Gregory's Server
How Meta could kill the Fediverse, a look at historical precedents.
https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html
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I just realize that I should have opened a Mastodon instance called #wayland when Elon Musk changed Twitter’s name. So I could tell everyone : "Time to migrate from X to Wayland!" I’m sure at least a dozen of people would have got the joke. EDIT: actually, somebody did it: see @compositor ! Awesome ! Thanks @mo for the info.
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 @ploum let me introduce you wayland.social — the successor to x.com :blobcatbadumtss: The Pale Blue Dot "Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know". Carl Sagan lecturing about the Fediverse in 1994. (image found on Lemmy without any attribution)
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  @ploum the only problem is the fedverse isn’t ready for billions of people. The prophecy as fold told will lead to unprecedented new problems the dev team failed to address. The criminal organization slowly spreading to the masses while smaller groups disappear. Actions of the mods and administrators will be tested, civil war inside the fediverse communities. When it’s all over the once great fediverse communities will become islands of other islands and one day a nation formed by the fediverse. Les gens qui postent sur Twitter depuis un Chrome sans aucun adblock sur un Windows rempli de spywares, c’est un peu comme les fumeurs. Doit-on avoir pitié de leur dépendance ou considérer qu’ils sont adultes et qu’ils sont une nuisance pour leur environnement ? Are we splitting the Web? Maybe it’s time to choose your side.
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 @ploum I also sometimes feel like there's a different world out there that I want no part of.  @ploum Google is trying to put the web in a cage in the same way they put your devices in a cage (Android, ChromeOS). There’s one really easy, simple and efficient way to fight them: uninstall Chrome/Chromium, use #firefox Do it. Now. – But I prefer Chrome because of… If you are not ready to sacrifice a little comfort (so little, Firefox is great) to save the web, then you don’t deserve a free web anyway. You are part of those killing it. Remove Chrome. Install Firefox. (with adblockers)
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 @ploum Firefox is jumping out of the frying pan into the fire; the Mozilla foundation is a scam. Vivaldi browser might be worth trying, but I haven't bothered yet.  Google est en train de proposer une "Web Environment Integrity API" qui permettrait aux créateurs de sites webs (=publicitaires) de s’assurer que les sites sont affichés sans restriction (=avec les pubs et les trackers). Il y’a une manière très simple de lutter contre cela: désinstallez Chrome (et Chromium). Immédiatement. Utilisez #Firefox et tous les bloqueurs de publicités/trackeurs possibles. Si vous hésitez aujourd’hui, vous n’aurez plus que vos yeux pour pleurer dans un an ou deux.
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 @ploum ça pue à des kilomètres, ce truc… mais je serais très curieux de voir comment ils comptent faire ça, car une des règles d'or qu'on apprend quand on commence à développer des applis Web c'est de ne pas faire confiance au client. Avec le Tour de France revient, comme chaque année, les questions sur le dopage. On lit beaucoup mais personne ne se pose la question de savoir ce qu’est exactement le dopage. https://ploum.net/pour-un-dopage-ethique-et-propre/index.html @ploum Article super intéressant, merci! Dans la même lignée, il y a un mini-docu (~30min) d'Arte sur les limites du corps humain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7VSWGkv4dQ Il est vraiment intéressant, et évidemment on y parle dopage. Et les chiffres sur le nombre d'athlètes qui ont anonymement avoué s'être dopés est 🤯 4 years of #gemini gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/news/2023_06_20.gmi Thank you @solderpunk ! Further read: why Gemini is essential: Gemini, le protocole du slow web (FR) : @ploum @solderpunk after 4 years I still cannot click on gemini links in pleroma to open them in lagrange :-/ I really thought this would happen faster.
Wow, cette migration de mon blog que je prépare depuis des mois m’a épuisé. L’adrénaline retombe, tout semble fonctionner. Je suis vidé moi… Bonne nuit Mastodon ! https://ploum.net/2022-12-04-fin-du-blog-et-derniere-version.html
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@ploum les générateurs de sites statiques font des merveilles. Perso j'utilise Hugo et c'est tout simplement magique... Et pour les commentaires, Giscus est tout simplement parfait ! https://giscus.app/
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@ploum Slightly marketting focused blog but https://howtomarketagame.com/2021/11/01/dont-build-your-castle-in-other-peoples-kingdoms/ conveys the same point. 100 Mastodon myths: 1. Mastodon is hard. FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware. 2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon. FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported. 3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon. FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin. 4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds. FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.
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 @ploum ok but this business about having to choose a server is disconcerting and annoying. Hi @mntmn , I’m very excited by the MNT Pocket (see https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/ to understand why). Did you ever thought about an e-ink version similar to an Astrohaus Freewrite ? (which has the worst software one could imagine, see gemini://rawtext.club/~ploum/2021-10-07.gmi Keep up the good work  12
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@ploum I was wondering why hardly anyone was talking about XMPP when I discovered it the other week. Now I know. Google, man.
@ploum I remember when XMPP was slowly and painfully killed by Google, yep
I remember the feeling of frustration and uncertainty.