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by rglullis 1y ago
> I would definitely feel "icky" hiring a personal shopper or hiring a chauffer to drive me everywhere. Do you feel "icky" by going to a supermarket and having a cashier scanning your products? Do you feel "icky&
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by rglullis 1y ago
Does it feel "icky and exploitative" to you to use Über/DoorDash/TaskRabbit?
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by rglullis 1y ago
> And a poor one, because it locks people in that status and heteronomy What is the current alternative? Are they any better? When I was kid growing up (in Brazil), we had a live-in housekeeper. She moved to São Paulo from some poor rura
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by rglullis 1y ago
> A very rich person has a full-time housekeeper. So does any middle class family living in a developing country with high economic inequality.
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It's easier and faster to send the money without having to go to the bank.
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by rglullis 1y ago
Would you be interested in getting rid of Tailwind and have the styling strictly with SASS mixins?
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by rglullis 1y ago
I guess that's been solved, because you can go to https://fedidb.com/servers and there are ~10 GtS servers being listed, all of them on the newest version.
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You can find out about different servers on https://fedidb.com
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Cathedrals vs Bazaars. Cathedrals are conservative. Reactionary, even. You can measure the rate of change by generations. Bazaars are accessible and universal. The whole system is chaotic. Changes happen every day. No single agent is in con
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by rglullis 1y ago
If you are not advocating for this future and you think this type of material progress is not something that we should take as positive, then you are being as cynical as me or anyone else.
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by rglullis 1y ago
> the average ear won't care. (...) will be available for a fraction of the cost without the licensing fees. (...) be ready to see it popping up everywhere And you wonder why people are cynical? Do you really think that the best an
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Places.pub publishes OpenStreetMap geographical data as ActivityPub objects(places.pub)
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by rglullis 2y ago
> how many of these promoters could figure out how to set up a server by themselves I am not talking about setting up a server by themselves. Managed hosting is a thing. People can get their own media presence without any technical expe
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by rglullis 2y ago
> The issue with federated projects is that they lack the content to attract users and they lack the users to generate content. This is why I wrote "it depends on companies and marketers realizing that they need to be proactive abou
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by rglullis 2y ago
> Having a good Twitter/social media presence will become a compulsory pre-condition. The company owned channels (like websites, email lists or apps) where you have direct access to customers will become key demand generation pipeli
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by rglullis 2y ago
> The financial story has to be solved You are preaching to the converted. :) [0] I might be wrong, but I think that my instance was the first to provide accounts only to paying subscribers, and even today there are only 2 others like
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by rglullis 2y ago
And you know what would be even cheaper (in the medium/long term) than the IT in-house or outsourcing to commercial SaaS? If the company took 10-20% of their budget to sponsor the development of FOSS alternatives.
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by rglullis 2y ago
I thought I had it (mostly) solved with fediverser: users would go to one place, sign up with OAuth to the service they wanted to leave (Reddit, Twitter...) and the system would behind the scenes create an account on any of the participatin
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by rglullis 2y ago
Webmentions are a spammer's wet dream. There is a reason they were adopted only by the Indieweb crowd. Anyway, my point was less "ActivityPub can do everything people can do with RSS" and more "having a mechanism to for
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by rglullis 2y ago
This is an issue with Mastodon (and most of other software that implements only the push-based processing of inbox), but there is nothing on ActivityPub that prevents a client to directly read the actor's outbox. As a matter of fact, I
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by rglullis 2y ago
> If I'm hosting it myself I just want it to be my little corner of the internet, not a full fledged social media site that I have to maintain. I think the problem is that OP is focused on developing a framework for AP, and he is do
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by rglullis 2y ago
> if I'm writing to a blog or a microblog I just don't really care who follows me or even who reads it. - if you want to have comments or backtracks, you can do it with ActivityPub without having people signing up to your site
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by rglullis 2y ago
But if we are talking about local services and the governance of projects at the municipal/county level, you won't need to wait for reporters. You will quickly see and experience the mismanagement of resources.
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by rglullis 2y ago
If doing your own work requires you to "get everything running on your dev system", are you really working on a service-oriented architecture or was it that your company decided to board the bandwagon and botched the execution? &
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by rglullis 2y ago
> the "big bodyshops" aka Accenture and friends aren't much better. You said it yourself. Corruption and abuse of power will always exist. But if I had to choose between the invisible corruption of faceless bureaucrats ena
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by rglullis 2y ago
I'm halfway there with Communick. I started with the focus on providing hosting for social media and messaging platforms, so I had to find my way around setting up LDAP for SSO, provisioning of object storage for separate services, etc
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by rglullis 2y ago
> What is important that there is one company you can go to who does all of that for you. This is what gets us in this mess in the first place. > Running a government institution and having 20 different vendors to make your basic IT s
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by rglullis 2y ago
So, let's get back to question I posted before: which of the religious leaders have more control over the head of State than any of Big Tech CEOs? Which congregation in Florida has as much political pull (regardless of direction) as Di
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Even those "running the place" are doing it within the democratic system established and managed by the State . You can try to twist as hard you can, but to think that the US has become some form of Theocracy is absurd. I am not
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by rglullis 2y ago
> So they may not be "direct" rulers, they are major power players. So are all the other countless media companies, tech corporations, Hollywood, labor unions, pharma companies, academia... From this list, which one do you thin

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