Mastodawn

Something to consider about all of the efforts to sustain #IPv4 so far beyond its original shelf life. #NAT and #IPv6 were thought out at roughly the same time. NAT was a tactical move to stave off IPv4 exhaustion (at the cost of limiting the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet) and IPv6 was the strategic answer for scalable growth. The obsession human beings have to find any excuse to avoid change was highly underestimated. IPv6 took 22 years to become an Internet Standard and NAT became so entrenched that peer-to-peer networking became mostly unnecessary as long as we could continue to laugh at cat memes on our favourite platforms.

This brings us to #platforms. It’s getting harder to host anything ourselves anymore without paying a (usually foreign) IaaS/SaaS platform to do it for us. We now live in an age where data sovereignty and privacy are at the forefront of our thinking and maybe, just maybe, we want other options.

Is our obsession with IPv4 tying us unhealthily to platforms and sacrificing our freedoms?

#SaturdayMorningThoughts

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Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦Apr 18

@joebeone There’s a part of me that thinks the dividing line for culpability (leaving aside freedom of expression for the moment) needs to be between data in transit and data at rest. Organizations shouldn’t be held liable for being a carrier/transit, but should for storing/presenting. Of course this may just be a barely-caffeinated call to tear down the platforms and go back to taking technical and legal responsibility for hosting our own stuff. #SaturdayMorningThoughts #ShakesFistAtClouds

Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦Mar 21

The path of enlightenment deeply connects us with our fellows by discouraging the influence of ego-driven thinking and demanding we focus on compassion and service. We connect because we •want• to understand. Centralized social media, with its promotional influence, tries to offer a superficial substitute as a fringe benefit of allowing ourselves to be commoditized. It’s not a substitute. #WeAreTheProduct #SaturdayMorningThoughts

Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦Apr 5, 2025

Sometimes it’s hard to figure out whether people are writing about AI or just going on about some dude named Al. #TheCaseForSerifFonts #SaturdayMorningThoughts

Jody Lemoine CD 🇨🇦Feb 22, 2025

Our society’s unquenchable want seems to have switched from acquiring things to being constantly entertained. #SaturdayMorningThoughts