@acjay@qoto.orrg has moved @acjay@qoto.org

@som_snytt @april Yeah, but unlike holiday cards, I generally want my post history to persist indefinitely.

It's good to know that followers should migrate smoothly. That is indeed better than moving physical addresses! I haven't tried instance migration yet to know exactly what the experience is, first-hand.

@april I looked into this, but IIRC, the problem is that you can't post under your own domain's handle.

The Fediverse replicates one of my real world pet peeves, the conflation of mailing address with physical location.

Every year, my wife sends out Christmas cards and we have to recheck everyone's mailing addresses, because people move. But why should moving change your mailing address? A mailing address could be some other identifier than a street address. The postal service could maintain a mapping that we could change whenever we move. Mail would never again go to an outdated location. Most people want to "send mail to Alan, wherever he happens to be", not "send mail to a given house and hope Alan resides there".

The Fediverse is similar. I chose Qoto as my initial home because I liked some of the decisions they made in setting up the instance. But now my identity is tied to Qoto. There are mechanisms to migrate, but they involve telling everyone my new location.

#Fediverse #Mastodon @identity

@muratk3n@masto.ai I think that there should be a way for organizations the own domains to be able to endorse users who are not hosted by them.

I also think that addresses should be independent of hosting. I think it's perfectly fine that instances *can* provide identities, but people should be able to establish their own identity separately. Like, I should be able to be @alan@acjay.com but still be hosted by Qoto, or whomever I choose, if I don't want to run my own Mastodon server. There are reasons this is technically difficult, but I think it's worthwhile.

@mikebrunt If this paper is any indication, it sounds like other scholars are taking the ideas seriously, but at least the full scope of what he presented isn't considered fact at this point, and there are other theories.

The Fediverse needs a better answer for identity, decoupled from hosting. Identity needs decentralized verification. I know none of this is easy.

I'm pretty sure this is where Bluesky is trying to differentiate. But it feels like it could be vaporware and I admittedly feel biased against things from the Dorseyverse.

#fediverse #mastodon #TwitterMigration #bluesky #identity

@NotPOTUS34 Noted!

A modest 2023 resolution: I'm always going to alternate my alcoholic drinks with water.

@mikebrunt interesting stuff. But also has the potential to be quackery. I'd like to find some independent review of these ideas.

@lucifargundam Yep, agree with all those things.

One thing I practice is acknowledging the emotions I have, whereas I used to be frustrated by them and try to suppress them.

So I try to make decisions by my own standards, knowing that I'll feel whatever I'm going to feel, and that's alright.

@NigeGeorge Wow, no idea the roots went that deep

@rach@social.rachsmith.com I can relate. I've got so much unpublished stuff. 2023 is the year I will get most of it out.

Becoming a parent has forced me to come to terms with the finiteness of my time, mental, and emotional energy, in terms of getting things done. It's humbling. Honestly, I'm very privileged in what I have to work with.

Some days, I feel like I'm crushing it. Other days, I feel like I can't get anything done. I try to be at peace with whatever I can do, because I do feel that in the long arc, I get the important stuff done. Even if it never actually feels enough and there's always an immense amount of things left undone.

But that's the trap, isn't it? If there even are people out there that can do it all, they must be so few, and everybody else just feels like they're failing. Most of us are getting by, and I think that's just fine.

@chaos I don't think that's true. There are plenty of abusive people on the Fediverse. Look at poa.st, for example.

I think it's unlikely that Mastodon users have self-selected to only include civil people and abusive people, but not sensationalists.

One thing I've noticed about social dynamics is that most people conform to a large extent to the culture and norms of whatever it is they join. In offline organizations, this is dominated by behavioral norms. But on tech platforms, the platform itself shapes the culture. "The medium is the message" and all.

@rolenthedeep @web3isgreat It's a concept in Ethereum and Ethereum-like smart contract chains. Because the smart contract language is Turing-complete, you can ask every node to do an unlimited amount of computation.

The gas mechanism is how Ethereum users are charged for computation al work. You pay per operation, and you fund your transaction with gas. Each operation the Ethereum Virtual Machine does depletes the gas by a certain amount, and if there's not enough gas to complete your transaction, it fails.

Not here to say whether this is a good or bad thing, just explaining what's meant by "gas" here.