rysiek
@rysiek@szmer.info
https://rys.io/
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 5 days ago:
“Penis swastika” is spot on.
- Submitted 6 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 34 comments
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Sure thing, enjoy!
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
ohno, it’s out!
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Yeah. Thankfully, Fediverse is a bunch of independent projects. There are Pleroma, different Misskey forks, Lemmy, kbin, Pixelfed, Loops, GoToSocial, and dozens more.
Mastodon is still probably the biggest, user-count-wise, but if Mastodon does a real stupid, there’s going to be a fork that takes over the mindshare and the instances. This happened with OpenOffice → LibreOffice when the former got taken over by Oracle; this happened with XFree86 → X.org. This happened with ownCloud → Nextcloud.
And there are projects like FediPact, explicitly opposed to having anything to do with Meta on an instance level.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Yup. Up until roughly the times of early Twitter, federated, decentralized communication systems were the obvious norm to any engineer designing one.
Twitter was even meant to be federated and decentralized. I had interviewed one of their first engineers (this piece is about BlueSky, and in Polish; the Twitter thing is important background), who was there and working on that in the very early days. They had a proof of concept. But then the VCs got involved and the decision was that it would be harder to make money on a decentralized service. Rest is history.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Facebook is trying with Threads. Threads is directly targeting Fedi. Thankfully, it does not seem to be working the way Meta wanted it to work – that is, to start sucking people in from fedi due to sheer size and presumably better UI. Turns out people who had moved to fedi really hate Meta, who’da thunk it.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Aww, thank you!
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
Yeah, I had an account on identi.ca. I even wrote about this: rys.io/en/168.html
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 25 comments
- Comment on The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 3 weeks ago:
Transparency though. 🫠
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 29 comments
- Comment on Happy John Mastodon day to all who celebrate! 3 months ago:
thanks, I should have provided that link.
- Comment on Happy John Mastodon day to all who celebrate! 3 months ago:
you’re welcome!
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance 3 months ago:
Blocking a somewhat fluctuating list of 25k+ instances is still considerably harder than blocking a pretty stable infrastructure of a single major social media platform.
- Comment on Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instance 3 months ago:
I still think that fedi will help, and in fact I am pretty sure it is helping already, simply because it is quite decentralized. Blocking 20k+ instances is not trivial. And each of these instances is an entrypoint, so to speak, into the broader fedi. Missing even one is thus a big deal. If my instance is blocked, I can set up an account on a different one, follow the same people, and I am back in business.
At the same time all these instances are run independently. One can’t simply threaten the whole fedi to force it to do a thing (say, take down an account), this just does not make sense.
Compare and contrast with centralized services like Facebook, gatekeepers like Cloudflare, and so on. Threatening one big entity with problems might be enough to “convince it” to take a thing down.
The reason governments and other powerful entities are able to control the information flow is because there are these hugely important single points of failure. Fedi is not perfect (
mastodon.socialis way too big for its own good…), but it is a step in the right direction. - Roskomnadzor sent an abuse report to Hetzner regarding @Bellingcat account on mstdn.social fedi instancemstdn.social ↗Submitted 3 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 17 comments
- Comment on Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! 1 year ago:
What absolute bull. 🤦
- Comment on Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! 1 year ago:
fixed again. jeebus.
- Comment on Public Broadcasters of Europe, Let's All Join Mastodon! 1 year ago:
Updated with a new link from EBU.
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@beehaw.org | 12 comments
