Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

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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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: https://octodon.social/@cwebber/109202062994483288

https://toot.cafe/@andrew_chou/109088423048759654 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

https://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 http://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
http://publiclab.org/mapknitter

http://publiclab.org/spectral-workbench

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.

https://www.begaydocrime.com/carts
(via https://cybre.space/@violet/108847252956771114)

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.