Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

“Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue.” At this point, developers shouldn’t build their apps against commercial APIs. Open standards or nothing; the risk is too great. #Technology https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/?utm_source=werd.io&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_channel=mastodon

Join @mauve next week at #DWebYYZ in #Toronto talking about p2p and their work on the Agregore p2p browser.

Thurs, June 15th. Thanks Max & Serena from 1RG for hosting! https://lu.ma/ji5oo2gv

Interesting find:

"Despite Mastodon’s decentralized architecture, we found that the 25% of the largest instances on Mastodon contains 96% of the users.

Paradoxically, while larger instances attract more users, smaller ones attract more active users, reinforcing Mastodon’s decentralization."

...We observed the impact of social network in migration, with an average of 14.72% of Twitter followees per user migrating to the exact same Mastodon instance as user."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.14294.pdf

The opposite of “return to office” advocates isn’t “work from home” advocates. It’s a rich tapestry of “open offices are distracting” people and “I’ve never gone this long without being sick” people and “commutes are a waste of time I don’t get paid for” people and “I’m an introvert and playing house with coworkers sucks the life out of me” people and “I have a family and appreciate the flexibility” people and “I primarily communicated with coworkers through Slack anyway” people and “no one wa…

The new ".zip" domain is being used almost solely for malware. Some of the clicks are very deceptive, even to technically knowledgeable people. See the attached image for an example.

You can block all zip domains with the following uBlock Origin rule under My Filters:

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Tell everyone you know.

Oh baby here we go #DNSocial is almost finished. A protocol for truly decentralized social media by posting directly to DNS.

edit: since this post seems to be getting boosted out of my circles, here's a link to the post with a demo and link to the reference implementation: https://social.coop/@jonny/110502237449832040

I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:

* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?

And not:

* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?

Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.

It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.

The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.