Gregory's Server
Re-decentralize meetup in London Oct 30.
https://redecentralize.org/events/2024-social/
They are here at @redecentralize
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Just read the transcript of @mike 's #DotSocial podcast with @jay.bsky.team . They cover a lot of interesting use cases -- many of them dear to my heart since (embarrassingly) approx 2004: A single identity for me on the web. Which I control and can self-host or move to different hosts. From where I can engage the world and the world can engage with me. No walled gardens. Lots of new use cases. It's a bit harder than they make it out to be. But I obviously agree with the vision. Surprisingly, though, not one question about the #Bluesky business model, which in many ways is the big elephant question in the room.  @j12t @mike @jay.bsky.team What do you think of Solid by @timbl ? Seems like that could solve the single identity issue. A growth company. It’s just that the growth has a fat minus in front. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitter-x-fidelity/index.html If you ask me, we should not have 99 degF on October 2. (That's 37 degC) Hello, #climate, I hear you are going through some changes and are nowhere done... "Addressing the Maker-Taker challenge is essential for the long-term sustainability of open source projects. Drupal's approach may provide a constructive solution not just for WordPress, but for other communities facing similar issues." #Technology https://werd.io/2024/solving-the-maker-taker-problem It’s clear that #opensource as a model is going through some business model challenges, particularly for application-level software like #wordpress. I’m somewhat conflicted about how Automattic is going about it, though. Should very capitalist large resellers be forced to contribute? Is this a model that can work? Are there better models? https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260158/automattic-demand-wp-engine-revenue-wordpress-battle @j12t yes, of course they should have to contribute. Before I learned about any of the existing licenses the license I wanted was one that boiled down to “you can’t make money with the things I make without paying me”. Relying on volunteer software is just another way to externalize costs and exploit unpaid labor Your periodic reminder that we collect press coverage of the #fediverse on #lemmy: https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press Got quoted in the Washington Post's Tech Brief, together with @Gargron . "Why Threads is opening up to other social networks." https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/02/meta-threads-fediverse-mosseri-mastodon-rochko/ (Sorry, paywall.)  Automattic: "we believe the fediverse plays a critical role in shaping the future of the web" Nice quote in their blog post announcing their support for the Social Web Foundation. https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/09/30/social-web-foundation/ I just bought @evan ''s #ActivityPub #book from ebooks.com. I'm sure I'll learn some things I didn't know. They gave me a nice PDF that isn't tied into anybody's DRM, which is great. https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/book/211467024/activitypub/evan-prodromou/  If you have a friend who is knowledgeable, confident, but sometimes confidently wrong, how often may they be wrong before you stop asking them? Anonymous poll
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Voting ended 1 October at 17:02.  @j12t I’m assuming you mean about things that matter, not just things that are interesting but you’re not going to act on This will be a really interesting data point. Once xitter is back in Brazil, how many users will permanently have left to Bluesky and the Fediverse, and how many will move back? https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/27/elon-musks-x-expected-back-online-in-brazil-ahead-of-elections.html To all you #developers implementing #SSRF protections in your #fediverse applications... We are all in favor of those protections. But! Have a setting that lets projects like #FediTest override it. Otherwise how can anybody test interop on anything other than on the public internet? Mastodon has a ALLOWED_PRIVATE_ADDRESSES setting, which is one way of doing it. Or just have a setting with a default value of what's disabled, and let people override it. Or whatever. But we need something ...  @feditest if you're testing mitra, you can set October 1st and 2nd have weather forecasts of 96 degF. This is California, but ... 35 degC for you people with reasonable units in your life. $300m in monthly revenue for #OpenAI, that is actually quite impressive. 10 million users at $20/month plus the business side. Losing $5b/year on those numbers is actually quite reasonable for something growing as quickly as it has been in the past year. Now whether it will remain that way is a different question ... Today's Fail: E-commerce site, on the check-out screen, has no "Confirm Order" button. Only a disclaimed that if you click Confirm Order, you accept and agree to all terms of Return Policy. We have no concept of what’s coming at +3C. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/28/us/north-carolina-trapped-helene-flooding/index.html #climate  Welcome @timbl ! Let’s make this into a better place for humans to interact and communicate with the world. What's a good example for #FedCM in the wild? Are there any yet? FedCM=Federated Credential Management https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FedCM_API  @j12t Are you looking for IdPs or RPs? Here are some test RPs: https://iam.sebadob.dev/auth/v1/fedcm Not sure about the status of https://lastlogin.net/ - maybe @apitman can comment? Or you could try my RP at https://login.mythik.co.uk/ - if this works you might even be able to get into https://discourse.mythik.co.uk/ with it. |
