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For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”.
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I pour some water in a trough
I sneeze and splutter, then I cough.
And with a rough hewn bough
My muddy paddy fields I plough.
Loaves of warm bread in a row
Crispy crusts and doughy dough.
Ow, my final duty to do
And then my chores will all be through.
My lament is finished, even though
Learning this word game is really slow.
It is so difficult, it's very rough
Learning English is really tough.
If a trough was a truff
And a plough was a pluff
If dough was duff
And though was thuff
If cough was cuff
And through was thruff
I would not pretend, or try to bluff,
But of OUGH I've had enough...
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You probably already know this but Pidgin is named after "pidgin English", not pigeon the bird.
However, the word origin of "pidgin" seems to be derived from "pigeon":
@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.
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@pidgin is the reason I will never be able to spell "pigeon" correctly.
Not just English. In Jeremiah 1:11-12 we have:
שקד - almond tree
שקד - watch over (be wakeful over)
For all you non-native English speakers out there, “read” is pronounced like “lead”, and “read” is pronounced like “lead”. #EnglishIsHard
@pidgin I want to be able to click on xmpp: or tel: links in firefox and have pidgin bring up a chat window for that account (or expand telno into an xmpp address for a telco/xmpp gateway service like jmp.chat).
I've looked at https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/XMPP_URIs which gets me as far as running an arbitrary cli. But how do I bring up a specific chat window in pidgin from the cli?
Effective at what? That is the real question.
Ah - you paste into search field in URL format to be able to follow an account on another server.
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The 5000th GPF strip is officially in the queue. It will go live on January 4th. That's, um, a LOT of comic strips.
Mind you, there are already over 5000 UPDATES in the archive. Some of those are guest strips, some are bonus "Sunday comics" that were added before I did them regularly and thus weren't officially numbered. But this is 5k sequentially numbered comics. Now I REALLY feel old.
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@customdesigned@qoto.org if you were to self host activity pub I wouldn’t use mastodon unless you plan to spend and have lots of users. It doesn’t work for small scale. As for this specific Que, honestly not sure, what’s gargons follow count?
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Iirc, activity0ub requires the server to "accept" and store the followers' info(inbox and such) so when you make a post their server would get notified about it(allowing for both notifications and simply to know if there is a post to pull)
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@customdesigned Whilst this is all technically correct and useful, I think a bigger factor is going to be the front end for non-technical users. And that includes brands that want to have a presence and add that mode into their marketing campaigns. Lastly, sometimes a single user with high profile can bring an audience with them and dominate a particular platform, whilst remaining an average presence on others.
Having not hosted activityPub servers, I don't know the limitations. Could a Mastodon account potentially be followed by millions? Could they be counted?
I am trying to work out the strengths and weaknesses of messaging platforms from fully decentralized to federated to centralized. I am only a user on Mastodon/activitypub and IRC, but I have in the past hosted usenet and currently host:
smtp (email)
XMPP
Matrix
SSB (Secure ScuttleButt)
SIP (fully decentralized)
The impressive feature of twitter and it's totalitarian centralized ilk is that a single id can have millions of followers - and know that. SSB supports unlimited secure (signed) broadcasting, but there is no mechanism for knowing how many followers there are. Of course, TV was in the same boat, and you could get an estimate by polling. BBC broadcasts on SSB.
Counting followers is essential for monetizing content via advertising and sponsors in a decentralized manner - i.e. not subject to cancellation at a whim by a global centralized platform.
Matrix seems ideal for many of the purposes people use Teams or Substack or Slack. Private conversations e2e encrypted, logging with controlled retention (HIPPA compliant), voice and video calls, voice and video conferencing, media. But performance of small personal servers drops with number of participants in a room - I don't think it can support a million followers.
XMPP has inconsistent state for multiple devices, and is terrible at group chats. I do use it a backup for matrix and for voice/video calls. Open XMPP clients supporting VOIP and IPv6 are easier to find than SIP clients. (And SIP is even worse at state for multiple devices.)
Usenet has no authentication (not worth tacking on GPG header schemes).
Email is not designed to be "instant" (as in IM), but can be coaxed into resembling that by clients such as DeltaChat.
Ok, so now I should make a feature matrix (which includes Matrix), but have I missed any open and federated/decentralized protocols? Any other features? Current feature list:
broadcast (million+ followers)
follower count
p2p voice/video
e2e encryption
authentication
federated
decentralized (or federated that can be practically fully decentralized, like SMTP)
Did I miss any?
On Timcast (Rumble/Youtube), twice a panelist has stated "no point in using mastodon and activitypub because mastodon.org can cancel you anytime they want.
This seems like they missed the whole of federation. I traced packets while logging into qoto.org - and didn't spot anything from my network touching mastodon.org.
But maybe qoto.org and and other servers delegate to mastodon.org for login? I can' think of a good reason for that - but before I go on a rant I'm asking if there is any basis to the rumor.
Obviously, if you (foolishly) make your mastodon account on mastodon.org - the operators can cancel you (as they should be able to). I don't think people - even talk show hosts - understand what federation is.
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Fact check: Other animals use capybaras as furniture. :chadybara:
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Fact check: The scientific name for capybara comes from Hydro chaeris, which means "water hog" in Greek. :chadybara:
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- Matrix
- @stuart:gathman.org
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- https://gathman.org
Joined Aug 2020
