With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
Once content dependence is established, there is no turning back.
Everyone who is on the fediverse has already made that choice. They are intentionally on a network with less content because of the other benefits And a huge portion of the discussion of Meta joining the fediverse is made up of ppl who are saying they will block Threads on day 1.
the latter will make it impossible to grow again.
That's what everyone was saying back when the fediverse was even smaller, or even before it existed. "How can you compete with giants like G+, twitter, and facebook?" There will always be groups of people who will not participate in corporate social media. And there will always be people who like the convenience of corporate social media but get fed up with it and seek alternatives. And there will always be people who bounce between services.
Tons of people will leave platforms like Mastodon to go to Threads
They're only here because they left corporate social media. If they were going to leave for Threads, why wouldn't they do it now? They've heard all the warnings about some supposed EEE and assume that Threads won't connect to the fediverse forever so why would Threads adding ActivityPub support suddenly change their mind? Going to threads now puts them in the same state as going to threads later in some hypothetical future where the fediverse is too small to matter.
If we want a fediverse with the values we care about to grow...
I don't care about Meta and I'm not relying on them for anything. When they join the fediverse, individual instance owners will still have all the power. User on the fediverse will still be able to control their own feeds. But there are people who use Threads and being able to communicate with them would be nice. I don't think any of the fears about Meta on the fediverse are justified and I think the fediverse will continue on just like it has for more than a decade.
kbin.social is being overrun with spammers. Can we disable registrations on this instance so they can't keep creating new accounts? Every day I log on, I have to spend the first 20-30 minutes, reporting and blocking a bunch of new accounts....
Nice to see the Pleroma team getting an NLNet grant so development can pick back up. I missed it when it happened but apparently there was a big shakeup with the Pleroma dev team. I'm glad they seem to be recovering from that and hopefully we'll see some sustained progress with Pleroma again.
Since the lemmy issue is getting overrun with people talking about other proposals, I'm thinking about submitting this as a #FEP. Is that still a useful process? I don't know how many projects look to FEPs for implementation guidance.
Detecting changes in Deno KV with kv.watch makes it easier to build real-time applications like newsfeeds, analytics, multi-user collaboration tools, and more.
Authorized Fetch (also referred to as Secure Mode in Mastodon) was recently circumvented by a stupidly easy solution: just sign your fetch requests with some other domain name.
It’s not sustainable to keep offering poorly designed solutions. People need to understand some basic things about the system they're using. The fediverse isn't a private space and fediverse developers shouldn't be advertising pseudo-private features as private or secure.
Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents espouse the blind faith that market capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems. In reality, this kind of optimism simply justifies elite power and promotes indifference to human suffering.
Trying out #kbin (https://kbin.social). It's a link aggregator like #lemmy/reddit/lobsters but also has microblogging support. Lets see if federation works
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
Graber is “optimistic about human potential, even though I’m realistic about human nature.” When Bluesky launched last year, it filled a gap that was desperately needed by people who were looking for alternatives to X, as it seemed like the ship formerly known as Twitter was possibly sinking. (Against all odds, it hasn’t...
Most people are pointed to joinmastodon.org first and have to pick an instance. And since they're not familiar with decentralization, they don't understand what that means. It's especially weird that they can't directly join mastodon on the site called "joinmastodon" but have to go to another site.
Then once you get past that to make an account, you have to find people and discovery has always been one of the worst aspects of the fediverse. And the graph of instance blocks means a new user may not even be able to find the people they care about and they won't know why.
If you know all this, its easy to understand. But for people used to a centralized system and unaware of all the intricacies of the network, there's a lot of snags here.
This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other...
A case for preemptively defederating with Threads
With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...
Can registrations on kbin.social be disabled to stop spammers
kbin.social is being overrun with spammers. Can we disable registrations on this instance so they can't keep creating new accounts? Every day I log on, I have to spend the first 20-30 minutes, reporting and blocking a bunch of new accounts....
Pleroma Blog - We got a grant from NLNet! (pleroma.social)
Nice to see the Pleroma team getting an NLNet grant so development can pick back up. I missed it when it happened but apparently there was a big shakeup with the Pleroma dev team. I'm glad they seem to be recovering from that and hopefully we'll see some sustained progress with Pleroma again.
Build Real-time Applications with the new "watch" API in Deno KV (deno.com)
Detecting changes in Deno KV with kv.watch makes it easier to build real-time applications like newsfeeds, analytics, multi-user collaboration tools, and more.
Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
Learn about Onyx, a new imperative programming language that leverages WebAssembly and Wasmer for seamless cross-platform support
Report: Apple and Goldman Sachs are breaking up over money-losing Apple Card (arstechnica.com)
Goldman Sachs has lost billions of dollars on its consumer-focused businesses.
Apple loses on Appeal, CMA can restart investigation into browsers - Open Web Advocacy (open-web-advocacy.org)
Authorized Fetch Circumvented by Alt-Right Developers (wedistribute.org)
Authorized Fetch (also referred to as Secure Mode in Mastodon) was recently circumvented by a stupidly easy solution: just sign your fetch requests with some other domain name.
‘Techno-Optimism’ is Not Something You Should Believe In ❧ Current Affairs (www.currentaffairs.org)
Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents espouse the blind faith that market capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems. In reality, this kind of optimism simply justifies elite power and promotes indifference to human suffering.
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)
Let the Xbox team take you inside your worn (or tossed) Xbox controller.
Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator (arstechnica.com)
OEMs collect too much personal data and share it too freely, says Senator Markey.
Bluesky is finally open to everyone. But will anyone come? We ask its CEO. (www.businessinsider.nl)
Graber is “optimistic about human potential, even though I’m realistic about human nature.” When Bluesky launched last year, it filled a gap that was desperately needed by people who were looking for alternatives to X, as it seemed like the ship formerly known as Twitter was possibly sinking. (Against all odds, it hasn’t...
Automatic bike transmission concept is wild and spiky—and could be a big shift (arstechnica.com)
Solo inventor says he's not out to replace gears, just offer an alternative.
New type of geothermal power plant powers data centers in the desert (arstechnica.com)
Pilot plant in Nevada uses tech from fracking to generate power in arid landscape.
Neptune-sized exoplanet is too big for its host star (arstechnica.com)
Stars this small shouldn't make planets this big.
Why don’t EVs have standard diagnostic ports—and when will that change? (arstechnica.com)
OBD-II was implemented to monitor emissions, but EVs don't have tailpipes.
Using Server Sent Events to Simplify Real-time Streaming at Scale (shopify.engineering)
We walk through how we implemented an SSE server that's scalable and load-balanced to simplify and improve a real-time data visualization application.
Separating Frontend and Backend versions (pleroma.social)
Announcing self-hosted Deno KV, continuous backups, and replicas (deno.com)
Deno KV is now even more flexible and powerful with self-hosted options, replicas, and S3 and GCS continuous backup support.
Life-Critical Side Projects - Aeracode (aeracode.org)
Disappointing to see another AP project (possibly) coming to a halt. It always seems to be the same issues:...
FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other...
A Standalone Instance That Is Not Like The Rest Of Lemmy: Open Sign-ups
***Please DM me if you are interested ***...