Gregory's Server
What if Automattic sounded out Wall Street for possible IPO valuations, and found out that WPEngine had the same or a higher valuation. Because their cost structure is lower. #WordPress
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I think I made the somewhat more general machine-to-machine case rather than the human-to-machine-via browser case. But here we are. Still planning to do an informal #Fediverse get-together at #SeaGL2024 in Seattle next weekend. Tentatively: in the "TeaGL" break Saturday afternoon. Join me? @j12t 😮 Will they switch back after the AI bubble bursts? Sounds like it might be a good time to buy Intel, unless they have other problems I haven’t happened to catch any story about
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@j12t "Bluesky lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there." -- @pluralistic  @j12t @pluralistic in short, IIUC: "[[Bluesky]] lacks the one federated feature that is absolutely necessary for me to trust it: the ability to leave Bluesky and go to another host and continue to talk to the people I've entered into community with there. (...) A federation of multiple servers, each a peer to the other, has been on Bluesky's roadmap for as long as I've been following it, but they haven't (yet) delivered it." Sometimes I really hate decentralized systems. Case in point: the Arch Linux package repo mirror one of my machines has been using silently stopped publishing package updates. So suddenly I get all those weird errors during and after attempts to upgrades, from invalid package signatures (turns out keys were expired) to "DLL" conflicts. Would not have happened in a system where the central Arch project controls all repos, instead of volunteers who step up -- and apparently down.  I write a lot about the things that the fediverse can offer that you can't get anywhere else—humane governance according to local norms, especially. I think those things are extremely good, and there are lots of people and groups who stand to benefit from those things. But you still have to build things people like using, or they will leave/not join, and then the social part goes poof. All the geeks are on Mastodon.
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@palllyyy done. Though free text boxes for further explanation might have been useful, with all the rather schematic answers. Good luck. And to a powerful free and open democratic non-populist media network @palllyyy And to be honest lots of the questions in the last part don't sound very neutral (and the negations additionally skew them). As a reviewer I would claim invalid bias on this. Currently counting 4 sessions on Fediverse / Social Web / ActivityPub and related at Internet Identity Workshop this week. This is exactly right IMHO: "Just “being decentralized” is not a value that attracts most users. It has to be what that decentralization enables, preferably the kinds of things that a centralized system can’t actually match, that will create the next breakthrough." @mmasnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social on https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-the-state-of-decentralized-social-media/ @mmasnick writes: "...the decentralized social media landscape has been invigorated and supercharged, almost entirely because of Elon Musk. Thank you, Elon." 👏👏👏 |
@j12t not paying for r&d would certainly lower WPEngine’s costs.