mikedev

@mikedev@fediversity.site

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Communications technologist. Internet, web, and fediverse pioneer. I build free communications tools in my spare time for free people based on common sense and what works, not on what sells. Systems integration, software development, and robot repair. Former music store owner. Plays a mean guitar, upside down and backwards.

Created fediverse technology long before it became cool. Still building the the most innovative fediverse servers you never heard of. You probably wouldn't like our software because we're big on privacy and online safety -- unlike the stuff you're probably using.

I came from the San Francisco bay area of the 1960s. Make of that what you will. I cut my teeth professionally in the bat-shit crazy world of Silicon Valley through the early 2000s, and have seen greed up close and personal -- and once played the tech startup game with gusto. I'm well and truly over it.

Currently living mostly off-grid on a modest farm in rural Australia. A free citizen of the world, with no lords, no masters, no allegiance, and no brands.

When the people making the rules are leading the world to the brink, maybe it's time to tell them all to bugger off and make your own rules.

Cheers.

⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The important thing is that people have the ability to federate (or not) with whomever they want. Having that choice is a giant step from not having any choice. I'm a browser war veteran and I'm treating Threads with caution -- and always have a plan 'B'. Incidentally I developed this plan 'B' because of EEE tactics pursued by Mastodon, not Meta.

Fighting a closed community by closing your community means they've already won. I've been working on the fediverse a very long time. We have weapons and tactics you aren't even aware of.

Cheers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hubzilla 9.0 Released!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Mastodon's handling of Article was done just to piss me off. I filed an issue on Mastodon back in the early days of ActivityPub asking if the complete and total stripping of HTML tags could be relaxed on the Article type - and other software that used HTML would happily use that instead of Note. Eugen resolved the bug by removing the content entirely and turning it into a link. Nope. Can't have any of that nasty HTML on Mastodon; even though that is the default mediaType for ActivityPub.

I will never file another issue on Mastodon, no matter how critical the issue is. As it exists today, Article has been destroyed for other software to ever use correctly, in the same way that summary and the addressing fields have.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Nope. In Mastodon, every message has its own scope completely independent of any other message associated with the thread. There is no 'reply to all'. Your replies "usually" go to your own followers and anybody you mention, which "usually" includes the author of the post you are replying to - but never to their followers or the original audience. There is no such thing as a conversation which is seen only by the audience of that conversation. This is why I've been working so hard on conversation containers, which fixes this situation.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It's possible the article is slipping in via fediverse news. I haven't looked, just a wild guess.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Conversation containers. Bang tags. Done.