Post APMd093cXf5CQf9a7s by mattk@hostux.social
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(DIR) Post #APLDCoNpvVNs6m1qCG by drq@mastodon.ml
2022-11-06T22:42:07Z
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@cwebber I know Evanpro and somebody else of SocialWG gang was also going to be in on the BlueSky development. I believe that also fell through.
(DIR) Post #APLEpueud1NYoqDz1s by drq@mastodon.ml
2022-11-06T23:00:18Z
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@cwebber '> But all of that makes everything I'm watching right now fill me up with a million emotions. It's great to see success. It's frightening to think that being too successful might make you a target.Yes!!! As a very vocal, outspoken and public advocate of Fediverse in Russia, I think I kinda can relate. I'm glad the Fediverse is finally getting attention it deserves, it's like the dream come true, it's like Christmas up in this motherfucker.It also feels like being naked in the wind with a giant target painted on my back. Because Russia is generally *name-anything-under-the-Sun*-phobic, so people of my type are not exactly popular here either, so I might get arrested, searched and if especially unlucky probably executed (some regions are still doing this sort of stuff, unofficially).I'm also burnt out and tired.
(DIR) Post #APLFNQQvVqu2vDf9jE by drq@mastodon.ml
2022-11-06T23:06:29Z
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@cwebber (Oh, and I'm not even trans, just a humble bi/pan)
(DIR) Post #APMbx8Z7oY8M53tK5Y by andrewfeeney@mastodon.social
2022-11-06T23:24:20Z
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@cwebber Thanks for sharing. For a newcomer like me with very little understanding of the history and context of ActivityPub, the Fediverse and Mastodon I appreciated hearing your perspective.
(DIR) Post #APMcr6CPnbmUxTxBRo by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2022-11-07T15:04:10.318425Z
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I am in awe of everything you’ve done for this space. You are one of the smartest people I’ve ever met, an intellectual titan with the energy of lightning bolt. I’ve enjoyed the times that we met in meatspace, and I’m constantly impressed by the things you blog about, and the ideas you share here.All of your hard work in building ActivityPub and now Spritely has filled me with ideas of what’s still possible, and gives me hope that this space can continue to evolve into something even more amazing than it already is. You’re a wonderful human being, Christine. The current political climate in the US has put me in a state of worry - the transphobia, racism, and queerphobia seems to be on a kick far higher than I’ve ever seen before. I’m scared for myself, my friends, and my soon-to-be wife. No one deserves to have their rights stripped away. No one deserves violence simply for living their lives. I don’t know what the solution is, beyond voting, demonstration, writing one’s congressman, and public advocacy, but I know I will stand up for the people I love. I will stand up for you, too.
(DIR) Post #APMcruG1gSNYDA1m1A by jaawerth@functional.cafe
2022-11-06T23:44:17Z
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@cwebber Thank you for sharing, and for all your hard work. As you said, there may be a lot more to be done, but I'm excited about the future of ActivityPub creating truly open platforms that can't easily be co-opted, and given how easy it is to fall into negative thinking about the future of tech and capitalism, that doesn't happen often these days.
(DIR) Post #APMcuGIugbRHAOV8mu by rabble@mastodon.social
2022-11-07T00:50:59Z
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@cwebber@octodon.socia Great thread... i've been pointing a lot of people at the fediverse lately even though i work on scuttlebutt stuff. It's progress. I think Jay was a good choice to run bluesky as well. One thing i think is interesting, I see liberals saying we need centralized moderation to protect against hate speech. Yet queer and trans folks are out there building decentralized solutions.
(DIR) Post #APMd04ct17JygacAts by aadil@merveilles.town
2022-11-07T05:08:23Z
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@cwebber we are all in your debt. thank you for pouring your heart and soul into this network and for sticking to what you believe in :tealheart:
(DIR) Post #APMd07aW0OCts6Wp7Y by mattk@hostux.social
2022-11-07T00:45:01Z
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@cwebber I only learned about you through all this and I’m really thankful. I was interested In federation since the days of identi.ca - I thought activity pub was a distraction!
(DIR) Post #APMd093cXf5CQf9a7s by mattk@hostux.social
2022-11-07T00:45:43Z
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@cwebber Your vision seems great - I hope watching this also fills you with hope since the things don’t happen just because they are good - sometimes your good things take off because assholes make mistakes. I’m watching @spritelyproject with great interest!
(DIR) Post #APMd0ALjjnAUR8dZ0C by bhaugen@social.coop
2022-11-07T12:10:42Z
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@cwebber > not getting BlueSky meant starting the Spritely Institute doing *exactly* what I thought we should be doing.And you were right, but the money could have helped...Spritely will be the missing piece that most people will not know they are missing until it takes off (which it will) and then they will wonder how anybody thought they could do without it.
(DIR) Post #APMd0lfWz9zEBFBOUa by dirk@computerfairi.es
2022-11-06T23:04:57Z
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@cwebber This all couldn't have happened without your ceaseless efforts against all odds.Thank you so much, and I hope a part of you can just feel happy and rewarded that every newspaper and TV station in the world is currently occupied with discussing the merits of decentralized protocols.Congratulations for apparently having reached the critical mass!
(DIR) Post #APMd36tj1mUsbFwHFQ by porsupah@lgbt.io
2022-11-06T22:34:56Z
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@cwebber Thank you. ^_^ I'm amazed how much Mastodon has brought me, and needless to say, it's likely that would never have happened without ActivityPub.
(DIR) Post #APMeZoPGtlB0lEqs1A by nott@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz
2022-11-07T15:23:36.534464Z
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@sean @cwebber
(DIR) Post #APMo0LKO1I2LysICPo by CatboyCumDump@poa.st
2022-11-07T15:10:21.347766Z
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@sean @cwebber an intellectual titan with the man-jaw to match! I hope you idiots stay "scared" and keep crying about it on social media, we love to see your faggot tears.
(DIR) Post #APP4FGSjlogaZZaMrY by cwebber@octodon.social
2022-11-06T22:46:09Z
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But all of that makes everything I'm watching right now fill me up with a million emotions. It's great to see success. It's frightening to think that being too successful might make you a target.There's another thing I haven't said, I think: I almost didn't transition because I *knew* I'm a prominent trans engineer, and I know what happens to prominent trans engineers. Fucked up, right?And like, I guess it's just *weird* to see this thing I've poured myself into, killed myself over, that I've never stopped trying to figure out how to figure out how to get to the next phase, suddenly get all this attention. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE A RICH DUDE GOT UPSET AT A BAD JOKE SITE GETTING KICKED OFF FOR MAKING A TRANSPHOBIC JOKEYou wanna hear a joke? That a bunch of people who are claiming they're all for "freedom of speech" are kissing the feet of *centralization* now that it's at the end of a despot who might get away with letting them say racist, sexist, queerphobic bullshit.Just watching all this, it's all too real. It's all too personal. It's hard to look away from.
(DIR) Post #APP4FHSQ4U1fesRd0S by cwebber@octodon.social
2022-11-06T22:53:32Z
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I'm proud of the fediverse, as it exists. I'm not responsible for it, but I don't think it's an exaggeration to say I'm one of the many people who helped make it happen. I don't need to be famous for it... being famous for it is probably even unsafe. The people who need to know, know. That's good enough. There are a lot of other people who worked on the spec, like Jessica, Erin, Evan, Amy, who don't get nearly the amount of recognition I have. I'm grateful the right people know what I did and will listen to me.But also the fediverse, as it's rolled out, is simultaneously the best option we have for this moment in history and also not ready. It's not the long term answer. We're working on that though. Hell, I'm lucky that I got to co-found an organization that might be able to build that future.A few years ago I was working 60 hour weeks trying to make this damn ActivityPub thing happen even though all I heard all the time was that there's no way it was going to make it. Now I'm working 70 hour weeks trying to build the next thing. I'd really like to, ya know, get it down to a plain and simple 40. But even more so, I'd like this work we're starting, for the next step of things, to survive.And someone else will probably be known for that work, but in general... that happens. Hell, you're lucky to make an ounce of impact in this world, let again get some recognition. And recognition isn't always so great either. It can be a real curse. Especially if you, yourself, are somehow against the grain of things. But also just in general. I care more about getting things done than anything. I only need to be well known enough to get the things I care about moving forward, and that's it really.Anyway, rant over. I've been holding this in for a while. Thanks for listening, to those who did. I'm glad ActivityPub is taking off. I'm looking forward to the future. The state we're in is just the beginning. You'll see. And thanks for being here. Thanks for making it all worthwhile, making these efforts worth their while.
(DIR) Post #APP4FHyg8XpXGvXOHx by cwebber@octodon.social
2022-11-07T15:43:04Z
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Well this thread got a lot more attention than I anticipated, which is nice and a little bit spooky but mostly nice.Thanks everyone, it does feel nice to have some recognition. We're not done, and I'm not done. I might be mopey about things, but I'm also excited about the future, at the same time. I particularly think the things we're building in Spritely are really going to change the internet as we know it, whether we get the credit for it or not. Reasons to be excited, to keep going, to get myself up, to hack all the hacks, every day.
(DIR) Post #APP4FIMQiEpSSaeMJE by lutindiscret@mastodon.libre-entreprise.com
2022-11-08T19:12:20Z
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thank you @cwebber we awe you so much 🧡 I don't really understand what you are really building with spiritely but I really hope you'll succeed.
(DIR) Post #APP4FJ5nzX7ojJsb2G by cwebber@octodon.social
2022-11-08T19:17:50Z
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@lutindiscret People mostly didn't understand what we were building with activitypub either. The best way these things will be understood is when people can pick them up and use them and develop intuitions for them. So hopefully when we're at that point, you'll get what we built with Spritely :)
(DIR) Post #APP4FJNsuJaRdOL2DQ by cwebber@octodon.social
2022-11-07T19:11:49Z
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The funny thing with this thread getting so much attention is I *didn't* write a bunch about the history (and pre- and post- history!) of standardizing ActivityPub. Which, by the way, was a wild ride itself. That could have a thread of its own at some point I guess.I will just say that I'm glad ActivityPub succeeded because the standards process definitely took a few years off my life. And it wasn't just me who did it, it was a bunch of us. But also a bunch of drama. The Social Web Working Group was my first ever standards group and nobody told me ahead of time that it was notoriously the most toxic standards group in all the W3C.... maybe it's best NOT to revisit all that history. Oh my god. I'm glad we're past it. I'm glad we made it. Let sleeping drama lie. Onwards and upwards.
(DIR) Post #APSwU4AxpdxpKW80pc by Bill_Boone@poa.st
2022-11-10T16:12:31.602201Z
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@cwebber You will never be a real woman. You have no womb, you have no ovaries, you have no eggs. You are a homosexual man twisted by drugs and surgery into a crude mockery of nature’s perfection.All the “validation” you get is two-faced and half-hearted. Behind your back people mock you. Your parents are disgusted and ashamed of you, your “friends” laugh at your ghoulish appearance behind closed doors.Men are utterly repulsed by you. Thousands of years of evolution have allowed men to sniff out frauds with incredible efficiency. Even trannies who “pass” look uncanny and unnatural to a man. Your bone structure is a dead giveaway. And even if you manage to get a drunk guy home with you, he’ll turn tail and bolt the second he gets a whiff of your diseased, infected axe wound.You will never be happy. You wrench out a fake smile every single morning and tell yourself it’s going to be ok, but deep inside you feel the depression creeping up like a weed, ready to crush you under the unbearable weight.Eventually it’ll be too much to bear - you’ll buy a rope, tie a noose, put it around your neck, and plunge into the cold abyss. Your parents will find you, heartbroken but relieved that they no longer have to live with the unbearable shame and disappointment. They’ll bury you with a headstone marked with your birth name, and every passerby for the rest of eternity will know a man is buried there. Your body will decay and go back to the dust, and all that will remain of your legacy is a skeleton that is unmistakably male.This is your fate. This is what you chose. There is no turning back.
(DIR) Post #APTW9D6R2kPlHjMeH2 by Hyolobrika@gleasonator.com
2022-11-10T22:52:07.863068Z
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@cwebber @sean @cwebber what violence?
(DIR) Post #APTWFvJFb3qU7wYl0K by sean@social.deadsuperhero.com
2022-11-10T22:53:10.274724Z
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Fuck off into the sun, TERF.