I need to broaden my #Matrix discussions.
Here’s a 2.5 yo post about an 800 lb gorilla in the Matrix idea. I’ve heard people brush it off, but their needs were often niche, fanciful, or delusional. I need some engineers to help me separate the facts, legends, myths, and bullshit of a large scale federated matrix chat network. In our experience, just enabling presence can bring a Synapse server to its knees, if even if just 1 user follows a BIG room. What if many folks follow MANY big … 1/2
#BlueSky is a step backwards for #Decentralisation. It'll be another walled garden with power concentrated at the admin level instead of the user being in control.
Just as with #Mastodon, the focus will be on scalability of a few really big instances, instead of creating an environment that fosters a network of many small instances.
There's a reason that I have a single user instance since many years. I strongly believe that a better balance of power is possible and achievable for #ActivityPub
"Today Ukrainians do not speak about 'after the war;' they speak about 'after the victory'—пiсля перемоги (pislya peremohy). 'Peremoha'— Polish theater director Krzysztof Czyżewski suggested—should become part of a new universal vocabulary. The prefix pere indicates a crossing and moha means 'I can.' Peremoha—'victory'—literally expresses a going beyond what one is able to do."
This, I think, is a significant statement about the value of #decentralisation as an organising principle.
"Assuming that Russia did want to detonate a small nuclear weapon in Ukraine and succeeded in doing so, despite all of this, this would make no decisive military difference. There are no big clusters of Ukrainian soldiers or equipment to hit, since Ukraine fights in a very decentralized way."
Centralised moderation teams often lack the context to know what they're looking at. Fediverse admins each take care of a small, well-defined bit of overall moderation; the bit that affects accounts on their server. They know what's acceptable in their community.
I'm contemplating writing a piece about the political importance of the #Fediverse. We talk about #democracy, #decentralisation, and #horizontalism in our societies, but it really is important that we embrace technology that reflects such aspirations as well.
Très cool que Radio Canada donne la parole à Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic ) pour parler de la "merdification" ("enshittification") de l'internet. Plus y'a de gens qui savent, plus les gens vont réfléchir à quitter le bateau et se diriger vers les alternatives éthiques et locales.
I am waiting for #gitea#forgejo to implement support for #ActivityPub. Once that is available and every ActivityPub account can open issues without needing to open a local gitea/forgejo account, I will spin up my own instance of forgejo to host my git repos. Moar #decentralisation :) (I have already moved my repos from GitHub to #CodeBerg a year ago)
✍️ Il y a donc maintenant une page de blogroll sur ce site avec les deux derniers billets publiés par personne listée. J’espère que j’arriverai à maintenir une page qui représente mes lectures réelles. — Blogroll, https://larlet.fr/david/2023/09/09/
"The Big Web is the centralised web; it is a web in the sense of a spider’s web [...] The Big Web has “users”": one "can fit thousands of users into a single server and Megacorps “scale” to run thousands upon thousands of servers in their farms" [1]
"On the Big Web, you never own your own home. You must rent your home from Megacorps. Most often, you don’t have to pay for your home using money" [1] #decentralisation
Thanks to all of you who have mucked in with testing ThePriceIsRightNet. It really is a massive help, and once again you’ve uncovered some unexpected issues.
Indeed, this one has been a bit of a curate’s egg - good in some parts... a bit whiffy in others.
Votre rappel mensuel qu'un des principaux intérêts de #Mastodon et du #Fédivers c'est d'être décentralisé.
À éviter donc de tous se tasser sur l'instance mastodon point social.
Votre rappel mensuel qu'un des principaux intérêts de #Mastodon et du #Fédivers c'est d'être décentralisé.
À éviter donc de tous se tasser sur l'instance mastodon point social.