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I really hate it if I need to unpack the cleaning fluid to get stuff off the whiteboard.
Not only is it bothersome and smelly, it means the note has been there for much longer than expected and I wanted to accomplish it much faster than I did.
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So Threads is starting to connect to Mastodon and the many other applications in the Fediverse starting today. It's a baby step, for sure, but others will follow. Which social network will be the next to follow?  The first tiny, but real #Fediverse interop step from #threads/#meta https://www.threads.net/@zuck/post/C0zXcQmxO77 It will be gradual as I wrote in https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/ Everybody is unpacking curl, and baffled at getting HTML back when attempting to perform #webfinger discovery on zuck's account. So how does it work? I sent a note to @0xjessel@threads.net to clarify if possible ...
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 I'm looking for historical examples where a closed, monopolistic network (like, say, Twitter), was supplanted by an open one (say, the Fediverse) and what turmoil ensued. AOL and the internet is the obvious one, but is there anything else?
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  @J12t Perhaps the regulation of the USA power grid in 1934? Executives everywhere must adopt #ai immediately. It has such great impact on your business! Just not the impact you were looking for. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/media/sports-illustrated-ai-articles-ceo/index.html Some notes on the Meta/Threads "Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue" meeting last week. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/
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 having massive instances is a mistake. is anyone discussing limits to the size of an instance? we need less massive instances and instead easier ways to deploy personal instances to the point that i could run one on my phone as an app. at best meta should become a vps provider that charges people for hosting services like digital ocean , at least that way you could regulate them to a utility status. there is a consequence to popularity, @J12t really appreciate you writing this up I wish they'd make a public roadmap, feels like table stakes for introducing yourself to an established community @J12t Thank you for your notes and insights! I am wondering what kind of resources pressure will come to the whole Fediverse if it chooses to federate with Threads (or Facebook if that ever comes). Would this massive amount of users and data coming in through one super node be difficult to handle for smaller instances? @J12t If I were still running @MacObserver — and I’m not — I have no doubt we’d be leveraging AI in significant ways. Outright copying of others, no… but it would almost have to be a huge part of the workflow nowadays. Congrats @bart and #mammoth to a great new product release and a nice writeup in the #verge. https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23991158/mammoth-2-app-mastodon  @J12t thanks Johannes! Super appreciate that! Ps we just open sourced the code this afternoon.   Created a Fediverse account for the Fediverse Developer Network. Not exactly sure yet how we'll use it, and we need some discussion, but as we update fedidevs.org, I hope we can use it to publish website updates, event invites etc. Which #fediverse software projects have a project lead who is not white and male? Short of that, which fediverse software projects have key contributors who are not white and male? What are best practices for control of key resources — like domain registration, AWS root account, etc — for open source projects? How do you avoid that nobody can get at things if they key person gets hit by the bus without spreading root credentials among too many people? The third-largest state in Germany has an official #mastodon server. (With an umlaut in its domain name!) Imho all #governments in all countries on all levels should communicate via the #fediverse, instead of via commercial services. Why should a profit-maximizing feed #algorithm, and an ad placement algorithm get between the citizen and their government in a democracy?
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 @J12t All democratically elected governments of the free world should be active on their own Mastodon instances - it's a matter of credibility, integrity & honesty.  @J12t I think it should also come with basic ISP services like email. I'm not saying you should be forced to use them but that should come in the basic service level that are in many places now considered an essential service, like power and telephony. And on the plus side the instances should be fairly easy to moderate since you can't just register a new account if you get blocked (it would be tied to your ISP account). |
