Month: April 2023

@dansup Not sure I get this attitude. I keep seeing people saying this service or another should adopt and federate but some people are opposed to the idea that some companies may do so? Is it not better that some do federate in order to develop the concept and technologies? Otherwise, what is the but its own walled garden, even if larger in nature? This would be like, in the early internet, being opposed that a company might offer ISP services to a larger audience and instead keeping it contained to the universities.

Mike Masnick ✅

Anyway, if you're at all interested in experiencing it (and, you should), I would recommend trying to find places to stay like… today. Many hotels opened up booking this weekend, and every one we had planned to try sold out almost instantly, despite ridiculous pricing. We eventually found a place and booked it, but rooms are disappearing quickly.

April 24, 2023, 8:45 pm 14 boosts 32 favorites

@mmasnick Just booked to ensure I have something. May look for another option but I also chose Texas. May do a train trip out of it!

Karl Bode

You can tell from the starship explosion the press isn't really incentivized to learn from a decade+ of mistakes, either. Musk's bulbous ego and a rush to launch on a dumb weed joke date resulted in him nixing flame diverters, which severely damaged the launch pad and engines, all portrayed by the press as a smashing success:

twitter.com/Tazerface16/status

April 22, 2023, 3:51 pm 117 boosts 149 favorites

@KarlBode I don't understand this line of argument since it was scheduled earlier. Not having the diverter system in place when it's been standard was definitely a mistake.

Whatever stupidity he's brought to Twitter and his childish character, SpaceX is actually one of his successes, not just a fluke.

One of the reasons I'm really drawn toward the decentralized/federated open source networks is that there is so much innovation going on. It's not perfect and has a long way to go but it's very exciting and quickly developing.

For example, it is very cool that I can follow Jack Dorsey's account from the by way of a bridge to :

@82341f882b6eabcd2ba7f1ef90aad961cf074af15b9ef44a09f9d2a8fbfbe6a2

Screencap of Jack Dorsey's account on #nostr by way of a bridge between #ActivityPub and #nostr via mostr.pub.

@wynch@soc.ironwyn.ch So far, so mostly good here, but I am concerned about being booted someday for resource usage. I’m only on shared hosting now but I’ve been considering moving off to more a solution more responsive to demand increases.

As has been recently reported, Substack Notes is quickly learning all the lessons other social network platforms have learned.

@mmasnick has a good article here on why trying to please everyone will just ruin the platform before it really gets off the ground: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/14/substack-ceo-chris-best-doesnt-realize-hes-just-become-the-nazi-bar/

And my own take on content moderation here, which broadly agrees with Masnick: https://dymersion.com/2022/11/the-moderation-conundrum/