riffic

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1. 751.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   are "security daemons" truly necessary though? this whole thing sounds like a troll with enough convincing language to seem plausible
2. 752.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   In case people don't know what "ActivityPub" is (there are a few of you out there!), it's an open spec for social media sites to interoperate in a federated manner. Most of the software that speaks the protocol is open s
3. 753.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   still does
4. 754.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   specifically Wildebeest. I even like Cloudflare. I think a company like Twitter could have had a real competitive advantage if they were to have repackaged its core experience as a "bring your own domain name" hosted implementat
5. 755.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350897 my take: this is kind of a rube goldberg device but it's a lovely move in the right direction when suitable services are lacking.
6. 756.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   paid there's a great reddit bot that explains that "payed" is a sort of nautical term.
7. 757.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   title refers to Louisiana (a little known state in the US), not Los Angeles or any other 'LA'.
8. 758.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   Mastodon and the ActivityPub ecosystem are by their very nature unable to go defunct. Nice attempt to troll though.
9. 759.▲
   by riffic 4y ago

   this happens so ridiculously frequently. look at wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incident...
10. 760.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    lol dumb. find Twitter here soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...
11. 761.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    sure it can be circumvented
12. 762.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    this seems to happen quite frequently according to a linked article about orphan sources. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_orphan_source_incident...
13. 763.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    lol, bofa.
14. 764.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    Bank of America is a consistently terrible company. They're like the financial LastPass - avoid if at all possible.
15. 765.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    me and my four fediverse buddies.
16. 766.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    cloudflare just launched one too, wildebeest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34350897
17. 767.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    I suppose my larger point is we're not in any particular hurry to grow: it'll get there when it gets there.
18. 768.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    The Fediverse has already happened. It's about to celebrate its 15th year in a handful of months. https://fediverse.party/en/post/fediverse-14-years-in-2022/
19. 769.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    there have been a handful of App.nets created in the last couple of months (Post, Spoutible, Hive, T2, et cetera). they'll all probably suffer the same fate too. This wikipedia list will be there for them: https://en.wikiped
20. 770.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    the obvious approach is to keep raising your prices and attempts to lock your software down with anti-circumvention measures. That always works.
21. 771.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    yes, more of this.
22. 772.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    Tony, you should have a talk with the writefreely/write.as folks (Matt Baer; I think it might just be one guy but it might be a small team as well now) because they're in this space and may have experiences to share with you.
23. 773.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    the problem is being able to pitch the wider ecosystem without sounding like a loon spouting technobabble. I'd love to pull off being able to sell this to normies.
24. 774.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    masto, not masta
25. 775.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    so does thoughtworks and MIT https://toot.thoughtworks.com https://mastodon.mit.edu
26. 776.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    anyone can run their own WordPress, install an ActivityPub protocol plugin, and instantly federate with the wider Mastodon compatible ecosystem. I wish we would stop thinking about this from siloed / walled off perspectives. The real g
27. 777.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    how about implementing ActivityPub like write.as/WriteFreely?
28. 778.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    It may have never been an empire on paper, but if it walks like a duck what do you call it?
29. 779.▲
    by riffic 4y ago

    I was able to visit the main New York Public Library reading room without issues, maybe you're thinking of the LOC reading room in DC? Fun factoid about NYPL: it's a private nonprofit, not a municipal establishment like many other
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    by riffic 4y ago

    Federal rescheduling will be done faster than the Kansas legislature will ever move to being progressive on this issue.