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OMG it's full of patterns.

Optimising #Mastodon = designing flows that encourage people to leave mastodon.social for other instances, not accepting any more new members on mastodon.social, and making design changes that limit how much a single instance can scale.

A single instance that can scale to host hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people, is not a design success in decentralisation, it’s a design failure. (It’s a design success in #BigTech.)

CC @Gargron

#decentralisation #centralisation #federation

I have been thinking of this...
Every triangle has an incircle and a circumcircle. Given a (blue) circle and a (pink) circle inside the blue one, is there always a triangle for which these are the circum and inner circles ? If not, then when ? How to find one, some, all ?
#Thread 🧶
It has required a great deal of work, but we did it!
My English book on Julian #Assange and #WikiLeaks will come out on November 4,with a foreword by the great Ken Loach. If you want to preorder it you can do it here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745347615/secret-power/
or if you want on Amazon.com
Had I not lived the WikiLeaks in first person, from the very beginning, I could have never believe what I have seen: a monstrous injustice, as Ken Loach said
Secret Power

*Winner of the European Award for Investigative And Judicial Journalism 2021* *Winner of the Premio Alessandro Leogrande Award for Investigative Journalism ...

Pluto Press

"We have enormous freedom. That’s not a gift that was given to us, it’s a legacy that was left to us by centuries of struggle. By centuries of people that most of whose names are completely forgotten, the ones who created the freedom and the rights we now have, and that will be taken away unless you constantly defend them."

- Noam Chomsky

"When you don't create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than your ability. Your tastes only narrow & exclude people. So create."

- Why The Lucky Stiff

Love this about the danger of global variables

Make the web(and web adjacent) protocols anti-corporate and homegrown, seriously.

Our current path is unsustainable for ordinary peeps. If everything is only found in proprietary silos and walled gardens, break them open.

Just like peeps make their own gardens in the city, we have the ability to make our path on the net as a whole.

Also, hack the planet. Leave no stone unturned when it comes to knowledge!

Weeeeeee! First 'proper' piece using the Foundational Hand script I picked up yesterday.

Materials: Pilot Parallel and Rotring calligraphy pens, Sakura Pigma Micron, Ecoline and Diamine ink applied with brushes, and Edding Gold fineliner, on Daler Rowney 90gm calligraphy paper.

#MastoArt #calligraphy

Just released Site.js version 16.2.0

You can now run proxy servers in production.

https://sitejs.org

To spin up a daemon that serves whatever is running over HTTP and WS at port :8080 on https://your.hostname, just do:

site enable :8080

(It will also automatically provision your Let’s Encrypt certificates the first time the service is hit and renew them as necessary.)

To update Site.js manually:

site update

(Production servers will auto update.)

#SmallTech #SmallWeb #SiteJS

Site.js

Don’t Cry Because It’s Over; Smile Because It Happened