Trevor Croker

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Editor at Techmeme
One great joy right now is finding out how many different people in every area of my life, and in different parts of culture/society, are all excited about the new Zelda game.
The one thing I do think the AT Protocol is better at than #ActivityPub is data portability. Being built-in at the protocol layer so that you don’t have to do the migration shit (which doesn’t bring your posts) is better. It just is. I think ActivityPub has more potential overall for the social web beyond just Twitter clones, but that part of #ARProtocol is better.
bluesky doesn't have a critical mass of people to follow so i keep checking the "what's hot" and it has extremely bad tech brain memes and mostly is about how great it is there, which, when you haven't found it to be that great, is vaguely alienating

In for another relaxing day of social media use...

launches Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, and T2

Really hoping that down the road we get a Trillian-like client that links all the decentralized social networks together.

Reed Hastings in 2019 - "We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO"

I'm super curious if Netflix is going to be able to finally pull off its cloud gaming play. If they can nail the tech, it seems like a great move.

https://variety.com/vip/why-netflix-games-no-longer-has-its-head-in-the-clouds-1235590617/

Why Netflix Games No Longer Has Its Head in the Clouds

VIP+ Analysis: A likely embrace of cloud gaming is highly ambitious, but there is a window of opportunity the streamer can seize.

Variety

I appreciate the The Tonight Show's Hashtag the Panda trying to cheer me up, but really, I'm just fine. 🐼

https://twitter.com/FallonTonight/status/1648531681895407628

The Tonight Show on Twitter

“Hashtag the Panda attempts to cheer up the inventor of the hashtag @chrismessina after losing his verification badge on Twitter. #FallonTonight”

Twitter
Mostly hanging out on Bluesky right now if you are over there: https://staging.bsky.app/profile/trevor.bsky.social
Bluesky

New Bluesky blog approach to content moderation: https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/4-13-2023-moderation

I'm a big fan of user-driven layered approaches to content mod.

Composable Moderation

Verification 2.0

Meta - ID and $15/month
Linkedin - company email
Mastodon - website and a rel=me
Twitter - people are credit cards