Notices by Tom Coates (tomcoates@me.dm)

Trump’s appointees are dog murderers, Fox News hosts and rich sociopaths.

How are you guys doing? I’ve decided that I think Harris will win, but I’m *far* from certain and I basically feel like throwing up a lot. You guys?

The Social Web Foundation is live and here to help the Fediverse get bigger and better: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

@evan @cdevroe Yup! I’m with Evan. It’s a tricky problem. No promises we’ll figure it all out!

@JsonCulverhouse @dalias @evan @neptune22222 we’re very conscious about the risks of instances holding keys rather than clients. But part of this project is checking into options and potential solutions, so I wouldn’t want to commit to a particular solution right now.

Two questions for people who follow me on Mastodon:
(1) What - in your opinion - is the biggest problem in the fediverse and how would you want it to be fixed?
(2) What new feature, product, service or piece of infrastructure would make the Fediverse better?

Quick question: how do you guys actually feel about Meta making Threads Fediverse compatible?

@evan aw thanks. We should catch up end of the week or early next for a call and then try to put a larger group together to discuss next steps

The post is getting referenced on The Verge right now, which is interesting and will probably cost me a fortune in hosting fees. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/11/24035256/a-peek-at-the-threads-activitypub-roadmap

Okay I finally did a full write up of the event I went to just before Christmas at @meta in San Francisco in which they laid out their plans for integrating Threads with the Fediverse. It's very long and thorough. Love to get people's thoughts. http://plasticbag.org/archives/2024/01/how-threads-will-integrate-with-the-fediverse/

“Now it’s called X!”

“Now you can only post photos on a Monday”

“Now the CEO is a post-it note with I 💕 Elon on it”

“Now we have a bin where Elon burns his money while laughing”

“Now xeets are five characters long unless you pay for a tiny swastika”

Literally no idea where to post anything. Right now ethically the rankings are probably
* Mastodon
* BlueSky
* Threads
* Twitter

Audience is more like:
* Twitter
* Mastodon
* Threads
* BlueSky

Engagement is maybe…
* Mastodon
* Twitter
* BlueSky
* Threads

I guess Mastodon?

After a prompt by @danhon I have just created the word, “malept” meaning a crushing combination of malevolence and incompetence.

In a sentence; “Today demonstrates the true depths of Musk’s maleptness”

Bluntly when Instagram started the prevailing ideology of the web was openness and collaboration. They simply choose not to participate in favor of keeping everything they could in their walled garden. No cross posting to Flickr. No visibility of their photos in Twitter. They didn’t care about growing the ecosystem, only getting the largest part for themselves.

I have no reason whatsoever to believe anything has changed for them, and that’s why I don’t trust that their fediverse participation is anything other extractive and exploitative. And if it isn’t now, I’m afraid I think it probably will be in the not so distant future. Please don’t let it win.

If anyone ever says to you, “go woke go broke” then just point them at Elon’s Twitter to prove the opposite is true. #gofashlosecash