bblfish
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After deploying the Babelfish [1] machine translation engine at AtlaVista in the 1990s, Henry has been working on Decentralised social Networks since 2004 at Sun Microsystems when he took up foaf, contributing to the Atom Syntax syndication format, WebID Authentication, then in 201x worked on Linked Data Protocol, Social Linked Data Platform (Solid), and now is working on Access Control. He read philosophy, spent three years immersed in [2] Category Theory towards a Solid Phd, and earns a living programming in #Scala. He will also talk to you about the #WebOfNations.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqHkYtREAE
[2] Category Theory is the mathematics of duality, more https://web-cats.gitlab.io/
Can one import a mastodon archive in here? Or even a Twitter one? Where is the data stored btw?
I never liked that emphasis on newness on Twitter. What? I keep discovering that I barely understood some category theory from the 1960s or the importance of Neoplatonism!
On Mastodon censorship
The suspicions unity of political views across mastodon instances does not bode well, as I argued in this blog.
I was always suspicious of federated systems but I thought it would take longer to be disappointed.
https://medium.com/@bblfish/on-mastodon-censorship-e8429f52e2fc