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strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
#Vegan #Permaculture #Transition #PeerProduction #FreeCode #CreativeCommons #SciFi #Comedy #Juggling

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strypey, to random
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"The silver lining is, after all the chaos and destruction and flight to the fediverse, Twitter doesn’t feel nearly as important now as it did half a year ago. It’s always been Bridgy’s biggest user base, it had a great 11-year run, I never quite expected it to end like this, but here we are."

@snarfed.org@snarfed.org

https://snarfed.org/2023-04-03_so-long-twitter-api-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish

strypey, to random
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"This [Brax.Me] software has been released with a GPLv3 license. This is free software."

Great!

"The enterprise version however has additional features that are isolated and operate independently from the base feature set including Live Streaming, Audio broadcasting, SocialVision, Websites, SecureNet, e-Commerce Stores, Forms management, staff management, Industry specific features and more. That version is not open source."

Oh.

https://github.com/robbraxman/braxme/wiki

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strypey,
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Having said all this, I also opened an issue in the brax.me repo to offer a friendly suggestion about supporting federation protocols, with links to info about them (implementation guides etc).

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atomicpoet, (edited ) to internet

is finally testing federation with "allow-listed servers".

They're finally taking the step of decentralization.

Many people will naysay this. But it's absolutely better that they move to decentralization than not do it.

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

strypey,
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@thull
> They literally only even have employees since 2021

... or to put it another way, they finally got employees in 2021 ;)

But none of this changes the fact they've rushed into production before finishing a full working prototype. Which suggests the marketing department is in charge of the release schedule, not the engineering department :/

So whether or not they're on schedule is kind of beside the point.

@atomicpoet

strypey,
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@TheVoyageur
> What did they technically do, have servers able to serve and request data in both protocol request formats?

Initially there were distinct networks. Then some of the apps started implementing other protocols, particularly Friendica, Hubzilla, and SocialHome, leading to a hybrid network. Around that time, reps from as many apps as possible were brought together in a W3C process that led to the AP spec. Most apps implemented it.

Is this a fair summary @deadsuperhero?

@atomicpoet

strypey,
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@PDFlynn
> I humbly disagree sir

About which bit?

strypey,
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@PDFlynn
> He owns the company

Even if true, unless this gives him magical powers, it has no bearing on the technical merits of the BlueSky software or the AT Protocol. One correction to my last post, apparently not all BlueSky source code is available (yet?).

Secondly, Dorsey is the major funder since Titter pulled out and he sits on the board, but he is not the CEO (@arcalinea is). I've yet to find solid evidence for who owns the company. Can you link me?

thatbrickster, to random

incels mad they can't use fedi as a dating site

strypey,
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@thatbrickster
> You have more faith than I in those people

When I posted that I was thinking of a suggestion @evan made in a presentation about using AP to federate dating sites ;)

Which is an idea I like! Dating sites are the ideal DataFarm and we desperately need privacy-respecting replacements to get enough network effect to take off.

(Ping @smallcircles)

strypey, to opensource
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: What's yours is mine, and what's mine is my mine too.

Zoom is a proprietary service. You can't download the Zoom software, set up your own Zoom server and host a Zoom conference. Their software is theirs. Yet they use dozens of software packages developed by the Free Software community to run their service:

https://explore.zoom.us/en/opensource/source/

They value Open Source, because it saves them money, but not the software freedoms of their users.

strypey,
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@canusfeminacanis
> Neither of had made themselves even remotely as known as Skype or Zoom

Sadly, yes. If only I'd started the Core-us and VOICE projects earlier, the usable Free Code options might have been more well known by 2020. As it was there was a confusing tangle of voice/ video software, but only a handful of the apps were even remotely useful.

strypey,
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@arinbasu1
> Oh, there it is, , see if you like it,

How does this connect to the Mozilla Hubs topic? 🤔

strypey,
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@arinbasu1
> an attempt to bring ActivityPubs into virtual worlds

Ah right, like Third Room is doing for Matrix. Yes, I'm familiar with Spritely. @cwebber (the founder) is the Godmother of ActivityPub :)

strypey, to fediverse
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Every post in the that isn't public should be encrypted. This should be the default, so that to post publicly, a person has to know what they're doing and turn it off. That way, anyone who wants to build search and discovery tools for public posts can do so without permission, or fear of retribution.

Discuss.

strypey,
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@Matt5sean3
> doxxing is pretty widely held as unacceptable

Agreed.

> there ought to be no backlash for creating discovery tools

There shouldn't be, unless there is overwhelming technical evidence that they are causing (or will cause) measurable harm.

A key point here is preventing people designing user-respecting discoverability tools, for people who want that for their posts, does nothing to stop Bad Actors from designing evil ones in private. Encryption might.

strypey,
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@Matt5sean3
Side note: you're sneaking a lot of assumptions into your posts. I'm having to work quite hard to ironman your arguments. Feel free to use multiple posts to flesh out your arguments, or write a blog post that does that, and link it here with a TL;DR.

strypey, to random
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The were warning of this in the 90s:

"Export controls and usage controls [on cryptographic software] are slowing the deployment of security at the same time as the Internet is exponentially increasing in size and attackers are increasing in sophistication. This puts users in a dangerous position as they are forced to rely on insecure electronic communication."

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1984

to @onepict for pushing us to read this.

strypey,
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@dusnm
> Why would you want to trust anyone?

Your line of argument makes 3 assumptions;

  1. we can trust ourselves to correctly perform every step of elaborate PGP dances, at all times. 2) we're willing to risk permanently losing access to our mail if we miss a step.
  2. our threat model justifies both the effort and the risk.

It's a rare person for whom all 3 are true, and AutoCrypt is not a good enough solution.

tobestewart, to random

Have we tried bullying billionaires? They look soft as shit

strypey,
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@koherecoWatchdog
> the humanitarian-aligned party

Are we still talking about the Democrats? How many of them voted against the bombing of Kosovo, the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. How many voted against the Patriot Act? How many voted for the laws that enabled Guantanamo? How many voted to shut it down. I could fill books with examples of Dems being just as bad as Republicans, but I don't need to, since Chomsky's books are peppered with them.

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@Gogs @tobestewart

strypey,
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@koherecoWatchdog
Coming back to Clinton specifically, just look at the consequences of her interventions in Libya for the Libyan people. She is a monster every bit as bad as Agent Orange if not worse, and it's obvious. That's why she didn't beat a candidate that any actual left-wing candidate would have run rings around.

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@Gogs @tobestewart

strypey,
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@koherecoWatchdog
> I would agree that psychopaths rise towards the top b/c their condition gives them an edge

That's not why. As discussed elsewhere in the thread - where I mentioned Chetan Druve's book- hierarchies structurally incentivize and reward selfishness. The more layers to the hierarchy, the greater the effect. Both major US political parties are deeply hierarchical management structures, just look at the anti-democratic way Clinton got the nomination.

@Gogs @tobestewart

strypey,
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@koherecoWatchdog
> doing under-handed things as she did doesn’t make her a narcissist

Not by itself, but it's certainly not counter-evidence.

@tobestewart @Gogs

strypey,
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@koherecoWatchdog
> Hillary was working on health care when she was 1st lady, so well before the nomination

OK. Details please? What was the policy she supported? Was it better than Obamacare?

@Gogs @tobestewart

strypey, to internet
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"But social media also exposes movements to many vulnerabilities. The solidiarities it generates are often superficial: movement use of social media can easily devolve into repetitive messaging in echo chambers without collective gains in narrative power—a change in the stories and values that hold sway in society—or a translation to real-world militancy."

, , 2022

https://logicmag.io/pivot/when-we-were-the-media/

strypey, (edited )
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@galdor
> I do not know where you work

Currently co-founding a co-op, using my freedom to...

> seek employment elsewhere or build a business yourself

> Having to play politics to get my colleagues to agree about my compensation would be a special kind of hell.

I don't understand why negotiating with a superior is better than negotiating with equals. That's not the experience of people I know who work for co-ops. But whatever, different strokes for different folks

@screwtape @mjgardner

originalg, to random

Is there a way to leave a conversation? I'm in a middle of a fire fight about stuff ??!!!

strypey,
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@LovesTha
> it doesn't show in their notifications either

Hmm. Something definitely not right there 🤔

@lovestha

idanoo, to random
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    strypey,
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    @aurynn
    > number of follow relationships that is the major load indicator

    How do you measure that?

    @idanoo @lightweight

    strypey,
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    @aurynn
    > November kind of changed everything

    Understatement of the year! 🤣

    @idanoo @lightweight

    strypey,
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    @idanoo
    @aurynn @lightweight

    Thanks for all this detail, it's super helpful. Next question, what kind of hardware / hosting are you using? How many boxen are involved? What sort of specs?

    I'm trying to get my head around what sort of capacity we'll need to host our Mastodon farm.

    strypey,
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    @aurynn
    > just pay me to manage it 😉

    🤣

    But seriously, if we can get some bootstrap funding (got a couple of ideas I need to chase up), we might offer one (or more) of you some contracting work holding our hands while we're learning to find our arses with both of them 😁

    @idanoo @lightweight

    witchescauldron, to random

    @dragonfly is a non-owned "brand" so it ticks that box and works for outreach.

    We need to reboot the "process" so indymedia can start to work agen, to do this we need fresh codebases, outreach and training.

    strypey,
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    @dragonfly
    I do think it's worth writing more about the history of Indymedia, so the lessons can be learned. There used to be heaps of great stuff on Wikipedia. Some of it fell to the deletionists, but much of it could be recovered from the edit history:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indymedia

    But I'd love to have a team of radical left social anthropologists and media theorists interview indymediatistas and put it all in one place online. From as many IMCs as possible, from as many countries as possible.

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