Casey Rollins 🔵 @realcaseyrollins@qoto.org

Something like this happened to another federated/decentralized technology, XMPP. XMPP was used by Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and Google Talk to power instant messaging, then one by one those platforms disabled federation features and now barely anybody still uses XMPP. People fear something similar is going to happen to e-mail through GMail.

One commonly mentioned danger of a large corporate player like Twitter coming into the decentralized social world is the Embrace-Extend-Extinguish tactic, wherein one entity adopts a common protocol, and once it acquires a large marketshare then makes itself incompatible through custom changes, locking its users in and leaving the common protocol for dead.

So the Verge article for which I wrote some thoughts about Jack Dorsey announcing #Bluesky is out and it used only a few sentences from what I came up with, so I wanna share the full thing...

I was asked, if Twitter did indeed adopt #ActivityPub instead of coming up with something new, would it be better or worse for the decentralized social web?

I wrote 1,025 words about #Bluesky but of course only one quote actually made it to the article. Oh well

"Twitter and Facebook Want to Shift Power to Users. Or Do They?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/18/technology/facebook-twitter-bitcoin-blockchain.html

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All cool?

An old friend called me.
I was hoping he'd like to meet or something.
He says he wants to meet.
I agreed to the meeting.
Turns out he only needs tech support for his brother.
He's like to meet but he won't be able to make it at the time we agreed upon.
He's only an old acquaintance now.

@ArdanianRight @vriska
biology is a social construct anyway.

people who hate fortnite are just mad they have not ever won

Now that it's almost the end of December, what's the best book you read this year? (Doesn't have to be published in 2019, I just want to hear about what's good, what grabbed you.)

Google Is Going to War Against Its Own Workers https://gizmodo.com/google-is-going-to-war-against-its-own-workers-1840474218

"OK BOOMER" explained on Japanese TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-3hvEkJsm0

Should people with a .social domain run their own social network (node) ?

Husband in a bus named after Stalingrad because of its role in WWII. There is a TV in a bus showing a movie about Soviet soldiers in WWII. Yo

Now that I think about it most girls are cuter with messy hair.

Rapidly switching between two tabs with differently themed pleromafes is so trippy.

Policemen used empty threats. It's super effective.

Policemen used calm down. It's not very effective.