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@FinchHaven@mastodon.sdf.org @raccoon Not trying to accuse you of anything, just that I don't think he's doing anything bad.
I get the concern. Maybe a better approach would be some oversight/agreement in how these things are being done, but I don't think the move toward it is avoidable if Mastodon/AP are to be viable to a greater population.

@FinchHaven@mastodon.sdf.org @raccoon I don't see any malicious motive on Rochko's part. The distributed nature of Mastodon's instances was posing a huge problem to adoption. It's either funnel people to a default server and let them change later or risk forever being a niche social network. It may even be too late to change its fate. People want their service to "just work," and BlueSky has likely avoided Mastodon's biggest problem.

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 116 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.

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/

Jack Yan (甄爵恩)

Apparently my blog has . No idea how this works as Iʼve attempted to follow the accounts it suggests, but my instance canʼt find them. Wish we laypeople could use this tech more easily.

An ActivityPub settingsʼ page on my blog.
April 10, 2023, 9:39 pm 0 boosts 1 favorites

@jackyan Blogs in a subdirectory require some additional configuration: wordpress.org/plugins/activity