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Alex Gleason
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I create Fediverse software that empowers people online. I'm vegan btw. Note: If you have a question for me, please tag me publicly. This gives the opportunity for others to chime in, and bystanders to learn.

What are your pronouns? Mine are ye/haw

>sparkling water

>add alcohol to it

>revolutionary

>remove alcohol from it

>nonalcoholic sparkling water

>revolutionary

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/white-claw-launches-0-percent-alcohol-seltzers-depth-flavor-complexity

Nonvegans be like:

Stay safe out there.

As long as you avoid CF specific interfaces, you can use Deno to self-host worker scripts. And libraries like Hono are designed to work in either context.

Unpopular opinion. If Cloudflare went down, it would actually be okay. People would log into their DNS provider and switch back the name servers. Then people online would scream "WE TOLD YOU SO!!!", even though in actuality we'd be over it with half a day of downtime at most.

My dog's name is PP Smalls.

Imagine having a global search that just works, from the very beginning, without having to build up your database with follows. Mastodon fears this.

Help me think of a cool name for it and I'll create a webpage that does it entirely in the browser.

Mastodon users on Reddit stressing about adding content warnings for eye contact to their posts.

People are naturally tribal. Leaders are integral to the ActivityPub model, in which people accumulate around charismatic admins. It's not really a centralizing factor as long as people can move between servers (they can't really on ActivityPub; you can murder your whole ship).

It's interesting how people talk about Mastodon admins being worse than Big Tech jannies. Usually they are, but it's not an inherent flaw in human nature or anything, it's just that Mastodon as a project attracts people who are childish, narcissistic, and dramatic. It's totally possible to be a balanced and reasonable admin, although it gets harder as the community grows. Which brings me to the next problem of Mastodon being maximalist software architecture. It's great for sites like Truth Social who can throw money at the problem to scale, and terrible for sites with 10 users because they can't afford to keep hosting it.

But we have to recognize the ways in which the model helped the Fediverse explode. Which is why I'm trying to strike a balance with Ditto. Mastodon's community model on top of a network where users aren't held captive.

To build a relay, you can build just a relay. To build a client, you have to build a client and a relay.

Is nostr.band proprietary software?

My friends, it has been an incredible year. Thank you to each and every person who made this year amazing. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunities I was given this year, to the people that lifted me up, and for everyone fighting for freedom online. After years of fighting, I believe the tides are turning. Don't give up hope. 2024 will be our year of victory! 🎉 🎆 👍

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