Notices by David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)

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David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 02:41:59 JST

David Buchanan

ThinkPods

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David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 09:26:41 JST

David Buchanan

I don't celebrate the fediverse being "algorithm-free".

The twitter algorithms suck because they serve the platform, not the users.

The fediverse isn't even "algorithm-free" in the first place, but I'm not intrinsically opposed to there being more/different discovery/curation algorithms - as long as users are the ones in control.

That said, I do quite like the way things are currently.

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David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:47:39 JST

David Buchanan

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Mastodon, is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning federated universe.

#FediTips

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David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Friday, 11-Nov-2022 14:47:38 JST

David Buchanan

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David Buchanan

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon,
is in fact, ActivityPub/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning federated system made useful by the ActivityPub protocol, JSON-LD and Activity Streams.

Many computer users run an implementation of the ActivityPub protocol every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the implementation of ActivityPub which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically using the ActivityPub protocol, standardised by the W3C.

There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the network they use. Mastodon is one implementation: the program that relays posts and other activities between other users on the network.
Mastodon is an essential part of the fediverse, but less useful by itself; it functions best in the context of a complete federated network. Mastodon is
normally used in combination with the rest of the federated network: the whole system is basically ActivityPub with a few extensions added, or ActivityPub/Mastodon. All the so-called "Mastodon" users are really users of ActivityPub.

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David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Nov-2022 01:50:36 JST

David Buchanan

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.

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David Buchanan (retr0id@retr0.id)'s status on Saturday, 24-Sep-2022 20:23:44 JST

David Buchanan

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash.

You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337

I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine.