@hongminhee maybe it’s just Matrix/Element weirdness, but I can’t join atm, with Element on iOS. I get all the way to the join/open button, but nothing happens when I click it.
@kissane the placefulness of Mastodon and the extended microblogverse is its greatest flaw IMHO.
Instead of using AP servers as post-office relays for our digital letters, we’ve effectively been moved to *live inside* the post offices just to make it easier for the servers to send letters on our behalf.
The discussion groups of the threadiverse however do make sense as places we can *visit* with our independent identities.
I need separation between my place of living and place of discourse.
> The older you get, the more complex your social connections grow. A Gen Z kid in middle school doesn't have to worry about losing touch with their high-school buddies if they switch platforms (they haven't gone to high school yet – and they see their middle school friends in person all the time [..]). Middle-schoolers don't have to worry about coordinating little league car-pools or losing access to a rare disease support group.
@silverpill while I’m clueless about this stuff at the low level, it seems to me like did-plc is Good Enough for a starting point that works *today*.
It is transitory by design, so whichever next-stage direction the Bluesky devs take it in can be diverged from if it doesn’t align with the requirements for #NomadicIdentity in the fediverse.
I’m afraid that if we wait around another year++ for the perfect solution to come along, Good Enough alternatives will be deeply entrenched by that time.
Is there any TLD registry (not registrar) and accompanying domain name extension (.com, .net and so on) out there that’s owned by a small/independent, i.e. trustworthy business? Feels like they’re all owned by some creepy mega-corp.
.blog owned by Automattic and .club owned by an individual are decent examples. I wonder if there are even better alternatives.
It's bad enough that GenAI mashes together thousands of similar drawings and repaints them at your behest with the signatures of its contributors scrubbed out, their record of work erased. Don't add insult to injury by omitting any credit of the machine assistance whatsoever, as if this work was painted by your hand.
Whenever I see an uncredited image online, I assume foul play. Every uncredited image is non-consensual exploitation of art.
Would the latest spam wave be considered a ‘sophisticated attack’? Afaik, doesn’t seem like it. I believe Trust Levels could have mitigated this event in a pretty major way with strict rate-limiting on new/unused accounts.
@opencollective any chance OpenCollective might start offering a lightweight equivalent of Stripe Atlas? Aimed strictly at commons-aligned, public benefit corporations and the like.
I find myself wanting a super simple way to get small OSS startups and coops off the ground with a paid product.
I collaborate with some people who are unbanked. I really want to them to have all initial profits of whichever product we sell together, but without a bank that’s not an option.
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@ramsey@tchambers@creativecommons theoretically yes. But judging by the way bad faith actors like generative AI companies in particular are behaving, we may benefit from updated versions that are more explicit in their limitations, similar to how the AGPL upgraded the protections of GPL.
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