There are a lot of companies and ideas competing for space on the post-Twitter internet, and Jay makes a convincing argument that decentralization — the idea that you should be able to take your username and following to different servers as you wish — is the future. It’s a powerful concept that’s been kicking around for a long time, but now it feels closer to reality than ever before. You’ve heard us talk about it a lot on Decoder: the core idea is that no single company — or individual billionaire — can amass too much power and control over our social networks and the conversations that happen on them.
There are quite some reasons that leave me very cautious about Bluesky, one being for sure the fact there's one commercial entity currently backing this service / protocol, especially one that has risen from the same ecosystem that caused a lot of the trouble we do experience with current social media platforms. But, I've then and now been at odds with ActivityPub as a protocol, which gets worse the more I dig into it, and from that perspective, it seems the AT crowd gets a lot of things right, considered a lot of things that don't just seem obvious at least in the 2010s but actually surprising to see them missing from ActivityPub, a spec that has been established at roughly the same time: Full account portability (the idea of comparing personal data, conversations, comments, posts, ... to a github repository which "of course" you want to easily be able to take, backup, move around, ... seems both stunning and painfully trivial), support of custom domains for users (which Tumblr has already been supporting for years now), distributed curation and moderation (because most obviously community structures will be different to server or domain structures and not necessarily live on one instance exclusively) - in a way I really do hope they "show don't tell" by submitting that protocol to some standardization body anytime soon. Maybe this, too, could provide a good option for the "open" fediverse to counter the problems that might arise the very moment platforms like Meta / Threads fully embrace ActivityPub. (I also found it rather interesting to listen to what she had to say about why Meta might be more into ActivityPub than AT - being "server-centric" rather than "user-centric" - but that might just be a loose end of things.)
Canadian legend Jann Arden loves Flipboard! Here's a clip of her talking on her podcast about how she's using it to plan her mudlarking trip to the U.K.
J'ai dévoré d'une traite ce #podcast sur la place des femmes chez les chef-fes d'orchestre... Ça m'a rappelé quand j'apprenais la trompette ado et qu'un des profs du conservatoire "refusait les filles dans son cours" sans avoir à donner d'explications.
Injustices: Le Bémol 1/5 : Circulez, y’a rien à voir
Big thanks to @aetataureate for putting me onto Primer! First season is covering #CityPop and I’m already loving it. I’m not super deep in the genre so it’s nice to have yet another source to learn of some songs and artists from.
Fast 10 Jahre hat es kein ambitioniertes MMO-Projekt mehr geschafft, sich einen Platz an der Sonne zu erkämpfen. Trotzdem sieht die Zukunft des Genres überraschend rosig aus.
ChatGPT is down, Kaspersky makes an attempt at a Linux Antivirus, Google workers leaking Nintendo private info, PS4 Emulator installing a crypto miner and A LOT more!
Wie steht es um die deutschen Höfe, welche Hilfen gibt es für sie bei Notlagen und warum ist der #Ökolandbau auch für die konventionelle #Landwirtschaft wichtig? Diese und weitere Fragen diskutieren Landwirtin Annemarie Paulsen und Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Cem Özdemir in der aktuellen Folge von "Aus Regierungskreisen" – dem #Podcast der Bundesregierung. Jetzt überall dort, wo es Podcasts gibt: http://bpaq.de/AusRegierungskreisen_Oezdemir_Landwirtschaft
🎙️Listen to the latest
SciLux #podcast episode to dive into the fascinating world of AllergoOncology with our 2 guests:
✅ Dr Aurélie Poli
✅Dr Heather Bax
« Lettre d'information interne des membres de l’@aprilorg du 1er juin 2024 », avec notamment une transcription d’un épisode de #podcast « Politiques Numériques » où @pb parle des propositions de @PartiPirate pour les #europeennes2024 :blobcatcoffee:
Was haben die Nachrichten mit mir zu tun? Dieser Frage geht "15 Minuten. Der tagesschau-Podcast am Morgen" ab heute nach. Berichte von Betroffenen, Reaktionen auf Beschlüsse, Auswirkungen im Alltag - darum geht es täglich von Montag bis Freitag.
Hello #Fediverse! We're here now and we're not going anywhere, so here's our #introduction post.
We are an indie scripted vodcast/podcast called, ”The Unlikely Adventures of an Improbable Family,” but we go by “Unlikely Adventures” for short. 😁
It's a dark, surreal sci-fi comedy featuring the unlikely adventures of a forlorn man, his laptop (which is infested by a self-absorbed artificial intelligence), a cartoon alien fuzzball, and a mysterious woman with inexplicable telepathic abilities.
We provide video as well as audio-only versions of each episode, whichever you prefer. Please check it out and let us know what you think!