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And yet…
Every couple of days, some techbro (and I hate that word) on the fediverse pops his head up and says
oh hey, I made this tool that indexes or archives the fediverse. I guess if no one wants it then I will shut it down… but it’s done already and here is a link. Oh and you can just opt out with this hashtag in your bio or mod your […]
This should possibly be called “What the existing fediverse userbase doesn’t understand”, because after conversing with some folks on the fediverse over the last wee while, I have come to a startling realisation:
People do not use social media to be social.
I admit, this kinda blew my mind, and made me realise that us OG’s of the […]
https://lowkey.party/2023/01/what-fediverse-newcomers-dont-understand/
I have been meaning to put some thoughts together on moderating a reasonable sized fediverse instance. The following are some tips gleaned from a couple of years living in the trenches.
Deal with your drinking problem.
“But I don’t have a drinking problem!” I hear you reply… to which I counter with: yet.
Trust me, you will. […]
Newsletters are cool. Didn’t you know.
I didn’t. I subscribe to a few (I mean they’re just emails now right) and I enjoy the not too frequent updates. Much like RSS I suppose. 🤔
Where have I been?
Oh, busy with a new job, keeping an eye on the builders doing my home renovation and getting them to fix everything they cock up […]
https://lowkey.party/2023/12/newsletters-are-pretty-trendy-right-now/
I mean, I am sure that’s a statement we can at least in part all agree with.
It is also the name of a fediverse platform, written in C and using no database: snac – and it is pretty much exactly what you would expect!(The repo is called snac2 because the creator made a proof of concept first, so this is the second repo.
I like snac. […]
I just set up a new #WordPress install with the #ActivityPub plugin, and hopefully this all works now.
So far I can find my user from another instance, and also a post. Both my searching via url – which is promising!
Now the test of a new post…
Oh I better add an image or something I suppose to see how that works out.
User search works. Oh wait, I wonder how Mastodon deals with inline images…
And the post search (using Akkoma):
Alright, that will do for now.
Folks remembering #AaronSwartz today - remember that he was moving publicly-funded research out from behind a paywall.
Then remember the only reason the case went forward is because federal prosecutors, specifically Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann, wanted to make an example of him.
“Theft is theft, and it doesn’t matter if you use a crowbar or a computer” were Heymann’s words at the time.
Notice how federal prosecutors aren’t bullying Sam Altman for the wholesale theft of content network-wide, to build a machine that spews bullshit and further destroys our ability to determine the truth?
It’s because he’s doing it for private profit, while Aaron worked for the public good.
Never let yourself be tricked into believing the legal system is a justice system.
Daniel S. Reichenbach
Enron Hubbard