😢 Sad story: For a long time pre-2022 I'd have happily paid #twitter $8 a month for a well-moderated, ad-free, time-ordered timeline. They never gave me that choice
😊 Happy ending: That's exactly what the #fediverse has enabled for me. I make $8 donations to my instance host to help keep it sustainable
I think personally that one of the coolest thing on #Mastodon is how #Flipboard embraced it. They have created 4 different "desks" this week that covers a lot of my favourite topics. So, I take the #FollowFriday opportunity to share them with you.
@atomicpoet@ivory Huh? That's news. Basically, the tragic aspect of same old movie about silos and their adverse effects on an #OpenWeb are already taking shape -- unfortunately.
What's needed is an #Fediverse constructed from loose-coupling enabled by open standards. Anything less is just a predictable tragic movie reboot.
Just in the last 24-48 hours, I have tried my best to bring up instances of GoToSocial, MissKey, CalcKey and Pleroma just to see what would work for a single user Fediverse instance. Guess who is winning right now?
Lot's of media people whining about Twitter removing the "blue check mark" from government accounts. It's hilarious because actually it's not Musk who's to blame. It's the governments that ended up depending on "free" accounts provided by private companies. Governments should operate their own internet infrastructures.
So now it's about time to stop whining and create a presence in the #fediverse, for now and for ever.
Celebrities and big brands may never flock to Mastodon. It's just the nature of the platform to target a small community rather than a large audience, and for those hoping to do that, they'll pick centralized systems every time. But for me, that's just fine. I like it here. Maybe some other friends would like it here too, that's what @spreadmastodon is about. Not having your social media owned by a corporation is a great feeling. Let's make it more common.
“Twitter’s approach may help its business, but won’t help people identify who or what is worth listening to and the danger is that it will ultimately degrade trust that is critical for long-term sustainability”
To jest bardzo istotne, gdy już wyrobi się nawyk używania wyszukiwarki w fedi, dalej jest z górki ;-)
W Kbin jest opcja skopiowania url komentarza / posta który wyświetli się na danej instancji oraz który można wklepać w wyszukiwarkę na dowolnej platformie.
No i powstaje też społeczność która ma na celu pomoc twórcom aplikacji fediwersowych. Planowane są opisy integracji, snippety kodu, use-cases.
It’s effectively the web3 alternative to #activitypub . It’s a good North Star for the fediverse to aspirationally build towards.
But I’m only interested in BlueSky insofar as it interoperates with the existing #fediverse .
And I think they recognize that the the fediverse movement & community would turn on them if they cannibalize the existing network instead of adding to it as a friendly & compatible node.
This is hilarious. A #Google engineer invented #zx to make command line scripting easier with #NodeJS, because at a certain point #shell scripts get too complicated and you need a Real #Programming Language.
This is exactly #Perl’s use case from thirty-six years ago. But the kids want #JavaScript everywhere and would rather it take more work to convert their ascended #Bash scripts to a vastly different syntax.