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 I wrote a little about what's done and what's immediately in front of us to do for #Letterbook. I want the project to be easy to join and start contributing. This is part of that. Another part I'm experimenting with is holding maintainer office hours (first one Nov 17). https://letterbook.com/blog/post/2024/11/6/contributing.html We've made a lot of progress, but there's still so much to do. Right now we need a ton of web development. Details about all of that are in the blog post 👆 People describe ATProto as federated, and that has always bugged me. And I think I figured out why. It's not NOT federated. But that's deceptively incomplete. It's much more complete to say that ATProto is brokered. I get why they do it. ATP describes itself as federated, after all. But there's a broker, and everything is mediated by the broker, which they name a "relay" (and used to call a big graph server, which was actually more honest). You can't realistically run your own broker. It's enormously expensive, and also no one would trust it, or even know it exists. You have to connect to the bsky broker. Which means bluesky controls the network, and you have to have their permission to join it. This breaks one of the core, but often unstated assumptions people have about federated networks: that they are permission-less. Not only should municipal transit be zero fare, using it should provide tax credits
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 @jenniferplusplus Yep. Similarly, whenever some big-brained car fanatic says that cyclists should pay tolls to cross a bridge, I point out that the toll should be negative on the basis of avoided cost. @jenniferplusplus this used to be a thing in Canada. Bus pass costs were a tax credit. They killed it in 2017 though :(  @jenniferplusplus One of the major failures of thought in capitalist nations is that public transit should be a profit-making (or at the VERY least profit-neutral) enterprise, instead of a service like roads. You know all the random unforced tech layoffs are just labor disorganizing, right? That's it. That's all they are. They're making us play musical chairs with our jobs to keep us from ever building enough trust to organize. Their ideal outcome is a labor pool that's too traumatized and reactive to act collectively. Just pushing everyone into a scarcity mindset on purpose. It's the whole US economy writ small.
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 @jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io inter-company guild time! They want us to play musical chairs with the companies, why not form inter-company labor orgs?! @jenniferplusplus I really think the answer to this is exterior organizing outside any single org. ERGs etc struggle with this because they are *owned* by the corporate entity, that makes them fragile. |
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The fediverse, or something like it, is going to be important for us going forward. We need ways to meet each other and talk about things where billionaires aren't in control of what you see. We need our own communication infrastructure, and that's what this is. We also need it to be sustainable, in both human and financial terms. That's also what this is.
https://letterbook.com/blog/post/2024/11/6/contributing.html