This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.
Since some people have asked me, here's a quick thread on initial experience comparison between Bluesky and the fediverse. It's important to note that this comparison is somewhat absurd by default because Bluesky is still tiny & unproven, but there's interest so I'm happy to share what I've observed. Also, I don't get into protocol differences because honestly who cares. So:
Yet another mastodon hellthread. Those things always come in out of chronological order for me since mastodon orders then by arrival time and not timestamp anyway.
Thanks again for the (chronologically in order) screenie 👍
There are dozens of different server types on here, not just Mastodon servers. When you talk about this place, it's not enough to call it "Mastodon", because it's more than just that.
That's why people call this place "The Fediverse", because that name covers all server types. :fediverse:
i forget who it was that said "a single timeline is unsustainable" (aaron parecki?) but i'm feeling more like the real cardinal sin is publishing to a single profile. i don't mind reading everything in a single view, although making lists certainly helps. it's the publishing that annoys me. i almost never want to send a post to all of my followers. and this goes doubly for replies. i often want to reply within a specific context and only optionally tell my followers about it.
Oh! Not Fedi, strictly speaking, but there is "Circles" - (circu.li). It's s matrix thing and I've been following progress, but lost enthusiasm when i brought up gplus (old hat here as well) and they said "recursive circles were to hard for them to implement".
Then, what's three point I thought. That's where the power of Circles really comes into play.
Did you see that IMDb thing that guys doing with his #Mitra fork yet? He's gonna keep it a softfork too.
Apparently, #Marikina has their own take on luncheon meat, they call "Everlasting," which I never heard of before.
If folktales are to be believed, they last "forever," or until they're finally consumed, 😅 without the need for refrigeration. Also said to be a popular dish during community feasts.
The folks who gave it to me, described them as similar to embutido, but the mouth feel is closer to home-made luncheon meat.
>You can always implement key custody on top of user-owned keys. If you want key custody, you can have key custody. If you want a cold wallet, you can have a cold wallet. Trustful protocols bake assumptions about authority directly into the infrastructure. Trustless protocols give you the choice.
The great thing about Fediverse is that we can have both traditional identities and identities based on keys.
I remember #Gem, great GUI for the time although I never adopted it, but did use Ventura publisher and AmiPro intead of Aldus and Word, respectively, on Windows
Everything else though, yah, very, very similar history for myself except for the Apple 🍏 stuffs; like you, I'm quite proudly Mac stupid.
It's always good to meet a fellow Slacker, and "frinds don't let frinds run ewb00ntew!"
Just drank a whole Smirnof or however you spell it. My first drink I drank all the way. A whole glass of it. And I feel good. Not as powerful as one of the little cups of full alcohol I've had, but shoot it feels fluckin' fruckin' good!
Picked up this beautiful lady at her place, and she was keen on doing a steakhouse thing together.
We hit it off really well and I was excited to be with such a vibrant, adventerous woman.
After a couple of drinks we decided to head over to Outback and I unlocked and opened her door. She scoffed under her breath, and as she halfheartedly intended, I heard it.
Oddly, to me, she didn't reach over and unlock my door from her side. Ummm....
Fuck that bitch! We made friendly small talk as I got ready to drop the tranny (pundit) into drive and then I abruptly told this bitch to get thee fuck out my truck. I made it plain enough that there would not be any questions or discussion - abrupt and frank as I was.
Later, I met a nice girl after dinner in the lounge, as sus as one might find, meeting chicks in that sort of randomized scenario, yet often the most truthful.
Yah, no need to say more about people being truthful with each other so there's no crooked roads ahead.
I'll say more after breakfast, but I sense we're cooking it together here at her place, from what I've gathered so far - awesome! A night sleeping next to and holding another human being and fighting over spatulas in the morning!
Whatever happened to that GLIMPSE garbage that those self righteous boneheads forked from GIMP anyway?
Answer: abandoned, archived, forgotten, mostly. The FOSS world is really good at separating the chaffe from the loom and burying the garbage in the dark recesses of the Github landfills lolz.