Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social), page 3

I still can't believe that when on the Social WG we rebranded PubSubHubbub to WebSub

... WebSub

Cycling between two modes:
- Despair
- A feeling that I am doing the most important things that I could possibly be doing with my life and that Spritely's work on secure cooperative communication infrastructure is more important than ever let's gooooo
- Back to despair again

As the multisystem crises of late capitalism intensify, faith in these assumptions will continue to deteriorate. People embrace radical alternatives that would be unthinkable in the dying social order.

Fraser identifies two alternatives: European-style social democracy or White nationalist populism.

The Democratic Party, as recently as the Harris-Walz campaign, has resisted calls for more redistributive economic policies from people like Bernie Sanders.

While the GOP and Trump offer fascism.

@vv augh

@vv :(

Good morning, and *hugoffer* to everyone

Over 230 media professionals and 101 BBC staff sign letter accusing biased coverage https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/bbc-israel-gaza-letter-tim-davie-bias-palestine-b2636737.html

> Other concerns raised by staff include omissions of coverage, such as the failure to live broadcast South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice on 11 January but choosing to live broadcast Israel’s defence the following day.

@bnewbold @stefan <3

I've wanted to write up a "critique document" of both "present day ActivityPub" and ATproto but wasn't sure how they'd be received. I think knowing you'd be interested makes me feel pretty positive about it

I do think that @blaine is right in that there's shall we say a "fixed point of convergence" if things were to work right, and so maybe that's the right way to frame things around

@blaine @stefan @pluralistic Well they're not the same picture if Bluesky continues with the "shared heap" approach and doesn't do pubsub notifications

@eramdam @packetcat @neptune I hit scientific notation without watching any tips and just thinking "okay, what's the path for going exponential"

Really, that's all you need to focus on for Balatro: building to the point where you can unlock as many times-mult things as you can. That's the most disappointing part of Balatro for me, but the early game is still really fun, I just wish the high score games didn't make whole lots of jokers useless late game.

@stefan AP currently does not survive nodes going down well. That's addressable, and I have written out part of the answer of how to address it, but it's true that it doesn't do that presently and I'm not sure there's community interest to fix it.

I actually think that the people working at Bluesky do believe in decentralization, and they have a lot of good people there. If there are ways to collaborate which are fruitful, I'd rather not burn a bridge, which is partly why I keep my mouth shut. But there are serious, serious structural problems for achieving decentralization and I don't think the financial model will prioritize fixing them, and in the meanwhile many users mistakenly believe they *are* on a decentralized system.

Also I spent some time reviewing Bluesky's DID stuff enough to be fairly convinced that it won't, in a useful way to users, really survive nodes going down in the ways users believe (that's on top of did:plc being centralized, which is well known, and did:web being completely superfluous, which seems obvious but I'm surprised I don't see advocated as often). I have a lot of analysis on this stuff, but I'm hesitant to post some of this because I just sound like I'm being grouchy.

But really, I'm worried about users being sold on the idea of decentralization and it falling out from under their feet and losing faith in it, when there's architectural challenges there from the get-go. That's why this really bugs me.

Maybe they can be addressed, and that's one reason to post the critique, but I suspect it'll just make people mad at me, I dunno

@eramdam @packetcat This really only is the case when you start hitting the scientific notation part of Balatro admittedly

@eramdam @packetcat It's even better/worse

There's a certain point in Balatro where to keep hitting bigger numbers whole categories of cards stop being useful. Not true in Slay the Spire

BTW re: "content which survives AP nodes going down", I made a demo of how to do that in an AP-spec compatible way a few years ago, and it even had encryption so not everyone hosting the content needed to know what it was https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

@packetcat RIP your productivity

When you get sick of Balatro, ruin you productivity again by trying Slay the Spire

basically I am pretty skeptical the relay design is gonna be able to support many independent instances

ActivityPub as-deployed has many challenges, if you've read enough of my writing you'll certainly hear that (and some of how to improve the situation) but at least it started under a foundation of a lot of nodes participating on the network

With ActivityPub, you can make the decentralized version of Twitter, or the decentralized version of YouTube, or the decentralized version of BlueSky

they were good toots

when I boost my gf's toots and take down her instance (oops)