@ben11kehoe I've got some unpublished writing on the misconception that proprietary code is an asset.
Everyone wants to be a tech company, because they get sweet market multiples in recent history, and they think they need expensive engineers writing proprietary code to achieve this.
I think there are really two types of tech company: pure tech and tech-enabled. Pure tech companies sell tech products or leverage proprietary tech to do something fundamentally different than their competitors. Tech-enabled companies use technology in existing markets to provide the same service, but better. For tech enabled companies, code should be seen as a liability.
We need software people in tech-enabled companies, but we need to reconceptualize the role to glorify high velocity, low TCO solutions over delivering new bespoke systems as the solution to every problem.
@ben11kehoe I think I get it. What we want is the simplest expression of business process, with the least amount of operational overhead.
If you go from managing hosting of a software product to writing a ton of custom FaaS code, that's might not be a win.
Is the right?
Use-it-or-lose-it flexible spending accounts are a horrible piece of policy. They should be banned rather than being blessed.
@ben11kehoe could you give an example of where this goes poorly?
@lrhodes I think it's a good option to have, minus the dark patterns Twitter uses to keep you in their algorithm and the lack of transparency on what it's serving you.
I listen to a lot of podcast audio. Every year it blows my mind that I listen to almost a month of audio. It has definitely been one of the defining features of my life for the past several years.
@freemo Oh, very cool. Looks like they're currently closed to new instances, but good to see people are already doing this.
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@acjay you mean to spin up your own instance... check out masto.host
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i’ve been trying to figure out a way to articulate something that i keep seeing on here (and other places to a limited extent, but mostly here) the idea that ppls perceptions of the internet changed bc of big walled platforms like facebook or twitter,
but im not sure if that’s ACTUALLY the case or if what those platforms actually did was make the aspects of the internet most ppl find confusing, like servers, more accessibility to ppl who now feel lost
How long until there are dead simple Mastodon-instance-as-a-service providers? Does this already exist?
@emaytch Yup. Moxy Marlinspike wrote what I consider a seminal essay on this here: https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
@cbyrd01 I don't know if it would be a good thing or not for the Fediverse, but I can see how both companies might see it being in their interests, in the same way as hosting email.
@sparky_005 @Patricia I think we're about to see a giant experiment in decentralized community play out in real time.
I understand the history of Mastodon has had a lot of politics with instances deciding who to federate with. But the number of voices is way greater now. It seems to me that the instance level is to blunt of a tool and too beholden to admins.
@mguhlin @debirdify AWESOME, will try
How long until Google and Microsoft launch their own Fediverse instances and give people one-click opt-in to a Mastodon-like experience?
If ActivityPub is basically an email-like protocol, then hosting someone's Fediverse identity is pretty similar to giving them an email account, right?
Any reason to think this is a bad idea for them (other than the moderation problem)?
Criticism of the Fediverse & the federation model
@AvengingFemme I agree. It's kind of funny that I saw this immediate after posting this https://qoto.org/web/statuses/109378321764008693
Is there a concept of communities, independent of instances?
Instances seem to coarse-grained.
Hash tags are kind of close, except there's no ability to moderate a hash tag.
@debirdify Also, it would be cool to be able to filter out people I already follow on Mastodon.
I just discovered that in the Notifications tab, I can turn off the "Play Sounds" and keep Favorites out of my notifications. Love this. I think the dopamine rush of new likes and counters is one of the harmful things from a lot of commercial social media.
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