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reiver

@reiver@mastodon.social

I make things for the #Fediverse & #smallNet

Also talk about #FediverseUX #P2P #Privacy #SpreadFediverse

I post #SciFiArt

My work includes — #AllYourBases #FediverseAcademy #FediverseCity #FingerProtocol #GreatApe #PostFreely #SpaceHost #StarSeed

I life-cast at https://firefish.lol/@reiver , collect at https://playset.social/reiver , threadiverse at https://flamewar.social/u/reiver

Once upon a time, was a mathematician, computer scientist, data scientist, software engineer, industrial researcher 🌞

The meaning of life — first survive, then reproduce 🌞

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atomicpoet, to random

Describing AT protocol's DID:PLCs as "just shittier DNS" is quite the statement.

RE: https://urbanists.social/users/sam/statuses/110342856227335865

reiver,
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@atomicpoet

There are a lot of valid ways one could criticize BlueSky and the AT-Protocol.

But some of what the author of that thread is saying is inaccurate.

...

For example, did:plc does NOT seem to use crypto at all.

...

If you wanted to validly criticize did:plc you could point out that to resolve a did:plc you have to use the CENTRALIZED website https://plc.directory/

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reiver,
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@atomicpoet

Also, the author's comment about "did:plc [being] shittier DNS" is bizarre.

You could make the same comment about ActivityPub IDs turned into acct-URI and resolved using WebFinger.

If the former is "shittier DNS" then the latter is also "shittier DNS".

...

But one should note that there are valid reasons for not wanting to use DNS — both technical and UX.

reiver, to random
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Day 731 with child №1 —

Today, he is 2 years old! 🙂

Happy Birthday Anniversary, son!

🎈🎉🎊🎂

jonty, to random
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It turns out you can simply serve a file from a domain to use it as your bsky handle.

So this guy is now S3. All of S3.

reiver,
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@jonty

What file do you serve from a domain to take it over on BlueSky?

(I'm only used to the DNS TXT "did=" technique.)

reiver,
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@jonty

Ok, he made:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/xrpc/com.atproto.identity.resolveHandle

Return:

{"did":"did:plc:imkvi5glxfcpaqcinktnbpwt"}

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atomicpoet, to fediverse
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Evan Prodromou (@evan), the co-author of , does not like Bluesky.

He believes it's a setback to the Fediverse and slowing its growth.

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110300493306700391

@fediversenews

reiver,
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@gvlx @atomicpoet @evan @fediversenews

Is there technical documentation anywhere on FriendlyForgeFormat's nomadic identity proposal?

J12t, to internet
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The suggested follower experience appears to work. I made one single meaningless post right when I created the account, engaged basically with nobody, and I have 49 followers.

What can we learn from that in the ?

reiver,
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@J12t

I had a similar experience.

tchambers, (edited ) to fediverse

🚨 Want to help build a robust bridge and relays between & networks? (:fediverse:

Live only for a few hours - we launched this group late last night - it already has over 40 developers/followers starting to do exactly that.

➡️ @activitypubblueskybridge

If you are working on this, or want to, go follow that mastodon-compatible Frendica group & introduce yourself!

cc: @mmasnick @anildash @manton

reiver,
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@tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge @mmasnick @anildash @manton

Is there documentation that is more technical than what is, for example, here:

https://atproto.com/docs

?

For example, when I look here it feels like important information is missing:

https://atproto.com/guides/identity

.

reiver, to opensource
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1/

I've been in the scene for a long time. From BEFORE this was even called "open-source" — back BEFORE the phrase "open-source" even got coined and became common.

Here is a problem with most open-source software projects have, including most software —

reiver,
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2/

• there are no or very, very few:

• UX researchers,
• UI designers,
• illustrators,
• industrial researchers,
• QA specialists,
• project managers,
• strategists.

This is bad!

If you want to produce 'good' software that people will want to and like using, you need these people!

Someone needs to do these roles!

Some software developers can also do some of these roles. And that is awesome. But most software developers cannot

I see this same problem with a lot of software, too

reiver,
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3/

The thing is, I know there are people with these skills — UX researchers, UI designers, illustrators, industrial researchers, QA specialists, project managers, strategists — who want to get involved with projects.

But they don't know how.

This is a problem for open-source. But it is also a problem for the .

reiver,
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4/

I think we need to be more deliberate about how to onboard these people —

The UX researchers, the UI designers, the illustrators, the industrial researchers, the QA specialists, the project managers, the strategists, etc.

I think it is important for software. And I think it is important for the .

reiver,
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@blake

Yeah, I've been thinking of that a lot lately.

I think —

For the Fediverse (which is based on open-source software) to survive, it needs to be economically viable.

I think I found a couple of solutions.

reiver, to random
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Talk about what you love, not what you hate.

anji, to random

IMO ActivityPub-based applications should have as a core principle this: Locally cached content from remote instances should always try to reflect the complete state of this content on the remotes.

It's regrettable a comprehensive apub synchronization scheme was not somehow part of the protocol specification.

And so we keep seeing boosted Mastodon posts with missing replies, incorrect fav/boost counts, etc. :sadness:

reiver,
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@anji

The protocol could be extended.

You just need enough of the Fediverse application developers to implement it.

RL_Dane, to fediverse
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Just curious, what's the word on/purpose of/story behind the other services?

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  • Akkoma
  • Misskey
  • Calckey
  • Honk?? ;)
reiver,
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@RL_Dane

I think Calckey was originally an English localization of Misskey.

(Misskey's native language is Japanese.)

But Calckey added some of its own features, too.

davidslifka, to random
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reiver,
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@davidslifka

Some newspapers do have that, though.

reiver, to random
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RESEARCHERS:

“We don't know why Koreans aren't having children.”

...

KOREANS:

“The cost of buying a home is too expensive.”

“In the [Korean] country side, homes are more affordable but there are no jobs.”

“In Seoul there are jobs but you cannot make enough to afford a home where you want to live.”

...

RESEARCHER:

“We just don't know.”

...

KOREANS:

🤦

reiver, to random
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Attractiveness bias in the legal system

https://www.thelawproject.com.au/insights/attractiveness-bias-in-the-legal-system

"When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. […] I was so wrong."

reiver, to random
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has a small number customers who has been helping us alpha-test it.

Yesterday the drive-space filled up one of our customer's servers.

I didn't expect anyone's drive-space to fill up this fast.

We have been planning to build a alert system that lets customers know the drive-space is filling up before it is too late.

But we hadn't had a chance to build it yet. (We have so many other things to build.)

We better build that alert system now 🙂

reiver, to random
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https://www.skeletonclaw.com/image/710734055173472257

reiver, to random
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All this image caption-text (i.e., alt-text) on Mastodon and the Fediverse is very likely going to be used to create AIs.

It is what AI specialists call "labeled data".

reiver, to random
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The (current) design for the Magic-Code screen.

rysiek, to random
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, time to bring back the RSS/Atom feed icon displayed when a website has an RSS/Atom feed. :rss:

It's long past-due!

reiver,
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@rysiek

I think Atom & RSS are dead.

Too many people have a strong negative reaction to XML.

But there is a non-XML based feed format. One based on JSON. (Which is the current fashionable format.)

https://www.jsonfeed.org/

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reiver, to SmallWeb
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1/

What is Gemini?

I have seen more than one person ask that question recently.

So here is a thread explaining — what Gemini is.

But I need to give a bit of historical context to make Gemini make more sense.

Here goes —

.

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( )

( )

reiver,
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10/

Some people who feel the World Wide Web is broken reacted to this.

They left the Web.

They left the Web and went to gopher

This caused a small revival of gopher.

But —

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