Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)

Hello did you see that I moved to @cwebber@social.coop because FYI, I did

I definitely think there are both positive and negative things to discuss about Bluesky/ATProto *and* the fediverse/ActivityPub. It's impossible for me to not be partisan, but I would like anything I write to be fair and clear. I think both have things to learn from each other, at least.

Since I worked ActivityPub (used by Mastodon, Peertube, etc... the "fediverse") I've been asked what I thought about "is Bluesky really decentralized" a lot. I've stayed out of that til now, but it was nice to hear encouragement from @bnewbold, so I'm working on a technical analysis article

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

> We wanted to let readers know that we will no longer post on any official Guardian editorial accounts on the social media site X (formerly Twitter). We think that the benefits of being on X are now outweighed by the negatives and that resources could be better used promoting our journalism elsewhere.

Hacker News being ominous

I guess I will be switching instances soon, maybe even setting that up today, but for the moment at least continuing tracking health things at @christineeats again. Will probably move that too.

@a @dthompson awwww!!!! shucks <3 <3 <3

It's SO good having you here at @spritelyinst! You've brought so much to the team :)

@ekaitz_zarraga @dthompson The one in guile-gcrypt is @civodul's lightly modified fork of an Industria module iirc

I think Dave's version is probably better at least in that if you plan on use your code with Hoot, it'll be better for that

@mackuba @Claire @eramdam Well, Mastodon is known to be pretty heavy on resources; most of my friends seem to be installing GotoSocial these days for self-hosting

Notes for forbidden Vim/Emacs Gijinka Slashfic

VIM: Straightlaced, alarmingly thin, straight black hair. So serious most people think she has no emotion at all. Dresses in plain black & gray hoodies, but occasionally shows a splash of color. Personality shifts based on context. Writes nothing but Python and inscrutable DSLs she designed herself.

EMACS: Big, brash, curvy. Supremely confident, believes she can— and tries to— do anything and everything. REALLY wants you to try LISP. Control freak

SIDE CHARACTERS

VISUAL STUDIO CODE: Attends "Lesbians Who Tech". Dubious politics. Wears dark pantsuits. The most organized of the bunch, leads all the group projects. Invested in crypto

SUBLIME TEXT: VSCode's mom, craggy gray-haired gardener vibes (she looks older than she is) but friendly eyes. Australian.

VI: A chibi version of Vim, constantly gibbering asemic streams of ADDADADDDA syllables. Everyone ignores her; her presence is never explained.

NOTEPAD++: The token boy

KATE: It's Kate!

PLOT THREADS

* Emacs has a long-time association with a problematic older man. No one wants to talk about it.

* Flashback to when vim and emacs were MUCH younger and ran in different social circles. Back then Vim was a sullen goth and went by Ed; Emacs, having a Chunni phase, went by "Teco" and was terrible at communication

* "Evil Mode": It turns out vim and emacs can enter "Evil Mode" where they do a fusion and become a terrifying many-armed Kali/Ashura entity. No one wants to talk about it

juli: "I mean he does look like a dollar store Karl Marx though"

"Mom can we have Karl Marx"
"We have Karl Marx at home"
Karl Marx at home:

(joke stolen from juli and @pinjontall on a call)

@cwebber @Claire @eramdam don't think the goal w/ atproto is to be "more decentralized" in the abstract. we (team) had worked on SSB and dat, which were radically decentralized/p2p but hard to work with and grow. would not supplant "the platforms".

atproto came out of identifying the *minimum* necessary decentralization properties, and ensuring those are strongly locked in. we basically settled on:

@cwebber @Claire @eramdam
unbundling and composition: ability to swap components w/o swapping full stack.

credible exit: ability for new interoperable providers to enter network. public data must be accessible w/o permission, and schemas/APIs declared

control identity: whole network/proto doesn't need to be individualist, but identity is personal

easy to build new apps: don't build for the old modalities, enable new modalities. accomodate opinionated devs.

Very helpful replies from @bnewbold over on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/bnewbold.net/post/3lahbqsaexy2z

Every self-hosted user on the instance also needs to fetch every self-hosted user on the network, which also seems it would mean that the amount of network traffic for retrieving information is O(n^2)?

@Claire well search engines aren't as much hard to build as they are hard to host at scale and solve the incentive challenges that happen at scale

a small-scale search engine of the web is pretty easy, trivial even

Is the storage expectations for self-hosting ATProto including BlueSky really 5tb (with the expectation also that this will grow)? https://alice.bsky.sh/post/3laega7icmi2q

On Linode's default shared hosting that's getting into a full salary, like $55k/year, territory https://www.linode.com/pricing/

Is this right?