I really don't understand how this entire Mastodon thing works but I'm here to learn.
Trying to figure out where my ideologies lie but anarchism seems nice on a theoretical level. Trying to figure out how to best practice.
Solarpunk is nice though.
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As the web matures as an industry profit margins will decrease, which will increase the pressures to extract more rent for existing capital in the form of infrastructure. If this happens then fedi is dead unless it can blow for blow match the price ratcheting. This is dubious without a strong culture of donations and support.
The only long term solution is if admins and users own the means of infrastructure. Anything less is a holding pattern or active decay.
I predict a problem:
Currently mastodon is being run as free software by hobbyist and enthusiasts. They're piggybacking on infrastructure built for much larger projects and customers. You don't build a server hall for a thousand low-tier payers of $15 / month. You build it for the two of those that will need to scale up to the enterprise level, and eventually (now) fedi software will have to scale to that same tier
But I'm unsure whether or not this is a genuinely good idea, as in dealing with peoples identities and if people will have to use many different logins to access all the environments across those spaces?
I know that Mastodon uses #OAuth2 and as such can probably extend to #federated #identity providers, but I haven't seen any such #FLOSS identity provider being referenced when trying to learn about the #fediverse
Insights, comments, directions? 🌱
Don't you just love the fact that since most Americans use whatever the hell cashapp is, and we Europeans use... errrr, the main way to easily send money is the same thing that's the reason why so many people are on #fedi today.
I wish we could do something about this without being brigaded by cryptobros
I did it. I finished and published an essay I've been working on for far too long.
It's about the developer ideology and methodology that stands in the way of building a better internet with the fediverse featuring as a major part of a potential solution. Please know that if you're reading this you're probably not one of the offending tech-heads.
Recent personal project that I've been working on for a couple months - character design and corresponding environment for her.
Meet Pep, everyone's favorite auntie.
Emily L'Orange 🦆🍊
Sid 🇵🇸