Notices by Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com)

@manualdousuario

> Como é que se lida com Big Techs

"Multando" em um valor que sabidamente nunca poderá ser pago? All bark, no bite.

@evan how long are you staying in Berlin?

@silverpill but IPNS still relies on DNS, no?

ENS *could* be used, but I don't see how one could practically use it without relying on trusted entities. I used it already to point to email addresses, Twitter and even IPFS files, but how feasible would it really be to update to an IP address whenever my server responding to the corresponding actor ID changes?

@silverpill can you think of a practical example? At first I thought of things like torrent files and magnet links, but I am not sure you can change the content of the URI.

@silverpill perhaps things like ENS itself?

One of the things that bug me about ActivityPub is that actor ids must be dereferenceable. IOW, you can only fully "own" your identity if you have control over the domain name.

So, here is an insane idea: what if we could use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping to give one valid domain name for every active phone number, which can then be used by the number owner to create ENS-style records?

This would let everyone to set up, e.g, their AP id based on their phone number.

I have a number of #Lemmy instances meant for discussion groups around specific topics. They are not being as used as I expected/hoped. I would like to set them up in a way that they can be owned by a consortium of different admins so that they are collectively owned. My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

More details: https://raphael.lullis.net/when-information-is-cheap-attention-is-expensive/

@deadsuperhero

I think he is absolutely right to do it. No one likes politicians, but someone *has* to do the politicking, and I'm glad that it's someone with actual Skin In The Game like him.

Much like we need pragmatists, we need purists to keep us in check and remind us *why* we need to be zealous about certain principles, and these principles are not observed by Bluesky or Nostr.

@deadsuperhero

Nostr is the least bad of the two, but it is a victim of the Libertarian mistake: it puts "Freedom" as the highest principle, but does it only for "freedom to" and leaves "freedom from" on the curb.

Bluesky is from the very beginning looking for ways to become a middleman in the flow of information. Even if we believe that the individuals working there have more noble aspirations, as soon as their investors come knocking they will be forced to let go of their ideals.

@mike @johnonolan

The jump in numbers is because @dansup started counting instances that were previously considered problematic and delisted from fedidb

@pfefferle @evan @naturzukunft @julian

I've been *dying* to find a way to work on just that: https://raphael.lullis.net/a-plan-for-social-media-the-what-the-why-the-who/

Any chance the fine folks at Automattic can hire and/or sponsor my work on it?

@jackmjenkins no? the thing in Brazil has nothing to do with moderation.

One of the most typical mistakes from newbies in chess is that they refuse to think what would be the best move *for their opponent*. Let's say they learn a opening gambit. They will spend 50, 100, 200 games trying that gambit with the *hope* that their opponent will fall for it. When they don't, they just ragequit or move on, thinking that they need to find a different gambit to use.

Follow up to my idea of getting https://cupid.careers integrated with #activitypub .

I could've simply written a bot that uses the Mastodon API to interact with the followers and send all the questions as polls. Or;

I could have spent some days grokking out https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata to have my application running as a client of the service. Or;

I could spend an indeterminate amount of time writing my own AP library for django.

Guess which one I chose?

Two weeks in, and now I have a service that can accept follow requests and create questions activities. But that's it. I was hoping to get a PoC ready before the 1st of the month and to promote it before Hacker News "Who is hiring?" threads.

Two weeks where I could've launched the MVP and worry about the details later, but instead I went "Let's play with this new toy" mode.

To be fair, though, I learned a lot. Vocata has some powerful ideas there. It's just a pity that I couldn't get it to work past the "it runs and I can create an actor to be followed" stage. I wonder why @nik is not working on it any longer.

@stefan @BeAware

Be careful what you wish for.

The old "information wants to be free" adage is not just a quip for pirates to justify download of copyrighted material . It's also a good reminder that any technology that is created to limit transparency *will be subverted in favor of ruling elite*.

I for one *do not* want an internet where I can not browse freely. "Consent-based mechanisms" work at personal, local level, not at a global one.

@stefan @BeAware

robots.txt is no contract, no one should expect to be protected from being crawled just because they placed some hints indicating what user agents are welcome.

Relying on consent and general good behavior is just bad digital hygiene. I'd rather people just acknowledged that and make it a basic principle: do not post anything on the open web unless you are sure you don't mind it being available to any present or future malicious/adversarial entity.

I feel like a sense of capitulation going on here. The rate of sign-ups on Communick is down to pre-Xitter acquisition levels.

Is it just me or is it a general thing? Any instance that is actually thriving, or should I dial down any remaining ambition that I have?

@corruptian that's also a possibility. The question then becomes: what are people doing instead?