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  • How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem

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  • Which is one of the reasons behind github's network effect.

  • Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help

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  • I'm happy to see Mozilla narrowing its focus to making just a damn browser

    but thats not what theyre doing. im on mobile so dont have the link handy, but they mention in a different article that they think Pocket has been superseded by AI and tab groups. theyve harvested the bits of it they want and have no use for the consumer service now but its not about narrowing their focus.

  • Pocket shutting down

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  • They promised to open source it 7 years ago when they bought it and now they're snatching it out from under users and shutting it down. Mozilla is getting better and better at emulating its Silicon Valley idols

  • Resistance from the tech sector against trump's facism

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  • The point I was making here is you start sabotaging & can end up harming people that may have been allies

    How? The call to sabotage was against fascist programs, like surveillance, illegal arrests, etc. How would sabotaging those hurt people who could have been allies?

    Second, the more you start demanding people do what you want else you'll sabotage, attack them, etc

    That is nowhere near what is happening here. We have a system of laws that is being broken. Nobody was calling for sabotage when those laws were followed. But people who use less aggressive methods to combat fascism, i.e. writing op-eds, speaking publicly against administration policies, leading protests, have started facing punishments. They are preventing the normal exercise of civilian power, so we have to escalate to sabotage or similar actions. That doesn't make us like fascists because we are not the ones defying and breaking existing social norms and laws. This is a ridiculous argument.

  • Resistance from the tech sector against trump's facism

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  • The post didn't promote consumerism in any way. It said, if you're a tech worker you should unionize and sabotage authoritarian work where you can

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    The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

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  • Self hosting isn't really compatible with viral content

    The post I was replying to claimed virality and self hosting are at odds with one another because it causes skyrocketing expense. My point was that maybe someone selfhosting a server in the fediverse is not as interested in virality. And I doubt even the most viral posts in the fediverse would break the bank of a selfhoster

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    The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

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  • Virality is nowhere near the only reason for posting videos. People post them to make jokes, teach something, reply to someone else, etc, or all the same reasons someone might make a blogpost or a post on a link aggregator.

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    The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

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  • Theres no web app? That seems short sighted. You apparently cant access anything without logging either. I dont expect these shorts to get much viewership if you have to register and download an app to see anything. It also doesnt seem in the spirit of the fediverse

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    The Fediverse is getting its own TikTok competitor called Loops

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  • Maybe the problem in that equation is the expectation of virality and not self hosting?

  • Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers

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  • That's not a contradiction, it's maybe an incomplete argument. And I was relying on my previous sentence that mastodon has a history of steamrolling other implementations to imply that they would do it again and were already warning about that. But none of this even matters; I've made a follow up comment that lays it out more explicitly.

  • Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers

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  • I didn't cherry pick a statement. I included the part where they said the very first draft.

    I did fail to explain how its a power grab, but that's was only because I thought it was a fairly obvious one-to-one point. I've also added another example. But lemme try again.

    1. Mastodon has a history of pushing features that affect interop with other implementations without seeking feedback from other implementations or outright ignoring the feedback they do receive.
    2. A member of the mastodon team wrote a FEP to formalize a setting related to search indexing. This was the right way to go about it. yey Mastodon was working with other implementations. But that FEP didn't receive positive feedback and it seems like it was abandoned.
    3. Now mastodon is trying to standardize something using the ideas from that FEP, outside of the FEP process (which is the agreed upon way to collaborate between implementers).
    4. They're warning on their site that they have deadlines and may not incorporate feedback if they can't resolve it without breaking deadlines.
    5. They are under no obligation to incorporate it after their initial draft and, historically, mastodon is unwilling to update their work to incorporate other implementers' feedback.

    A more collaborative way to do this would have been to seek feedback before making a grant proposal and making the grant proposal jointly with other projects so they weren't the only ones getting paid for it.

  • Mastodon Announces Fediverse Discovery Providers

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  • Mastodon has a history of steamrolling other implementations.

    This means we might not always be able to incorporate all the feedback we get into the very first draft of everything we publish

    The site even warns that theyre on a deadline and may not incorporate feedback.

    EDIT: they also mention a "setting" that determines if a user/post is searchable. theyve presented a FEP to formalize this setting but nearly everyone else had issues with their proposal. as usual for mastodon, this looks like them sidestepping external feedback and just doing what they want

  • Tech @programming.dev
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    Building a browser using Servo as a web engine! - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

    servo.org /blog/2024/09/11/building-browser/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
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    Has the IndieWeb become discourse again? - Marty McGuire

    martymcgui.re /2024/08/29/141602/

  • Highlighting journalism on Mastodon

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  • chat apps and systems like Twitter and Mastodon aren't a good place for journalism

    Super agree with that. Framing this feature as specific to journalism was a poor choice. The feature is useful for any writer/blogger/joe schmoe on the web

  • New Feature to Highlight journalism on Mastodon

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  • where are you gardening?

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  • South Carolina, in the US Southeast

  • dansup: "An open source/self hosted and federated Tik-Tok …" - Mastodon

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  • Then, there is TikTok algorithm which is a common critic of the app but is how you get a never-ending flow of content which isn't uninteresting enough for you to turn the app off

    I think there needs to be some kind of discovery algorithm for new users with an empty feed (or even existing users who just wanna find something new) but a federated alternative doesn't need something as powerful as the tiktok algorithm to be a decent replacement. It doesn't need to surface a "never-ending flow of content" because it doesn't have a financial incentive to keep you in the app endlessly.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    My Hopes for We Distribute - deadsuperhero

    deadsuperhero.com /2024/05/my-hopes-for-we-distribute/

  • Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

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  • on-demand pods that travel on existing abandoned railways.

    They're reusing existing tracks.

  • Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ?

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  • Relying on the competence of unaffiliated developers is not a good way to run a business.

    This affects any site that's posted on the fediverse, including small personal sites. Some of these small sites are for people who didn't set the site up themselves and don't know how or can't block a user agent. Mastodon letting a bug like this languish when it affects the small independent parts of the web that mastodon is supposed to be in favor of is directly antithetical to its mission.

  • Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers ?

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  • People have submitted various fixes but the lead developer blocks them. Expecting owners of small personal websites to pay to fix bugs of any random software that hits their site is ridiculous. This is mastodon's fault and they should fix it. As long as the web has been around, the expected behavior has been for a software team to prioritize bugs that affect other sites.

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
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    Farmers Don’t Want to Throw Away Food | Ambrook Research

    ambrook.com /research/supply-chain/food-loss-farms-farmlink-apples