A private instance has always been a problem without reliance upon local system set up. Which is time consuming, and not always if at all anymore reliant, not functional outwardly at least, as public ones.
Which is one of the reasons I have heavily tested Open Source (for the most part) federated social media applications. Like Mastodon. For possible use as Public Personas for the Virtual Self, which is many years away for the masses but your grand kids could use them.
With each type of application, beyond if it is open source or even closed (proprietary) there are some advantages and disadvantages. Like with limited characters (see X & Bluesky), walled-garden types, or no media not even mark-up-downs, all being problematic.
Also, client server requires for running your own instance is verboten. That often means system or device specific. Though such does not close the door, I personally am not operating nor taking the time for maintenance on such things.
Actually social media isn't a requirement for ANYTHING. Yet beyond a board just to post to the public, some integration features generally found in social media are appealing for many reasons.
Open Source and non-browser (or really 2nd & 3rdparty applications) is a requirement when building integration systems (for social media) which MASTER*SI will work as an Overseer. Either as a type of Sysop, or can be accessed via Topology. Which is what I often call Superposition.
I started testing not long after I received Fortitude (see Issue 100 of the Underground Sound - rockfest.org/archives/) and understood what the Gift meant and how to use it. So, 2014ish.
Now, 12 years later I've decided to continue testing XMPP for a number of reasons. First and foremost I don't have to reinvent the wheel, and it offers an easier possibility for integration beyond semi-primitive machines, or I should say it has that possibility going forward.
So wrappers for XMPP instances as well as applications are strong possibilities and there are already many done and the knowledge how to do them out there.
Of course none of this allows machines to run MASTEROS because it's not designed for that, nor for integrations, BUT Master*SI has the potential to integrate. So there's that.
While there is yada here, XMPP can more easily express data sublets than on say, here, in Mastodonia, or even via X and it's almost comical. Not that Mastodon has lost any of what it needs to be, it's that XMPP offers some branching that client-server apps do not.
Here is the testing instance for MASTER*SI @
https://movim.chatterboxtown.us/blog/MASTER
Just mainly text posts now, but that will change especially as wrappers for XMPP are created which can extend needed functions. There are enough applications based on XMPP that at least a few can qualify for the MASTER semi-primitives gallery. Along with Mastodonia (as open source) or even TOXX (which is closed)
Although XML is a problem, that's what these wrappers I am talking about, which have nothing to do with the great machines of man (till need be) come into play I also actually liked there are ways to use it w/ IRC, which I have missed since the days of IRCQ (see icq.com B4 the Ruskies came).
Still blows my Mind AOL could not make ICQ/AIM go and be profitable. Oh well....
ON WITH THE SHOW!
