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It's kind of weird that over the next couple of decades, the stereotype of "grandparents don't know how to use computers" is going to have to give way to "grandparents remember when computers worked at all and won't shut up about it."
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 @megmac I'm hoping that the EU push toward improving cybersecurity and reducing e-waste opens the door toward a situation where requirements are tighter for closed systems. Open a system fully (source code, tools, signature keys, etc...) and, after a year, active maintenance isn't legally required any more. The fediverse was never going to be a hockey stick. In the end it's more like a katamari. Picking up people left behind by the corporate internet into a messy ass ball that grows in fits and starts, but can keep on rolling past obstacles that closed systems can't. Its lack of clearly defined shape is at once its greatest strength and its greatest weakness.  @megmac I love this since all the people swept up in a Katamari roll are experiencing raw terror like they are in one of those Bosch depictions of hell. 
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  @megmac I haven't been here long but I like what I see so far. This dates me a bit but it reminds me of things like IRC - a bunch of independent groups/servers that just chose to connect and collaborate. There was no one body controlling content or deciding what the community was. Communities decided for themselves and if they didn't get along they just didn't talk to each other. Are there any microbloggy #activitypub implementations out there that *aren't* trying to maintain some level of compatibility with the mastodon client API?  "federation doesn't scale! It's impossible!" I say on the world wide network of networks that's built up of thousands and thousands of individual operators interoperating over a suite of standard protocols. @megmac internet is more or less a fediverse that mostly runs on beer (and some money here and there) :) Edit: whereby I always uncontrollably giggle when the crypto bros brag about the bitcon and other projects surviving the collapse of the civilization :) @megmac Yeah - there are currently only about 74,000 Autonomous System Networks, announcing over 938,000 routed networks, containing millions of independently managed subnets. How could you possibly scale a few thousand hosts? |
@megmac Grandparents have 3D printed the save icon.
@megmac or "grandparents actually know how to properly use a computer for more than just a web browser and can set it up and fix it on their own."
I see that in my younger sister (10 years age gap) already. She doesn't know how to handle a computer like I do.