@sun Yep. The first time I caught #COVID-19, it was because I was eating breakfast in the hotel dining room and some jerk coughed (again, repeatedly).
It was a hotel with "food can't leave the dining room" rules, or I wouldn't have still been there anyway. In fact, one family had a child that had to eat special food. They brought it with them to the dining room, and they had to show the hotel employees that it wasn't hotel-provided food when they wanted to take it with them.
@simsa03 Erdogan has been trying to exterminate the Kurds -- a people group that lives partly within his own country -- for decades. Not to mention that Turkiye did almost cause a NATO split when they invaded Cyprus (even today, the northern part of the island is held as a non-recognized Turkish-enforced nation).
@sun ... Except that Nostr's design happened after ActivityPub was already in use. They seriously could have learned from the existing attempts at decentralized networking, but chose to ignore it all.
@moon@shitposter.club I worked with a couple of guys who had been at Bell Labs / Lucent (at the end of and after their most productive years) and at Xerox PARC and Rochester research labs (during their most productive years). From what I understand from my friend, the AT&T breakup was the biggest factor. Before that, AT&T was a huge org with guaranteed profits and lots of places to obscure their spending. Afterwards, Lucent had to scramble to be profitable.
And so they refocused most of their research on hardware for the telephone system AND because their competitors were on the "release flawed products and then release patches later" train and they were on design and test until all known flaws were removed, Lucent couldn't compete, so they had layoffs.
Now, I wasn't there, so I can't say whether my friend's recollection was accurate, but that's what he told me.
(The other former co-worker, the one who had worked for Xerox PARC and Xerox Rochester, said that PARC was much more creative because they were far away from the management in Upstate NY, but as we know, most of their inventions were left to rot on the vine unless someone outside of Xerox decided to implement them.)
There are some factual errors in that graphic.
(1) Gab didn't leave the Fediverse because leftish instances blocked them, but because the instances that didn't block them mocked and harassed them.
(2) Truth Social never attempted to federate. They removed that part of the Mastodon source right up front. (Source: Alex G, who was their lead dev for a while.)
The other thing to consider is that the Fediverse is losing the user-recruitment contest to Bluesky and a big factor in that is that Fediblock means no one can be sure they'll be able to communicate with their desired contacts on another instance. (Nostr trumpets Fediblock "censorship" as a reason they're supposedly a better place to be.)
In my opinion, relying on things like Fediblock has greatly delayed necessary things like automated spam-blocking and some sort of individual filters that are user-subscribable. (This one is a feature that Bluesky has, but in my time as a user there, I've never yet come across another filter provider.) Other than illegal content, admins should be very careful about blocking, because they're in a position of power relative to their users. I'm 100% not saying they shouldn't block anything that isn't illegal, but they should think about how doing so from their position of power affects their users before doing so.
A GNU+Linux bearing nomad migrating across a Windows-centric desert. I save the world from incompetent headquarters IT folks. I invite comment and discussion, but I dislike arguing.