Post AWqMarGSHjPo3amKoq by tedb@gigaohm.bio
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(DIR) Post #AV2b9PZtnaKDPY5KAi by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-04-26T10:21:23Z
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I love it. There’s a poll ongoing about whether folks would ban a Meta (Instagram/Facebook) instance and people are like “well, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.”I really have no words.Is it learned helplessness? Stockholm Syndrome? Masochism? Something else?I just don‘t get it.#SiliconValley #BigTech #SurveillanceCapitalism #PlayItAgainSam
(DIR) Post #AV2bn7CdXKaw0M8Viy by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-04-26T10:27:51Z
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And here’s what’s saddest: the question itself is moot.Because mastodon.social wouldn’t block it.Instead, we’d hear about how Meta joining the fediverse is a Good Thing™.This would be about a year or so before Meta or some other major instance with major Silicon Valley money displaces mastodon.social as the primary fediverse instance.At which point maybe a certain someone will realise that legitimising Big Tech-style scale and centralisation is a silly strategy when you’re not Big Tech.
(DIR) Post #AV2dgMMux4vmvDqrRI by post@qoto.org
2023-04-26T10:51:52Z
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@aralI have no doubts about Meta’s intentions but what about blocking GMail?No email provider prevents you from interacting with GMail users, of course. But at least GMail being based on SMTP let us use our own email provider (to some extent, GMail sometimes blocks hobbist servers) with both GMail and non-GMail contacts.If a person on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter notices that they can move to a FOSS instance without loosing their contacts maybe they will do so, reducing the data Meta & Co can gather (like what you are looking at while scrolling timelines).This is why I think Meta & Co will never adopt ActivityPub, because they would make it too easy for people to move away.
(DIR) Post #AV2uZvalICZ3MIqVhQ by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-04-26T10:30:51Z
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But this is inevitable. It’s written into the design of ActivityPub.It could be delayed using social pressure but I’m not seeing that from those from whom it would matter.So it’ll last for as long as it does. Hopefully, that’ll be long enough so we can use the fediverse to bridge off to actually decentralised alternatives like the Small Web.(I know I’m working against a deadline here. I just wish we’d do everything we could to keep the fediverse as a stopgap for as long as possible.)
(DIR) Post #AV2uZwFspJSRPq5LnM by powersource@sunbeam.city
2023-04-26T10:46:00Z
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@aral isn't "Small Web" a case of "everyone runs their own servers"? Or have i misunderstood it? I don't understand how that'd be a better alternative to mastodon.
(DIR) Post #AV2uZxCNJqFILFS3xw by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-04-26T11:02:36Z
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@powersource It’s “everyone runs their own servers and I got started in 30 seconds without any technical knowledge and I don’t need to maintain it and, gosh darn, isn’t it cool that my local municipality pays for it? (for example/one possible scenario).”
(DIR) Post #AWqD6fRWlzcn7PUF3A by kirby@waifuism.life
2023-06-19T06:41:51.647860Z
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@aral so when do you start using pleroma :reisendance:
(DIR) Post #AWqFBcQZbyLn7fWs2y by peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv
2023-06-19T06:48:19Z
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@aral it is quite simple as this - you might not like it, but internet and it's protocols is open to everyone, including corpos. Some people just want to work with what we got, instead of trying to create make believe bubble.I understand sentiment, but I feel some reality check is really needed.Also blocking sites is completely valid response, but demanding other instances to do so is a bit strange.
(DIR) Post #AWqFBocMHyuKvh8S5A by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-06-19T07:05:06.549Z
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@peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv It's not about open vs closed. @aral@mastodon.ar.al is entirely correct that as participants our behavior matters. I'd recommended getting more familiar with his concept of small tech. It's not about just being different, it's about making radical change actually possible.Spinning up a new server to help onboard 100s of people onto the fedi is great and fantastic, but it's a mistake to forget that the ideal scenario is that people have the tools to do it themselves without being tech wizards.He's one of the people who hates big tech not just as much as they deserve but also for what it actually is. It's a very fine distinction but an important one.
(DIR) Post #AWqFl0HYucmLF4BebY by tedb@gigaohm.bio
2023-06-19T07:11:33.557350Z
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The tools for normal people to spin one up don’t exist right now.
(DIR) Post #AWqGD33ADPXpvzpD60 by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-06-19T07:16:36.487Z
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@tedb@gigaohm.bio there are promising attempts. There are a couple of major blockers.I think this is actually why a lot of projects try to sidestep DNS because it's a barrier.That said, I think Aral and others are doing some great work getting us closer and closer.That said, it's totally doable if everyone didn't mind using .onion or .i2p domains.EmbassyOS (a paid project) basically gives you everything you need, but it's crypto/Tor focused.
(DIR) Post #AWqGFue9unJ8jzUkpk by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-06-19T07:17:06.791Z
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@tedb@gigaohm.bio there are promising attempts. There are a couple of major blockers.I think this is actually why a lot of projects try to sidestep DNS because it's a barrier.That said, I think Aral and others are doing some great work getting us closer and closer.It's totally doable if everyone didn't mind using .onion or .i2p domains.EmbassyOS (a paid project) basically gives you everything you need, but it's crypto/Tor focused.
(DIR) Post #AWqGQIpQrWykdRiqoa by tedb@gigaohm.bio
2023-06-19T07:19:01.478315Z
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This is something I thought about when setting up this instance. DNS alternatives. But it’s too hard to get people to use an alternative when they don’t even know how DNS works. It works for them now because it’s mass adoption by all ISPs and systems.
(DIR) Post #AWqGm9SwLz6Xy4cWNU by dcc@annihilation.social
2023-06-19T07:22:54.910689Z
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@tedb @aral @gabriel @peteriskrisjanis thats both a good and bad thing, people who should spin up a instance should at least of some semblance of computer literacy.
(DIR) Post #AWqHAymfCoKQ4ugVHs by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-06-19T07:27:27.756Z
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@dcc@annihilation.social I think we're not far off from it being reasonably safe. The same could be said about people storing their own files.Again, if DNS wasn't an issue it would be trivial for a social media / website generator app to also serve the content.A lot of the web is bloat, but I think webtorrent is a very powerful idea that outside of peertube is underutilized.@tedb@gigaohm.bio
(DIR) Post #AWqHJR0y817fx1PKKm by dcc@annihilation.social
2023-06-19T07:28:54.077723Z
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@gabriel @tedb people should learn how a puter works, if you cant even grasp that consent were fighting the inevitable faster.
(DIR) Post #AWqHjgfeXdOw2LxI8G by gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks
2023-06-19T07:33:41.291Z
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@dcc@annihilation.socialI agree that people should know, and I think education users is a huge part about providing better tools. But to take this to the extreme, I'm glad that people who don't know math very well can still benefit from encryption.There's a basic level conceptually you'd want them to understand, but you still want the tools themselves to be as streamlined as possible.@tedb@gigaohm.bio
(DIR) Post #AWqMZa6oaDlOYof1KC by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2023-06-19T07:27:56Z
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@tedb Working on it. (Not for fediverse, that’s impractical. For Small Web.)
(DIR) Post #AWqMarGSHjPo3amKoq by tedb@gigaohm.bio
2023-06-19T08:28:10.170972Z
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Nice. I'd be happy to take a look!
(DIR) Post #AWqUZMkf2pcOlbhrw8 by iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org
2023-06-19T09:57:11Z
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I don't see any polls but I would definitely ban that BS.