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Post by system2 »

kanbara wrote: post #288
system2 wrote: post #204

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How is that absurd? His twitter client is just an interface for what twitter does already. It is like buying pizza from Dominos and adding one more topping on and reheating. I think investing in social media platform APIs is risky because they keep changing their business models and policies.

twitterific and tweetbot were amazing polished UIs that made twitter better, before twitter even had a first party app. and twitterific coined tonnes of metaphors and UI that twitter uses to this day. if you don't know the history of the third-party twitter clients, maybe don't make stuff up about how useless they are

You sound hurt. Please take a break from online.

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Post by girvo »

tptacek wrote: post #269
girvo wrote: post #262

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> I'll be on my own address sometime in the next month or so. As someone who's looking to do exactly that myself, what server are you thinking of running? Mastodon itself, or one of the others?

I'm watching Takahe pretty closely but I'll do Mastodon if I don't have any other choices.

It's an excellent choice of name! (Signed, a kiwi)

Pleroma seems interesting too, though some drama in the community there turned me off a bit. I might keep an eye on Takahe too, I hadn't come across that one. Cheers!

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Post by fennecfoxy »

rsynnott wrote: post #330
CaptainZapp wrote: post #308

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> I'm expecting this to be the second-dumbest thing I ever predicted badly (I dismissed MP3s, too!) Fret not; when Sony released the first digital Mavica (the one that stored pictures on 1.44" floppys) I would have made a bet that digital photography will never take off. My only lame excuse it that at this time it was just unfeasible imagining that one day in the not too distant future you'd be able to store terabyte…

I was _very_ sceptical of Netflix (the streaming incarnation, not ye olde postal DVD thingy); I didn't think the economics could be made to work, or that everyone would buy an AppleTV or similar to use it (I very much wasn't counting on smarttvs...)

Realistically much of the success of Netflix is thanks to a partnership with Microsoft and the Xbox 360.

They didn't have to worry about a set-top box + I believe MS helped them serve content from XBL servers.

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Post by fennecfoxy »

Does it federate your identity to others servers automatically yet?

Or is it still the case that if you piss off the server owner/they decide to call it quits without allowing migration, that all your data is gone?\

It's a glaring flaw really.

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Post by wedn3sday »

soheil wrote: post #270
wedn3sday wrote: post #234

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> "... drive enough revenue ..." Pretty clear where your values are here. Personally I quite like a system that's explicitly not being designed to drive revenue, and would like to interact with other people that also want to be in a place with a higher value then the dollar bill. Im perfectly happy to let people with your values stay on twitter away from me.

What do you think revenue does? It's a signal that something is of value to society so it can be used for growth to further increase value.

Im saddened to hear that my community garden and local library dont provide any value to society, must be why I like spending time there so much.

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Post by Slava_Propanei »

api wrote: post #80
godelski wrote: post #50

I've been thinking about social media a lot lately and how it has changed my life. I'm only in my early 30's, but I think many others my age grew up online and when the internet felt smaller, but in a different way. I made life long friends through these means. But something I've noticed is that as everyone has come online, I have made fewer friends. What I personally miss is the small niche communities. These don't…

The net was a very different place before, say, somewhere between 2010 and 2015. I saw a huge shift then. Everything got monetized, weaponized, optimized for addiction, or drowned in spam. There’s always been bad actors and criminals and trolls online too but in the past decade they have either gotten worse or become more empowered. The golden age of the open Internet was really between about 1996 when it started to…

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Post by EricE »

tptacek wrote: post #12

I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about…

RSS? We had it until everyone ceded control to Google because it was convenient.

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Post by selestify »

claytongulick wrote: post #186
api wrote: post #80

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The net was a very different place before, say, somewhere between 2010 and 2015. I saw a huge shift then. Everything got monetized, weaponized, optimized for addiction, or drowned in spam. There’s always been bad actors and criminals and trolls online too but in the past decade they have either gotten worse or become more empowered. The golden age of the open Internet was really between about 1996 when it started to…

I'd add the Burning Man / burner community to this list too. It used to be a wild-west sort of escape from real life, and exploration of the ten principles [1]. Now politics dominate and there's only one right-think. When I brought up some of my concerns about this, I had someone in leadership of one of the largest regional burns tell me "you all had your time with the ten principles stuff. We're in charge now". Sad,…

When did that change? Why do they still have the 10 principles up if they dont' believe in it anymore?
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