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@popey Thanks. I thought Ubuntu was moving to Chromium, but I guess not. It's been a while since I've installed desktop Ubuntu from scratch..

It seems like almost nobody uses these by default.

So with this in mind, contentiously, what *is* the default (graphical*) browser for Linux? Is it Firefox, or is it Chromium/something else?

(*graphical browser before someone says wget/curl/w3m/lynx/emacs/bind)

@evan April Fools Day should be limited to idiots (me) launching legitimate websites (libre.fm, FooCorp, 2009) and being unaware of the date like an absolute legend (also me)

@elplatt @evan@prodromou.pub @cwebber @tsyesika

At the time we started OStatus, and to some extent when AP started, there was still a big culture of polling feeds.

For example, feed readers would poll the same feeds hundreds of times per day, because they could never be sure when something would be posted.

The general consensus was that this was a big mistake and that push was the right way to do it.

@elplatt @evan@prodromou.pub @cwebber @tsyesika

@rabble and @kellan gave a really important talk at OSCON 2008 called "Beyond REST? Building Data Services with XMPP PubSub".

They talked about how the feed-polling architecture was costing an arm and a leg for publishers with only tiny benefit to users.

I was in the audience and it was a really important inspiration for later work.

https://web.archive.org/web/20080728075502/http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/schedule/detail/4359

@elplatt @evan@prodromou.pub @cwebber @tsyesika @rabble @kellan

Robert Kaye did a pretty good write-up on the talk here:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/07/oscon-day-1-beyond-rest-buildi.html

Gnome/#KDE users. Do you use #Gnome Web/Konqueror as your main web browser? #opensource

@ernie Ooh where are you heading?

@evan you need some better icons for those links at the top... maybe a Mastodon one and a Wikipedia one?

https://fontawesome.com/icons/mastodon?f=brands&s=solid looks like it's supported now, which is awesome (PUN FULLY INTENDED, sir)

I found out Chromatics covered Ceremony. Just like New Order did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ojRmgsNswc

I don't need a lecture about decentralization.

"A" people directory is not "the" people directory.

It's not important to have secondary services like people search be as numerous as primary services like Mastodon instances.

What's important is having a few; say, 5 to 10.

@jan @evan@cosocial.ca Hey Jan! Identi.ca doesn't yet support ActivutyPub.

I have switched my centre of gravity to @evan@cosocial.ca . That's where I'm reading content now, and where you'll get the things I post.

I'm going to move my follower graph there soon-ish, but until then I'll be boosting from this account. I'm doing it manually about once a day or so.

If you want to get more frequent updates, follow me there.

Well, it looks like it's already there!

You know what would make a great people directory for the fediverse? https://gravatar.com/ . Opt in, known trustworthy owner, millions of existing records.

If you could add your fediverse handle and people could find you that way, well, very nice.

@gdyson #asstodon

@DrOinFLA This is the way

@mensrea It is not an interview. It's user testing for our open source contributor experience. Tasks would be a very small Web programming task.

@parkermolloy I'm sorry you're having a rough time. Staying a little connected helps sometimes, but don't overtax yourself.

@sl007 I agree!