Folks making alternatives: don’t recreate the systems of closed, centralised silos. They’re designed with the needs and success criteria of closed, centralised organisations. You cannot compete with them on their own terms. They have the resources to create centralised workflows, you do not. And your success criteria are the opposite of theirs. You do not want to centralise information, power, and wealth. Think about where your strengths lie and design from first principles according to those.
@Gargron Hey Eugen, thanks, man. I’m going to go in there and give the talk I’m going to give tomorrow. I hope I will do Mastodon proud and I hope that I will show them how centralised differs from federated differs from peer-to-peer and how Facebook, etc., are scum of the earth and do not deserve a place at the table (they have one tomorrow, of course).
We will stop using it as soon as we can manage to and I will stop recommending you to others. Unlike you, we don’t associate with folks incompatible with our values.
My goal is to make it into a Site.js plugin and release it separately once I’ve implemented plugin functionality in Site.js :) But it’s basically all Node.js and shouldn’t be too much effort to pull out into a pure Node.js app if you wanted to.
I get hundreds of millions of dollars every year by legitimising surveillance capitalists and enabling them to violate your privacy by default. (I wouldn’t exist without them.) Please trust me on privacy.
Why are you all looking at me like that?
OK, OK, you can stop glaring: I’m Mozilla, y’all love me. 💕
@teslas_moustache And if you need any pointers on how much to trust Mozilla, remember they they get hundreds of millions of dollars every year for legitimising and allowing a third-party to violate your privacy (currently Google, Inc.)
So a week in Sydney for UX Australia and a week away on holiday in Malaga (boy did we need it) and now I’m back with a stinking sore throat. Yay me. Gotta shake this thing before Reading Bodies in Berlin this weekend (https://small-tech.org/events/)