Notices by Vic Uzumeri (vicuzumeri@cosocial.ca)

@adiz @evan

I fully agree, but it turns off my wife! I haven't succeeded in explaining the tradeoff to her 😞

@adiz @evan

Umm ... are you married? There are costs to that strategy.

I'm just asking if some folks who are smarter than me can help craft an effective story. I suspect there are quite a few potential converts who might be helped.

You know, a "feature, not bug" type explanation.

@evan

The distributed administration and diverse community structure also give it resistance to large scale bot and disinfo campaigns.

My main beef is that some design constraints of ActivityPub are generally poorly explained.

E.g, I've seen virtually no discussion about its "lossy" memory model. No instance sponsor can afford to archive all of the Fediverse message traffic. Hence, full search is impossible.

To me, that's a feature of ActivityPubs resistance to abuse. But others expect it.

@evan

My strong suspicion is that Trump will govern by doing a hundred crazy things at one time. That will divide and fragment the opposition as everyone scrambles to cover multiple issues … and thus responds weakly to most.

Ideally, we should map out the issues, then divvy them up and encourage various groups to focus on each hitting one or two issues hard.

That will demand a lot of organization … quite possibly more than the progressive community can muster … and then he may win.