“If implemented correctly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.

Waiting for the next headline where we find out the AI has been taking bribes.

In a post where she signs the open letter, ActivityPub co-author Christine Lemmer-Webber summarises the changing world well:

“This is actually a really important time for that message to come across, because our communities do both face major threats which I believe we are ideologically aligned in wanting to face:

We are facing a large number of laws which appear well-intentioned and aimed to try to take on tech gatekeepers, but unintentionally build regulatory moats that allow only gatekeepers to participate, and which threaten user freedom at large.

The rise of techno-fascism and omnisurveillance affects all users. Neither ATProto nor ActivityPub, at present, are built in such a way that they can provide the levels of protections necessary to respond to the needs of activists and community members against nation-state level threats.

These are our existential threats, not each other. And we need to figure out how to work together.”

I’m reading this as “be nice to the Bluesky guys, because we have a bigger problem to deal with.”

That’s fine, I’m not inclined to be mentally ill at strangers on the internet.

But I’m also not going to call it decentralized when it’s meaningfully not, and I’m going to keep an eye on where their money comes from.

We have a common enemy in government control.

But if you’re going to be my friend, I need you to not lie to my face.

Came looking for this comment and was not disappointed.

Petition for Silksong to be considered an honorary patient gamer game, given I waited seven years to play it.

Who asked for this?

I don’t understand the purpose of the letter.

Bluesky is, in practice, not decentralized.

It has the potential to decentralize, but if the community stops calling bullshit when Bluesky claims to already be decentralized, it would lose the one incentive it has to actually follow through.

Technically, nothing.

In practice, who do you know that’s using it and doesn’t run Arch, by the way?

My point isn’t that IRC/XMPP aren’t technically capable.

It’s that they’re not designed for non-technical users.

I want corporate social media to die. Mastodon and Piefed are far from killing the beast, but they’ve made the more progress than most projects have seen in a long time.

I want corporate messaging to die. Matrix is far from killing the beast, but for a little while, at least it was trying.

I wouldn’t mind going back to IRC roots if it could be made more user friendly and integrate voice and video chat.

Good UX/UI goes a long way to make it so non-technical people can join and strengthen the network.

I just need Plex to survive until I can replace it with Jellyfin.

Damn. That sucks. (Edit: Referring to the comments saying Matrix is dead and dying.)

I get that IRC and XMPP are more stable and built around federation from the ground up, but… they’re not Discord replacements.

That was IMHO, the point of Matrix/Element.

Tell me if I’m wrong, but a significant part of a network’s resilience is the number of nodes and users.

Without a glowup or some kind of repackaging, IRC/XMPP are doomed to stay niche.

Yo dawg…

I don’t mind “TikTok-like”. I just think it’d be a silly reason for the project to shutdown.

Makes sense. It was in pre-alpha.

Now that it’s in alpha, you’ll have 13.

Once it hits beta, it’ll skyrocket to an even 20.

Question: can they get sued for putting TikTok-like in the description, or does that only apply when you’re making money?

And the way the US thinks of Florida, Florida thinks of… uh…

A Japanese octogenarian was swindled out of thousands of dollars after falling in love online with a self-described astronaut who sought her help to avert a spaceship crisis, police said Tuesday.

As someone who fell for the emotional support kangaroo, I do feel bad for a lonely 80 year old Japanese woman.

Polanski seems like a red flag name at this point.

It’s like being named Adolf.

You don’t control what your parents named you, but if you’re an adult and you haven’t changed it, it says something about you.

How it feels having to click five links to get to the release notes.

IMO, setting it up at home is not the bar for decentralization.

That’s exactly where I set the bar.