Posts by tallship@neenster.org
 (DIR) Post #AUUSrzDE2FNml4XEf2 by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-04-09T22:51:42.220607Z
       
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       @FuckElon@tallship > Please tell me what makes him a great guy. No let's keep playing this guessing game instead! 🤘🤔🤘I've got forever for you to get something right, lolz!> (1) So upset his daughter is trans that he decided to go after universities and "wokeism".Nope! That's not one, lolz. But you are right about wokeism being diabolical.> (2)Killed several public transportation projects...Maybe, which ones? You gotta list? Otherwise, keep guessing šŸ™‚> (3) Pumped and dump schemes.Oh those were fun! But no, getting warmer though...(4) Right wing promotion fascism promotionNot sure what you're talking about - but he did see the light, didn't he? Smart guy he is! Except... He dismantled and exposed the fascism you seem to be so keen on defending. Are you yourself a fascist, or are you perhaps a fascist sympathizer? You've certainly got a lot of hate inside of you, and that's not really healthy.> (5) Just reinstated the Kremilin and Russian propaganda accountsPartly - buying Twitter certainly is one good thing, and people should be able to decide for themselves the propaganda they wish to read - like... yours right here in the post I'm responding to. Nobody censored you, and that's a good thing, even though you seem to me like the kind of person would do so to others - which you should know, if you don't already, is an evil thing.> There is much more, of courseBy all means, keep guessing! This game is fun. But you're not very good at it.#Elon_rocks #whiney_haters #self_loathing_bigots #fun_guessing_games⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUWYVR3LLXgqU8Skgy by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-04-10T22:27:30.227767Z
       
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       Cowards have always existed in the weaponized form of pseudonymic actors, afraid off melting in the light, or when someone douses them with a bucket of cold water - that which melted the Wicked Witch of the West.When a fascist coward attacks you out of the blue, and for no apparent reason other than to spread their hate - engage them! They will always run away in shame and embarrassment.RT: https://gleasonator.com/objects/7cfa24db-184c-487e-9a73-eaea56797e80
       
 (DIR) Post #AUXObJPFstS47ipqnA by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-04-11T09:03:35.533989Z
       
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       And let's not forget the other forums contributing to the advancement of #FEP and #SocialHub - the @fedidevs and @fedidevs groups that anyone can join, along with the Fediverse City Matrix room at:https://matrix.to/#/#fediverse-city:matrix.orgTo join one of the groups, merely follow to receive the discussions and @mention them to post! - from any Fediverse instance like #Hometown #Takahē #Pleroma #Akkoma #Soapbox #Friendica #Socialhome #Misskey #Quanta #Calckey #Epicyon #Misskey #Foundkey #MicroblogPub #Mitra and even #Hubzilla (you need to activate your ActivityPub addon for your user account).Easy Peasy - be part of the winds of change as we grow out and improve our #Fediverse! Stay abreast of the latest breaking news! Bring forward your requests and ideas - the Fediverse belongs to you...Remember, the Universe does not exist, independent of the thought of the participant šŸ™‚šŸ‘#tallship #FOSS #DeSoc @smallcircles @trwnh ⛵.RT: https://social.coop/users/smallcircles/statuses/110178027330676844
       
 (DIR) Post #AUYfnrQ98dP5TGmVzU by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-04-11T23:53:11.461392Z
       
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       Fresh out of the oven, Hot chocolate chip cookies!From our friends next door at #Movim:_____We are happy to introduce Join Movim.Discover and explore all the existing public Movim servers and add yours to expand even more the federated network šŸŒ !An up-to-date Movim instance is required if you want to add yours to the list. The registration process is quite straightforward. The servers list is refreshed each hour.Visit https://join.movim.eu/ to discover and explore this exciting new tool. Enjoy!_____#tallship #FOSS #federated #DeSoc #XMPP #Fediverse?We can haz #Cheezburgerz! šŸ”@movim⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXAy3zV6nj8CJ6Csts by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-06-29T07:00:54.496565Z
       
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       Protecting you and your family from vermin, like cats, possums, foxes and raccoons; predators such as bears, and intruders like people alike; guardians such as this do come with a pricetag that includes about 40 pounds of dog food a week lolz....But who in their right mind could turn away puppies like these?And really... Who doesn't like sharing a juicy chuck steak with their cute little puppy?šŸ•RT: https://gleasonator.com/objects/18b08163-1caf-4ab5-b0d4-29f39871ac6b
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJ4Yc7Tw2QTl5ov44 by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-07-03T03:23:11.691969Z
       
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       Ummm... Yeah... The view is skewed methinks?@tkinias You said:> I wonder how many young people even know that .gif was just a crappy 8-bit file format with patent problems?"Is", actually. "Is just a crappy 8-bit file format".Yes, observationally, a .gif has become somewhat synonymous with any relatively short, shitty, meme-ism, much like an .avi, but I would suggest that what you're generating is more of a Fediverse (mastotronic, actually) limitation whereby the user effects a download of the meme in .gif format and it shows up on your storage device as an mp4 file - this is not a limitation of the file format except in the sense of a #Fediverse (in this case, mastotron) limitation.The conversion occurs when you d/l the graphic to a local file system - and it is shameless.For example I save them through matrix since they retain their, as you put it, their "crappy 8-bit file format" as intended, instead of the fucking #Frankenstein bullshit that mastopub servers force - Mastodon, by the way, is already on its way out - the Fediverse has left it behind and increasingly, it seeks kludges to remain relevant in the #ActivityPub sectors of the Fediverse.Bye bye #mastopub and #Eugen's brief grip on the Fediverse and all the phenomenal emerging technologies that are largely replacing it in the world of #ActivityPub alone!Fuck that guy. He's a #simp bitch.#tallship #FOSS #DeSoc #evolution #matrix #noster #Diaspora #ZOT #Bovine #tapir ⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJ9zmnQqam0SeDaee by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-07-03T05:52:27.288668Z
       
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       Eat what you kill, but exterminate that which poisons the earth.#PETA is #Satan - thank God for #cannibals - if you ever wondered what they were good for, now you know....Culling the #scum called PETA. I hear they're quite tasty!#tallship #miscreants #subversives #gouls #inhumans -yup, that's PETA - they are #scum⛵.RT: https://mastodon.social/users/tallship/statuses/110648522362397091
       
 (DIR) Post #AXJGKQiWjPd1n39Pns by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-07-03T07:03:29.947022Z
       
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       Actually, no I haven't!I prefer to author my own thoughts and feelings, without them being abridged or altered in any form by a fucking piece of shit robot.I have a mind of my own, thoughts belonging to me alone - if I choose to share so be it.They are my organic thoughts, not distilled digital representation of what some machine is programmed to shape, edit, censor, extrapolate or expound upon.Only a moron would consent to a non-existent fake entity editing, editorializing, and purporting to speak for them.When your thoughts are bastardized and represented as your own, the rest of humanity will have no more use for you than the machine you abdicated your being to has for you...Which, is nothing. You cease to matter. You are a cuck bitch of a shell that claims territory belonging only to that of humanity...IOW - you're now a completely worthless piece of shit; both to humans and the machines alike.#tallship ⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #AXfwrL9PZXCjEZIlo8 by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-07-14T05:38:59.149590Z
       
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 (DIR) Post #AXlJqezxYzBdEjKE0O by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-07-16T19:49:49.851845Z
       
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       Nah…, Scratch that ā€œperhapsā€ part - there’s no ifs, ands, or buts… #Fedilab is hands down the best and finest #Fediverse client and it’s also available at F-Droid too!RT: https://gleasonator.com/objects/de22adae-efd7-46b1-9360-bb17ab3da2a8
       
 (DIR) Post #AYa0GJPtaXaj79F4tc by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-08-10T06:08:36.709220Z
       
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       More awesomeness continues to unfold as #ActivityPub and #DeSoc in general continue to transcend the #boundaries between obscurity and #mainstream #communications and societal interactivity between people, institutions, and the software systems we use on a daily basis - that is, Privacy respecting, #FOSS based software that can be easily self-hosted by any person or company.So…. This, from the version 4.0.0-rc1 docs themselves:This module also shows how the social_auth 4.x module could be used as a base to allow multiple servers of same kind (as gitlab, nextcloud, fediverse oriented instances…) to provide auth access.https://www.drupal.org/project/social_auth_nextcloud
       
 (DIR) Post #AbUKhPIpO89ec1Ohwu by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-11-05T06:37:28.577790Z
       
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       Well buoys and gulls….This has to be the understatement of the year.And remember, it’s only funny because it didn’t happen to you, lolz#tallship #nimrods #nmap #FOSS ⛵ .RT: https://infosec.exchange/users/shit/statuses/111339152390994897
       
 (DIR) Post #AbnjS0takoEbdFRaCG by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-11-14T09:53:14.894550Z
       
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       @nina Do you have any background on this place. I figure an artist might be privy to some cultural background on street art like this.IIRC, locals call it ā€œJazz Alleyā€ or something like that. There are a couple of small, mostly jazzy night clubs, that have entrances from here in the alley in this waterfront neighborhood if what’s referred to as Old Town.All of the history here is inferred, deduced by me, but the most troublesome thing for me is the explanation as to why the railroad tracks are right up against this old building - now some sort of trinket shop for tourists (on the other side of the building).Anyway, I just figured you’d might be able to shed some light on this or point me towards some links explaining this phenomenon.Kindest regards, Bradley#tallship #Billie_Holiday #murals #street_art #waterfront⛵.RT: https://pixelfed.social/p/tallship/629974149721681217
       
 (DIR) Post #AbpcahFHPhsTMeIkzI by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-11-14T16:09:06.472231Z
       
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       Ah, thanks for getting back to me anyway Nina, I'm no longer in Northern California myself, having migrated back to my homeland on the beaches of Los Angeles šŸ˜ŽThanks again and have a wonderful week!⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #AcubppmasaoFuZPY5Q by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-12-17T19:54:23.031393Z
       
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       Okay I stopped plugging Firefish about three months ago. I thought the issue was just local to me but then I discovered this is likely systemic - at least on this, the ā€œnewā€ flagship, reference server.I’m merely going to copypasta below, because I was completely unable to respond directly as a local user on the firefish.social instance itself.The problem has been so bad, for so long, that I had some time ago resolved to just use my Fedilab Android client for all interactions on my Firefish account, but over the past few days I haven’t even been able to perform remote boosts and web access is so broken…. Well, here I am, posting that copypasta from a reliable Pleroma server instance.From most platforms, I couldn’t even pull up the user (Erik Harris) or the post itself, including masto servers, but Pleroma has always been a surprisingly capable when the chips are down.I’ve included two screenies too. The breakages are obvious in a visual way so I’m not going to provide alt-tags - suffice it to say it’s virtually equivalent to a Microsoft BSOD.Kainoa, please help.I’m hoping, after reading so many mentions and pleas from others with local accounts on Firefish.Social, this post will be of some help in fixing some seemingly very serious bugs making the Firefish instance in question almost completely unusable, so without any further adieu….Originally attempted post follows:@ErikHarris @kainoa I’ve been hearing about and even myself having major issues like that which you describe (Brave, Vivaldi, Chromium, Firefox - each tested on both Android and Desktop (win/Linux).I can often click the retry/submit button several times over and over and eventually have a semi-usable state, but still cannot tell when replying to a post will fail or changing feed scope will bork the interface. I never not have major error issues, and sometimes it’s just a black screen or one with a single caricature in the middle of the black background. Sometimes a refresh will yield more, more likely it won’t on those particular days.I never not have problems trying to expand a thread, it’s almost completely unworkable, so I end up copying the URL and pasting it into another Fediverse instance’s interface to follow threads that I want to read.This has been a persistent problem since attempting the account migration from Calckey to Firefish - the steps were followed a few times and migration was never sufficiently successful but at some point the migration just appeared to be completed… But half-broken ever since.I just figured it would work itself out eventually, following an update or DB maintenance, but the issues have remained pretty consistent - enough to stop pumping the advocacy for Firefish for a bit until the issues are cleaned up anyway and I don’t see reports about it regularly. Usually, a bug is something rather singular and reliably recreated, this is rather comprehensive and inadvertent enough that documenting the behavior would fail to produce something reliably recreated.At first, I thought that it was a result of me borking the migration - I did seek support help and that was what was related to me. Later, after carefully re-reading the instructions, I was able to determine that I did follow the somewhat vague instructions to the letter and in the proper order, so the borkage occured when the process was properly applied. The sad thing is, I was merely going to just start with a completely fresh account but wanted to undergo the official process for migration and report any irregularities.My original account was on the flagship/reference Calckey instance, which was migrated over to this instance in the midst of the period when the product renaming was underway, IIRC. I hope this info helps, as much as it’s mired in generalizations and dependent on vague memories of the transistion. #tallship #calckey #migration #Firefish ⛵.
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad7aI0R8wMH7BF4Dfk by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-12-24T03:03:26.413811Z
       
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       #PeerTube just gets better and better - something the rest of the #Fediverse could really benefit from is observing how it leverages external technologies through its plugin network.No longer just a #VoD platform, or a #Twitch replacement with native #LiveChat via plugins with all of the goodies one would expect, but now with #podcast support the raises the bar even higher...And everything is easy peasy when integrating Fediverse OAUTH... more on that later ;)#tallship #FOSS #LiveStreaming⛵ .RT: https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/111612610622587423
       
 (DIR) Post #AdMk1otWX3x1nJtgDQ by tallship@neenster.org
       2023-12-31T10:32:32.267674Z
       
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       We've been discussing these issues, amongst others lately in the Fediverse-City room on Matrix, what with the relative demise of Meetup.com following its acquisition by WeWork, and the rise of *events over at Faceplant further obviating them having much to do with a plethora of event management projects exploding onto the scene for the past couple of years.It's been a while since I've visited #Faceplant, so long in fact, I only recently became aware a couple of years ago that they had a marketplace that has largely supplanted craigslist, and finding out just today that they in fact have some sort of events system - that speaks volumes, I think, toward my dedication to dogfooding my #FOSS and simply ignoring, for the most part, there are still some privacy disrespecting operators in the deprecated monolithic silo space of social networking.#Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, #Rebased, and #Friendica have their own take on how these event management systems should #Federate through the rest of the #Fediverse, while others mentioned in the article below, including #WordPress try to fit into that niche in a cooperative, interoperable way... and it's paying off. Bigtime.It's a good read, events are powerful for hobbyists, technologists, sports enthusiasts, and just about any kind of IRL or remote attendance awareness and organizing; so it only stands to reason that #DeSoc, and social networking in general include the capabilities to seamlessly propagate events as globally possible.At the very least, events are heralded as one of the best ways to get free pizza šŸ• and beer šŸŗ  with others that have common interests. After a veritable shitload of funding from many sources, including NGI0 and even larger corporate sponsors, we're approaching a place where anyone with a Fediverse account, even on the smolweb or most obscure platforms like Threads, will be privy to things like announcements, RSVP, alerts, Etc., of upcoming events, regardless of whether your Fediverse platform of choice directly supports event management.And it is perhaps a little ironic, that #Threads users themselves will likely have at their disposal, an event notification and management capability in direct conflict with the one that Meta wants them to use - I dunno how that's going to work out, but I think it's pretty kewl that nobody else does either at this time.#tallship #Fediverse_City #NGI0 h/t to @silverpill for the heads up on the following article, he just always seems to know where that rabbit is hiding in the tophat and pulls it right out when it's most needed, lolz.⛵ .RT: https://event-federation.eu/2023/12/20/it-is-all-about-the-community/
       
 (DIR) Post #AdbzzIWvvOAy6UqJkG by tallship@neenster.org
       2024-01-07T19:02:09.856802Z
       
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       I'm seeing an awful lot of Threads sourced nuggets espousing the virtues of, along with optimism surrounding, the #Fediverse lately.This seems a bit sus to me, like a concerted outreach effort on the part of Meta/Faceplant and a few other largish, commercial actors to popularize their ulterior motives of domination by... Ahem, normalizing the concepts of #DeSoc and more specifically, the ActivityPub powered spaces in the Fediverse.I actually dunno who MDBHD or John Oliver are, but I'm certain that they're no Oprah, although it would be nice if she would weigh in on the critical mass achieved to date in the adoption of Fediverse technologies that are #FOSS based, and #Privacy respecting.To date, *Privacy has been of primary consideration and motivation in the development community surrounding the #ActivityPub powered platforms in the Fediverse, but the questionable players entering from the horizontally scaling decentralized social networking industry have, as of late, been overwhelmingly of the deprecated, privacy disrespecting, monolithic silo persuasion. These monolithic-ally inclined companies hailing from vertically thinking companies are an expected, yet suspect group of *privacy mining experts, sophomorically (sic) wading into the deep end of a demographic consisting mostly of privacy minded* individuals and notable developers of the FOSS based portions of the software world.<tangent> These industrial surveillance engines are already back on their heels as they venture into what many warn as an #EEE incursion - but truth be told, already too late to the game to subjugate, assimilate us:  #Diaspora #ZOT #nostr #Nomad #Matrix #TOR #Yggdrasil #I2P #IPFS / #IPNS and others, including blockchain based so-called #Web3 solutions with baked in privacy considerations at the protocol layer are being *Bridged to interoperate with each other and ActivityPub in the Fediverse at rates which the purveyors of industrial surveillance machinery must invariably only describe as "alarming rates" - that's good news for the average schmoes of the world like you and I. </tangent>So why are we, just in the past few weeks, seeing so much attention given to the Fediverse by these #juggernauts, perhaps #dreadnoughts, that for so long have exhibited such great restraint and avoidance of the mere utterance of Fediverse, ActivityPub, or even alluding to the notions of Decentralization? There's certainly a particular spin in their delivery, leveraging third parties that obfuscate their participation in the dissemination of their, Great News.Speaking of Dreadnoughts, just how was it that the great Bismarck was taken out? Remember? The outgunned and outmatched Royal Navy took out her port rudder! ⛵ šŸ’„ It was the end of an era. A rudder post. The Bismarck was doomed to circle her watery grave.But I digress...Make no mistake, obscuring the lines between the privacy respecting FOSS based camps that have historically steered the direction of DeSoc has taken, and the deprecated, proprietary silo companies which have based their entire existence upon advertising and industrial surveillance models that I refer to as The Sunnyvale Syndrome family of data mining engines, is now seeping through the cracks of a clear delineation between these two prinicples - that of uncompromising privacy and open source development and that of proprietary, closed source subjugation methodologies leveraging **YOU as the product in inventory*.Feel free to boost and share your comments at length here. A million people other than myself are here in the Fediverse and are really interested in just what kind of impact the introduction of these traditionally privacy raiding Industrialists will have upon their... scratch that, our future online safety.tl;dr: Your very private, personal medical history and data (and that of your minor children, in violation of FERPA regulations) is being wholesaled and auctioned off by the so-called "Big-Tech" entrants and hopefuls that are at this very time knocking on the front door of the ActivityPub portions of Fediverse... Tread lightly, and consider how your every move going forward affects the unwitting consent to farm and sell your most confidential personal information.it is up to you - it is your choice to affirm or deny - whether industrial surveillance is your birthright to embrace or your nemesis to destroy... You, We, have that power to decide.#tallship #Privacy #Sunnyvale_Syndrome #meta #HIPAA #PHI #FERPA h/t to: @liaizon⛵ .RT: https://social.wake.st/users/liaizon/statuses/111714899199909225
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfJOTTyWHS9ZElNM8 by tallship@neenster.org
       2024-01-09T09:33:50.135611Z
       
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       Well this is a really fucked up #Rug_Pull!At the time, I searched and searched and could not find any #FOSS solutions to achieve what I figure most everyone who must use #MFA / #2FA needs, namely:A Linux desktop versionAn Android version (F-Droid or .APK - not from the Google playstoreA Windows desktop versionDoes anyone have suggestions as to how to achieve this, so that it syncs between all of your devices?There are plenty (even FOSS versions) out there, but none of them that I know of that sync between all of your devices. If you lose your phone... oh well! But with Twillio you could just install it on a new phone and it would sync over all of your accounts from one of your other devices, laptop, whatev. I know it's proprietary, and that's a bad thing, but like I said, I couldn't find a single FOSS solution that had this very basic functionality of syncing between all of your devices.Do you know of an authenticator that syncs between all of your devices? Feel free to boost and ask around, people shouldn't have to carry a phone around with them everywhere, let alone use a phone for your multi-factor authentication when your working on your desktop, and using your desktop/laptop to authenticate/signon to your accounts. That's just ridiculous.https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030477/authy-desktop-app-shutting-downWe only have 7 months to migrate to an alternative solution. The Desktop version goes EOL and then dark in August.If you have any suggestions, please do let me know #tallship #Twillio #authenticator⛵ .
       
 (DIR) Post #AdfU6PuABJKUkrbXAe by tallship@neenster.org
       2024-01-09T11:32:45.978610Z
       
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       Thank you for the optimistic PoV on the entrance of others to the #DeSoc of the Fediverse. It is an optimism that I share - especially with Matthias' announcement just an hour ago that his team behind the development of the #WordPress ActivityPub plugin has just released version 2.0.0 - considering the enormous footprint of WordPress installations across the entire Internet belonging to both common, everyday individuals and companies alike, of every shape and size, this is HUGE news.It instantly, overnight, positions common folks and businesses to leap into the freedoms afforded them by the existing, privacy respecting, #FOSS based Fediverse that hitherto was... well, a bit of a leap for them psychologically. But now they have a familiar platform with which to begin a journey through the minefields of the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos; its proprietors programming their masses of #subjugated_chattel into livestock holding pens, where they are weighed, measured, packaged, placed into inventory, and sold.That does raise the issue of an error in your assertions however. You mentioned, "instances in Meta's fediverses and on Bluesky".The truth however, the reality, is that each are merely a single instance - One big monolithic silo, as described above, with the same incentives of monetization through privacy mining techniques that have made them the dreadnoughts that they are; at least in the case of #Meta (Threads).Bluesky is of that vertically scaling market as well, but much smaller than the #Faceplant and #InstaSPAM engines operated by Meta, and now their new spearhead into the DeSoc space occupied by ActivityPub and other decentralized or federated protocol based, horizontally scaling instances.#Bluesky hasn't actually shown their hand yet to the general public, but already, they've disenfranchised (fired) much of their talent; some, actually principal architects of their monolith who were frustrated and disillusioned with the direction Jay has been taking the company - moving further and further away from the disowned public community they spawned, organized, and abandoned following the initial trials and tests of the open source preview version of what became #ATP protocol (ATX). Even Jack has moved on and embraced yet another horizontally scaling protocol in the DeSoc space, #nostr, and it's already bridged and interoperating flawlessly with the ActivityPub powered portion of the Fediverse, which in turn interoperates with instances running other protocols such as #Nomad, #OStatus, #Streams, #Diaspora, and #ZOT... all of them part of the Fediverse.Many of the extant #ActivityPub powered instances in the Fediverse merely need to install these capabilities with a couple of clicks to enable this interoperability, while others bridge the divide through infrastructure developed and deployed  over the past year or so. What will be Meta's use case here for their business product? That's the main question I think folks need to address - not punish the good people on the so-called evil side of the divide, the hitherto subjugated chattel that populate Marks so-called Metaverse or whatever he thinks he can compel people to adopt and endure. The point is, childish, domain level blocking by juvenile minds operating ActivityPub powered #Fediverse server instances only serves to paint themselves (and the users who have to date trusted those admins with being told what they can and cannot see and do) into a corner where they effectively cancel themselves, and find that their users have migrated to other spaces... maybe WordPress, where they truly control their own destiny in the DeSoc space and can now fully participate and engage with others - but on their own terms, not someone else's.And that, I believe, is what the whole thing has always been about, going back as far as #AngelFire and #GeoCities :) I do agree with you that we should indeed embrace these common, everyday individuals who, through their programmed ignorance, are mostly clueless as to exactly what the Fediverse is, and more importantly, has always promised for them. This is an opportunity, like Steve Austin, (the Six Million Dollar Man): "We can rebuild them, we have the technology, we can make them better, stronger, faster..."One more thing I should correct you on, the Fediverse is an internetwork of networks, on the Internet - there are no fediverses, Fediverse is itself a plurality, but your intent wasn't lost on me.Great article, I enjoyed the read and most of all, your optimistically tempered intent. Thanks for sharing and I hope to see much more from you in the future! #tallship⛵ .