tao_oat

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by tao_oat 4mo ago
Sure thing. If you view his X profile without logging in, nearly all his top posts demonstrate what I mean: advocating for remigration (i.e. ethnic cleansing), comparing Muslims to monkeys, supporting far-right figures like Tommy Robinson a
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
Because no one has mentioned it here: Lars Andersen is also a right-wing extremist who regularly posts racist content on social media. His privacy/free speech activism seems to be (at least partly) motivated by this. I think this is us
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
When Bluesky got DDoS'ed then, many people switched to using another AppView like Blacksky and things worked just fine. But this is indeed somewhat technical; in an ideal world clients would automatically fall back to alternative AppVi
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
In AT you also get communities, in the same way that twitter had weird twitter, black twitter, and so on. But because you, by design, don't really see what PDS people use, it's more fluid. I personally think that this actually lea
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
Most decentralized systems I can think of tend to follow a power law distribution (roughly) where one or a few platforms dominate. In the fediverse that's mastodon.social (or maybe Threads), in email that's Gmail, in AP that'
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
I'm not sure there is such a thing as "true" decentralization :) In my mind it's more of a buffet of tradeoffs rather than a single sliding scale. FWIW, in the AP world there are several individuals and small teams runni
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
I am indeed aware of them! To the best of my knowledge (please correct me if I am wrong) it's not actually usable functionality today and has been WIP for a long time, so it seems somewhat hypothetical. Their Mastodon account hasn&#x27
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
(OP here) I'd love to see more decentralized alternatives out there! AFAICT there is no actually-existing ForgeFed instances that I could use today, but I'm keeping an eye on it - let a thousand flowers bloom :)
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
This would make sense but seems unlikely to me, because the people involved come across as incredibly offline.
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
If you use bsky.app, you still see posts from other servers (Blacksky, Eurosky, W Social, and so on). But yes, by the protocol's design you're primarily interacting with one central aggregator of everything (Bluesky's AppView
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
I thought this was a good post on the topic: [W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent.][1] [^1]: https://wecanjustdothings.leaflet.pub/3mokohkfb4224
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
I've been working on https://favs.blue/ -- lets you see the top posts from any Bluesky user. I missed favstar.fm so I tried making something similar on an open social network!
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
I agree with the point, but I think it's fair to acknowledge that the current US government is not a "normal" one in any sense.
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
Unfortunately it's not possible to read this without an X account.
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
I had a similar issue with Blacksmith, though it was something called "Sticky disk" that caused unexpected costs. I'm still not even sure what it is. It was disappointing to see -- I've used Depot in the past and will st
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by tao_oat 4mo ago
This looks really neat! I've tried Conductor, Superconductor, cmux, and a half-dozen other apps that all give you a similar interface. It'd be great if there was a comparison to at least some of those on Paseo's website.
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
The Luddites-as-labour-movement view is not entirely wrong, but also misses a lot. They were also an elite group that fought to preserve their own status and the exclusion of women from the industry. I thought this was a pretty good post ab
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
If you consider factory farming horrific, then yes
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
A lot of the good is still there -- e.g. the nature, the unusually high level of drive/determination/spirit/openness. At least compared to northern Europe where I'm from. Unfortunately tilting towards fascism outweighs t
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
I love the US; I’ve lived there and held an H-1B visa. Moving there permanently was a teenage dream of mine. Unfortunately the country in that dream no longer exists. I now avoid jobs that require travel to the US. As a non-American it make
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
> The west has not got rich at the expense of the global south What timeframe are you considering in this opinion?
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
Yes -- it's definitely alpha software, but usable for open source. There are interesting experiments like tack[1] to wire in custom CI. I imagine they'll be able to support private repos eventually once ATProto supports private da
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by tao_oat 5mo ago
There was really good discussion of this article on lobste.rs: https://lobste.rs/s/oznirn/redis_cost_ambition
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Magical thinking about magical thinking(heatherburns.tech)
3 points by tao_oat 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Forge We Deserve(btao.org)
1 points by tao_oat 5mo ago|0 comments
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The Worlds Left to Conquer(ludic.mataroa.blog)
15 points by tao_oat 5mo ago|8 comments
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Death of a Software Developer(isthisanart.substack.com)
6 points by tao_oat 5mo ago|0 comments
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by tao_oat 6mo ago
Aha, I was mistaken -- I was under the impression that repos were also stored on the PDS. Looks like that's where knots come in -- you could replace "PDS" with "PDS and knot" in my earlier comment and it holds true,
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by tao_oat 6mo ago
In this case the benefit would be: - your data lives in one place, your Personal Data Server (PDS). You can self-host this if you like - The AppView (in this case, tangled.org) aggregates the data from many PDS's into one view. - If ta
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by tao_oat 6mo ago
There's an AT protocol working group for private data: https://atproto.wiki/en/working-groups/private-data But you're right, the protocol doesn't currently support this.

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