@danlyke Yes, indeed. The thing that struck me more, though, is that the thread alludes to a number of entirely different use cases / user needs addressed by the same social media application, and it would be so much more useful to think of them as distinct. I wrote down 5 of them on my whiteboard. Need to blog about this. Interestingly, in the fediverse we could actually have different applications for different needs!
@julian Yes, we need to do a public service (with selfish benefit, too) to categorize and articulate those different usage scenarios. In the fediverse, we could actually build different apps for different needs/wants on the same network and social graph.
@danlyke My thesis is that I'd prefer to run a different app in the evening lazing on the couch, for mild entertainment, compared to the daytime app where I, say, want to engage in this conversation that we are having right now. "Another interchangeable app" clearly would be too many.
I love a good interview, and the questions being fired off here are excellent. Seeing how much Sundar squirms at each question means to me that Nilay is doing the right thing here.
I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.
@reillypascal I'm aware of the protocol. Even beyond the specific protocol, I have never understood why anybody thinks an (all-public, never-can-delete) data store is the right place for social media data. I don't get the all-public about #Bluesky either. (and I'm not understanding what they may or may not support in terms of delete)
But re McCourt, he's not a geek, so he can only act on what geeks tell him, and they told him blockchain :-)
Today, my Mac's available disk space keeps dropping. I keep deleting stuff and disk space keeps dropping to where applications stop working and I apparently have less than 100M left. I'm panicking a bit because I keep deleting things and it gets worse not better.
Finally, I kill time machine. I haven't deleted any more files and have not done anything since, but now I have 135G free on disk.
@Bryan I know, been doing this for a long time. Just today Time Machine went haywire to the tune of 135G and I'm sure it would have kept going. After restarting it, now it happily backs up to the external disk and my local disk continues to have 135G free space.
Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?
After an instance accessed a remote account for the first time, it fetches name, avatar, number of followers etc. When will it fetch it next to potentially update?
@mikedev Well, the fediverse is largely not acquainted with the idea of (eventual) consistency. A problem IMHO but hard to fix at this point.
Would you know this? When you observe DELETEs on Actors, in your experience, were they all sent from the instance that hosted the actor, or are there cases where other instances send it? Like some instance from where the post was reshared and reached an audience the original server didn't know about.
@mikedev I meant to ask you about your nomadic identity work in the ActivityPub part of universe ... any particular place that I should be following? There is some SSO talk re-emerging in certain quarters and it would be nice to not re-invent the wheel... to me at least :-)