Posts by openrisk@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AnyDrKBsCQUqR17bzk by openrisk@mastodon.social
2024-11-12T15:13:22Z
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@wjmaggos no crystal ball but I doubt we'll see an infinite sequence of enshittification. We had a situation where vast numbers of "important" people, institutions etc. who *should know better* have been implicitly endorsing platforms with ingrained evil values.Impishly they assumed nothing can go wrong, TINA, obliged to go where the masses are etc.The implosion of twitter is piercing this make-believe bubble. Difficult to see the charade continuing (but I have been wrong before 😅
(DIR) Post #AoFWXwwVbxrleBjFTs by openrisk@mastodon.social
2024-11-20T23:33:08Z
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@ErikUden that music theme has come to define malign dystopia
(DIR) Post #ArZVOJtbdWhvUvLzTU by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-02-28T08:30:41Z
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@ErikUden the scary part is that powerful algorithms are being developed, controlled, marketed and applied by people that are out of control, cornered the financial system, have a vast fraction of the population hostage with no digital choice, have captured regulators and politicians and have a track record of destroying people's privacy with impunity.No I am not scared by some stupid numerical algorithm. But I am scared of our broken social "algorithms" that empower evil behavior in humans.
(DIR) Post #AraIBifN7o6WJMJij2 by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-02-28T09:49:55Z
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@ErikJonker there is the #freeourfeeds initiative that will replicate an atproto relay. Subject to technical / economic factors it wil put to rest the (reasonable) fears about bluesky.My gut feeling is that because of different architectures, the two protocols will give rise to different online exchanges. Bluesky type cathedrals vs #activitypub type community houses. And much depends on the client software we use - which is a bit stagnant. We could have a common interface to all these.
(DIR) Post #AraSACUwEuHRnMLqDo by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-02-28T19:28:39Z
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@aral @ErikJonker indeed saw something related today that did not quite make sense as a vision. I hope its not inability to secure funding that pushes in that direction. I guess we'll hear more...https://www.projectliberty.io/news/project-liberty-and-free-our-feeds-partner-to-build-a-resilient-open-social-web/
(DIR) Post #Ark5yVgQpO8WPaLZCK by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-03-05T08:27:54Z
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Is there a good reference of #activitypub scaling with more users/clients, servers, content exchange, network topology etc. What happens when everything and everywhere is connected?Looking for a more or less rigorous *model* to compare and contrast with e.g., how #atproto and #p2p protocols scale (at least in theory) and put some mathematical meat behind the recent "message passing" vs "shared heap" discussions.Have been looking for this with little success so time to #askfedi #askfediverse
(DIR) Post #ArkC1rzuv5XQDCRjX6 by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-03-05T11:28:53Z
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@silverpill Individuals have limited bandwidth so I don't see that happening, but bots acting on their behalf could get close to that. A more realistic working hypothesis for a "mass scaling" scenario would be if every existing web server (cities, universities, companies, whatever) is part of the server-to-server network. User "follows" would be a parameter to model.
(DIR) Post #AtQ4KdEOwXPwtpLud6 by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-04-24T14:59:14Z
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@ricci also of AGI on the desktop
(DIR) Post #AtROlUpWTmVEu4lMzQ by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-04-25T06:22:55Z
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@ricci fascinating patterns and "anomalies". For example the UK seems abnormally low. Has it completely outsourced hosting to other countries?Ultimate resilience would come with people self-hosting at home. Not inconceivable with fiber and commoditized server hardware on one side lowering costs and mature and stable software platforms on the other lowering the maintenance bar...
(DIR) Post #AtbBs25b4rvSJSDu6q by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-04-29T06:22:16Z
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The #opensource phenomenon is now decades old. There are countless developments, successes and failures, adoption and cooption. Still nerd territory but somebody should write a book about it as this is one of the most remarkable positive behaviors in an otherwise mostly regressive timeline.My top-three inflection points:#linux, the foundation of everything#python, democratizing the fearsome algorithm#activitypub, the (still mostly unfulfilled) binding of digital societyWhat are yours?
(DIR) Post #AtbBs3lSqh0fVaor0S by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-04-29T08:29:04Z
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@smallcircles the way I think about #activitypub is as a placeholder for the natural evolution of the Web. Much bigger than "social" in the current narrow sense of "social media" and really about the shape of digital society.Currently lots of complaints about it (imho quite deserved) but when focusing on the most important dimensions we need to average over the long arc.If anything ever replaces it in a future of even more connectivity it will be a more "real time" protocol.
(DIR) Post #AtmKN9264Gx94Y7xzc by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-05-05T08:42:36Z
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@strypey while I like what bluesky has achieved and the competition to a stagnating fediverse, they seem to optimise for a use case that is already nearly solvable along KISS lines: we dont need high maintenance and complex protocols to connect publishers to audiences. All we need is good discovery tools (non-adtech search) and good clients (browsers with rss readers etc). Publishers already self host, are decentralized by constructionThe uncatered use case is bottom-up, small-world networks
(DIR) Post #Av6QEsn96DJ3cqfAMC by openrisk@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T08:07:36Z
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@patrickleavy @strypey people can self-host in two ways: in their own premises and hardware (via NAS), on somebody else's premises and hardware (via VPS).In both cases lowering the threshold means single click installs.It further means a simplified and automated maintainance schedule for backups/recoveries, software updates etc.Its not trivial, but if we could get availability of such setups there could be orders of magnitude more servers.Maybe that would be enough to reverse the tide?
(DIR) Post #B2XMvM2yGjioRKYmrQ by openrisk@mastodon.social
2026-01-22T08:19:15Z
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@wjmaggos @Jeremiah its not about removing all friction and conflict between people (which is indeed on the utopic side) but eliminating certain types of organized, large scale violence that is supported by ever more lethal tech (which in the end *will* be our undoing).Its not hopeless because we are already doing it (constraining this behavior) to some extent. Its not difficult to imagine (and historically it was common) to be far more warmongering.Eliminating organized war is solvable