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!"
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:
>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.
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.
This is one of my personal favorites. In Galveston, Tx looking out at the Gulf I turned around to see this tall ship sailing across the sand. Surreal, a mist rising off the wet sand and a Phantom Tall Ship sailing by on the other side of a sand dune. Something about light and mist gave the ship a ghostly appearance.
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!
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.
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.
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 👍
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
Disclaimer: for postarity, I intend to post pictures of W3C artifacts that W3C isn't keeping. Feel free to mute my stream of pictures until the end of the year
I'mma follow you over at #SDF so I can boost dinner if your stuff. We're all interested over there with retro and historic computing , being perhaps the oldest, extant, public access #UNIX system - #PubNIX
Thank you for caring enough to publicly archive these treasures!