Jack Dorsey skipped ActivityPub, built AtProto, lost Twitter, funded Bluesky, watched it become a company with VCs and a board, said it was "repeating all the mistakes," left, and now funds Nostr.
The fediverse is the only one in this story that never needed a billionaire to survive.
And it never will. 🔥
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The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.
If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.
keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.
We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.
Thank you for your support!
Keep Android Open
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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Who let this monopoly game go so long?
Tell me your corrupt without telling us all just how effing corrupt you are!
I am immensely grateful to the Fediverse for all the encouragement I got here to embark on a #selfhosting journey.
#YunoHost has empowered my digital life in immeasurable ways.
My way of giving back - and fighting the broligarchs of Big Tech - is to create a guide that demystifies the process. I have compiled all my posts so far in a single page:
🔗 : blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbie…
If you're curious about self-hosting but you haven't taken the leap yet, I hope my articles will be helpful to you ❤️
A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost
Here is a 4-part guide about how to get started self-hosting essential internet services with the YunoHost systemElena Rossini
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Self Hosting is so liberating. You set your own rules.
For me, it's about posting what I like without fear of some silly sausage moaning to an Admin about me. 🤣
Obviously, I have to behave on mastodon.org.uk
(Well, a bit, at any rate.😉 )
Thank you for sharing your journey and learnings--you rock!!! 🙌
It's one I embarked on a few years ago, and was daunting, humbling, and also fun and empowering.
My biggest win: I can now access my old phone photos easily, without needing to pay Forever Rent™️ to #apple for #iCloud thanks to the brilliant software #immich
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🐾 In Italia, la Giornata nazionale del gatto si celebra oggi, 17 febbraio. Questa ricorrenza è stata istituita nel 1990, la scelta di questo giorno è legata a diverse tradizioni e simbologie.
Febbraio è il mese dell'Acquario, segno zodiacale considerato libero e indipendente, proprio come l'indole felina.
Anticamente, secondo credenze popolari, febbraio era definito "il mese dei gatti e delle streghe".
Il numero 17 è stato scelto per sfatare i pregiudizi negativi; e poiché il gatto ha "sette vite", il 17 diventa simbolo di una lunga vita!
🐾🐈⬛E oggi il mio pensiero , il mio amore è tutto per la mia gatta Masha, che sta poco bene e che sta affrontando la sua piccola grande battaglia, per sopravvivere!Ed io non posso che starle accanto e darle tutto il mio amore e calore! Non è solo un gatto è parte della mia famiglia!🤍🐾🙏
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1,000,000+ people on Pixelfed. 🎉
No VC money. No ads. No algorithm manipulating your feed.
Just a community that believed in something better.
Thank you for being part of this. ❤️
(P.S - We're preparing a big release with many bug fixes and improvements, stay tuned)
#Pixelfed #OneMillionStrong #ForeverFederated
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I sindaci italiani spesso prendono i marciapiedi e li ribattezzano piste ciclopedonali. A Sondrio un caso estremo: la pista ciclopedonale dove non si può pedalare
benzinazero.wordpress.com/2026… #ciclabili #pisteciclabili #bicicletta #marciapiedi #mobilità
I sindaci italiani spesso prendono i marciapiedi e li ribattezzano piste ciclopedonali. A Sondrio un caso estremo: la pista ciclopedonale dove non si può pedalare
Sincaco e assessori sono moto orgoglisi di questa realizzazione probabilmente unica in Europa. Sotto il cartello della pista ciclopedonale, l’obbligo: ‘biciclette a mano’. A Sondr…Benzina Zero
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La passerella è troppo stretta per una pista ciclabile più marciapiede, quindi la legge prevede bici a mano.
Non dovrebbero mettere il cartello di pista ciclopedonale, ma solo pedonale (dove le bici si possono comunque portare a mano)
È una graphic novel di 272 pagine che rilegge il mito di Medea in chiave fantascientifica. Un libro che scorre veloce, pieno di pathos e che parla soprattutto di potere e collettività. Frutto di 4 anni di lavoro, unisce lo stile dei miei libri precedenti alla "cazzimma" dei miei poster militanti. Non vedo l'ora! #baopublishing #ritapetruccioli #medea #fumetti #graphicnovel #scifi #comics #art
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Innanzitutto, complimenti!Ma poi che spettacolo!
Io adoro la figura di Medea, soprattutto dopo aver letto la versione di Wolfe!
Spero la Bao possa spedire anche in tutta Europa se ne volessi ordinare uno.
#Grecia: il murale con #MariaCallas dichiarato il migliore del mondo | Euronews it.euronews.com/cultura/2026/0…
Grecia: il murale con Maria Callas dichiarato il migliore del mondo
Un murale a Kalamata che raffigura la famosa soprano è diventato un'attrazione turistica. L'abito della Callas simboleggia la fioritura, l'abbondanza e la terra benedetta della regione.George Dimitropoulos (Euronews.com)
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I hear a lot about Matrix being a truly decentralized protocol. But if you register with an instance and it goes down, all users under that instance go down with it. It happened a couple of months ago @ matrix.com and everybody knows it.
Differently, Delta Chat allows users to register same account on different relays so if the main goes down, users can just switch relay and keep chatting.
That makes Delta Chat one step ahead. Prove me wrong.
#matrix #deltachat #messagingapp @delta
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Places burden of protecting one's identity onto end user. Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices. With @delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
I find the trade-off fair and in fact quiet like it, but it assumes the end user is being careful and protects their device well. And in many cases users are, unfortunately, rather lousy with their gadgets and data.
> Anywhere else, if your account gets stolen, you can try contacting admins, changing password, logging out unknown devices
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> With delta, user is one underportected device and QR scan away from unrecoverable grand theft account.
worse case you tell everyone to kick the old profile from groups etc. and write to you from the new one
stealing your profile is not so easy unless you use phone without PIN, with multi-device as backup is hard to lose it
Signal founder roasts Telegram, says there’s nothing private about it
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I AM AN INCREASINGLY UNHINGED EVANGELIST FOR DELTA CHAT AND I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THIS!
I'M GOING TO START HANGING OUT BY WHERE THE JEHOVAS WITNESSES STAND AT THE TRAIN STATION WITH A CARDBOARD SIGN AND A QR CODE!
THIS IS THE FUTURE! THIS IS CHAOS! THIS IS ANARCHY! THIS IS FREEDOM! THIS IS THE FEDERATED NETWORK OF DITCHES! THIS IS DELTA CHATTT!!!!!!!!!!
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Il Dipartimento di Sicurezza Usa chiede a Google e Meta i nomi di chi ha criticato l'Ice online: centinaia di mandati
L'obiettivo è quello di identificare chi ci sia dietro ai tanti account che hanno protestato contro le azioni anti-immigrazione. Inviate richieste anche a Reddit e DiscordMichela Rovelli (Corriere della Sera)
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FOSDEM: ho impiegato tanto tempo a far sedare l'energia che mi ha portato. Ho riscritto questo articolo almeno 10 volte per renderlo il meno appassionato possibile. Mi sono arresa, non mi è possibile.
Avrei voluto parlare delle persone incontrate, delle tecnologie accarezzate, del mio reclutamento (immeritato) nel team delle "Debian Women". E degli adesivi, della guerra dei badge e dei waffle con cui ho voluto cenare.
A volte è meglio aspettare le parole.
valentinanardecchia.eu/2026/02…
FOSDEM, il luogo dove le cose accadono – Valentina Nardecchia
FOSDEM - Bruxelles Gen-Feb 2026. Il luogo dove le cose accadono.valentinanardecchia.eu
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L’ho sentito profondamente e lo condivido in pieno, parola per parola.
🧵 Sovranismo europeo o modello Trump? Il bivio dell’Unione Europea tra Macron e l’asse Merz-Meloni | @marastimattia
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Valigia Blu non è più su FB, IG e X. Seguiteci qui 👇
APP ANDROID E IOS
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Valigia Blu | 5,559 followers on LinkedIn. Insieme per resistere - https://www.valigiablu.it/dona/ | Valigia Blu è uno spazio collettivo, senza pubblicità, senza paywall, senza editori. Si sostiene ogni anno con una campagna crowdfunding.Valigia Blu
Epstein Files. Piccolotti, interrogazione parlamentare di Avs, vogliamo chiarezza su vicenda del rapporto e dei finanziamenti di Bannon con Salvini. - Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra - Reti civiche
Nelle circa tre milioni di pagine che sono state rese pubbliche e relative al «caso Epstein», il nome del Vicepresidente del Consiglio, nonché Ministro delle infrastrutture e dei trasporti, Matteo Salvini, compare 89 volte.Francesco Riommi (Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra - Reti civiche)
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⏳ Have you too been waiting for a mapping application that’s easy to use and respects your privacy?
🧭 That’s exactly what our team of experts is working on!
👉 Find out more about Murena Maps, now in development: murena.com/meet-murena-maps/
Meet Murena Maps: an intuitive, precise mapping application now in development
Murena Maps, now in development, is a precise open-source mapping app that respects your privacy and makes it easy to plan trips and navigate. No map downloads required.Murena - deGoogled phones and services
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If it's online, it leaks informations about users' positions and route plans.
Even if it downloads large areas at once, it will keep leaking such infos and the online status of the user to update the maps.
Sure, you are not #Google or #Apple, the harm you can do to users #privacy is still small.
But offline maps are safer.
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meloni ha detto che l'italia farà il membro osservatore.
Lo sapevamo già.
Questo governo di 💩 a gaza ha solo osservato israele
che distruggeva e uccideva.
Senza dire o fare nulla.
Osservava muto e complice.
Appunto...
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per fortuna quasi tutti. Le migliaia di vittime innocenti purtroppo sono la deliberata strategia dei terroristi che si rifugiano negli ospedali, campi profughi, edifici residenziali ecc...
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Tregua, la risposta di Hamas. Sinwar: «I morti ci sono utili»
Il movimento risponde dopo il voto all'Onu. Poi però pone condizioni sul ritiro da Rafah e dall'Asse Filadelfia. Israele: equivale ad un rifiutoMarta Serafini (Corriere della Sera)
The fediverse now has a mobile-first personal server called Holos by @HolosSocial (via @apps). It's a full ActivityPub server that runs on your Android device (iOS coming soon). You own your identity with a custom domain and your followers live on your device.
Project URL: holos.social
Key features:
✅ Your server on your phone – Your identity, keys, and followers live on your device, not a giant shared server.
✅ Custom domain identity – Permanently own your handle (@you@yourname.com) and take it anywhere.
✅ True E2EE for DMs – Real end-to-end encryption for private conversations, a major privacy upgrade.
✅ Relay-based connectivity – Connects to the wider fediverse via relays, so a personal server is practical on mobile.
Open source, privacy-focused, and built to give you real ownership in the fediverse. The Android version is available now.
Donations:
fedilab.app/page/donations/
Open Collective:
opencollective.com/fedilab
#HolosSocial #Fediverse #ActivityPub #E2EE #Privacy #Android #Fedilab #OpenSource
Fedilab - Open Collective
Android client for Mastodon / Pleroma / Friendica / PixelFedopencollective.com
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I don't see this so black and white.
Mobile subscriptions nowadays has so many giga that you are not attaching anymore to whatever library or pub wifi you encounter.
I get offline every saturday, to pass the vacuum cleaner.
Occasionally the ISP change my ip, or i got a micro blackout.
You have a dynamic dns name, say whatever.dyn.com, pointing to an ip.
Other servers try to speak with luca@whatever.dyn.com
If the server associated with whatever.dyn.com is off, other servers will queue days of traffic for you, it happens all the time.
If you just changed IP, other servers will fail delivering to your old IP for up to 300 seconds.
They won't send post to another possible server because exchanged keys and bla blah
People who follow you don't notice anything strange, even your profile is cached, it's not like they receive 404 or something.
I also think that it would be way more exciting to sell people as a new thing.
Install this client on your phone, and you don't have to trust anybody moderation/ block list/ political judgement / whatever
On a mobile phone it's simply not possible. Even though your phone has a public IP, it's behind CGNAT with no way to configure port forwarding. With a home server you can set up dynamic DNS and open ports on your router, but there's no equivalent on a mobile network. That's why the relay is needed.
@ljrk @i47i
Federica Brignone ha compiuto un'impresa senza senso, che la proietta nella storia dello sport mondiale
https://www.rivistaundici.com/2026/02/15/brignone-secondo-oro-milano-cortina-2026/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su rivistaundici.com @rivistaundici-com-RivistaUndici
Federica Brignone ha compiuto un'impresa senza senso, che la proietta nella storia dello sport mondiale
Arrivi a fine pista, vinci il tuo secondo oro in olimpico in quattro giorni. Al traguardo, due tue colleghe si avvinano a te si chinano a terra. Non sempliciRedazione Undici (Rivista Undici)
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Intanto che le maggiori piattaforme di streaming aumentano i prezzi, è stata messa su una “nuova” piattaforma, WikiFlix.
Che rende disponibili e, cosa non scontata, facilmente ricercabili, oltre 4000 film di pubblico dominio.
Aggratis, ovviamente.
sottotracce.it/briciole/wikifl…
WikiFlix, o del perché ci manca l’internet collaborativo - SottoTracce
È stata messa su una “nuova” piattaforma, WikiFlix, che aggrega migliaia di contenuti nel pubblico dominio.Francesca Menta (SottoTracce)
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🚀 60 anni e non sentirli… più o meno 😄
🧭 Prologo
Ne ho passate tante, di tutti i tipi e in tutti i campi.
Per 30 anni ho lavorato come esperto e supporto dati e sistemi in una grande azienda di telecomunicazioni… finché un bel giorno è arrivata la diagnosi, tumore alla testa.
Mi davano per spacciato, o nella migliore delle ipotesi paralizzato a vita.
È andata diversamente, e sì, mi è andata benissimo.
Oggi sono su una sedia a rotelle, ma con una cosa che non mi hanno tolto, la forza d’animo.
🎂 Tris di festeggiamenti
- 12, compleanno di snowfan.it
- 13, il mio 60°
- oggi, San Valentino… e stasera festeggio al mio club di motociclisti 🏍️❤️
Sì, tutto sommato… sono felice.
🛠️ Rinascita, versione Linux
In questi 8 anni da quel giorno fatidico dell’operazione, ho ripreso a studiare e smanettare forte con
Linux, server e Fediverso.
Il lavoro di prima mi ha dato basi solide, ok.
Ma adesso ho una cosa rarissima… tempo, e posso usarlo senza padroni.
🖥️ La mia piccola flotta
Attualmente, 3 server
- 2 VPS
- 1 VDS
e ci tengo su un bel po’ di roba che amo curare
Mastodon, Pixelfed, Matrix, SearXNG… e l’ultimo arrivato, SNAC2 ✨
🧪 Routine da vecchio guerriero
Leggo log ogni giorno.
Provo, cambio, sperimento… e ti dirò, lavoro più adesso in pensione forzata che quando lavoravo “sul serio”.
Il motivo è semplice
mi piace, adoro il Fediverso, e mi sento di nuovo utile a qualcuno.
🧟 Epilogo, addio zombificazione
Anni fa stavo sui social “classici” come uno zombi, senza sapere bene nemmeno perché.
Adesso invece mi dedico a qualcosa di utile per una comunità, piccola o grande che sia, e soprattutto con una differenza enorme
so come funziona, so cosa sto facendo, e so perché lo faccio.
🌌 Fine del pippone
I miei primi 60 anni sono stati intensi.
Chissà come saranno i prossimi…
Io intanto, una cosa l’ho già scelta
continuo a costruire. 🔧🌿
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Lavender Collage
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tools: #photoshop
tags: #digitalcollage #illustration #graphicdesign #animation #artwork
#Snowfan oggi compie 2 anni 🎉
Due anni di viaggio nel #Fediverso, prima fino a novembre 2025 sotto masto.host, poi il grande salto su .it, per una vera autonomia gestionale, perché qui ci piace avere il timone in mano e la rotta ben chiara.
In questi due anni abbiamo sempre detto una cosa semplice, qui è un po’ come una famiglia. Ormai ci conosciamo, ci leggiamo, ci rispondiamo, ci capiamo anche quando non siamo d’accordo. E quindi sì, è normalissimo che ogni tanto qualcuno, per mille motivi, abbia voglia di cambiare istanza. È lecito, è umano e spesso è pure una cosa positiva. Il Fediverso è anche questo.
Quello che però stona è un altro copione, che ogni tanto torna come un boss di fine livello. Sparire di colpo, riapparire altrove, senza una parola, senza un saluto, senza niente. Non serve una spiegazione, non serve un romanzo, non serve un processo. Bastava anche solo un “ciao”, un cenno del mantello, un’uscita di scena con stile.
Noi non collezioniamo figurine, non facciamo numeri, non misuriamo il valore delle persone a colpi di follower. Però un saluto, quello sì. Quello lo avremmo davvero gradito.
Detto questo, fine del sermone e via. Io torno al mio solito lavoro nel Fediverso che amo, con server, idee, incastri, manutenzioni e un pizzico di follia come da tradizione. 🚀
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EDIT: the person I contacted replied and the new posts have the correct attribution. So the problem is solved.
There is a Mastodon instance that publishes content from its own PeerTube instance. These contents are narrated aloud, likely by an AI, in several languages, and are based on articles that appear online. Today this happened with an article I shared from my blog.
The problem is that there is no attribution to the original author and or the original source site. On the contrary, it gives the impression that the content was produced directly by whoever runs that site or instance.
This is completely detached from the idea of properly sharing information. Taking inspiration is a wonderful thing. Claiming someone else’s work as your own is not.
I contacted the account in question this morning. I have not received any reply, even though other content has been published in the meantime. A short while ago I also contacted the instance administrator.
I will wait until tomorrow morning. If I do not receive a satisfactory response, I will publicly disclose the instance and the related content and block the entire domain. There are additional details that I prefer not to reveal at this time which further worsen the situation.
This is not how we act in the Fediverse.
In the Fediverse we respect one another.
Let us avoid bringing improper practices here. You are free to use my posts as you wish. You can even make money by applying my advice.
Just do not take away my attribution.
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“ #Askatasuna non è quell’edificio” di corso Regina Margherita 47, ma “una proposta, un metodo, un’attitudine e un atteggiamento. Persone che decidono di mettere come priorità il fatto di volersi attivare nella società con le persone per portare del cambiamento. Però l’obiettivo è creare un percorso che rivendichi e pretenda che l’edificio in sé torni ad essere attraversabile da tutti e tutte, un punto di riferimento dal punto di vista aggregativo, di luogo di socialità e restituito alla popolazione”
radiondadurto.org/2026/02/09/t…
TORINO: “L’EDIFICIO DELL’ASKATASUNA DEVE TORNARE A ESSERE LUOGO DI SOCIALITA’ E AGGREGAZIONE”
L'edificio di Corso regina Margherita 47 deve essere restituito alla popolazione. Lo affermano i compagni e le compagne dell'Askasatuna che oggi hanno tenuto una conferenza stampa. "L'obiettivo è...Radio Onda d`Urto
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Poi vabbeh, sull'ineluttabilità solamente del crepare, dico solo che negli ultimi due mesi sono diventato così disilluso che sto scivolando in modalità Valcarenghi post «Re Nudo»...
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@cretinodicrescenzago non è tanto il doppiopesismo quanto che all'Aska mancavano una serie di caratteristiche che l'Asilo invece aveva e che lo rendevano il bersaglio perfetto per la campagna anti occupazioni lanciato da Salvini, allora ministro dell'interno. Era un posto politicamente piuttosto isolato e abbastanza centrale e conosciuto per cui il suo sgombero può far notizia (non parliamo di una baracca in mezzo ai campi). Massimo guadagno, minimo danno insomma. Infatti il post sgombero non è mai stato un problema politico ma essenzialmente una questione di ordine pubblico.
Viceversa L'askatasuna è sempre stata piuttosto attenta a costruirsi "fronti ampi" per le sue battaglie. Ora, se vogliamo parlare il linguaggio della verità, si può anche dire che di questi fronti ampi l'aska spesso faceva saltare il banco per mero tornaconto personale ma è indubbio che questo tentativo di non isolarsi politicamente in un certo senso ha comunque pagato se ancora oggi il fronte dei "difensori" dell'aska è piuttosto eterogeneo. Allo stesso modo, e sempre per parlare il linguaggio della verità, va detto sono sempre stati bravi a giocare su più tavoli, duri e puri sì ma disponibii al dialogo con le istituzioni locali quando è necessario (sia pure in posizione di forza) o a scegliere una forma di regolarizzazione quando hanno sentito che la procura di Torino amava parlare di loro all'inaugurazione dell'anno giudiziario.
Tutto questo per lungo tempo ha retto, fino a quando all'ennesima contraddizione ha fatto saltare il banco. Mi spiace per loro, perchè se non fosse stato per quell'azione inutile alla Stampa racconteremmo una storia diversa ma per quanto mi riguarda in politica essere scemi è una colpa, non una giustificazione.
@cretinodicrescenzago @bbacc @12ax7
@lorcon mah per carità, tutto può essere ma a me sembrano tentativi di razionalizzazione ex post. Che l'Asilo fosse l'ostacolo a una gentrificazione della zona ho moltissimi dubbi (e a riprova del fatto son 5 anni che non lo vuole nessuno).
Pure sulla lotta ai cpr sono trent'anni che la vedo - da quando si chiamavano CIE per intenderci- ma al netto di un grosso numero di denunce non mi risulta abbiano mai portato a particolari sgomberi se non di posti occupati magari uno-due mesi prima ma lì la questione non credo sia di cosa ti occupi ma del fatto che non ti vogliono fare stare.
Invece secondo me fa molto. Aurora è un quartiere conflittuale, molto più che Vanchiglia che ormai è un'oasi studentesca e da bere.
Dopo l'Asilo hanno sgomberato le Serrande, l'Edera, la Crepa, La Molla, il Lavatoio, almeno così a mente.
Tutti posti che portavano avanti la lotta alla detenzione (sia carcere che CPR), lota che si va veramente oltre al singolo spazio.
@12ax7 su quanto sia "conflittuale" Aurora non mi pronuncio, sui posti citati onestamente credo c'entri più una politica "no nuovi posti occupati" che quanto portavano avanti. Poi ribadisco quanto sopra: se l'Asilo portava avanti lotte così scomode non capisco perché non sgomberarlo molto prima, in 24 anni di momenti ne trovi..
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@cretinodicrescenzago @12ax7 indipendente nelle liste PD di un comune piuttosto importante della valle. In concorrenza, per dire, con la lista di Rifo. Assessore ai lavori pubblici. Il comune accetta le compensanzioni per l'opera (e quindi l'opera). Questo è il livello. Poco dopo si verifica il mega inciucio della morte con i 5s (a opera anche del compianto* Perino), questi fanno incetta di voti, poi si alleano con lega e tradiscono le promesse elettorali. Su di una lotta popolare che già arrancava questo ha avuto un effetto distruttivo come nulla altro. Ora la lotta No Tav è cinema fatto dai turisti che vengono al campeggio una volta l'anno.
Sono stato ultra sintetico e ho tagliato con un accetta fin troppo affilata, ma questo è in estrema sintesi il rapporto tra post autonomi e NoTav
*non scherzo: a me era simpatico
@lorcon @cretinodicrescenzago @12ax7
> Dopo lo sgombero de La Maddalena non è stato possibile rioccupare il cantiere come 6 anni prima in quanto questo è subito stato trasformato in fortino. A quel punto secondo alcuni la lotta si sarebbe dovuta rimodulare: blocchi stradali, scioperi, ecc. Secondo altri (Aska e altri) invece bisogna trasformare la Val Susa in un Vietnam e attaccare ogni tre per due il cantiere
Sapevo niente di tutto ciò, comunque mi sorge spontanea una domanda: a quel punto quale sarebbe stata la cosa migliore da fare?
Ah mannaggia speravo almeno che c'era almeno un'altra alternativa che se l'avevamo fatta avevamo vinto contro la tav.
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@lorcon @cretinodicrescenzago @12ax7
aggiungo Il mio umile parere da esterna:
per me negli ultimi anni la val susa è diventata una palestra, per entrambi le parti coinvolte. un'utile palestra per imparare la "guerriglia" da entrambi i lati delle barricate, e il prezzo finale lo paga chi ci vive.
conosco diverse persone che andavano e venivano, apprendevano, si sfogavano, poi però se ne tornavano via, mentre chi rimane poi deve gestire tutto.
In sintesi la mia impressione da lontano era che lo scopo si era trasformato o non era più chiaro, o comunque si è trasformato in vari scopi diversi a seconda delle persone coinvolte. questo nulla toglie a tutto il percorso fatto
Non mi voglio dilungare sulle affinità e divergenze tra lx compagnx di aska e noi, per citare quel merda di ferretti, uno perché qua sopra è un casino, e due perché vorrei concentrarmi sul punto dell'occupazione.
@bbacc Penso che il tuo commento sia meglio un'associazione che un posto chiuso.
Discorso valido su piccole realtà, che arrivando da fuori città capisco, ma faccio fatica a comprenderlo su Torino, dove le forze per occupare ci sono ancora.
Con tutto il rispetto per le associazioni culturali, le case delle donne ecc. avere uno spazio legittimato e che in parte viene istituzionalizzato non è mai la stessa cosa e non permette di sperimentare pratiche di rottura allo stesso modo, vorrei scrivere tanto, ma il commento di fondo è questo.
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Martedì l'Irlanda ha lanciato un programma permanente di reddito di base per le arti, impegnandosi a pagare 325 euro a settimana a 2.000 artisti.
I richiedenti selezionati casualmente riceveranno i pagamenti per tre anni, dopodiché non avranno diritto al successivo ciclo triennale.
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"If you support Trump, DM me."
This is truly a dangerous sign of the times we live in.
Historically, the job of a public prosecutor is to prosecute crime in accordance with the law and without bias. But because so many public prosecutors have resigned over Trump's politicisation of the justice system, the Chief of Staff at the Department of Justice is now trying to hire Trump loyalists to act as prosecutors.
November really is the last chance to stop Trump from driving the US off a cliff.
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Yep, stepping down willingly is the wrong response to a tyrant. It is better for the country to keep doing your job properly and force them to use the heavy-handed tactics (i.e purging).
This is another area where centrists didn't understand what they were dealing with and greased the skids for Trump's takeover.
Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now 
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing 
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Ed eccoci anche sul fediverso lontani dalle logiche dell'algoritmo. Siamo una band Doom Metal formata da poco, non abbiamo ancora musica registrata o date in programma ma di musica scritta ce n'è già parecchia e non vediamo l'ora di condividerla.
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Ciao raga mi serve urgentemente un avvocato che è esperto in problematiche sul posto di lavoro dispostə ad una videochiamata
Vi chiedo cortesemente un boost!
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A white MAGA man shot & killed his daughter because she criticized Trump. Why is no one asking the questions they'd ask if he was Black, brown, immigrant, or Muslim?🧐
For example:
•Where was he radicalized?
•Why is their culture so violent?
•Is this what they call "honor killing?"
•Why won't they assimilate to our values?
•What radicalism are they teaching in their churches?
•Was he here legally from Europe or was he an illegal?
•Did you know they cite their Bible to command women to be silent?
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And this isn’t surprising let’s remember that Donald Trump’s statement that the Reiners were murdered on the principal that they opposed Donald Trump. He glorified in the concept that family would kill family over politics.
There is nothing redeemable about Trump and anyone who embraces him, because glorifying terrorism within the family is a negation of humanity itself
HELP DAL VENETO!!!
Sono stata contattata da un nuovo utente del Fediverso che vorrebbe organizzare delle conferenze per divulgare l'uso di strumenti privacy-oriented, EU server, etc... nella sua zona.
Mi chiede se ci fosse qualcuno disponibile in Veneto (vicino Padova). Sarei anche disponibile a muovermi, ma non posso almeno fino a fine marzo, quindi se ci fosse qualcuno più vicino, sarebbe meglio.
Qualcuno disponibile???
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I miei contatti sono sul link in bio
Do you know figurative artists (no AI) here I could follow?
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Presentava ferite e lividi evidenti.
Deve essere un virus senza vaccino, nessuno prova a spiegarlo diversamente
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Questi pezzi di merda prendono esempio dalle innumerevoli notizie del bombardamento mediatico a chi siamo tuttə soggetti ogni giorno, dove addirittura vengono giustificati o spettacolarizzati da programmi televisivi del cazzo.
Altrimenti come si spiegano frasi del tipo "Farai la fine della Cecchettin" o "Sarai tra i femminicidi"?
Per non parlare poi della politica menefreghista e addirittura giustificatrice...
Wow I'm happy I never used TikTok.
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Last month’s Americanization of TikTok is perhaps the zenith of this strategy. While liberal hawks cheered the platform’s transition to the jumble of jargon now known officially as TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC as a win for national security, they ignored the details written in the fine print. TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex).
Perhaps most dangerously, ICE is now utilizing advanced social media monitoring to perform “sentiment analysis.” By scraping TikTok and other platforms, they can monitor the emotional and political temperature of entire geographic areas, identifying resistance hot spots. This completely undermines the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment.
#TikTok #CivilLiberties
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How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.The New Republic
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all the more reason to switch to #Loops 💙
why give our $, time, & data to the very #TechOligarchs who seek to destroy us?
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Webspace Invaders · Matthias Ott
There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers.Matthias Ott (Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer)
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Presentazione
Ho tardato un po', ma ora mi presento.
Mi chiamo Tiziano, musicista (violoncellista) e insegnante.
La musica ("classica", ma non solo) è una delle mie grandi passioni.
Le altre sono la filosofia cinese (c'è una mia Introduzione all'I Ching nel catalogo di Tlon) e il software libero. Da ora, il fediverso (lo adoro!).
Ne aggiungerei altre (arte, viaggi, scienza, danza irlandese...) ma rischio di dilungarmi troppo.
Mi farò conoscere meglio poco a poco!
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Anuj Ahooja
in reply to dansup • • •We're stronger together, Dan. It's not worth throwing stones.
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dansup
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •not throwing stones, just spittin facts. To much glazing over AtProto when many seem to forget its history, so I feel a duty to remind people of this.
ATProto never cared about openness or the social web, or they would have adopted ActivityPub and helped improve it.
They had to control everything. Jack even said he regrets that himself.
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Anuj Ahooja
in reply to dansup • • •Nuwagaba Gift
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Aren't the billionaires the ones designing the ecosystem now?
Evan Prodromou
in reply to dansup • • •Anuj, this is unfair.
There is a significant difference in intent and governance between ActivityPub and ATProto.
It's perfectly reasonable to point out those differences, just like the atproto.com site points out technical differences.
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Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Pushing a separate protocol has undoubtedly hurt the entire distributed social networking movement. It was done intentionally.
It shouldn't have worked. ActivityPub should have been more widespread by the time that ATProto launched, so that a competing protocol would have no chance to split the network.
But we weren't, and it did. It's at least partially our fault that a house-brand protocol has been such a serious threat.
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Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@quillmatiq
I think there is a lot to applaud in the ATProto community in terms of the growing openness, the standardization of part of the stack, and the great work engaging third-party developers.
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Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •If ATProto can overcome its origins and single point of failure, great.
But it's gross to gaslight ActivityPub developers that those origins don't exist and it never happened, and don't talk about them when strangers are watching.
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan I'm not gaslighting anyone, Evan, and I would hope that you would know me better than that after our conversations.
You can throw stones back at the Fedi's bet around Meta and all the other companies that promised ActivityPub integration but never delivered. What are we even doing here?
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq I know you and I appreciate your work.
Coalitions exist when different factions and players share some common goals. But they don't have to share *all* the same goals to work together.
I think there's a good case to be made that the ATProto community and the Fediverse can be a coalition to work together on the Open Social Web.
That doesn't mean we can't talk about our differences, or advocate for our own protocols and technologies.
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@quillmatiq And, absolutely, I'm really concerned about how we get more of those companies re-engaged.
It wasn't the only factor, but having multiple protocols in the space makes it more likely that implementers take a wait-and-see approach and don't use either.
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@evan The number of developers and communities who've been pushed out of the Fedi because of this elitist mentality should be alarming to any builder in this space. Are we ever going to learn to do better, or are we going to continue pushing more people away?
The vibes aren't good, Evan, and I really hope you're aware of that, because vibes make or break a community.
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Alex Chapman
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Maho 🦝🍻
in reply to Alex Chapman • • •Maho 🦝🍻
in reply to Maho 🦝🍻 • • •and it has implications on innovation.
We/I could build a LinkedIn (when LinkedIn was good) version for the fediverse.
A nice professional UI fediverse-client that shows indexed #jobs posts, adding @badgefed / certifications celebrations, and some #lemmy forums on specific companies and job market. But I am afraid that simply indexing (even if done in the "right and respectful" way), would get a drawback.
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Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@evan There are brilliant developers who were building in between the two spaces who decided it wasn't worth the hate they were receiving. If you want, I can share how much hate I get for bridging, and the mass majority comes from this side of the ecosystem, I just continue on because I believe in the mission.
It's a culture problem, and you two have the power to help change that.
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq I don't have a lot of examples of this, honestly.
I can think of a few great ActivityPub implementers who dual-stack, like micro.blog and Friendica, but I don't know of ones that stopped supporting ActivityPub because someone said Bluesky was started by a billionaire.
I think it's *great* when servers and clients support AP, regardless of what other protocols or services they support.
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Daniel Schildt
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •There are a lot of monoculture on both ecosystems, with unnecessary cruelty towards people who all want to create better alternatives to the (closed source) giants.
Every system has limitations, but it would be much more constructive to learn from each other, instead of burning bridges between communities of creators. 😞
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan It's not about the comments around billionaires, I'm talking about a culture that pushes communities out, even ones that want to collaborate - both technical and non-technical. I really hope you're aware of the numerous instances of this, it's really important if you want to make this space welcoming.
@dansup
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan What's hurt it more is not working together on a unified strategy and putting up walls every time there's a chance to do so.
There are folks on the atproto side who have shown an intent to bridge with services like Pixelfed and Loops, *including* adding the logo on the posts to help promote services. We can either move together, or we can continue to push each other away and fall to trillion-dollar companies building their own ecosystems, some of whom the Fedi bet the farm on.
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in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq @evan what walls? The fediverse literally worked with Meta for Threads federation, we’ve been here and open to collaboration, they went off and made a worse implementation that is even more difficult to full self host.
I appreciate the ability for interop, but I’m not wrong about this.
Till Kleisli
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Anuj Ahooja
in reply to dansup • • •So ActivityPub needed VC money, too?
Btw, Fediverse Threads is in maintenance mode and is one-way, basically RSS with likes, so are we going to even consider it a part of the ecosystem at this point?
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Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Also, I'm sorry, I have to ask - but how many independent services do you think atproto has right now? Because it's not just a handful, as you're making it out to be.
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in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq @thisismissem @evan
How many Anuj?
And, what constitutes an AT Proto "independent service"?
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Emelia 👸🏻
in reply to Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲 • • •@baralheia @mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @evan
PLC directory is in the process of being moved to a swiss association, it's just taking time, because legal stuff always takes time.
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The thing about AT Protocol is that you don't *need* to reimplement the entire stack to be independent. You can push people towards independently hosted PDSes, you can use non-Bluesky relays, you can build your own application and social graph. You can run your own moderation systems.
Bluesky is a tiny subset of what we can do on AT Protocol: microblogging. There's so much more happening: video streaming, blogging, science collaboration, annotating the web, links and bookmarking, E2EE messaging, source control management (git), books and pop culture reviews, Q&A services, a container registry, a package management service, music scrobbling, learning journeys, work profiles, video sharing, etc.
I've probably missed at least a few entire categories here.
ActivityPub forces you to re-implement the entire stack, AT Protocol allows you to do it progressively or reuse community infrastructure.
If you think of AT Protocol as Bluesky, then that'd be the same as thinking of ActivityPub as Mastodon. Far too many ActivityPub developers fall into that trap of "I must be compatible with mastodon" that it stifles innovation.
Creating an Independent Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) Directory Organization
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in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •@thisismissem @mastodonmigration @quillmatiq @evan I appreciate this information, but my main interest in modern decentralized social media protocols is for social media (microblogging, as well as picture & video sharing), and I am not a developer - just a nerd. My primary concern in all of this is I simply don't trust Bluesky PBLLC. That's why complete and total independence from their infrastructure from a microblogging standpoint is important to me before I would ever consider using an ATproto-based service as my primary social media platform. While I'm okay using community resources for now, I *want* the ability to host my own completely independent full stack so I would never need to rely on a company or community to stand up a relay or AppView or something. I can do that easily and *cheaply* today with Mastodon or WAFRN (the ActivityPub side of it, anyway) or Pixelfed or Loops - it's not a big lift because these platforms were already designed with the full stack as a single deployment. This makes the network highly resistant to adversarial takeover, especially as things exist *right now*. It's a far, far, far bigger lift to stand up a similarly independent full stack of Bluesky (for example), and far far far easier for the majority of the network to be compromised if all statuses must be funneled through corporate or community chokepoints.
Tl;dr if I can't easily host a full stack that can run completely on it's own (while still being able to federate with others), that's not independence. *Every* service built on top of ActivityPub can give me that independence *by design*. It's the difference between human-scale networking and corporate-scale networking.
If there's an easy, lightweight, fully independent way for me to participate in Bluesky-compatible microblogging on ATproto with an experience that is comparable to what I'd get from using Bluesky directly, I'm interested to learn more - because I'm not currently aware of anything like that. I can get that from multiple platforms on AP *today*.
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in reply to Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲 • • •@baralheia @thisismissem @quillmatiq @evan
It does seem to come down to how one defines 'independent'. If you are dependent upon other components owned and controlled by others, it is hard to understand how that can be considered independent.
Emelia 👸🏻
in reply to Baral'heia Stormdancer ΘΔ🐲 • • •@baralheia Then use Blacksky or similar. They have their own PDS, their own Relay, their own Bluesky AppView, and to a degree own Moderation — they still do query the Bluesky Moderation Service for some stuff though.
So they are effectively entirely independent. They have done experiments with did:web too, though I think they're mostly using did:plc (not 100% sure).
But operating an entire global-scale network is expensive. Bluesky have stated that just generating following feeds is something like the majority of their infrastructure load. There are other projects that seek to not do global-scale, and instead have different tradeoffs.
With ActivityPub, you only have local-scale, which gives you a small perspective of the entire network. There are projects like fediscovery that are designed to facilitate sharing data across otherwise loosely federated boundaries, such that they can do near global scale things.
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It would seem like this 'global scale' difficulty relates to the aforesaid 'quadratic scaling' issue raised by @cwebber
If, in fact this is true, it is very hard to see how the protocol is actually viable as a broadly decentralized protocol.
Would love to have someone knowledgeable address this.
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in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan What is the goal of calling out the history of atproto when the majority of the current community, including Bluesky, wants to collaborate? I'm trying to show that throwing stones is unproductive because there are stones lying everywhere.
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Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq I think you do great work in providing a literal and organisational bridge between those two communities.
I'm wondering, how do we get to a point where we actually feel like we're on the same side? And what side is that, even? Because it doesn't feel that way for anyone.
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan It feels that way every time I talk to atproto developers, and some Fedi ones too (I was just on a call with WordPress, Leaflet, Offprint, and pckt last week about longform bridging). It feels that way when I have face-to-face 1-1s with atproto short-form apps that want to bridge with cross-promotion in tow. I can go on.
It's posts and threads like this that get visibility and skew the conversation in an unproductive direction.
@dansup
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq That's great! I'm glad to hear that you're having some positive interactions where people have a sense of shared goals.
What's making that work well? How do we do it better?
I hope the upcoming Fediforum conference will be another chance to have that kind of conversation.
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan What's making it work is not acting as if a specific standard or technology is the only choice everyone has to bet on or is some ideological choice. It's about opening doors, building bridges, and seeing where we can bring people together. It's not that complicated, it's just kindness and openness.
@dansup
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan If you agree, then I think you should be promoting and endorsing more kindness and productive criticism instead of threads like this that push people away. You have a major voice here, be a part of pushing a positive culture.
@dansup
Alex Chapman
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •@quillmatiq I have a major voice because I'm ride-or-die for ActivityPub. That's my role.
You and I have different roles in the social web. I think yours is really important, and I'm glad you do it, but it's not mine.
We can achieve a lot together even if we don't agree on everything.
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@quillmatiq So, I'd like to give you some unsolicited advice, since you've been so generous with yours.
If you want to see more cooperation between people on the Fediverse and the ATmosphere, telling people on the Fediverse that they're bad and wrong and nasty isn't working. It may be true, but it's not effective.
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •There are a lot of cases for Fediverse developers to support cooperation.
1. "They're like us". As you've pointed out, ATProto has evolved (almost?) beyond the control of one venture-funded startup. There is a community of third-party developers who are doing interesting things. They are more like Fediverse developers than we realize. Even if the foundations of ATProto suck (agree to disagree!), there's some cool work being done by cool people who share a lot of our values.
Evan Prodromou
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in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •4. (cont'd) The more that we as a whole social web community do now to encourage and accelerate the shifting of the centre of gravity of the ATmosphere from Bluesky to other PDSes, relays, lexicons, codebases, etc., the less effective that clawback effort will be, and the less damaging it will be. So, we in the Fediverse should support that shift as much as possible.
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan I called out the culture here because this post exemplifies it. Taking my statement out of context from the broader thread here is unfair.
@dansup
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •Boris Mann
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan @quillmatiq well I regret getting tagged into this, I responded up thread.
Dan is yelling at ATProto rather than yelling at Bluesky which of course ends up hitting the very people that care.
Anuj Ahooja
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan I'm not saying don't be ride or die for ActivityPub, I'm saying shooting strays at another ecosystem community that wants to collaborate with the protocol you're ride or die for isn't helping your case.
@dansup
David Fleetwood - RG Admin
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Seems like there are some AT Proto experts here. Perhaps someone can address the issue of the inherent limitations of the protocol due to quadratic scaling? Or, credibly refute this assertion.
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in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •@thisismissem @evan @quillmatiq
Why do you think this is Emelia?
Evan Prodromou
in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •Emelia 👸🏻
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan @quillmatiq interest is great and all, but understanding the social and power dynamics at play is more important.
Every time some leader of an ActivityPub project goes on a tirade against another protocol or project, all it does is hurt the entire ecosystem. It prevents productive partnerships, it creates friction and fights.
We've seen this countless times, and meanwhile majority of ActivityPub applications are not striving for ActivityPub interoperability, but for Mastodon interoperability.
There is so much power centralization in ActivityPub it's not funny, let's not forget that the protocol was left to rot by the W3C for the longest time, when it could've continued on-wards. The amount of infighting and politics here drives people away.
I've talked with folks who have really great ideas, and I've been like "come bring this to a standards meeting, this is really cool" and the response time and again is "I don't want to be involved with those people", because they've seen countless negative interactions.
Meanwhile, in AT Protocol, it's extremely common place to get different application developers and organisations to come together to standardise things, the best example is standard.site — I'm also helping a few developers work on interoperability for other things within the Atmosphere, because they realise that they're stronger together.
In ActivityPub there's been constant division "this software is better than that software", and petty little fights about "this isn't really activitypub because it doesn't do what mastodon does, so it doesn't interoperate fully" — Dan was the target of one such hit piece.
The office hours that the bluesky team run every two weeks? They basically entirely focus on sharing and promoting the cool work by other people in the ecosystem, here's some notes from the latest: bsky.app/profile/thisismissem.…
I've mentioned it before, but I've stopped actively contributing to Mastodon because the lack of respect that they show other contributors is so dire that it's not financially viable for me to contribute.
Standard.site - One schema. Every platform.
standard.siteEvan Prodromou
in reply to Emelia 👸🏻 • • •David Fleetwood - RG Admin
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan @quillmatiq True, ATProto's intent is to cash in and make it's backers rich, ActivityPub's intent is to provide a protocol for an open web.
Thanks for calling that out!
Evan Prodromou
in reply to David Fleetwood - RG Admin • • •sheislaurence
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •Evan Prodromou
in reply to sheislaurence • • •That is an awesome question. I'm not sure!
There's a good landing page here with a lot of links to explore.
bmannconsulting.com/notes/atpr…
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Atprotocol
Boris Mann's HomepageBoris Mann
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •@evan @sheislaurence that’s a sort of bookmark on my own site and is pretty protocol focused.
@sheislaurence I help support a number of ATProto community resources.
Community blog atprotocol.dev and forum discourse.atprotocol.community, and I have some collected bookmarks of good articles semble.so/profile/bmann.ca/col…
Fun fact: that Semble site is also ATProto powered and you use your same account to store bookmarks
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ATProtocol Communitysheislaurence
in reply to Evan Prodromou • • •- Identity Dependency: did:plc directory Bsky owned
- "Centralized Indexing: users can host their own PDS, but rely on "relays" to discover other users. Currently, the main relay is operated by Bky. Replacing this requires significant compute power."
- "Atproto's adoption depends on it having a "killer app" other than the initial microblogging client"
Boris Mann
in reply to dansup • • •@quillmatiq heya Dan! Going to do the mastodon/activitypub thing - I think you mean Bluesky
ATProto has a thriving community that I and others are part of.
I care about openness and the social web, which is why I spend time with the ATProto community
Feel free to yell at Bluesky-the-company
Sunny
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in reply to Anuj Ahooja • • •adamtewodros
in reply to dansup • • •Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to adamtewodros • • •@adamtewodros @quillmatiq
blacksky should build on activitypub
if they build on atproto, ok
good luck to them
but they seem to be choosing a sinking ship
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@benroyce It's our own fault that they didn't, though. Black people have been actively pushed out of this community.
You've probably read this by now, but here it is again.
logicmag.io/policy/blackness-i…
And of course: privacy.thenexus.today/start-m…
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5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@stefan @adamtewodros @quillmatiq
zero argument
i remember reading mekka's posts about the sordid harassment, that us while folks just don't see
that's a struggle we have a duty to help with
i can see jumping to atproto as a valid response
i just fear that whole ecosystem is doomed, because of bluesky
maybe bluesky crashes, and blacksky picks up from the ashes
regardless, it's fruitful to fight the fucking reply guy bigots on mastodon, as an ethos, and with technical improvements
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@benroyce Absolutely!
But I'm just not seeing this as being important enough to the development of Mastodon in particular.
When people called out the strong opposition to quote posts as racist, given that the sort of call-and-response style of conversation has been so popular on Black Twitter, I thought this was reaching a bit.
But now we're looking at the most requested feature, the ability to disable replies, which many agree would help with the harassment particularly marginalized voices receive on here, and again, there is so much pushback, as well from the overall community here.
Starting to see a pattern.
@adamtewodros @dansup @quillmatiq
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@benroyce And yes, we all know there are technical challenges making that happen, but given this was requested back in 2018, it tells you all you need to know about priorities.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •i opposed quote posts. i've never used them
even on twitter i never used them
i always thought of them "i'm going to repackage someone else's thoughts" (whether in support or to troll) as inauthentic. i always find replying to be more honest
nevertheless, people like them. and they did put controls on them
Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@stefan @adamtewodros @quillmatiq
as for reply guy bullshit:
i think that disabling replies is the wrong approach
i think that the ability to delete replies is superior
why should black people force themselves to not get replies and thus be isolated because of the harassment they receive? it puts the burden on the victim of harassment to change their habits. no. we need to directly fight the reply guy harassment instead
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@benroyce
Definitely did not mean to imply that all opposition was rooted in racism, in case it came across that way!
And there were, again, technical challenges in making that work, some that are still being resolved.
And the ability to disable replies, the way I look at it, is more useful for locking your post in case things get out of hand.
I've had, on two occasions, my post attract pretty vile harassment. One of them was some pro-trans news, the other one, more recent, just generally about harassment in the fediverse.
It would've helped a lot to lock replies while I went ahead and blocked some of the servers, wait a bit for things to cool off, and open the replies back up.
@adamtewodros @dansup @quillmatiq
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@benroyce Not sure if this is how everyone would use this feature, but that is one example.
It's more about having the tools to defend yourself while mods and admins can take action.
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Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@benroyce But I do agree with your larger point.
Having self-defense tools is not a fix for the reasons why they're needed. The culture here needs to vastly improve.
Until then, either people will have the tools, or go to Bluesky, where they have them, and may not need them as much.
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Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@benroyce
I do agree that being able to delete replies would help a lot, part of why I like running my own server!
But that also requires being exposed to vile, hateful stuff.
I think of it as locking comments on your blog. Or at least having a spam filter so that they don't show up publicly. Common sense stuff.
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩
in reply to Stefan Bohacek • • •@stefan @adamtewodros @quillmatiq
i get you
and i agree
if you post something like
"i am dealing with a death in family. i will not be posting in awhile"
and setting it at no replies
you just don't want to fucking deal with it at the moment
no replies is a useful feature
but i do not think black people should be socially isolated because of harassment. "just turn off replies" is asking them to go off in social siberia when the real solution is to fight fucking reply guy bigots
Stefan Bohacek
in reply to Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩 • • •@benroyce
Yep, we're very much on the same page here!
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Ivan Tomić
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