhood Metric. \"Fediverse Actions\" if you will...\r\n\r\nBasically you technically you don't need to do anything if you are a fan. You can simply use your Fandomhood points to \"purchase\" or \"unlock\" this one post. But if you don't have enough. It will just tell you that your are not a good enough fan. And it should be self-explanatory why.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 4, "timestamp": 1768469903.6221468}, {"text": "c:3\r\n\r\n> I'm not sure AI killed petitioning system, and gladly Mastodon's and fork-of are working as intended. \r\n\r\n@cptbichez it didn't kill ActivityPub, but what I was doing was not activitypub. It was more like scrape the data every 10 minutes kind of thing. Which could have enabled not ActivityPub related petitions.\r\n\r\nBut now I need to rewrite everything to be just ActivityPub.", "username": "blenderdumbass", "id": 5, "timestamp": 1768470110.7177048}]}, "languages": {}, "hashtags": ["fedi", "fediverse", "petition", "gimick", "programming", "webdev", "platform", "development", "freesoftware", "opensource", "API", "ai", "enshittification", "activitypub"], "not_ai_proof": "", "warning": "", "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/did_petitions_fail__how_ai_ruined_it__a_new_fediverse_gimmick_", "likes": ["blenderdumbass", "https://mastodon.online/users/blenderdumbass", "Troler", "https://mastodon.online/users/troler"]}