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What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.
Let’s go.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html
The #Fediverse is like a startup in many ways.
Some days you are totally elated about all the amazing things that are becoming possible and within reach. We are changing the world!
Some other days you are in the depth of despair that this is never going to work and how could you possibly ever have thought otherwise.
This week definitely is the former. A movement is forming, good people are coming out of hiding and are getting excited and involved. So glad to be part of it!!
Silly (or maybe not) question:
So what exactly is social media for?
For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the #Fediverse. So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?
And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs do you have that would be unmet?
I'd love a broad variety of responses. Reshare?
The best #tech #support of any company I've ever interacted with comes from Prusa, the Czech #3D #printer maker. Consistently, they listen to what you have to say, and right away have a good answer. No how-are-you-doing-you-are-so-important-to-us bs that only aggravates everybody, but straight answers to each question, always backed up with links, sometimes with more background info than you had any reason to supposed might exist.
On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says:
“We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..”
How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?
How to talk about the #fediverse so people can understand why it might have value to them.
(Skip the term "marketing" if you don't like it. The conversation is still very interesting)
From a session at #FediForum hosted by nostr:npub1jh57mxh2wdu9ft66xjjrt3kmdfv7chsy0pn6x3ae9lkedd8nx2ns3fjak4
"Currently, Threads accounts do not see individual likes on their federated posts, instead getting a notification that says ‘4 fediverse users from 3 servers liked this post’. According to Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput, Threads cannot use profile info from fediverse accounts on Threads yet because they are not allowed to do so yet by their Legal department."
h/t nostr:npub1qu2fnvx22kze5u8xj5sdamgnh46z57jhcncpewkkvvtttuakd4ns6puj0d
What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse?
Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between.
Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale.
I want to run a #FediForum session on this next week, and brainstorm with you all.
Join me? https://fediforum.org
Time zones are the worst.
Other than time zones with daylight saving time changing on different dates.
What would you say the #Bluesky people are trying to build? Why does it matter to them?
What about the #Mastodon people? What are they trying to build, and why does it matter to them?
And what about the broader #fediverse? What are we all trying to build, and why does it matter to us?
Curious what everybody thinks.
Has #Medium done any Fediverse integration so far other than standing up their own Mastodon instance? And, I think, integrated their user database somehow?
(I might be terribly underinformed.)
We need to reduce energy consumption, they said, to mitigate the #climate.
“By 2050, India will be among the first places where temperatures will cross survivability limits … And … the demand for air conditioners (AC) in the country is expected to rise nine-fold.”
9x
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/india/extreme-heat-india-climate-ac-intl-hnk/index.html
Have you watched the cool #fediverse software demos from #Fediforum?
Online at https://fediforum.org/2023-09/
nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 What is the total cost on a per MAU or DAU basis? (Would love to have a number like this for the Fediverse, too... can compare with Twitter's cost pre-acquisition)
Signal costs $50m / year to run!
So I just shared an article to the #Lemmy group on Fediverse press coverage, and as I hit refresh, the number of Likes goes back and forth between 1 and 2. Given that both are from me, and I'm not changing them, what is going on here?
No more T2/Pebble.
#t2 #pebble #fediverse
Anybody can explain how this #Matter #iot connectivity standard actually works?
The specs requires registration, and I don't feel like registering.
Also, can I connect my open-source code without having to go through their certification? How?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23925489/matter-1-2-smart-home-support-new-devices
It’s practically impossible to use #https for devices on home networks, such as #iot devices — the #certificate system simply isn’t made for servers behind firewalls.
Why?
E.g. why can’t I easily get an intermediate (and official) CA cert for my home gateway, which then could issue certs for my devices, maybe in the same breath as assigning local dns names?
Is it that simply nobody cares about this use case, and everybody is happy enough with going through vendor clouds? Or why is that?
The Free Software Foundation Europe set up a website to help move governments from proprietary social media to the #fediverse.
Excellent idea!