Notices by Robin Berjon (robin@mastodon.social), page 2

@mmasnick @blakereid @ntnsndr Indeed, it's not a problem, it's just phenotypic thinking. Niche construction for future serendipitous you. The problem is that browsers are terrible at organising information.

And yeah, an ex once closed a windowfull of tabs like that's a normal thing to do. My backup has been pretty ruthless since 😁

@ntnsndr @farcaller I mean, I don't track it accurately but I def have tabs from before leaving the NYT, so that means they're from some time in 2017-2022. Several def before 2022, too.

But hey, with a recent change of strategy I've recently brought my number of open tabs below 700 (from above 999, the counter runs out) so progress!

@ntnsndr @farcaller Yes, it's easy to fail at both :)

I find Inbox Zero easier though because I don't mind regularly just declaring email bankruptcy, whereas I have tabs that have been open for years. In both cases the tooling we have is failing us, I would like to manage this differently but it's not obvious.

@bengo @volkris It's AP over HTTP but with:
• Credible exit: you're not under some admin's thumb.
• A better handle/identity system.
• Shared infrastructure with any number of other open protocols.

@volkris @bengo Indeed, it's a simple layering situation. If you have an ATP implementation, you can go ahead and implement AP on top of it (i.e. using that implementation's primitives). That's what ATP is designed for, in fact.

The reverse — AP over ATP — I'm not even sure what it would mean?

@bengo @volkris How do you get credible exit for AP?

I'm not saying that PLC is ideal (it's temporary) but being opinionated is important. Open-ended everything just leads to the same kind of adoption profile that semweb stuff has (and XML had): a super-committed core and no one else understands what it's for. It might be good to learn from experience there.

@ntnsndr You mean like https://berjon.com/ap-at/ ? I don't think that we need to bridge so much as integrate.

@tchambers @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge Bluesky/ATProto is well above 1M users now. Great table!

This joke is from 1974 (in *Computer Lib*). It only took 50 years to build.