Gregory's Server
Are there any straight-up paid subscription #fediverse servers?
I don't think I have ever come across one. Are there?
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Accepting valuable gifts on a regular basis disqualifies the person immediately from any kind of judicial role IMHO. If a Supreme Court justice does not understand this — even if the law permitted it — they just disqualified themselves on the grounds of being completely incompetent on what their job actually is. How long until #substack shows up in the #fediverse? This latest harassment is a textbook example for the case I made earlier why open networks are more valuable than closed ones. News: https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/7/23674185/substack-twitter-retweet-like-disabled-block On open networks: https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230322-open-networks-are-more-valuable-fediverse/ @J12t It may be my fault Elon banned #Substack ; ) https://samray.substack.com/p/the-grooming-of-elon-musk-a-psychological-cc8 I fell hard for this one. The #ArchLinux guys, on their mirrors status page, first list the out-of-date mirrors, and then the current mirrors. Guess from which list I picked several, all with very strange content, before I realized this ... Status: designing a survey for the members of the #W3C #SWICG, the closest that #ActivityPub standardization has to a home at this time.  @J12t AP and AS2 have to stay at the W3C. Those are only two parts of the stack. Standards are only one part of making a network. There are a lot of possibilities for documentation and developer coordination elsewhere. I hope that helps. "Actively hire engineers who cause catastrophes and resist learning." Never happened to anybody in the real world :-P The Bill Clinton / Ukraine dilemma is an interesting ethics conundrum. Did he do the right thing (on that subject) or the wrong thing? https://fortune.com/2023/04/05/bill-clinton-ukraine-nuclear-weapons/  @J12t Convincing a country to give up nuclear weapons is always a good thing -- no matter what consequences that decision might later have. Our "error" in regards to Ukraine wasn't convincing them to give up their weapons, it was failing to ensure that their sovereignty and territorial integrity was sufficiently well protected. Remember, with the Budapest Memorandum, we promised to protect them, in exchange for their giving up those nuclear weapons. But, we didn't uphold our promise very well. The notes from the various #Fediforum sessions last week are on-line now. Lots of interesting tidbits there. Video from the speed demos is still being edited. Stay tuned. @J12t Dammit, I thought I read "speed demons" there at first.
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Updated #Fediverse #wish list based on recent discussions in the #W3C #SWICG and at #FediForum about #ActivityPub and related. Fortunately nobody is going to run out of work any year soon 🙂  @J12t his comment is out of place; but I am not sure that I will express them at the opportune time. So let me just leave it here.
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 @J12t I translated (by hand, not using ChatGPT) the go-fed library (which has C2S and S2S) into Elixir, and ran it against a checklist of tests I found in an activitypub.rocks thread, but 1. there needs to be an MVP or consensus on clients to decide what is standard and what is overridable and 2. I now prefer the architecture that @nutomic ‘s S2S Rust library builds over go-fed’s/my own. “Twitter labels NPR's account as 'state-affiliated media', which is untrue” https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-media Consider two companies' tech support via chat. Company A, automatically, e-mails you a full transcript of your support chat at the end of the chat. Company B does not even offer a button to download the chat and copy-paste is hard to do because some kind of auto-scroll Javascript hackery. Which of those two companies is more trustworthy? More worth your business?  Apparently customer support (human) chat agents in several places are trained to regurgitate the problem and ask to confirm. I have no idea why they would do that. Highly annoying. "The Three-Legged Stool: A Manifesto for a Smaller, Denser Internet". By @ethanz et al. I very much agree, except that I don't believe it should be a "loyal client" -- a client is a client of somebody else, like somebody else's server, and that's a road we know doesn't lead to something very good. I want my own loyal server instead. @J12t I understand, and the idea of the loyal server is very much at the heart of most fediverse theories. I just don't think it works for most users. I think control over clients is something most users understand, which is why we're focused there. “The Defendant was inaugurated as President on January 20, 2017. “ Surreal reading. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23741595-read-trump-indictment-statement-of-facts-related-to-hush-money-payment Hey @jamesmarshall, do you have a link to the app you are building? For the #Fediforum notes, in case people are interested.  @J12t thanks for asking! No, sorry, I haven't released it yet (need to do some things first), but anyone who is interested can contact me here or at james@jmarshall.com . You're welcome to put my addresses in the FediForum notes. Happy to discuss the app, answer any questions, let people test it, collaborate, etc. Hit me up! Noticing that several #Fediforum attendees have the same Fediverse handle as e-mail address. I don't, but I really want to. That seems much more sensible than having different handles. It also opens up reallllllyyyy interesting use cases, such as: send message via ActivityPub if possible, fall back to e-mail. Also noticing that although #Fediforum was about the #Fediverse, and all the people there understand @foo@bar.com handles, so many session notes written by a variety of people have foo@bar.com instead of @foo@bar.com. So if the early adopters/experts have difficulty with this syntax, do we have any hope that the general public will be able to differentiate fediverse handles and #email addresses, and use them consistently? I think they simply have to become the same over time. One of the bad things about fediverse handles is that if you put them on a web page, they are not immediately clickable. And even the convention @foo@bar.com -> https://bar.com/@foo is a Mastodon-only convention I believe; really needs a Webfinger lookup to resolve to something a browser can open. What if browsers started handling the acct: scheme by doing the Webfinger lookup?  Considering #mozilla is going all in on #fediverse, this might start there, or it might only work on their instance. @J12t my mastodon app made that handle tapable, except for the initial @, and tapping it tried to send an email. This sort of thing makes me think decent handling of handles is far beyond the horizon Even if a browser (or any app that has occasion to interpret handles) could resolve accounts correctly, linking to the web page on their fediverse host inherits the problem of preventing you from interacting with it through your own account. |
@J12t well i settle for some donaties;-)
@J12t In a way, @help is …