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mastodon reminds me more of the hobby shell boxes of the 90s. where all the ex-bbs-sysops would offer free mail, webhosting and shell accounts to their friends. fun times!
Those still exist today, check out the tildeverse and their family of niche shell boxes: https://tildeverse.org/
The endpoint seems to change based on which browser and which type of window I use to open it.
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Those still exist today, check out the tildeverse and their family of niche shell boxes: https://tildeverse.org/
Can someone explain how this link works? The endpoint seems to change based on which browser and which type of window I use to open it.
> Decentralized ones, by contrast, can be a mess but they democratize innovation well that's an interesting take. granting that the fediverse is decentralized, is it democratic? my instinct would be to say "no: i don't need to hold a referendum and get a majority vote in favor before bridging my site to the network: i just do it and each other site either federates with me or doesn't." that sounds more anarchic than…
It's because private businesses at first invest and try to grow the user base, for the ultimate goal of consolidating the market into a pseudo-monopoly. Once that happens, then monetization starts in full steam, and the corporations try to extract as much revenue out of this situation as possible.
This is obviously painful for the users, because they are now forced to carry the weight of the profits extracted off of the business. The value provided by the service is counterbalanced very precisely by the revenue extracted from the user. The hypothetical pain of moving to an alternative platform is also taken into account. Using the system becomes zero-value or even net negative for the user in the median case.
The users start to evaporate at this point for obvious reasons. They will move to an alternative de-centralized, free and public domain utility, or lacking that, to some small scale start-up provided utility which is still in an investment phase, which provides roughly, if not perfectly for the same need.
The cycle continues until the need is provided by non-commercial and de-centralized systems, and no business sees a viable chance of gaining an exploitative pseudo-monopoly on it.
> Decentralized ones, by contrast, can be a mess but they democratize innovation well that's an interesting take. granting that the fediverse is decentralized, is it democratic? my instinct would be to say "no: i don't need to hold a referendum and get a majority vote in favor before bridging my site to the network: i just do it and each other site either federates with me or doesn't." that sounds more anarchic than…
> Decentralized ones, by contrast, can be a mess but they democratize innovation well that's an interesting take. granting that the fediverse is decentralized, is it democratic? my instinct would be to say "no: i don't need to hold a referendum and get a majority vote in favor before bridging my site to the network: i just do it and each other site either federates with me or doesn't." that sounds more anarchic than…
Would that not be considered a meritocracy, then? That is: maybe not the best approach, but the best approach that most agrred to go along with...? As much of a fan as i am of the fediverse and especially ActivityPub, i'm sure there could have been other, better protocosl....but at the time, it was the best that most agreed to go along with. I think that's called meritocractic, no? Or, maybe there's a better word?
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Can someone explain how this link works? The endpoint seems to change based on which browser and which type of window I use to open it.
it looks at the referer field in the http request to see where you came from, and for the existence of a scarlet cookie. if it's a place they don't like, it drops a scarlet cookie in your browser that says they don't like you and then redirects. if the cookie exists, it redirects regardless.
Moving to Discord? An interesting choice seemingly in opposition to decentralization.
Moving to Discord? An interesting choice seemingly in opposition to decentralization.
It's not about the smart choice, it's about ensuring the future generation's interest. How can so much of HN be blind to this?
[ignore the first 6 paragraphs, here in reality we] "will be moving to Discord"
> Decentralized ones, by contrast, can be a mess but they democratize innovation well that's an interesting take. granting that the fediverse is decentralized, is it democratic? my instinct would be to say "no: i don't need to hold a referendum and get a majority vote in favor before bridging my site to the network: i just do it and each other site either federates with me or doesn't." that sounds more anarchic than…
Democracy doesn't automatically mean liberal democracy. Fundamentally anything that returns power from an "aristocracy" to the common people is democratisation.