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by yborg 4y ago
I agree, if you main Twitter, what is even the point of spamming Fediverse with your posts? Anyone that wants to follow you will do it there.
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by yborg 4y ago
It's the new Clubhouse. Oh hey, that's Andreessen Horowitz, too.
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by yborg 4y ago
Scale. Nobody will pay you for the deets on the 500 users on your instance unless you are 0.1-percenter invite-only.
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by yborg 4y ago
An elegant guideline for a more civilized age.
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by yborg 4y ago
Imagine the Mastodon instance 44 gigadollars could have funded.
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by yborg 4y ago
The full article doesn't mention it, either, there is and will remain a lot of confusion about federated networks and that there isn't a single "Mastodon" to join a la Twitter. Part of the confusion may be that there is
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by yborg 4y ago
Even better, I like the breakdown by application.
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by yborg 4y ago
There's already a bot that does this. https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount People frequently have multiple accounts on different servers, so the account count is much larger than the number of individuals. Alt
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by yborg 4y ago
This. Unless you are a mayfly, you are highly likely to outlive any new business. Simpler approach is to have an executor have a way to access a password manager to be able to identify and close out online services.
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by yborg 4y ago
That was ~30% of Apple's staff at the time.
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by yborg 4y ago
Why is Apple cramming advertising into every first party application they have when they are insanely profitable? They'll drop Rosetta 2 as soon as they are off Intel to not have to pay for staff to maintain it.
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by yborg 4y ago
Don't most large office printers watermark all pages anyway? Our Ricoh did.
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by yborg 4y ago
SpaceX wouldn't exist without US government funding. "...NASA awarded the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract to SpaceX in December (2008), thus financially saving the company." Give the bureaucrats some credit
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by yborg 4y ago
Why? They just launched the most powerful heavy lift rocket that can currently fly. It's an engineering achievement no matter how you look at it.
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by yborg 4y ago
His problem basically is that the perfect is always the enemy of the good. Because Mastodon does not, today, solve all of social media's problems, it's not worth further effort. It's the easy hot take and there have been doze
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by yborg 4y ago
>Your instance, content within it, account you created within it, the media attached to your toots, are all incredibly fragile and can disappear at any time You realize of course that this is true of any platform? You do have this kind o
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by yborg 4y ago
"Eternal September" did not lead to the 'collapse' of USENET. It was largely replaced by web-based solutions in more user-friendly domains like AOL. And USENET eventually largely ended up controlled by a few large entiti
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by yborg 4y ago
I don't see it as either/or, choices are good, and if Twitter rights the ship before it becomes a hellscape I'm sure many people will continue to use it as a primary platform. Ideally, Fediverse will have established mind sha
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by yborg 4y ago
Not particularly fond of Zero Hedge, but "Scam Bankrupt Fraud" is kind of catchy.
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by yborg 4y ago
This is crypto, there are plenty of retail 'to the moon' speculators that would be thrilled at the prospect of more sick gains. It's tulips all the way down.
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by yborg 4y ago
There is nothing to prevent a set of instances from agreeing on a common set of operating rules or even common high-level management a la Fidonet or the way IRC networks are managed. If the Fediverse continues to grow, I would expect that s
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by yborg 4y ago
>no way to preview the community without signing up This is incorrect. You click the "Discover Users" from the instance home page, and you can view (public) profiles and as well as posts that they have made. I agree that it wou
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by yborg 4y ago
https://fediverse.observer/list
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by yborg 4y ago
If you are referring to the official mobile client not having the local timeline, I disagree with the approach, but there are a round dozen alternative clients and this didn't affect the web interface. As usual, everyone has their own
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by yborg 4y ago
>Mastodon is one person People really seem to completely miss the whole concept of a federated ecosystem, Mastodon is just a tool, like vBulletin, the whole point of it is that there isn't a "Mastodon" that announces thing
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by yborg 4y ago
Look, I get it - it's not Twitter therefore it's a failure. And some people are ok with that, I really don't get why the need to campaign against Fediverse, it isn't killing anybody's dog.
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by yborg 4y ago
It's not "advertised" as a replacement for Twitter; the word "Twitter" does not appear on the Mastodon homepage. It's talked about because at the moment there aren't many similar alternatives.
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by yborg 4y ago
Mastodon is Ruby on the backend ... as was Twitter in the beginning, and Twitter also fell over when it reached a certain size and had to be reimplemented. So present Mastodon won't scale to Twitter size, no. It's also not the goa
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by yborg 4y ago
I was originally trained as a lad in classic waterfall and was a CMM auditor at one point - I got SAFe certification a few years ago and my overwhelming impression was that they had replicated all of the flaws of these methodologies, just w
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And thus Skynet is born.

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