It'd be cool if all the Brands™️ went off to make their own bubble on the fediverse.
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.)
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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. 🤪
Also, here's another talk I did at #IPFS Camp 2022 on #Agregore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2jiSWR2d-E
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 #localfirst web stuff is important for creating resilient software in the face of global climate change and political turmoil.
Here's my talk on what #IPLD is at #IPFS Camp 2022!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Q6hF_lPiM
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.
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.
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
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.