My conundrum with Mastodon in a nutshell is the whole chicken and egg problem. I'd rather use this site than that other one, but everyone I interact with is lingering over there.

If a critical mass of tech/dev folks I follow became more active here, I'd have a lot less reason to go over to that other place we shall not mention.

This piece sums it up well. PHP isn’t any less secure than any other language.

https://hakluke.com/people-who-say-php-is-insecure-are-uninformed/

25 years ago today, the first iMac came out. At the time, the market cap of Apple was under $6 billion dollars and the share price was hovering around 31 cents a share.

Since then, it was the first company in the world to surpass a trillion dollar value. The first company to surpass 2 trillion dollars. Right now, it is valued at 2.8 trillion dollars and is expected to be the first company in the world to hit the 3 trillion dollar mark.

https://www.theverge.com/23830432/imac-twenty-five-years-ago-saved-apple

“But in the end it was Ethernet that won the battle for LAN standardization through a combination of standards body politics and a clever, minimalist—and thus cheap to implement—design. It went on to obliterate the competition by seeking out and assimilating higher bitrate protocols and adding their technological distinctiveness to its own. Decades later, it had become ubiquitous.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/speed-matters-how-ethernet-went-from-3mbps-to-100gbps-and-beyond/

It will be interesting to see how Meta's adoption of ActivityPub goes. Will this take ActivityPub to the next level, or is this some "embrace and extend" type shit that will be a step backwards?

https://www.engadget.com/is-decentralization-the-future-of-social-media-194554192.html