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I read this elsewhere: If trusted news outlets would start offering #Mastodon instances to their staff, that would bring some sort of verification and visibility. Think social.nytimes.com, social.heise.de etc. I'd love to read more from trusted journalists on the #fediverse and this could greatly help. (Again, not my idea but couldn't find the original author.) Boosts for visibility would be great. Reminder: Favorites don't help as on this other platform.

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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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.

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. 🙃

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.

That moment when you realize Fedi could be implemented with RSS feeds and actually nothing truly innovative has happened online since 1999

MapKnitter.org will be going offline at the end of the month due to lack of funds, which is very sad!
1000s of maps of environmental injustices people have made over the years

And also SpectralWorkbench.org too.
database of 200k+ community-contributed open source spectra.

Both will be archived on archive.org

If you want to check and help
publiclab.org/mapknitter

publiclab.org/spectral-workben

It's really fucking hard and violent blow for environmental activism and community based open environmental investigation

Some of these DEFCON exploits feel like a strange kind of science-fiction to me.

begaydocrime.com/carts
(via cybre.space/@violet/1088472529)

Like this one 👆🏻 It's literally the first time I hear about electronically-locked shopping carts wheels, and thus the necessity for a smart trick that allows them to be... what normal shopping carts are in other parts of the world that haven't gone completely insane yet.

I feel you could make up an infinity of those just to poke fun at stupid smart objects and excessive technosolutionism.

"Someone hacked a butter knife to make it work with any brand of bread!"

This trend can't die soon enough.

I really like this way of looking at consensus & the idea of group limits:

"This thinking however, is still built around voting, which is a form of competitive decision-making that is not designed to respect people’s autonomy. Consensus, instead of being a way to convince everyone to agree to the same plan, is a way of exploring what the logical limits of any given group are. If all members of a group cannot agree on a specific action, then it clearly needs to take place outside of that group, if at all."

web.archive.org/web/2018022223

How do I know if my mastodon instance is actually federating with stuff? 😅 I keep seeing empty profiles and I think my instance went down for like a month or two due to disk utilization issues.

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