Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 23:37:41 JST Sick Sun

   If you used just JSON for ActivityPub, then your IDs (if they are URLs) could have custom resolution rules. But if it's JSON-LD, then these are IDs which are opaque references. So, if you are using something like a DID where, to resolve it you have to extract arbitrary-positioned components of the ID such as URL query parameters, you now have to, outside of any existing spec, define rules for the inclusion and ordering of query parameters inside the URL.

   You can have the same problem with HTTP URLs because they also have query parameters, but HTTP URLs always have a path component so you always have an unambiguous way to resolve an object. So you just use paths and not a query string. With DIDs many of them don't have a path, they only have query string parameters.

   so I gave up and just said "AP DID URLs MUST have a both a service and a relativeRef query parameter (since they are allowed on every DID method), in that order, and no path."

   • Embed this notice
     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 00:56:54 JST NEETzsche

     in reply to
     @sun I realize that I'm interjecting a technical discussion with a social problem, but hear me out:
     
     None of this matters, because nobody actually uses fedi, especially right wing fedi, outside of techbro anime Nazis who are ideologically invested in never touching grass. Fediverse growth has completely petered out, and any hope one might have that it could one day replace giants like Twitter is basically nil. Worse, a good chunk of these techbro anime Nazis think this is somehow a good thing because it "filters" "normies." I used to compare fedi to email, but this side of fedi is so small that we might as well just dispense with "hellthreads" and revert back to email groups.
     
     In January of 2020, I wrote "The Fediverse Is The Future," and this is me basically admitting that I was wrong. It's not the future. It's not the present, either. It's not even the past. It's a failed experiment, a FOSS sperg mongoloid babby with fetal (h|c)opium syndrome.
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:30:11 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • NEETzsche
     @NEETzsche I don't know why I am ramping up my precious mental energy for it because I feel similarly. Part of it is simply that I have always been drawn to decentralized systems so it just scratches an itch.
     NEETzsche likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:19:31 JST NEETzsche

     in reply to
     @sun Yeah, I sympathize with that completely. It's just, I feel disillusioned with fedi, and I don't think the issue is the software itself. I think normies are actually nigger cattle, they're hylics, NPCs, whatever term you want to use.
     
     I went to BasedCon and was on a panel about digital vs print books, and as you might know, I have a light printing press in my garage. They let me on the panel for that reason, expecting me to be an anti-digital ideologue, but the truth is, I'm more like an anti-censorship and pro-creativity ideologue.
     
     One thing I noticed about everybody on that panel, and everybody attending it, is that they were basically institutionalized. The argument for ebooks revolved around Kindle. It was Kindle this, Kindle that, and how Amazon can take away your books by revoking access to them. When I brought up publishing DRM-free books, they looked at me like I had three heads.
     
     Conversely, the print media side of it was all the same stuff: what if you can't find an outfit to print your books, what if you get charged too much, and so on. When I raised: "Why not acquire the equipment to make our own books from scratch and build a parallel economy." They also looked at me like I had three heads.
     
     Now consider, the people at BasedCon are all rightoids, conservatives, mostly religious people. They're off the reservation politically. Quite frankly, these people are oppressed; they aren't free to express themselves and tons of effort by the state and the private sector are levied to try to preclude them from doing so. Yet they still insisted, for some reason, on using these institutions, institutions that openly hated them.
     
     And to loop back to this, so too is the case with social media. Functionally, fedi is a federated Twitter clone. People can argue that it's something else, but really, that's how people view it, and that's how people use it. But the thing is, people don't actually want to get off Twitter, or Facebook, or whatever. They want those "platforms" to reform and cater to them. Unrealistic as that might be, this is the hill people are dying on. It's decided already. They won't get off the reservation and start from scratch. Instead, they will turn the reservation into some kind of attrition war until they find themselves ina literal gulag.
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:21:14 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • NEETzsche
     @NEETzsche yeah I noticed this too, people will do anything but leave their abusive relationship with big companies
     NEETzsche likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:32:32 JST NEETzsche

     in reply to
     @sun Right, and what's so frustrating about it is raises the question of if the American people deserve this oppression because, bluntly, they tolerate it. And as you point out, they demand it. They show active resistance to actually getting off their corporate reservations; they'll gladly get on another corporate reservation. But where they go, must be a corporate reservation. Have you noticed that these people have an almost magical ability to suss out if something is an evil corporation or not, and will ONLY work with them if they are?
   • Embed this notice
     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:40:23 JST Sick Sun

     in reply to

     • NEETzsche
     @NEETzsche if they deserve oppression it's because of their behavior not because of simply refusing to resist it
     NEETzsche likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Vinn, again (vinnegan@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 03:24:07 JST Vinn, again

     in reply to

     • NEETzsche
     @NEETzsche @sun I've noticed that people tend to feel better about themselves when they have something they can point at and claim that it's the source of their problems. Could be anything from big tech firms to their next door neighbors. They'd rather bitch and moan 'till the second coming, instead of manning up and changing themselves or their situation for the better. 'Cause in the end, all they want is a villain, something they can shake their fist at. Misery loves company, and all that.
     NEETzsche likes this.