Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Uh I just got DMed by the COO of Tumblr asking about hiring contractors to make us fully #indieweb compliant, and possibly even #fediverse integration. Anyone out there looking for work?

just throwing * and & in font of things until the squiggly red lines go away driven development

There were several ways that second vision failed; it's not totally wrong in itself, I think, but it missed how a) unhappy and cruel people can gravitate together by free choice, making each other more cruel (ie 4chan), b) freedom of association can be weaponised by infrastructure capitalists as a means of surveillance, control and lock-in (Amazon, Facebook), and c) freedom of choice is never absolute, and people can put up with a lot of cruelty in order to find a tiny quantum of kindness

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if you wanna destroy capitalism

When a person discussing a system design (a food web, a social medium, a government, etc) is focused on preventing "freeloaders" or "parasites" instead of maximal benefit for minimal effort it's time to step back and reframe.

One of the unexpected joys of the fediverse over other places is the addition of weird domains appended on to everyone's usernames.

It makes the web feel like more than just four websites again.

It's both a signal of a smaller more intimate internet and also a larger and far more diverse internet at the same time!

Here’s what we’ve been working on with Third Room lately https://github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom/discussions/47

And if you’re here because you don’t like the current situation with centralized social networks then you’ll like what we’re doing with Third Room. It’s a decentralized immersive web platform built on top of Matrix.