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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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Great table of decentralized social projects beyond the ActivityPub universe by @rabble

https://airtable.com/shri7e7EHoTi0cEjO/tblGfBcmj5sJzk2WK/viwPJRXjBeELkIaZZ

J12t, to random
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Which century would you say was this portrait created? Before or after the French Revolution?

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230508125105-01b-king-charles-official-portrait-0508-crop.jpg

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I've finally gone over. Every time these days somebody technical suggests "we could add cool feature X or do something with Y protocol", my first gut reaction, without even thinking about it, is "will this provide the value to the user that the user is wanting and expecting?"

And every single time, the technical proposal needs to be at least packaged very differently than proposed to actually make a difference to the user.

I've become annoying to the geeks I notice. Hopefully less so to users.

J12t, to random
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How long should social media posts be retained? That's an interesting question.

Facebook, for example, retains everything forever, not just posts, but also searches and private messages. Some newer social media protocols are based on an append-only log (which means old posts can never be deleted).

But much we say on-line -- not all -- is really similar to a conversation with friends over a beer, and we'd be appalled if we'd record each other then and keep for years.

What's best?

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Some people apparently read IETF RFC as a form of entertainment. That's going too far even for me.

J12t, to internet
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Public townsquare? Permanent record? Full transparency? Bluesky?

Somebody put all of 's posts so far in one single database.

Note AFAIK everything that happens on Bluesky is public, and can never be deleted. So this is not a bug, this is a feature, according to their architecture.

https://worthdoingbadly.com/bsky/

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@MikeBeas Last time I looked at the protocol it was append-only.

scottjenson, to opensource
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I had a disappointing conversation with a great maintainer last week that want's UX help and is doing EVERYTHING right but still couldn't attract someone.

This is what all of us folk are seeking! A maintainer that 'gets it' and wants our help. The problem? Everyone he interviewed wanted to do a huge rethink of the design, and when it became clear it would be a lot of work, just faded away.

It's not just 'those programmers', it's us too, UXers need to leave ego behind

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@scottjenson Did they all want to do the same rethink, or all different ones? Because if the first, that should ring some alarms ...

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@scottjenson Yep, would require a commitment to sustained effort over a longer term otherwise it just leaves chaos in its wake.

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@scottjenson I agree, whoever owns the UX has to own it in the same way the lead developer owns the software architecture. Lots of people can help on a short term basis, but only at the margins and subject to the overall vision and approval of who owns the overall subject.

For code, that might be relatively localized bug fixes; the UX equivalent might be relatively localized CSS or image changes, maybe? But not anything on the level of a major refactor in code or UX. I think :-)

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@scottjenson Ah, good model!

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Writing new code is just so much more fun than refactoring existing code. This simple fact explains a lot in our industry I think.

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Status: filed Mastodon bug.

Only happens when running Mastodon inside a Linux container with recent kernels, which is great for development, but obscure enough I'd be surprised somebody fixed that.

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What a totally fascinating graph! Spot the difference!

Seems to me there is little immunity over time, but certainly a great reduction of symptoms! Except when Omicron hit.

J12t,
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@jimfenton part of it, certainly, but the magnitude difference is significant. I do assume that all the non mild cases are being counted.

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Lots of noisy supersonic planes in the air in the bay area. That is very unusual. What is going on?
If you wanted to train your pilots, wouldn't you find some regions with few people on them, and California has plenty of those. So I wonder...

J12t, to fediverse
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@kissane Great post! IMHO we need to do holistic design across the entire , not just . The larger value proposition is in the overall network, built from many parts, not just one app. Want to help? There's a budding Fediverse Developers Network :-)

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

J12t,
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@kissane Think holistic! :-)

J12t, to random
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Don't you like it when they deprecate your build tools? I'm looking at you, setup.py.

And want you to do something "much better" (hatch) that promptly silently doesn't package one of your files? (test.py -- it's named that way because it's a subcommand and why should I name it something less comprehensible?)

And for which no documentation can be found that addresses your problem? So you get the source, and randomly poke about? Well this random power was successful but can we maybe do better?

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In other news, in a long pitched battle between the Postgres permission system and the uneducated horde a the gate, the now not as uneducated horde -- me -- can report to have won the contested territory. I wonder though whether I can hold it, given how things have been going.

J12t,
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@avolkov https://ubos.net/ maintenance

J12t, to fediverse
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Looking for a good instance to host demo videos (of apps). Any recommendations?

J12t,
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@strypey Registrations closed.

J12t,
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@strypey @support Sounds complicated :-) For now, we are settling on peertube.linuxrocks.online

J12t, to random
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Did a debrief between us organizers @Dangerangel @Identitywoman and me. By general agreement, we think FediForum was a great success! Lots of good people, being passionate and engaged across the various sessions, far more important topics than could conceivably be discussed -- some people continued discussing even after the event ended -- and lots of follow-up. Some resulted in very specific steps that will move the Fediverse forward.

We will do this again! Stay tuned and in touch!!

J12t,
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@strypey @Dangerangel @Identitywoman don’t forget decent social, which also happened earlier this year online. Imho several events with different focus is a good idea, there’s so much to talk about, learn, and connections to be made.

J12t, to fediverse
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@evan had the idea of a “ network” earlier today. Pondering this, I think this is a really excellent idea. It brings under one umbrella a whole bunch of other ideas how to move the fediverse forward, and simplifies those a lot. I think we should investigate this …

What about we do a session tomorrow on this? Maybe @davidslifka would join us, who recently talked to some potential funders for things like that I think.

J12t,
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@strypey @evan @davidslifka you are welcome to join us in the developer network matrix group. About 60 people so far, lots of discussions.

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@strypey @evan @davidslifka -devs:matrix.org

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