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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

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@aral Personally, I've been working on making efficient p2p database indexes and finding a way to represent ActivityStreama in them so that we can start bridging between fedi and p2p. 🥰

Are there some "weird twitter"-like fedi accounts I should follow?

Low key wanna build a minimal mastodon client and publish it on the p2p web. :x

Peep the 7 min mark where I try to do a live coding demo and have to sit on the floor to try to see the screen. 🤪

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Also, here's another talk I did at Camp 2022 on

youtube.com/watch?v=U2jiSWR2d-

My nose was kinda congested and I was going on 4 hours of sleep as usual so I'm glad I managed to get it working at all. 😂

Main takeaway is that I think this web stuff is important for creating resilient software in the face of global climate change and political turmoil.

@cblgh lol, it was a bit tough NGL. 😅 But to be fair, one of the talks was a duplicate of the other, just in different tracks.

Here's my talk on what is at Camp 2022!

youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q6hF_lPi

I was the third talk I was doing in as many hours so excuse me if I was a bit tired. :P

Still pretty happy with how it turned out.

Just started watching "The Shivering Truth" and PFFR delivers as always. 💜 It's like a waking nightmare.

I know there's some software out there for mirroring twitter feeds, but is there anyone out there setting that up as a service? I don't have time to mess around with setting stuff up but I'd really like more of my twitter feed mirrored to my mastodon feed.

A thread: Job openings in programming and ops in open source software/research, developing frameworks for distributed applications, working with @cwebber at the Spritely Institute: octodon.social/@cwebber/109202

I think the universe is telling me to do something with lisp 🥲

One of my nose piercings fell out some time in the last 14 hours and I have no clue where it could be. 🙃

@am@decept.org It's okay if you don't mind waiting months for stuff to ship. I got some cheap electronics on there like my USB monitor

toot.cafe/@andrew_chou/1090884 This turned out great. A small browser chatroom in 80 lines, all web APIs (no frameworks). Thanks @andrew_chou!

A lot of people scoff at building 'serious' apps without a framework, but what if it's just that the apps we're building are too big?

Stitch together small, completely disparate applets like into an ecosystem of interoperable tools feels like an approach that's never been fully realised.

@am@decept.org the modern version is ali express addictions imo 🤪

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