I'm an anarchist who voted for Joe Biden in both the primary and general election in 2020. I absolutely support him in the 2024 contest.
"Anarchist?" you are probably asking yourself.
Yes, because small-a anarchy is reality. We create systems of order in primal rejection of chaos, and then we formalize them and pass them down through generations as systems of government.
The word, "anarchy," has bad connotations, I get it. But the idea is not even sort of new.
Anarchy is not a goal to be achieved. It's the theater, itself, not the play or the players. It's the possibility of putting on a play. That's anarchy.
The mere fact that anyone can break any human law proves that we live in a state of anarchy, already.
There's nothing to strive for, anarchists.
There's nothing to fear, traditionalists. It's what you already know.
@gdinwiddie@notroot that doesn't explain the fascist tendencies across Europe though.
No real clue what is driving this trend but my uneducated guess is frustration with democratic processes and looming structural change in the primary economical sector
I wanna do an ActivityPub API that's really just that... a robust, general purpose backend capable of serving a variety of client apps.
Maybe v2 would have customizable API for compatibility with existing clients.
First things first though... I checked with Awesome ActivityPub to see if there were any active projects already doing something like this that I could just jump in on.
Different clients are going to have different requirements, right? A macroblogging client has different needs from a microblogging client, and both are different than the threadiverse, or something like PixelFed. Even Mastodon has different reqs than Sharkey between the backend instance and the client.
And yet, the backend's relationship with the Fediverse, itself -- via ActivityPub -- is very similar in each case.
An AP-based backend is basically a two-faced API. One API faces the client, and the other faces the rest of the Fediverse. This project would provide a robust, configurable backend for a variety of frontend client implementations.
Then AP-based applications could focus on the frontend.
I started out, like many, on #Mastodon, during the great Twitter migration. Not that I migrated from Twitter. No... I never had a Twitter account. Rather, I hoped that Mastodon could obtain the Network Effect, and help fundamentally alter the shape of social media for the foreseeable future.
So I made my own solo Masto instance and ran it for a good six months. It was cool. But then there was a glittery thing -- #Calckey -- that caught my eye. So I joined that. Pretty soon the maintainer of Calckey (young BTW) dropped out, but forks forked. I waited. Then #Firefish was the shit. But no...
Then, today, the admin of my former instance calckey.world made a new sharkey.world instance public, and I joined. #Sharkey is the new shit.
Because that's how I roll. On the Cutting Edge, baby.
Ummm ... Firefish was a rebrand of calckey ... same dev and everything. My impression was that some rust was being added to the project, but I wasn't aware that it was re-write in Rust ... my impression is that it was very much misskey under the hood.
Moreover, AFAIK, Sharkey is a fork of Misskey v13 and not associated with firefish at all (which was originally a fork of Misskey v~12).
I'm sick of dystopias. I want more utopian scifi/fantasy, like #StarTrek. Or Ursula K Le Guin.
Sci-fi predicts the future. Fantasy re-imagines the past, and how it could create different futures. Both are about the future, though. Every great epic fantasy is either post-apocalyptic or pre-apocalyptic. The Wheel of Time is both. Sometimes the apocalypse is averted, sometimes it is not. Sometimes the apocalpyse is bad, sometimes it is good.
With shows like the Rings of Power and TWoT, we're getting a dose. But they're not novels. I'm still waiting for GRR Martin and Patrick Rothfuss to put out... but I'm a writer too, so I get it. It's hard in a way that other things just... aren't.
Utopias, man. Utopias. How can we fix this shitshow? That's what I wanna read, and watch, in creative new ways.
@notroot and Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun, I suppose.
But yeah, I'm sick of "darker, grittier, more realistic" dystopian fiction too. We can see darker/grittier reality any time we pay attention to news. Fiction should show us a better way and inspire us to get there. Just like driving a car - you steer toward where you're looking. It's way past time to quit staring at and steering toward the dark.