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Great article. What I took away from it is that BS decentralizes the bill and centralizes the profit.

@tchambers @activitypubblueskybridge @mmasnick @anildash @manton Before you invest too much energy in this effort check out the Bluesky Terms of Service for using the AT Protocol. Currently they are asserting a unrestricted free-for-all license to any content the touches the AT Protocol (https://staging.bsky.app/support/tos). Seems crazy, but arguably you could be opening the door to giving Bluesky all the Fediverse content. In any case the #DataProtection issues needs to be nailed down.

#ContentLicense

I try to pick my battles but here’s a hill I will die on:

Remove all instances of the words “just” and “simply” from your technical documentation. These are marketing terms used to sell a product, promising ease of use.

Someone reading your technical documentation needs help: implying what they’re trying to do is “simple” will only frustrate them. Wrong audience.

In the late 1880s, when steam ships were replacing sailing cargo ships, one of the last roles for the sailing ships was to carry coal around the world to supply ports where steamships wanted to go. A clean technology was essential to enable the growth of a dirty technology. And even today, fossil fuels aren’t magically just everywhere. A gigantic *** 40% *** of global shipping is just moving fossil fuels. So eliminating fossil fuel also drastically cuts global shipping emissions. #climate #ships

@tanepiper @tetrislife @JungleGeorge24 This would be the case on a good operating system IF electron was installed system-wide, but bundling it with every app destroys that.

That's also my number one issue with containers.

Don't be afraid of super intelligent AI in the future when you can worry about greedy companies in the present time.

@joeldrapper @thomasfuchs @jsadow The protocol supports it but Mastodon doesn’t reach out to servers it doesn’t know about and it knows about servers due to follows. If server admins wanted to fix this locally they could have bot users that participating servers mutually follow. Or do something comparable in the software if the BDFL would approve it.

@anildash My strong suspicion is that Bluesky (or any similar corporate product that preaches federation) will use federation for their initial growth spurt, and then find a way to pull up the drawbridge once private equity or the Saudis decide that lock-in sounds more profitable.

I don't know why I would be so cynical, except for my lying eyes and the entire history of Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, RSS, XMPP, OpenID, and even Open Graph meta tags.

@zodmagus plus, doesn't ChatGPT pirate content generated by others just by giving you an answer???

FWIW, I think that Debian's "popularity contest" banner is a good example of an "active choice" approach to getting consent for anonymous on-device analytics.

Clear, instructions on how to stop it, no pressure or dark patterns, and equally prominent choices for "yes" and "no".

@tanepiper The MS Teams app on Linux is a prime example - a completely worthless, feature deprived resource hog.

@tanepiper @JungleGeorge24 AIR/Flex were fantastic, QtQuick is still excellent, and XULRunner could have been the compromise solution that kept us from our current reality.

But people got horny for Node.js and V8 and while they’re happy to write HTML to make a desktop app, they weren’t happy to write similarly structured XML (in the form of XUL) because XML is for old people or something.

What's so great about having a job writing open-source software is that your work isn't just for the profit of a single corporation. Instead, many corporations get to profit off your work.