making non-centralized alternatives is a good, but, if they are going to persist, we need to consider how they can *become* centralized systems and find ways to engineer solutions that counter those tendencies.
m.s and pawoo are perfect examples of a weakness in the federated model we have here. same as email or xmpp. unless we are careful we could fall into the same trap.
star star baby (xj9@social.sunshinegardens.org)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Sep-2018 09:28:12 EDT
star star baby> Over on the EEVblog, someone noticed an interesting chip that’s been apparently flying under our radar for a while. This is an ARM processor capable of running Linux. It’s hand-solderable in a TQFP package, has a built-in Mali GPU, support for a touch panel, and has support for 512MB of DDR3. If you do it right, this will get you into the territory of a BeagleBone or a Raspberry Pi Zero, on a board that’s whatever form factor you can imagine. Here’s the best part: you can get this part for $1 USD in large-ish quantities. A cursory glance at the usual online retailers tells me you can get this part in quantity one for under $3. This is interesting, to say the least. hackaday.com/2018/09/17/a-1-li…
plan9 is build around and old (and wrong) networking model
the network isn't reliable and if we're going to re-decentralize the internet we can't build it on top of expensive infrastructure that we can't actually afford to operate and deploy independently
idk how i'm going to do the whole coop instance thing. probably like 10 USD / year membership with limited guest privileges so you can bring your friends with you.
there's lots of detailis i'm not really interested in right now. you're welcome to ask for an invite tho. guest post for free obviously 😀
prob going to set this thing up as a cooperative a la social.coop
there's some specific details to workout since there are some other goals on the horizon and i'd like to have both members (paid) and users (unpaid, invited friends)