Seirdy

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Keeping Platforms Open(seirdy.one)
1 points by Seirdy 6y ago|0 comments
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This Week in Matrix 2021-02-26(matrix.org)
2 points by Seirdy 6y ago|0 comments
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by Seirdy 6y ago
There are measures we can take: provider and implementation diversity should curb this. Not everyone is "grandma" so not everyone needs to use a client for "grandma". I wrote about this in detail: https://seir
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by Seirdy 6y ago
- Kotlin (Jetbrains) - Chez Scheme (Cisco) - Erlang (Ericsson) - Rust (Mozilla) - Java (Sun Microsystems, Oracle) The above examples show languages that outgrew the companies that developed them. Typescript might follow a similar path in th
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Erlang/Elixir and Chez Scheme are backed by large companies.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Edit: just realized that you were talking about software in general, and not (web) documents. This comment assumed you were talking about webpages. That being said: this comment might be useful to someone else, so I don't have the hear
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Yup; I'm a sighted user who uses edbrowse daily. I don't understand why TUI browsers like w3m, lynx, and links2 went mainstream instead of line-mode browsers like edbrowse. I actually test my sites on edbrowse and w3m before I tes
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by Seirdy 6y ago
You can accomplish the same with a mailing list. Users don't even need to create an account; they just click the "mailto:" link at the bottom of your article and type their comment in their preferred client. They can browse t
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Even easier would be using Webmentions. If someone wants to comment on your blog, they can write their own blog post on their blog and send a webmention. That can get linked at the bottom of your blog post with a text snippet summary. There
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I updated the article to address this concern, and described my thought process in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25986136
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by Seirdy 6y ago
[Am author] I took care not to ever describe the characteristics of users when describing domestication; "user domestication" refers to treatment of users, not characteristics of users themselves. Domestication is an act or proc
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by Seirdy 6y ago
[Am author] I chose WhatsApp because it was a good example for a case study and because recent events made it a hot topic. I also described two non-WhatsApp examples exhibiting user domestication (one of which wasn't even an instant me
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by Seirdy 6y ago
[Am author] From the article: > To prevent a network effect from turning into vendor lock-in, software that naturally encourages a network effect needs to be part of an open platform. In the case of communication/messaging software,
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Long comment ahead. TLDR: This is a really good point; I'll need some time to think about this issue, and might even make a follow-up to my WhatsApp blog entry addressing it. --- It looks like there are two ways this can happen: 1) tra
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I responded to a similar perspective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25985086 TLDR: the best platforms don't need to scale (in the traditional sense), and only need a revenue stream to pay for software developmen
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by Seirdy 6y ago
[Am author] We kinda already have this: > If big players are required to offer a fully featured API, and the user can switch freely, they would be incentivised to stop taking their money from the advertiser and charge the user directly,
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by Seirdy 6y ago
[Am author] Agreed that this section was insensitive and Americentric. I've since re-worded and expanded that bit. Diff: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/51c84cebf17b5091...
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by Seirdy 6y ago
It was just a random phrase that my hands typed in IRC with minimal direction from my brain; I sarcastically said "yes, sending plaintext over the Internet was literally impossible before the widespread domestication of users". I
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by Seirdy 6y ago
[Am author] The best alternative is not to need a business model for anything besides sponsoring development; there shouldn't be a single organization that needs a large sum of money to keep a platform alive. From the article: > Not
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WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users(seirdy.one)
2 points by Seirdy 6y ago|1 comments
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by Seirdy 6y ago
The whole idea of protocols instead of platforms is that there's no central owner to turn evil or foot the bill (having to make money to scale up to user growth can create a conflict of interest). Users aren't as locked-in as they
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WhatsApp and the Domestication of Users(seirdy.one)
6 points by Seirdy 6y ago|0 comments
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Thanks; updated the article's "Further reading" section with more info. Diff: https://git.sr.ht/~seirdy/seirdy.one/commit/b60b4782813c6494...
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Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks(seirdy.one)
13 points by Seirdy 6y ago|3 comments
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by Seirdy 6y ago
IMO, a profile pic is better for an "about" page. The 10 KB Club excludes favicons and the like from page size, since they're non-blocking and not needed to read an article's text.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Love this; submitted my site. The guidelines for noteworthiness help keep mostly-blank pages and other low-hanging fruit from being submitted. Homepages minus favicons/webmanifest-icons don't need to be over 5kb without images, IM
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Solution: don't display all entries, club rules, and membership info on the same page.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
This is a feature, not a bug. Sites should be made "interesting" with content rather than form, IMO.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Icons are rarely rendered at their intended size; there's a good chance that your browser doesn't render favicons at exactly 16px/32px, and a slim minority of Android phones have homescreen icons that are exactly 192px/5
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Browsers won't always download all available icons if they don't need to. To test a browser, open its network monitor and hard-refresh the page.

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