Interestingly this has the basics to provide a personal ActivityPub-enabled stack, so it could join the Fediverse and still be useful today (after some modifications)
Blërg, a microblogging platform
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#12That Metal Umlaut brings memories.
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#13Will it be editorial (retain censoring rights) or, instead, a platform (true freedom of expression)?
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#14Interestingly this has the basics to provide a personal ActivityPub-enabled stack, so it could join the Fediverse and still be useful today (after some modifications)
Slightly off topic, but someone should sell Fediverse in a box. I should be able to go buy a physical credit card sized thing which I plug into my wifi and everything is setup for me. Is someone working on something like that or is the Fediverse not ready for this yet?
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#15> Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad idea. As the service grew, I'm sure it cost them a lot more time than it saved.
I believe that Twitter runs on the JVM since almost a decade.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
No people do this all the time - a few years ago I read an article where the secret sauce was writing everything in lisp (good luck hiring for that). Goldman Sachs does a lot of work in erlang but mostly to limit turnover on the dev side - try getting a job if all you have on your resume is years of working with a language nobody else uses, you can do it but it’s going to take a lot more effort on your part. I came a…
> Goldman Sachs does a lot of work in erlang but mostly to limit turnover on the dev side - try getting a job if all you have on your resume is years of working with a language nobody else uses, you can do it but it’s going to take a lot more effort on your part. My take on that is slightly different. Choosing a fairly esoteric language as a company reduces the amount of effort it takes to review applicants. Right no…
> Post a job advert for erlang, you'll get significantly less applicants because there are fewer erlang programmers.
In general I would agree with you, but does that work everywhere? I could see how that works in some tech focused locations like Silicon Valley. But if I would try to hire Erlang developers around here I would not find a single one. Unless of course I would hire remotely and try to compete with SV company salaries.
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#17Interestingly this has the basics to provide a personal ActivityPub-enabled stack, so it could join the Fediverse and still be useful today (after some modifications)
Slightly off topic, but someone should sell Fediverse in a box. I should be able to go buy a physical credit card sized thing which I plug into my wifi and everything is setup for me. Is someone working on something like that or is the Fediverse not ready for this yet?
Wait, what do you mean? Set up Fediverse on WiFi? Fediverse refers to decentralized social media which can 'federate' with each other.
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#18Interestingly this has the basics to provide a personal ActivityPub-enabled stack, so it could join the Fediverse and still be useful today (after some modifications)
Slightly off topic, but someone should sell Fediverse in a box. I should be able to go buy a physical credit card sized thing which I plug into my wifi and everything is setup for me. Is someone working on something like that or is the Fediverse not ready for this yet?
I don't think it's the fediverse that's quite the problem. Two issues that I can think of that makes this harder to achieve:
1. You'll have to fuck around with router settings to forward the incoming traffic to that piece of hardware.
2. You'll have to have a domain, and fuck around with dynamically changing DNS settings because your IP is likely not static (this process depends on which DNS provider you choose to use).
To add to the complexity, you'll probably have to have some sort of a VPN because otherwise anyone would be able to see your public IP by just pinging your domain.
Point being: you can run Pleroma right now on a Raspberry Pi no problem, but doing so securely is another issue altogether.
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#19I was looking for Twitter alternatives and found this one, which is old and stale but looks like a very interesting experiment! Quoting its frontpage: But what's wrong with Twitter? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. There are two aspects of Twitter that just bug me as an engineer: Ruby on Rails - Using rails to prototype a system is fine — scaling up to a million hits a day with it is just a bad idea. As the service grew, I'm sure…
Who cares what twitter is written in? They've gotten rid of their fail whales eons ago, so this seems like a fever dream of an elitist engineer to argue that the biggest issue with Twitter is it's engineering backbone.
People do this all the time here too. "Some already existing and perfectly functional piece of software impemented in Language Du Jour" is a pretty common post.
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#20Interesting. I pet peeve of mine is the usage of the diaeresis marks for stylization though.