Notices by Chris (cmw@mastodon.social)

@aral

So original quote by @danhon, but instead of designers make it CEOs/founders? @strypey @trib @laura

@aral seems like a two-tiered strategy. Not just embrace-extend-extinguish, but also divide-and-conquer, creating an ad-free access to FB and Insta content that, backed my their money, can host millions, eventually holding critical mass of non-Meta fediverse. Then they will put up federation requirements that will force the rest to join or get defederated.

And recent decisions which led to big masto instances growing even further played right into their hands.

@Nour @gabek @laurenshof @aral @Mr_Teatime In as much as moving from a monopoly to an oligopoly can be considered an improvement, I agree.

I'll be putting my hopes for actual change into truly decentralized approaches. #ssb or #SmallWeb

@Nour @gabek @laurenshof @aral @Mr_Teatime hosting an email server is trivial. Blindingly so, with certain solutions.

About the complexity of self-hosting an activity pub instance.

What's hard about email is getting the big established players to accept email from you. To be accepted as part of the party and not spam.

That part isn't part of SMTP. They make you jump through hoops of their design.

They'll do the same here

@aral option D: go back to Neal Stephenson's book "Fall; or Dodge in Hell" which has some thoughts on keys as identities :-)

@prometheus @matthewskelton I think that's a brilliant example of what @aral describes as "decoration, not design".

@ulrike @aral here's an example I came across that may apply: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bookwyrm-social/join-bookwyrm/main/LICENSE.md