Coopr8

@Coopr8@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a "problem" if your goal is full ownership and control over your user interactions and data footprint. ATProtocol in principle achieves this, you can delete or move your account and all your user interactions will be deleted or follow you (meaning edit permissions, full access to all the posts/comments, follows, updoots, etc.). The cost of this is a very high data load for the host, though I'm still not clear on exactly why it is so much more data intensive, is it the size of lookup instructions between hosts in addition to the actual markdown?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So as I understand it the big "advantage" of ATProtocol is the account portability via DID, however this is at the sacrifice of actually hosting an ATProtocol being extremely data heavy.

  This has made me very curious about self-hosting ActivityPub, it would seem like focusing development on a client that makes it as close to as easy to self-host an instance as it is to join one would solve the issue of accountability portability, as you literally own all the data and rights when you self host. The Major challenge I see there is security, where experienced admins for larger instances should have some level of cybersecuroty expertise while the average use may have little to none. But then focusing group effort on auto-updating the client and the default settings of the client to maximize security would solve that issue it would seem?

  So what am I missing? Other than hosting costs, what else is deferring a self-hosted-first development approach for the Fediverse?

  Is it actually that AP development fundamentally believe moderation should be handled at the admin/instance level, and self-hosting makes moderation more difficult and less directly authority based?

  Publicly shared blacklists and whitelists would seem the natural fit for a self-hosted-first network, akin to adblock and horizontal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse.⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually there is a legal definition, a Public Benefit Corporation has statutes in its articles of incorporation which legally commit the company to pursue a set purpose which supersedes the fiduciary responsibility of the corporation to shareholders. This is important because it provides some degree of legal protection from activist shareholders suing the company for making spending or policy decisions which don't directly maximize shareholder value. The body of law around this issue is still relatively murky, but some defense is better than none at all.

  For example, shareholders could attempt to sue BlueSky into increasing advertising placement or data sales functionality intothe core platform to increase company revenues, but if that is at odds with their stated public benefit purpose the legal team for BluSky would have grounds to attempt to dismiss the suit on the grounds that the shareholders purchase the shares under the explicit understanding that these functions would be subordinated to the public benefit goals of the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I managed to find and follow a Twitter mirror account, but no posts have populated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  haven't come across them, it figures I wasn't the first to think of it. So far from the other comment I have found @kilogram instance, which seems to be doing what I've been thinking but is a bit odd in its interaction with my home instance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  hmmm... if the search on one of these (Instagram) resolves a username but my client (m.bin on kbin.earth via Interstellar app) can't locate it does that mean my instance has blocked kilogram.makeup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  aha! of course I wouldnt be the first one to think of it.

• Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a big field bog, and the people in charge of harvest have to move around in it. Also they drag the boom across the bog surface to harvest, so poles in the ground aren't really an option.

  The better question is... why not float rafts on the bog with the berries to let the spiders flee into those first then let the people wade in. Arachnid employees deserve safe evacuation! Probably wouldn't fully solve the problem, but might make it a bit better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lesson every child should be taught in school before they are 18: if you want to do something talk to someone who has done it or tried to before you start. All it would have taken was one conversation with an Adjunct Professor to avoid this, or really any professor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summoning Circle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep Magic by Diane Duane anyone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Early galaxies — or something else? Mizzou scientists uncover mysterious objects in the universe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very cool stuff. It is always wild to me that the universe is/approximates infinite yet galaxies aren't densely packed enough that the occlude each other at the furthest distances we can detect. Much like Protons in atoms, though there are quadrillions of them in every planet and star, a neutreno can travel a straight path for eons through multiple galaxies and never touch one. What a crowded yet vastly empty universe we have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My first lobsters, kind of mediocre.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I've always been disappointed, and several times repulsed, by Lobster Mushrooms. I avoid. But then, I never liked lobster.

• We Live In Public
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