Gregory's Server
Thesis: when you are building a software platform, the abstractions are the main product.
Parallel: in a consumer product, the UI/UX is the main product.
Both need to work, of course, but for the customer, that’s merely table stakes.
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Since January, @kissane and I have been researching governance on Mastodon and Hometown servers of about 80-2000 people. That research is now available!!! Blog post: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings Paper: https://fediverse-governance.github.io/ Special thanks to the participants we interviewed, you all were so great.
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 Longer post(s) to come after the morning school rush, but! The Fediverse governance research @darius and I have been working on this year—with the absolutely central participation of so many wonderful Mastodon and Hometown server teams—is out: https://write.as/fediversalist-papers/releasing-our-findings The "IBM Institute for Business Value" wants me to buy something from them. I wonder what the demographic looks like that gets a pitch from them and reacts: Oh, I really need to get that.  @j12t That same company that helped the Nazis track Jews, the crippled, Slavs and other ethnic groups during WWII ? Hu-uh... But we should focus on the present, right? Like with what happened with the RedHat and HashiCorp acquisitions... what Business Values are they promoting exactly? Yeah I would pass too 🙃 Eggplant moussaka for dinner. Light on the eggplant because the neighborhood rodent ate some of my beautiful eggplants. Grrrr….. Curious: when companies run two-factor authentication systems with hardware tokens or authenticator apps on the client, how does the backend look like? How is it typically secured? Have you registered for #FediForum yet? So looking to do the first three-day event in a few weeks. Good things have happened every FediForum so far, and based on what's in the pipeline, I think good things will happen this time, too! We are making a big mistake in the #Fediverse when we ask people to sign up for Mastodon. The end user product is not Mastodon. The end user product is a specific Mastodon instance. We should ask them to sign up to a specific instance (preferably one that would match their values in the moderation they do, their funding model, their accountability ...) After all, their relationship is with their server operator, not the open-source project. And lots of bad experiences would be avoided IMHO. @j12t
You started out strong but then went left. The big mistake is having people sign up just for #Mastodon in the first place when there’s others that a better suited. We need to educate current users of #fediverse so that they can go out to share information and be better equipped to make recommendations and suggestions Welcome to my new other place. The place where I will be posting about geeky subjects, too geeky for the main account. It's an experiment. Is it worthwhile for the same person to have multiple personas for multiple subjects? Useful? Comprehensible? Usable? We will find out. Imagine the decentralized social media future we all want has arrived, at scale, and it has won over the closed platforms and made them unimportant. How does this actually look like in practice? Answering this question was the subject of a session we ran at #DWebCamp. Here are he notes what people came up with. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20240809-dwebcamp-future-open-social/ My #FediTest slides from #DWebCamp are now on-line in case you are interested in testing and the #Fediverse. The Verge: Flipboard is going to let you follow fediverse accounts right inside the app We used to bang our heads against bugs in closed-source libraries. Fortunately most of that went open-source you can have a look. Now we bang our heads against bugs in SaaS APIs. Which is arguably worse. ... and then you file a support ticket, go off and do something else, and when you return it suddenly works!! The man behind the API curtain. I mean, I should be grateful for quick turnaround, even if they haven't bothered to respond to the ticket. But boy, what happened to predictable systems? Next week this is going to be an "AI" and then it's all magic that randomly blows up on you. Never used the Raspberry Pi Desktop imager before. That's actually done quite nicely. Hey #Fediverse #developers , we are developing testing tools for the Fediverse, and are planning to run a session on FediTest at the #FediForum online conference on September 12, 13 or 14. If you are interested in interop testing your Fediverse application, join us for this session? What would you like us to talk about? Or what subjects would you like to raise? Let us know! Also, which day (Thursday, Friday or Saturday) would be best for you? For some reason I'm thinking X11 Windowing systems were more flexible and usable 30 years ago that what's running on Linux these days. Am I wrong? |
