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   Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 10:19:27 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

   Idea for a Fediversal PAAS. Call it a Union.
   
   Sign up with email/password like usual. Behind the scenes your own instance is created in a container. An "Advanced" button allows you to customize installation, including taking admin control, but otherwise, you get a vanilla Mastodon instance with managed admin and moderation.
   
   A turnstile portal for creating individually-owned, containerized, scalable open social media instances, as an optional managed service.
   
   Make "managed" the default, and you're just a user in an atomized federation, managed by Universe admins and mods, like any big instance.
   
   But choose "self-managed" and instead you get full admin and moderation control. You can point your own domain name at it. You can allow users to join your instance, or make it invite-only. You can manage your own block lists and the rest of the headache.
   
   Make either one push-button easy, and I'll tell you what... that's a money shot.
   
   The "managed" service can be monetized. The "self-managed" should be forever free, and governed by an independent body that treats the self-managed users as instances in a federation Infractions by self-managed instances can be punished with simple de-federation. And, since Universe was running the container, it can just archive it pending appeal.
   
   Just sayin'...

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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 10:27:08 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     Universe: A Union of Federated Instances.
     
     That's my pitch-line.
     
     Yes, this requires greater resources, but those can be orchestrated at scale. If you plan from the beginning to architect this way, it's just a matter of adapting open source software and writing a robust web front end and apps, like any other commercial venture.
     
     Yes, I'm suggesting the commercialization of Fediverse software, in order to compete in the commercial marketplace, and reinforce the open-source ActivityPub protocol.
     
     "Universe," a for-profit company that installs a containerized instance of your choice of Fediverse software, and gives you a central portal to manage your logins for multiple apps and federated services.
     
     See where I'm going with this?
     
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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 10:32:40 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     BlueSky's AT protocol is proprietary. It can be yanked or changed without notice at any time.
     
     AP is open source. Threads already uses it. We use it. But so do Lies Social and Gab. So far, more software uses AP than AT. That advantage is crucial to maintain for we in the Fediverse.
     
     AT cannot be properly called part of the Fediverse for this reason: it is proprietary. It can't be allowed to become the lingua franca -- the SMTP -- of social media, or we'll all be locked into a new walled garden at an even deeper level. An architectural level. Like paying Oracle to write Java code level.
     
     ActivityPub must survive, at all costs. Thing 30 years into the future, FFS, folks! Think long term.
     
     This shit doesn't just matter.
     
     It REALLY, REALLY, REALLY matters.
     
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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 12:15:15 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     In one scenario, Open Social wins the day and we all go on socializing openly with moderation depending on where we're doing that socialization. Like now, more or less.
     
     In the OTHER scenario, we're socializing within the proscribed parameters of a Christian Nationalist takeover of the US government.
     
     Wake. The. Fuck. Up. America.
     
     My family has been here since the Mayflower. I'm INVESTED.
     
     Rebel. Disobey, in a civilized fashion. Let's call it...
     
     CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.
     
     EOM

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     AGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸 (agtmadcat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:50:13 JST AGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸

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     @notroot Unless you're making some other distinction I'm missing, ATProto is open source. It's not a proprietary system, and the various apps communicating with Bluesky (including private relays who have been able to talk to each other when Bluesky itself is down) do so using that open source standard.

     Is there some other component I'm missing here?

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     Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 14:51:11 JST Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄

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     • AGTMADCAT 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼🇵🇸

     @AGTMADCAT@infosec.exchange What can I say. I read up, and you're right.
     
     So let's go ape on this.