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timbray

@timbray@cosocial.ca

Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.

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anildash, to random
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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:

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@kevin
BS has been under development for less than a year FWIW
@anildash @randulo @barbarakb

mmasnick, to random
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Over on Bluesky @xor pointed out this interesting analysis of AT Protocol (not all positive) from back in November... from someone who now (well after writing that) works for Bluesky. It's worth reading if you're trying to understand the differences between ActivityPub and AT Protocol. https://bnewbold.net/2022/atproto_thoughts/

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@mmasnick @xor

Also: https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/atproto-firstlook/

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@mmasnick @xor

Cool pointer ⬆️. Joe Beda did a YouTube of poking around ATProtocol and explaining various things, I thought it was super useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tZrxSyRPH0

film_girl, to random
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Who the fuck is this asshole? Anyone who wants to claim Mastodon is full of zen needs to look at pieces of shit like this guy who crawled into my mentions to make assumptions b/c I happen to like pop culture. I like art a lot too and if you want to get art snob about it, let’s go .

https://toad.social/@Adirondack/110301714106733520

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@film_girl Block him. Forget him.

cc @davetroy for future reference.

Are0h, to random

LOL, is not Ro's personal list of sites that I don't like.

It's a collection of instances that multiple locations have banned.

Instances aren't on there because they annoy me. They are there because they have a history of poor behavior, harassment, and abuse.

They are the worst of the worst.

timbray,
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@Are0h There's a bunch of work going on in this area, but there needs to be more. One example: https://writer.oliphant.social/oliphant/the-oliphant-social-blocklist

msw, to internet

So, it seems I've been logged out of and I can't log back in?

Cc @twitterisgoinggreat

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@msw @twitterisgoinggreat

Likewise

Teri_Kanefield, to random

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    timbray,
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    @piebob @Teri_Kanefield Wow, major candidate.

    timbray,
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    @Teri_Kanefield I strongly recommend hitting "report" and clicking the box that says "notify their server". The fabric of Fediverse moderation depends directly on putting the onus on each instance's admins to police their population with failure leading to defederation, but we gotta get the word to those admins.

    chargrille, to internet
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    It is extremely odd that tech journalists do not seem to have any idea of who exactly owns

    Even odder that they don’t care to find out and inform their readers.

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    @chargrille
    I agree 100% that this should be disclosed and it’s appropriate to call journos out. Having said that, I’m not terribly worried, because unless they’re flat-out lying, the protocol itself and the code implementing it are unencumbered open source.

    BTW I’ve been digging and the much-ballyhooed ATProtocol is unfinished and many of the features are unimplemented.

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    @chargrille @davetroy

    Ah, right, no answer, just clarified the Board makeup. The only statement I've seen on that is "The company is owned by the team itself…" which obviously is highly incomplete.

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    @chargrille @davetroy Wasn't there for that question, don't recall seeing it (or the answer).

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    @chargrille I assembled a pointer to that research, plus more or less everything else we know about Bluesky, here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/04/28/Bluesky

    It’d be nice if someone who has an account with the Delaware Division of Corporations could go to https://icis.corp.delaware.gov/eCorp/EntitySearch/NameSearch.aspx and search for "bluesky pbllc" and pay $20 to retrieve whatever’s behind the pointer you get.

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    @chargrille

    It's not a big secret: https://snarfed.org/bluesky-corporate-ownership-and-structure

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    @fifilamoura @chargrille @davetroy

    My heart is with the Fediverse and I haven’t the vaguest notion whether Bluesky is technically sound, but I do not think the evidence I’ve seen supports the libertarian-fever-dream hypothesis.

    Disclosure: I've been saying in public since last November that no commercial entity has the remotest chance of being the next Twitter. (And a good thing.) I still think so.

    ben, to random
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    Freelancers on an hourly pay scale: how do you track your time? Is there an app that's particularly good? Do you log into a spreadsheet? Something else?

    timbray,
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    @ben My wife & I both use Paymo, I find it intuitive and easy and it does everything I need, from tracking time and tasks to generating invoices. Seems to pretty well Just Work. Not free but acceptably cheap.

    stevesilberman, to music
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    Confession time: While I always respected the late troubador , I never dove into his discography. What songs (with links if possible) will make me weep, with joy or sorrow? Thanks.

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    @stevesilberman Sundown. Early Morning Rain. If You Could Read My Mind.

    Are0h, to random

    Ha, I'm gonna be honest. I'm straight-up laughing about Masto's latest feature announcement.

    It is a damning commentary that the features people have been asking for YEARS are being rolled out a few days after a competitor shows they have them.

    So they absolutely could've done before now, but just... didn't.

    I can't stop laughing about that.

    timbray,
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    @Are0h They ain’t rolled out yet. To be fair, most of Bluesky’s promised features aren’t either. Dueling marketing!

    atax1a, to random

    the thing that completely destroys any illusion of "blockchain is liberatory tech" is the fact that you have to spend fake blockchain bucks ('mining fees'/'gas'), in order to spend fake blockchain bucks ('the actual amount you want to spend')

    not content with making you spend money, these people want to make you spend money directly to the process of spending money!

    we remember seeing a lot of apologia along the lines of “its liberatory because its a global database anyone can write to” and really it’s not, you have to have and “spend” the pseudocapital, neverminding the fact that "a global database anyone can write to" is a provably bad idea

    timbray,
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    @atax1a
    You're right, but I think the horse is dead.
    @davidgerard

    rbanffy, to random

    40 Years of KOYAANISQATSI – review - https://www.thecurb.com.au/40-years-of-koyaanisqatsi/

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    @rbanffy

    I saw the Philip Glass ensemble on tour play the soundtrack with the movie showing. It was great fun. Phil plays in the ensemble but doesn't lead it. They have a bunch of keyboards then a horn and a singer IIRC.

    film_girl, to random
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    Anyone else getting crypto scam in private mentions on Mastodon? Just had two come in quick succession.

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    @kissane @film_girl @Meyerweb That's a little weird. Those of us who are instance mods in Pacific time woke up this morning to a flurry of reports.

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    @film_girl @Meyerweb

    Fediverse had its first really concerted aggressive spam attack this morning. Usual crap, create loads of synth accounts, DM-spam people at random. Current attack has been beaten back, people are working on avoiding repeats.

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    @Jonathanglick Is this out of the reach of current bank tech? Hmm, I guess that conventionally requires at least an email account. Haven't been tracking the throughput of modern blockchains…

    timbray, to photography
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    2015/01

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    @spike
    Whytecliff.

    timbray, to photography
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    At the Turangawaewae Regatta, 2015/03

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