For one thing the “AppView” as I believe it’s called. When I looked at the whole system a month or two ago the documentation wasn’t great at giving a clear high-level overview and the details are hazy in my memory. It’s at least as hard to figure out as the constellation of protocols used in conjuction with ActivityPub. Among other potential problems the protocol layer that would allow it to be fully decentralized is just missing. If it was there, I think it might look something like ActivityPub added on top of what already exists.

From my browser history here’s one attempt to sum it up: https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/

I’m sure someone will come up with a link, but if anyone wants a more general solution: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

The more I learn about it, the more I start to suspect that even if the bluesky protocol somehow outlives Bluesky Incorporated it will remain a trap created by a billionaire which by design will never fail to be mostly centralised in its operation. Will this new organization see the danger and make their version federate properly? I’ll believe it when I see it.

You didn’t need to be “left leaning” to vote for Harris. Just, you know, not insane.

Yeah! Hit him! Right in that soft boomer belly! [munches popcorn]

Akkoma and probably others like Misskey I assume do have follower-only posts and they do get used by some people who like to communicate with a small group and otherwise keep things private.

If some photographs are worth a thousand words, this one’s a whole Dickens novel.

Yeah it seems broken again

As a casual git user I imagine the process normally goes something like this:

1. Development happens.
2. New feature makes it into the release version of git.
3. New version makes it into the various linux distro repositories.
4. People who run big git repos install the update.
5. Serious nerds hear about it and use the feature.
6. Many years pass.
7. I learn about it, if it’s widely used enough.

Okay fediverse, you’ve been told. It has been requested that everyone on the whole network stops using #hashtags because one lemmy.world user finds it personally inconvenient the way their instance’s software deals with it. I expect everyone to comply immediately.

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Maybe the species that created it had just discovered how to add emotion to their AI systems and it was an early prototype.

Nobody knows of any such thing as negative mass or anti-gravity, there’s no theoretical reason to expect that it exists, and every previous suggestion that something like it had been found was very probably a hoax. But let us know if you find some mysterious rocks that fall upwards in a vacuum.

Today I got over my aversion to TV news bullshit and watched that clip. I thought was much better than anything you’d normally see in such a context. Meslin was effective in getting his point across, despite the ridiculous doofus he was talking to, who was made to look foolish to everyone who was paying attention at that moment.

The way they (all TV news) normally distort and misrepresent things is by not inviting such people to participate at all. Bravo to the CBC for doing slightly better than the usual standard on that occasion.

Can you imagine if they actually shut down CBC radio? Never mind how many people the the polls say are “opposed” to the idea. The real question is how many old people with a radio, who still tune in every day, even those who never think much about politics, would be instantly radicalized. We do not show up in measures of “digital reach.” Try it and the revolution could start sooner than you expect. It’s hard to believe that even Poilievre could be that politically suicidal.

This appears to be the real link, for those who despise the idea of a “url shortener” and don’t wish to route a request through bitly: https://community.mozilla.org/en/campaigns/test-the-new-firefox-address-bar/

If you want a really scary tattoo, try void *x = NULL

The vast majority of papers that make serious errors and draw the wrong conclusions are never retracted. The sort of people needing to be told to check whether a paper was retracted before citing it are not likely to produce much that’s of value even if they do so.