I've decided to shift my social media focus to Mastodon, and so this is my #introduction.
I lead Microsoft Research and new product/business incubations that emerge from our research projects.
I'm pleased to be here and am looking forward to this fresh start with all of you.
@peteratmsr Hello Peter. Welcome to Mastodon!
Can you tell me anything about this MS Research project and wether it will see the light of the day? I'm very much interested in using it
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Welcome to the light side. Things are different here, without AI and automated feed curation, it is very much what you make of it. I would suggest following and unfollowing profusely to find those things which interest you.
You can also follow hashtags, and on the desktop give them their own column. You might wish to edit your introduction post and hashtag the keywords: Mastodon search only works on tags as free word search would overload instance server db's. Now there's an interesting research project for you!
Best wishes finding your feet.
@peteratmsr Consider the strong possibility of a scenario in which Musk and/or Twitter declares bankruptcy and the site is auctioned off. In that scenario, there are only three bidders who could plausibly pick up the pieces: Google, Amazon and Microsoft.
There are others with the technical means but it is unlikely to be a good fit. I doubt the site is worth $5 billion at this point and it is likely to end up selling for a tenth of that. See what happened to GeoCities after Rupert Murdoch.
I think there is plausibly some value there, but it would be in turning Twitter into a Mastodon/Fediverse site like AOL and Compuserve ended up becoming Internet service providers.
The Fediverse will have end to end secure communications very soon. There are multiple teams working on it. I have been developing a PKI that can move private keys across devices for six years now and had an alpha release earlier this year. WebRTC does all the heavy lifting for Teams, Zoom, WebEx, etc. etc. All we lack to bring it to the Fediverse is presence.
Welcome! Movetodon.org is super helpful in my experience.
Looking forward the hearing about innovation.
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