Decentralised social media isn't just a tech experiment, it's critical infrastructure for a resilient democracy. Bertelsmann Stiftung's latest report explores how open protocols like ActivityPub can break tech monopolies.
How do we scale? The report calls for better usability & lower entry barriers; mandated interoperability via EU policy; public institutions hosting their own instances.
- solar powered guillotines - piezoelectric vibrators that charge themselves on the leaked motion of the daily train commute. - librarians trained to administer free vaccines
Passing 800 words on this short and close to minimum word count, but I think I'm somewhat less than halfway done. Increasingly convinced that not only will this story be hated but that I've made MYSELF thoroughly hateable with the inhospitable choices in everything from orthography to exposition to the run-on sentences, which I'm trying to excuse by calling the piece an extended prose poem lol. But it's also a strangely relaxing perspective and way to write, for all I'm so new at it, and the kind of thing I've wanted to try for a while. #amWriting#LjWrites
Decentralised social media isn't just a tech experiment, it's critical infrastructure for a resilient democracy. Bertelsmann Stiftung's latest report explores how open protocols like ActivityPub can break tech monopolies.
How do we scale? The report calls for better usability & lower entry barriers; mandated interoperability via EU policy; public institutions hosting their own instances.
@regehr These days I see this most often as "people who hate wintel wanting to claim ARM is better because RISC" despite for most of the period Intel just making better parts than available from any of the ARM vendors. Being like 5 years ahead on fabs vs. everyone else was a Big Deal.
I hear this discussion less now that ARM parts competitive with Intel are out as of 2020. If anything, these days I hear the discussion in the opposite direction: Windows people blaming Apple's slight processor lead for all of Windows problems and expecting Snapdragon to fix it. (Snapdragon X Elite looks like an interesting part but I refuse to buy one until I see at least MS treat it as a first class target. I bought 2 Windows on ARM devices that are paperweights and I won't get burned like that a 3rd time. It's depressing to see people talk about Windows on ARM like it's the "new hotness" when Windows on ARM is *older* than macOS on ARM!)
NEW: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from #prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the #Trump administration paid to transport him 350 miles to a posh #NYC hotel.
Eastern border regions are not only national borders.
They are European borders.
Today, we proposed a strategy to support the EU regions bordering Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
Since Russia launched its war of aggression against Ukraine, they have been under growing economic and security pressure.
The strategy helps keep people safe, supports local economies, improves roads, energy and internet connections, and backs communities across these regions.
NEW: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from #prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the #Trump administration paid to transport him 350 miles to a posh #NYC hotel.
If you have the technical chops, join some of the conversations on https://activitypub.space, help move the protocol that powers the fediverse forward.
Not your cup of tea? You can always donate to your server's admins, or admins of servers your friends are on. Or any server, really. Pick one at random!
But above all, keep a positive attitude. Welcome new people. Encourage positive conversations. Shitpost.
And if you have to vent, go ahead, but don't drag other people down.
For me, a lot of the protocol-level stuff is a bit above my head, so I've been focusing more on advocating. My own followers may be familiar with my work https://jointhefediverse.net, a site I see regularly shared and linked to.
@stefan I will never fight for Bluesky, I will always fight for atproto. I will never fight for Mastodon, I will always fight for ActivityPub. I believe in the community, not in the organizations with the largest representation.
