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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 03:00:51 JST Charlie Stross

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   • Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto

   @dave Is ANY internet server software good for poets—unless they're perl poets?

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     Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto (dave@social.masto.land)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 03:00:53 JST Dave Winer's linkblog in Masto

     If Bluesky is open source, which it appears to be, someone who has time and has experience packaging products, should create a Bluesky distribution for a few popular hosting services (Digital Ocean, AWS, Google Cloud, etc), so installing a new instance is as simple as it can possibly be. One click? That would be awesome.

     We need to have thousands of these running. If it really is like the web, as they say it is, then it should be like the web in every way. There are lots of websites. If you sell your website to a billionaire, that has no effect on my website.

     Right now we are totally vulnerable to the Bluesky folk selling their service to another country, or our country for that matter -- or a billionaire, or whoever.

     Whoever did this packaging job would deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

     Anticipating the objection that Mastodon is already doing this -- it is not. Setting up and using a Mastodon instance is good for nerds. Not for poets.