Gregory's Server
Great table of decentralized social projects beyond the ActivityPub universe by @rabble
https://airtable.com/shri7e7EHoTi0cEjO/tblGfBcmj5sJzk2WK/viwPJRXjBeELkIaZZ
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Which century would you say was this portrait created? Before or after the French Revolution? I've finally gone over. Every time these days somebody technical suggests "we could add cool feature X or do something with Y protocol", my first gut reaction, without even thinking about it, is "will this provide the value to the user that the user is wanting and expecting?" And every single time, the technical proposal needs to be at least packaged very differently than proposed to actually make a difference to the user. I've become annoying to the geeks I notice. Hopefully less so to users. How long should social media posts be retained? That's an interesting question. Facebook, for example, retains everything forever, not just posts, but also searches and private messages. Some newer social media protocols are based on an append-only log (which means old posts can never be deleted). But much we say on-line -- not all -- is really similar to a conversation with friends over a beer, and we'd be appalled if we'd record each other then and keep for years. What's best? Some people apparently read IETF RFC as a form of entertainment. That's going too far even for me. @J12t You're really missing out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments Public townsquare? Permanent record? Full transparency? Bluesky? Somebody put all of #Bluesky's posts so far in one single database. Note AFAIK everything that happens on Bluesky is public, and can never be deleted. So this is not a bug, this is a feature, according to their architecture. @J12t Woah. That's a long stretch from the "own your content" users want. Permanent record is not a good solution to social media, as it only serves to create further problems (like bullying) down the line.  @J12t you can delete things on bluesky. there was a bug a while back where old media files attached to deleted posts weren’t getting deleted but they already fixed it and have planned to do a rebase of the repos to remove the old dangling files. Writing new code is just so much more fun than refactoring existing code. This simple fact explains a lot in our industry I think.  @J12t It shouldn't be... I think if your work hard enough on your new code you should be able to get to a point extending it is more pleasant than going through the pain of designing your app from scratch again. I also don't know of a single company that would pay me to spend that amount of time on my new code. 😕 That's why I don't code for a living ... Status: filed Mastodon bug. Only happens when running Mastodon inside a Linux container with recent kernels, which is great for development, but obscure enough I'd be surprised somebody fixed that. What a totally fascinating graph! Spot the difference! Seems to me there is little immunity over time, but certainly a great reduction of symptoms! Except when Omicron hit.
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 @J12t I interpret it as a reduction in the ability to report cases. Most cases are going unreported this year.  @J12t There is and was never immunity. Omicron can carry long covid in the long run and has not less albeit different symptoms. Lots of noisy supersonic planes in the air in the bay area. That is very unusual. What is going on? Travis AFB is in the San Francisco bay area. It could just be standard flight traffic. We get them flying over here in Granbury to and from the Naval Air Station in Ft. Worth and the occasional Chinook fly over. Occasionally they have craft flying enroute to a deployment, or it's the Air Force Reserve weekend. @J12t Not supersonic but I heard/saw at least one very loud fighter plane near Moffett today. Traffic was a bit unusual, yes. @kissane Great post! IMHO we need to do holistic design across the entire #fediverse, not just #mastodon. The larger value proposition is in the overall network, built from many parts, not just one app. Want to help? There's a budding Fediverse Developers Network :-)  Don't you like it when they deprecate your build tools? I'm looking at you, setup.py. And want you to do something "much better" (hatch) that promptly silently doesn't package one of your files? (test.py -- it's named that way because it's a subcommand and why should I name it something less comprehensible?) And for which no documentation can be found that addresses your problem? So you get the source, and randomly poke about? Well this random power was successful but can we maybe do better? In other news, in a long pitched battle between the Postgres permission system and the uneducated horde a the gate, the now not as uneducated horde -- me -- can report to have won the contested territory. I wonder though whether I can hold it, given how things have been going.  @J12t at your next event are you thinking of partnering with #socialhub as they have a good history of putting on #activertypub events.  @J12t It is good and bad I think. As with most things. Now a small group of people bent on destabilizing society can compete with government and corporate sized capabilities in generating disinformation. On the other hand, we may be able to push AI out to the network edge. In the 1950s we were promised intelligent robots that would live in our homes with us. For a while it looked like they were really going to be living in big data centers and spying on us. That outcome **may** be averted.    The W3C Social Web Community Interest Group -- the home of #ActivityPub -- has a new chair, Dmitri Zagidulin aka @dmitri! This is excellent news for the future of ActivityPub and the broader #fediverse. Dmitri has long, broad, relevant experience both technically and organizationally in the W3C and outside, and I'm very happy he stepped up to take on this rather challenging task. At speed. He's already organizing the first meeting! Let's all help him get the group to accomplish much! “The user authenticated with the client server.” Maybe I shouldn’t be reading specs late at night, but count me befuddled. What did that user do exactly to whom exactly? “Oh for f’s sake is something I do not say aloud, but think vehemently at my coffee while I count to FF in hexadecimal.” @cstross in “Escape from Yokai Land”. I guess I gotta try some time. Looking for a good #peertube instance to host #Fediforum demo videos (of #fediverse apps). Any recommendations?  |
@rabble would love to move this list to a wiki somewhere not on capitalist infra, I might try to reformat it into a page on https://joinfediverse.wiki