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Activitypub does have many very small nodes, very few very large nodes, and few medium sized ones. A lot of this is people wanting to be on the same server that their friends are o…

Of course it‘s a good rule. It is also at the same time contrary to everything he‘s said before about how he would run twitter - hell, he called this account out specifically as on…

The person doing the cleaning on our office floor always wears very large and conspicuous probably noise canceling headphones, while working. Guessing she has had one too many pers…

It presumably helps somewhat if you want to find sponsors, or locations to hold parties, if you can point at an official list on which you are and say "look! this is a real thing! …

One nice thing about a federated system is that admin work is also distributed. I run a small server that has existed for a long time (and has knowledge of / federates to some exte…

They both aren't really anymore, but they do hang out.

Mostly, that not every instance has the same policy. You can always join a place where the credo is "we connect with everybody", while people who want a very filtered experience ca…

I sometimes wonder if there is a large disconnect between two types of twitter users - those that use it as a sort of "news-gathering" medium, and those that use it as a conversati…

If I understand correctly, that would be under the theoretical assumption that you can perform computations on numbers that require infinitely many bits (or at least, likely, expon…

If the end goal is to reduce third-party tracking by ad networks, then actually loading the ads, nevermind fake-clicking, certainly seems terribly misguided, and that's putting asi…