rglullis

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We vastly underestimate what could be done with a powerful browser. Ad blockers are just the tip of the iceberg. A powerful browser could work, e.g, as the basis for any type of local-first application and we would solve 98% of the issues o
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I'm less concerned about "free support" and more about "commons-oriented R&D". There are some projects/people that I donate a small monthly amount. I don't do it because I'm expecting a specific f
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Yeah, I don't get that argument. "Apple is funding LLVM, therefore it is getting better than GCC!". They are only funding it because it advances their goals. The moment they get what they want they will drop it or look for wa
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We are definitely talking about different things. I'm talking about systemic issues in the modern web. Surveillance Capitalism. The control of mass communication platforms in the hands of a few corporations. The "attention econo
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> You're framing this whole conversation as if there's a single, universally agreed-upon set of "problems with the modern web." No, I'm framing this as "go ask 1000 different people to make a list of the top
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> because the whole point of it is again to function as a community of amateurs Looks like I will have to point to the top of the thread again. If your solution only works for a niche and it can only exist because it is so small that it
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> I mean, nobody incl. me in this conversation told that it's a total replacement for HTTP/S or current web, but an alternative one for people who want alternatives. Look at the start of the thread. My question was "you a
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> First, you have to want to do it, then you have to commit time and effort to doing it Implementing a Gemini to HTTP gateway seems like a perfect type of weekend project for someone that wants to play with a new programming language. Wi
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> people can engage with technology for all kinds of reasons — curiosity, aesthetics, nostalgia, minimalism, fun Fine! The same thing could be said about retrocomputing enthusiasts. If that's only a hobby, go on and be merry. But
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You can configure synapse to not cache remote images. Yes, these spammers are obnoxious but most homeservers should be safe if the moderation is prompt.
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> Shall the number go up indefinitely? False dichotomy. > Also, if we should give people all the power they need, then we arrive to the abolishing all law and regulation in all areas of the life (...) Non-sequitur. > The tool is th
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You may think that way, but to me a more apt analogy is that global Internet are the regular trains of today and Gemini wants to be a bizarre version of the quiet wagons where people can only talk if they don't use the letter "e&
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If you want "an user agent that can act as a user's agent", you just need to use a better user agent . They exist . They work . You don't need a whole transport protocol to achieve that. My objection is to the justif
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> and to maximize the friction of bridging these two ecosystems. There is no friction. It's trivial to write a program that can scrape a Gemini network. If there is no one pulling data from Gemini servers yet, is not because it&#x27
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> a vast continuum of variation, and is full of niches and clines that are intentionally distant from the global mean. But they are all sharing the same world . It's all the same ecosystem. My objection is not because I am against
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> How do you prevent content scrapers and search indexers from accessing them? How do you that with Gemini? > If your goal is precisely to create an parallel ecosystem that's "airgapped" from the mainstream web There is
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Even worse! This makes the whole proposal even more misguided. Different ecosystems only make sense when we have distinct populations that might be as well considered different species.
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> it's important to understand that limitations are moved to Mastodon "layer" in that case. Mastodon may be my preferred social network nowadays, but it's despite the prevalent philosophy from the development team.
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> For example, I switched to Mastodon (...) and was able to see real forms of people I followed before, so I have updated my views on them. Isn't that strong evidence that it is possible to have a "human-scale" web built o
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My point is that the choice of protocol (much like the browser) is not a relevant factor if your goal is to be able to participate in the www without dealing with the issues. We can have all the upside of an http-based web, without dealing
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That internet was also only interesting and valuable to a fraction of the people who use it today. And if you don't care about that and you are thinking from what you might get out of it: an internet where 99% of the content is crap bu
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> With A you can guarantee that the content is not shaped by these incentives. Without those incentives, you will quickly find out that there will not be much of an Internet out there. If you don't believe me, check how many people
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Chrome is not the only browser out there. Firefox is still a good browser. If you depend on Chromium: Brave is keeping Manifest v2 and their ad-blocking extensions work out of the box.
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> Instead you have to change the game and play with your own rules. That only works if you can convince the a substantial part of the participants to also play your game. It's very easy to create an alternative internet where we c
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You are not solving the stated problem. You are just admitting that working on a new protocol is a masturbatory, "the journey is the reward" kind of exercise.
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Problem: you are looking for a way to get rid of the annoying issues of the modern www. What is the solution that solves this with the least amount of work? A) Develop a whole new transport protocol that does less than HTTP, develop client
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That sounds a bit like the dat browser, no?
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Can you imagine if everyone paying monthly subscription for any type of software took 10% of their budget and donated to the alternatives? I'd bet that any FOSS project could reach parity to their proprietary counterpart in three years
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> I am sure I will be the most terrible CEO If you just do nothing , you'll be better than the last 10 years of Mozilla's CEOs.
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He could've easily taken down Reddit if he wanted. He just needed to port Apollo to Lemmy and get people to migrate. I personally offered him help to set up as many servers needed to get the migration going. But not only he refused, he

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