Life is Tetris @tetrislife@social.cleverlibre.org

@mariyadelano

This is a part of the mess of mixing up personal (privacy) and public news/media that the #dotcons did for ten years. We have reproduced this mess on the #fedivers without composting.

We already have a solution for this #fedivers is public, encrypted chat applications are private #KISS

The problem is we have unthinking people trying to do the #dotcons mess of mixing these up. This is all to common crap behaver.

News need to be #4opens and in public #OMN #OGB #indymediaback

Many folks have been taught about “The Tragedy of The Commons” in school. But what most folks don’t know is that it was complete bunk written by a white nationalist and eugenicist to justify colonization and genocide.

https://memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-how-ecofascism-was-smuggled-into-mainstream-thought/

Commons can be successful. Many long-standing and successful commons exist. Many were studied by Nobel Prize-winning Political Scientist Elinor Ostram, who codified 8 principles for how commons can be governed sustainably and equitably in a community.

https://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons

I’d really like for folks to stop using the term “tragedy of the commons” that assumes inevitable failure, and start calling them what they are. Commons with improper governance or “Failed commons”.

#socialism #economics

@teleclimber Yeah, that's a good one too. Especially because our apps are signed with a key only the app author has, the process of switching to a new author taking over an abandoned app is a *process*, one the platform itself has to support. Whereas moving to a fork should just be doable so people can fork apps they use and move the data over without a manual process.

The other topic that interests me is when unrelated apps have the same schema anyways.

The #Sandstorm project is excited to finally join the fediverse!

We're a secure computing platform for one-click deployment of open source web apps. We're also an innovative way of building apps based on object capabilities (#ocaps)!

We've selected floss.social because we love the vibe of the community growing here. Our friends at @forgejo are also here which is a great bonus.

Follow us for project updates and get the latest and greatest news on the growth of our community! #introduction

When John Mastodon removed server choice from the onboarding process in the official #Mastodon app, he was only kicking the can of user confusion down the road. What happens when Alice asks Bob "what's your Mastodon address", and Bob replies "@Bob_is_here" and Alice asks "OK, but on which server"? Bob may have no idea a choice of servers exists, because he never consciously chose one. How might he feel when he realizes he had a choice, but the simplified onboading took it away from him?

#UX

@BackFromTheDud

We are the only species to be self aware of and decry our own savage nature. It may not save us in the end, but at least some of us are trying.

Why do people force-justify text.

I t l o o k s h o r r i d

When an open source software is hard to use, a frequent response is that there is just a "lack of resources" to make it easy to use.

However, a lot games and software created by single creators in their spare time have a decent user interface.

It is more likely that the user interface has been an afterthought – and will continue to be one, even with more resources being avaliable.

#UX #software

PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

Tech speakers, it's 2023. Stop using moms as your example of a non-technical audience. It's wrong, its not funny, and whatever you were saying, now most of your audience is not thinking about it.

Just use the exec team as an example instead and get on with your life.

@randomgeek languages don't die. I added features to a COBOL program last year. For pay.

@mike

Ah, @youronlyone - There we have it Yuki, from the Man himself that created #Friendica, #Hubzilla, #Streams, #Red_Matrix, #Zap, and #ZOT (and so much more)!

Thanks Mike! Not just for that tidbit, but all the remarkable things you've done for us!

Kindest regards,

#tallship

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@Z O R A N  G R B I C @Fred Brooker @Chris Trottier

Jay Graber in a nutshell:

We don't compete with Mastodon. We're so awesome that Mastodon isn't even competition.

Besides, #Mastodon with #ActivityPub isn't the benchmark. #Bluesky only believes it is because that's all they seem to know. Let them try to do better than #Zot which has featured account portability on every level they could possibly imagine since 2011.