pallenberg, (edited ) to threads
@pallenberg@mastodon.social avatar

Naechste Woche soll #Threads in Europa starten. Wie seht ihr auf #Mastodon diese Entwicklung?

Meine (vielleicht) eher unpopulaere Position:

Ich hoffe, dass Threads und auch #Bluesky erfolgreich durchstarten & in Zukunft auch mit dem Fediverse konnektiert werden koennen. Imho waere dies der ultimative Proof of Concept fuer Protokolle und dezentrale Strukturen.

P.S. Ich bin auf beiden ziemlich aktiv. Threads ist fuer US-Technews klasse. Bluesky mag ich fuer ChitChat!

kkarhan,

@feb @pallenberg Ich betrachte #ActivityPub wie #XMPP als eine gute #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider - Lösung...

Egal ob :mastodon: , :misskey: , :pleroma: , :wordpress: , oder :lemmy: ...

Alle kommen im :fediverse: zusammen...

ada, to random

please use matrix we have:

  • a client made by an enterprise who will willingly backdoor your messages
  • a client made by 3 people that get random breaking changes that completely obliterate flow
  • a client that is one giant html5 canvas that uses 100% of your browser gpu power
  • a client that requires systemd
  • way too many abandoned android and ios clients

please use fedi we have:

  • an instance software which is so popular but so feature deprived it makes no sense why it exists, also it's trademarked in a bad way
  • an instance software that has so much code rot it spawned 500 forks to try and fix it only to become rotten themselves
  • an instance software that doesn't really know what it's doing and instead implemented 3 different api standards, and this is the fork i'm talking about. no one should talk about the upstream project.

this really is the FOSS curse, huh?

kkarhan,

@Natanox @ada I mean it's the #InconvenientTruth.

Do you know why #Fax, #SMS, #eMail, #IRC & #XMPP still exist whilst #AIM, #ICQ & #Skype are basically dead?

It's because they are #openStandards that are #decentralized and have a working #MultiVendor / #MultiProvider #ecosystem around them.

Same reason why people still buy gasoline and diesel vehicles: Shit just works and scales...

SheHacksPurple, to Cybersecurity

If you could wave a magic wand, and "solve" 3 security problems, what would they be? And why?

kkarhan,

@SheHacksPurple

  1. Force people to manage login credentials properly.
  2. Make #TechLiteracy mandatory.
  3. Mandate #OpenStandards that ain't #paywalled unlike [#ISO norms] and only allow #decentralized #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider solutions aka. Ban #CCSS without exceptions.
briankrebs, (edited ) to random

If you're in the US and your phone starts squawking loudly this afternoon, don't worry, it's only a test.

https://www.fema.gov/emergency-managers/practitioners/integrated-public-alert-warning-system/national-test-2023

If you have an important meeting or video call going on at 2:20pm ET today, you might want to turn off the emergency alerts, or just leave your phone in another room.

On an iPhone, this setting is under notifications, but you have to scroll all the way down to the bottom, after all the individual apps.

Here's something I hadn't considered previously:

Edit: I'm being told by way smarter people that even turning these notification settings off probably won't stop this test on your phone. But turning it off will.

kkarhan,

@Aphrodite @briankrebs I know.

Germamy does test about annually since a lot of people had to die not-so-long-ago to make decisionmakers realize that #CellBroadcast and #PTY31A as per #RDS are good #open, #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider #standards and that there is no valid excuse to not use them to #notify people!

Granted I really mean shut down in the sense of "only removing the battery makes them less useable"...

mastodonmigration, to mastodon
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online avatar

Anybody else feeling it? Mastodon becoming essential...?

Mastodon is tiny, yet are we now seeing the vital niche that this nascent open social media platform is beginning to fill?

Today the AoIR, Association of Internet Researchers @AoIR abandons Twitter for Mastodon (https://aoir.org/aoir2023onmastodon/), and EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova declares Twitter the largest source of and (https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/111132449403615794)...

People are turning to Mastodon...

1/3

kkarhan,

@CodexArcanum @mastodonmigration I do hope so that people finally realize that only & / solutions and standards will survive and live.

That's why & are dead but & alive and well.

That's why and are around and why & only exist in their small nieches.

That's why failed and died before and why in the end only & will survive long-term.

blujayfox, to random

My feelings so far on the pros and cons of Bluesky vs Mastodon.

Disadvantages of Bluesky:
– posts can't be viewed by those who don't yet have an account
– posts are limited to 300 characters
– no Direct / Private Messages
– no post editing
– max bio length is very short
– no way to see your own history of likes
– no bookmarks
– no way to mute specific words or phrases
– no videos
– no way to Content Warn text, only images

Disadvantages of Mastodon:
– umm… cross-instance interactions with people you don't already follow can be a bit clunky, I guess?

kkarhan,

@dameoutlaw @blujayfox

And no, the difference is that #BlueSky is a #centralized #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider platform and thus perfectly capable to #moderate and #delete everything.

Whereas :activitypub: as a protocol like #eMail and #HTTPS [the latter one it relies upon] is #decentralized, #MultiVendor / #MUltiProvider and thus the only angle that exists is going after #admins, #hosters and those that keep that shit online!

https://mstdn.social/@dameoutlaw/110934725881870435

animemer, to random

hey, in a debate with @thecatcollective

over parents being delusional,

can you list any open source software that has become the industry standard, so far i got

  • obs- video-streaming
  • android
  • Linux and BSD on servers
  • both chrome and firefox are
    based on open source
kkarhan,

@animemer @thecatcollective

stephie_hamburg, to random German
@stephie_hamburg@norden.social avatar

Vielleicht ist das Problem am Fediverse, und wieso manche Menschen meinen es wäre zu kompliziert oder zu nichts gut der Fakt, dass es nicht-kommerziell ist und keine Daten abschöpft und einen nicht mit Werbung zuballert.

Erstaunlich viele halten so eine Plattform nur dann für gut, wenn jemand damit richtig viel Geld verdienen will und deine Daten möchte.

kkarhan,

@stephie_hamburg @NumberHill Naja, sind dieselben "Konsumopfer" die #Freemailer nutzen, sich dann aber über Werbung aufregen, zugleich aber nichmals €1 pro Monat für'n werbefreies Postfach zahlen wollen.

Dieselben Leute machen auch #Mimimi wegen #PROSM nur um weiterhin auf #NSAbook.abzuhängen und als Stasi 4.0 - IMs weiterhin die eigenen Kontakte per #WahtsApp zu snitchen statt sichere #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider-Lösungen wie #XMPP-OMEMO zu nutzen.

yuki2501, to random

Atn admins:

Time to start working on allow lists and authorized fetch, folks.

We cannot stop Meta from trying to federate and control some instances. What we can do is establish new rules for federation.

The time to block unknown instances by default has come.

Start preparing.

#FediPact

kkarhan,

@yuki2501 to put the analogy with other #decentralized & #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider options together:

Only #DenyLosting bad actors is boing to work.

I'd rather block all the shitty "#Freemailers without #Abuse-Handling" like #GMail, #Outlook.com & #YahooMail than only doing allow-listings...

stevestreza, to random

One of the reasons I stopped making client apps for corporate platforms is because "filling in the gaps" of someone else's platform usually resolves itself poorly. Either the platform holder fills in the gap, they decide the gap goes against their corporate interests, or the gap is itself meaningless and nobody wants a fix for it.

For any young devs out there making a client app for some corpo's API, I strongly recommend not doing that, except for fun projects or things that get you headlines.

kkarhan,

@stevestreza +9001%

Rather do something that uses #FLOSS & #multiVendor / #MultiProvider standards and systems...

Or something that benefits you as primary user!!!

downey, to random
@downey@floss.social avatar

🚨 Here's the important news about #encryption that statists REALLY want to distract you from seeing or talking about this week:

🇮🇳 Government in #India just blocked 14 different encrypted #messenger apps such as #Threema #Element and #Briar.

🔒 Privacy is a human right. Protect it with all your might.

:boost_love: Spread the word.

https://epaper.mvkashmir.com/epaper/edition/198/paper/page/3

kkarhan,

@downey Well, I'm convinced really #decentralized, #MultiVendor / #MultiProvider solutions that work ain't on that list.

From #Zulip to #XMPP-#OMEMO & #IRC...

And I'm not even talking about #OnionShare...

The named ones are very much centralized.and most don't even offer full #SelfHosting at all...

feditips, to random
@feditips@mstdn.social avatar

I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.

The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.

If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.

The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.

(1/4)

kkarhan,

@feditips And this should all not be the case.

Granted, as a / - will outlive anyway, just as & outlived & .

At most Mastodon will die out like , & nowadays and ["Server"] in the future...

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