hey @rhiaro happened to see you're in Greece (after following a link from ActivityStreams docs) and thought I'd reach out! I'm based in Athens and heavily involved in ActivityPub related projects.
I need to loop around to sort out a VPN kill switch.
if you have some spoons and access to an arm64v8 computer (of any form) I could use some help with plume. im seeing some odd build errors and have no real experience with rust... it looks like one of the dependencies has a nested dependency on a no longer supported library that's broken on arm64v8 and unlikely to receive a fix.
with our tumblr expats having a federated blog that is pre built for arm64v8 (raspberry pi 3, orange pi, aws, scaleway, others) is a HUGE deal
if we can work together as a community to nail this.... the federverse gains an important option for self hosting.
the plume docs are solid but builds for docker are a pain (I have notes to share). lets build this out shall we?
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.
I really like the way Wire allows me to post self-destructing messages. It would be of huge benefit for the long term storage needs of all #fediverse instances, if they allowed users to mark fun shiptoasting posts to self-destruct in a day, or a week, or whatever, leaving more informative or thoughtful posts to become part of the history of the web. @Gargron@mayel@mike@bob@lain@lightone@bhaugen
Just wanted to say, #Nextcloud supporting #ActivityPub is huge, because installing Nextcloud is way easy, you basically run a snap package and are done. So lots more folks can self-host!
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Dec-2018 08:26:05 EST
Bob Mottram 🔧 ☕ ✅"We need to become better at being humans. Learning to use symbols and knowledge in new ways, across groups, across cultures, is a powerful, valuable, and very human goal. And it is also one that is obtainable, if we only begin to open our minds to full, complete use of computers to augment our most human of capabilities."
you might be wondering, "lynne, just how do you run servers for mastodon, gitea, minecraft, matrix, nextcloud, a flask app, and all this other shit, along with over one hundred ebooks servers, on a VPS with 4GiB of memory" and the answer, my friend, is swap. lots of swap. 20 fuckin gigs of swap
1) don't confuse 'the internet' with 'the web'; 2) don't confuse 'the web' with 'social media'; 3) don't confuse 'social media' with 'corporate social media'
current status: being blown away daily spelunking through hundred rabbits' body of web-work
tiny example: visit grimgrains.com. oh it's a nice vegan recipe blog. lightweight, beautifully styled, hand-illustrated, and wonderfully organized.
now unplug your router and what's this? you can still visit every recipe on the site! because it was front-loaded into your browser using a bespoke human-readable database and markup format 🤯
built by two people while navigating the pacific on a sailboat 🤯🤯
So many of the bad uses of computing - surveillance capital, the centralized cloud, the NSA, etc - could all come under the general heading of "oppression".