Notices by Wordsmurf of Mouthshire :emacs: 🍄 (notroot@notroot.online), page 2

Framing is a problem.

Take the "Culture Wars," for example.

Fuck you, anyone who unironically uses this term.

From the American Revolution to Thoreau to MLK Jr. and up to this moment in time, there is one, time-tested method for accomplishing broad-scale, popular social change. The kind of social change that moves mountains.

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

#CivilDisobedience

@ProgrammerHumor@wehavecookies.social @Green____cat@reddit.com LOL as an Emacs user .......

@danilo@hachyderm.io All very valid points. I abandoned Mastodon the software early on, because I never liked Twitter. I'm in the majority in never having had a Twitter account. It was always a bubble. It's what MAGA means when they think the word, "elite," because they went all-in on Twitter and then one of their messiahs fucking bought it.

Like I said, I abandoned Mastodon the software. I use #Sharkey which has both QTs and threaded feeds like BlueSky. Even Sharkey doesn't let you detach from QTs, tho.

I joined BS today, and have only good things to say about it, so far.

I imagine my opinion will change when ads are introduced.

And I think that's the difference, in the protocol wars:

A business plan.

@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us Ie, you need someone in a "chair" who's in the full loop, so you can focus on the plan.

@ohmu@social.seattle.wa.us Mask up and buy a burner that will let you comm with someone who has some sort of eagle eye. Give comm responsibility to one or a few depending on size of action.

BlueSky's AT protocol is proprietary. It can be yanked or changed without notice at any time.

AP is open source. Threads already uses it. We use it. But so do Lies Social and Gab. So far, more software uses AP than AT. That advantage is crucial to maintain for we in the Fediverse.

AT cannot be properly called part of the Fediverse for this reason: it is proprietary. It can't be allowed to become the lingua franca -- the SMTP -- of social media, or we'll all be locked into a new walled garden at an even deeper level. An architectural level. Like paying Oracle to write Java code level.

ActivityPub must survive, at all costs. Thing 30 years into the future, FFS, folks! Think long term.

This shit doesn't just matter.

It REALLY, REALLY, REALLY matters.

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Universe: A Union of Federated Instances.

That's my pitch-line.

Yes, this requires greater resources, but those can be orchestrated at scale. If you plan from the beginning to architect this way, it's just a matter of adapting open source software and writing a robust web front end and apps, like any other commercial venture.

Yes, I'm suggesting the commercialization of Fediverse software, in order to compete in the commercial marketplace, and reinforce the open-source ActivityPub protocol.

"Universe," a for-profit company that installs a containerized instance of your choice of Fediverse software, and gives you a central portal to manage your logins for multiple apps and federated services.

See where I'm going with this?

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Idea for a Fediversal PAAS. Call it a Union.

Sign up with email/password like usual. Behind the scenes your own instance is created in a container. An "Advanced" button allows you to customize installation, including taking admin control, but otherwise, you get a vanilla Mastodon instance with managed admin and moderation.

A turnstile portal for creating individually-owned, containerized, scalable open social media instances, as an optional managed service.

Make "managed" the default, and you're just a user in an atomized federation, managed by Universe admins and mods, like any big instance.

But choose "self-managed" and instead you get full admin and moderation control. You can point your own domain name at it. You can allow users to join your instance, or make it invite-only. You can manage your own block lists and the rest of the headache.

Make either one push-button easy, and I'll tell you what... that's a money shot.

The "managed" service can be monetized. The "self-managed" should be forever free, and governed by an independent body that treats the self-managed users as instances in a federation Infractions by self-managed instances can be punished with simple de-federation. And, since Universe was running the container, it can just archive it pending appeal.

Just sayin'...

@GreenFire@mstdn.social We're all in for a lot of unpleasant surprises. At least this election has finally broken Twitter's stranglehold on the media elite.

Of course, they immediately ran to another corporate social media outfit. Someone they could sue, I guess, with deep pockets, unlike the distributed open social web.

I prefer it here. Bluesky is OK so far, but then there's no ads yet, either. Threads is redundant. I'm already here.

@GreenFire@mstdn.social Yay. A little more aerodynamic at the front would be good, and bigger wheels. Slightly higher off the ground, but with a gyroscope for stability.

😄

@GreenFire@mstdn.social Are you predicting that "Tariffs" will be the new "Infrastructure Week"?

@TomWellborn@universeodon.com Hopefully it poisons the well so badly that other LLMs trained on Twitter fall prey to "Mad AI Disease"

@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social Fuck. Why does that ring depressingly true?

@davidallengreen@mastodon.green Yah I'm trying out BS, but it doesn't have ads, yet, so it's not so bad.

Once people start scamming, and it gains popularity, it'll be like the gmail account I keep for logins, to attract all the spam. My OTHER emails are completely spam-free.

I'm interested in AP/AT bridging, and I imagine there's a protocol war brewing. AP has the advantage of being open-source, not proprietary and owned by corporate interests.

Got a Bluesky account and trying it out.

Not bad. Not bad at all. It reminds me of my current user experience here, except that unlike the Fediverse, corporate news has fully embraced it.

I'm using #Sharkey here, so I have the same sort of threaded feed as Bluesky, QTs like BS, etc.

Naturally, this experience is far mar granular -- especially since I personally run the solo instance. AND, I can say a lot more here. I can be my verbose self.

So, since I have a host anyway, I'll look into bridging. I'd like to have more of the BS experience, but here, in the #Fediverse, where I personally own the data.

“[T]rump is not selecting his Cabinet as much as he is creating his own reality, and daring our broken institutions like Congress, the Democratic Party and the mainstream media to point out these picks are buck naked as they parade criminally down Fifth Avenue on horseback. …” 1/2

@GreenFire@mstdn.social @Ultraverified@mastodon.sdf.org @meidastouch@threads.net ROTFLMAO you got me there!!! 🤣

@Ultraverified@mastodon.sdf.org @meidastouch@threads.net LOL we are so fucked if that's the best answer.

Sanders, really? Great on messaging, but the man has literally not accomplished one single thing in his entire tenure. He doesn't even try.

@benroyce we need to punch them in the face

@BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to Yup, not bad.