Notices by blaine (blaine@mastodon.social), page 6

The reason Mastodon names are like email addresses is because email addresses "won" over a lot of other options that I won't mention here because most people have never heard of them.

Why did email addresses win? Because they match how we think of community, at a deep cognitive and arguably biological level.

Need evidence? "Jesus of Nazareth" is basically an email address and, now, a Mastodon account name.

@rtanglao @bmann or just a tiny queue server. I wonder if I ask @simon what he uses for datasette queues if this ultra-light activitypub server will be built by the time I get back from making breakfast?

@bmann @rtanglao @support maybe we need a pure-function ActivityPub "server" that stores stuff on some kind of "shared infrastructure"?

@bmann @rtanglao technically, a little inbox server plus a static-site generator and a queue in a github action should be enough to make it all work. It’d be interesting to see what (if any) the obstacles are to that!

@rtanglao @bmann technically, the queue server (but not the inbox) could live on your laptop and run as part of the static site generator build process.

@rtanglao @bmann async delivery came late to twitter. There was one day that Ev said “err, it’s taking like 30 seconds to post a tweet”, because he had a couple thousand followers and updating the memcache timelines took a while.

We’re bringing sync back, y’all ?

@evan the way I’ve always imagined this working on fedi is:

1. Circles are defined by account; don’t do lists, curating people is weird. Do an alt account, instead!

2. But some “circles” are defined collectively, and those are just like mailing lists; join an instance as a foreign account, subscribe to the local feed & post into that instance as your foreign identity.

I don’t think (2) exists today in Mastodonland, but we’re not far off? @darius?