"we are already out of our sphere. We cannot go back. We must choose: either to surrender our existence in a warm and cosy world of controlled memory frames, or to join the new networks, the new grapevines, to discover who we really are at the limit of an information space where we can learn to live."
-- Jacques Vallee, "The Network Revolution", 1982

https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeTheNetworkRevolution

I wrote a little bit about the problems I uncovered (quite by accident!) in some common OStatus systems. I also provide some suggestions for mitigating those problems.

https://www.fknsrs.biz/blog/whoops-i-broke-mastodon-statusnet.html

Hi Mastodon/OStatus dev people. Have you ever thought about how your software might work in China?

I've visited China. Interesting thing about its Internet is Bruce Schneier's crypto blog is fine but Google is blocked - and so is all Javascript and ads and analytics that load from Google.com. Soooo many Silicon Valley websites are toast there.

Just something to keep in mind. Dont even assume, eg, github is available everywhere. The fewer off-server dependencies you have the better.