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wakest likes your bugs ⁂

with all the meta about the new social network called W going on I thought it was funny I just discovered a new flavor of #fediverse server at https://z.org. Looks like its author @maxfield got federation working last month and they named the software #Elektrine
#fedidev

wakest likes your bugs ⁂Jan 23

doing a little digging trying to figure out who is making this: if you go to the front page of z.org there is a link to blog.z.org and on the bottom of that it says "Feel free to follow my socials", if you then go to the youtube link, its the page of Joseph Harris. Who I then looked up and found that there is a whole @jackrhysider darknet diaries episode about his childhood cryptotheft-ing: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/118/

🎀 Степан Девятый (Великолепный) 🎀Jan 23

@liaizon @jackrhysider
the internet is a wonderful place.

@liaizon @maxfield someone needs to get y.net or something

Hey @[email protected] thanks for the heads up! Looks pretty cool.

@[email protected] feel free to tag @technical-discussion for AP support questions!

wakest likes your bugs ⁂Jan 23

@julian this reply of yours has some sort of attachment that either mastodon or @phanpy doesn't know what to do with

🫧 socialcoding..Jan 23

@liaizon @julian @phanpy

It is simply a 404 not found of the image, looks like, checking in Mastodon web UI.

wakest likes your bugs ⁂Jan 23

@smallcircles @julian shows up as a broken image here too https://browser.pub/https://activitypub.space/post/1000

https://loops.video/@dansup · BrowserPub · A browser for exploring ActivityPub and the fediverse

Explore the open social web through the lens of ActivityPub and the fediverse.

@[email protected] thanks, looks like a bug

Matthias Jan 24

@julian @liaizon
A link in the subject line. That looks pretty broken.

hmm this seems like a bit of an issue with how @[email protected] is rendering replies

@[email protected] yeah that bug is fixed now.

Semitones Jan 23

@liaizon @maxfield z.org? Cool domain

Aaron Davis Jan 23

@liaizon @maxfield That looks pretty interesting. 🤔

wordsmith‽ ⁂Jan 23

@liaizon "the thing you probably care a bit more about is that it has no real verification". I'm sure #FediBlock does indeed care about this.

@liaizon Somebody must've shelled out quite a bunch of $$$ for this domain

wakest likes your bugs ⁂Jan 23

@mx yeah thats why I was doing some digging, it seemed strange to have such a valuable domain tied to a weird partially finished piece of social software

@liaizon The strangest titbit is that the domain was dormant until 2012 and then wasn't in real use up until 2020s... The price must've been crazy! Makes me wonder what other sweet short domains were in that project94 and what happened to them...

wakest likes your bugs ⁂Jan 23

@mx looks like the owner and the person whos running the site are separate people but friends so its just like "in use"

@liaizon He's probably just trying to distance himself to be safe :) I know I would if I happened to own a two letter domain in this day and age

wakest likes your bugs ⁂Jan 23

@mx I figured it out just looking in the chat, the person who this podcast is about that looks to be rich from doing crypto theft (as talked about in the podcast) is the owner of the domain and this person Max is the one who is developing the site. blog.z.org is the personal site of the domain owner

@[email protected] oooh this is smelling fishy.

@liaizon Had some time to kill and went through the published project94 domain list (only found 88 of them though): of 47 domains without any digits in their name, only 3 belong to actual non-profits today, 11 appear to still belong to PIR.org, and a handful are still up for sale with prices ranging from $79,500 to $750,000

@liaizon And was disappointed to learn that z.com is no longer Nissan owned