Notices by Sal Rahman (manlycoffee@techhub.social)

"Why should I pay rent and cause someone else to gain equity? With a mortgage, at least I get to keep the home at the end!"

So you're willing to harm your own ability to gain wealth in the name of not making someone else rich?

For the record, it's not just mortgage that you're paying. If your downpayment is too low, you're paying into mortgage insurance. You have to pay the homebuyer's tax. There's legal fees for the purchases, the home inspection, etc. Don't forget moving fees (unless you're one of those cheap bastards that gets friends to help move).

And during ownership, you have insurance, maintenance, strata fees, then emergency expenses (such as a refrigerator breaking down).

Then moving out, you may have to pay agent fees, moving fees, and taxes again when buying your new place. Perhaps even fees for refinancing if you're in a pinch.

None of those expenses are things you'd have to worry about if you just rented.

Rent, save the rest. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-10/millionaire-renters-are-on-the-rise-in-high-cost-us-cities

Web3, DeFi, and DAO aren't dead.

They're still thriving.

@evan

I'm trying to get more people to join the Fediverse, and for this reason, I tell people "I'm working on the social web."

@mikedev that's definitely the BlueSky folks talking about why the AT Protocol is advantageous.

Yes, they were mostly talking about Mastodon, but their blog post did seem to hide the fact that anything ActivityPub enriched with other protocols will most certainly empower nomadic identity.

The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.

A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.

It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.

That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #ATProto #ATProtocol #BlueSky #WebFinger

There seems to be a high demand for linguists in the era of LLMs.

Energy cost is going negative in California in the spring.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzEzNzU4NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzE1MTQwNzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3MTM3NTg0MDAsImp0aSI6IjRlYTE1ZjM4LTk3ODQtNDVhYy05MjZlLWRjYjgxNGNhMmY5ZSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9jbGltYXRlLWVudmlyb25tZW50LzIwMjQvMDQvMjIvY2FsaWZvcm5pYS1zb2xhci1kdWNrLWN1cnZlLXJvb2Z0b3AvIn0.oWYOHLgrSaZNKLvmYZ45KaNCBacVFoD7USdTV2JwmNA

My philosophy for building for the Fediverse: it's not the software but the protocols.

I told my brother that I learned to drive after having watched this one episode of SpongeBob SquarePants.

Just learned of an open source Stripe alternative, called Lago.

Could be useful for what I'm working on.

https://www.getlago.com/

I just read two articles that has me believe that social media is not a net negative, and is probably a net positive overall.

More validation that me working on software in the social media space shouldn't have me feeling morally bankrupt.

Definitely time for me to go all in on the Fediverse.

@evanprodromou

I wonder if federated replies are received by users on Threads.

@J12t

DINO:

- claims to have engineers "working on integrating with ActivityPub"
- not contributing to other projects at all, nor supporting them financially
- implementing features that can't be federated
- privileging local posts
- strategy involves maximizing MAU of their platform

Flipboard—not Mastodon nor Threads—could potentially carry the torch to keep ActivityPub thriving

#Fediverse

My new found ambition for the Fediverse project that I'm working on:

curating Flipboard magazines (or magazines in general).

Better yet: actually originating magazines that federate to Flipboard!

https://techhub.social/@mike@flipboard.social/111926756149144704

Ideally, at the bare minimum, ActivityPub should have explicitly specified the "shape" of JSON (not JSON-LD) documents.

For example, the spec could have stipulated:

"An Actor document MUST contain the following fields, and MAY be extended via JSON-LD contexts"

And then also stipulate:

"Clients SHOULD expand incoming JSON-LD documents".

This way, applications could skip the expansions step for significantly large subset of the Fediverse.

This is important because not all environments (languages, runtime environemnts, etc.) have the luxury of expanding JSON-LD documents.

#ActivityPub

The Fediverse should be built from components; not whole "software"

Or at least, the whole point of "software" is to glue in the components together.

#Fediverse

If the Fediverse gains mass adoption, I hope it ends up being used seamlessly; simply inconspicuous and unassuming.

@evan

What's the question, assuming you actually intended to have one in your original post? https://techhub.social/@evan@cosocial.ca/111744179738983358

Let's think outside the box, and start building software that doesn't try to be an existing well-known service "but on the Fediverse."

Definitely not "Uber for the Fediverse", etc.

More like "let's build something, because we think our users want it.

"And oh look! There's this thing called ActivityPub that could help us a lot! Let's try to validate this idea!"