Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

"Systems that run forever self-heal and scale" by Joe Armstrong (2013)

#erlang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNICGEwmXLU

I don’t really have any idea, but if I was to advocate anything, it might include features that augment their offline world, that focus on creating vs. consuming and strengthen community values, character and mental health. @strypey

@EndlessMason You, as a consumer would not trust paid email more than unpaid, but if spammers, who send millions of emails, and expect a very small return rate, had to pay, there would likely be fewer of them, or it might stop being lucrative at all.

@strypey We as yet have no micropayment architecture wired into the net. Maybe building one is too much effort, but it would buy a lot (pun intended).

Playing football in thick fog against a team of clowns. Luckily, I can see the funny side.

I guess these are the same idiots who complain about #China polluting the #environment… in the process of manufacturing *our* goods.

Are people who have never even lived there, let alone understand cultural nuances, really so arrogant and stupid to get onboard with criticising #Qatar?

🙄

Another question regarding the Fediverse: "Would politicians, press, higher learning, celebrities actually ever be bothered to self-host an instance and pay someone to maintain it?"

Again, Automattic answers that question.

What do all those institutions use for their websites? Self-hosted WordPress sites.

Who runs it? Someone they pay.

Self-hosting and maintenance can not only be normalized -- people would probably be happy to do it.

Why do I compare Automattic to Big Social? Because Automattic:

1. Builds social media products
2. Has achieved significant market share
3. Makes money

Whenever people ask me about a potential model for the Fediverse, I point to Automattic.

They're no flash in the pan. They've existed for ~20 years.

Those looking for a more bounded social network experience than what's offered by Mastodon and another existing fediverse software, might be interested in the work being done by the #Bonfire project:

http://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/introducing_boundaries/

#ActivityPub

@freemo Thanks for thinking it through. I'm regularly gladdened that I stumbled into this server instead of another.

@JoshuaACasey Agreed, especially when the system makes it so easy for individuals to block. You onnly need to block servers not people and you address mostly all bad actors.. so a dozen or two blocks and an individual is good. There is no NEED for a master block list forced upon them because the block lists are so manageable.

Moreover users can just import the blocklist as a CSV, so it literally takes a few seconds.

@tetrislife @camerondotca @albinanigans @mergerson Because every place here is _not_ equal?

Mastodon started out as an overwhelmingly white space, and this is still an apt description. Structural racism _will_ flourish in such a space, even with good intentions - and "good intentions" shouldn't be assumed.

I'm a french hacker, expert in distributed and scalable systems, coding in #Erlang, #Elixir, #Go and #Rust.

I am the founder of ProcessOne, maker of ejabberd a robust and scalable messaging server supporting #XMPP, #MQTT and #Matrix protocols.

I post here about tech, sharing my person opinion in English and sometime in French (you can limit the language that you want to follow me on).

Cheers !

#introduction

The fact that FreeNode runs on free code software didn't prevent or mitigate the hostile takeover:

https://lwn.net/Articles/857140/

Like the Great Fire of Titter, The Great Freenode Robbery is good example of the reason not to trust your communications to walled gardens (online services centralized under the control of one entity). Something to think about for people still using and promoting Signal...

#FreeNode #Signal #centralization

I made my #plan9 / #9front based #ActivityPub repo public. It's still very much a work in progress and it's mostly just a hodgepodge of undocumented scripts and C but if anyone's interested in helping push it along it's at https://github.com/driusan/fedi9.git

Right now it can:
Client:
- get (public) outboxes and cache them in ndb db
- import following list and do same
- serve them over 9p

Server:
- handle webfinger requests
- cache incoming inbox posts
- validate httpsigs

@maxplanckgesellschaft
✅ All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are

URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.

There is no need to use a link shortener!

#FediTips #MastoTips #LinkShortener #LinkShorteners #URLShortener #URLShorteners #CharacterLimits #Mastodon

@dl @erincandescent

I'm not an admin so I obviously can't speak for them, but having just witnessed a couple of cases of users that couldn't communicate with each other because of an obvious excess of defederation (neither of the instances involved, AFAIK, deserved it) I can't but think that there may cases of excess in prudence.