Notices by Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch), page 2

#FediPact is an agreement between all current Mastodon instances to never federate with #Facebook, in response to the #Meta corporation's recent announcement that they will be making Facebook compatible with the #ActivityPub standard, and thus allow Mastodon and other ActivityPub services to federate with Facebook.

Most of the arguments I hear in favor of federating with Facebook come down to trying to expand the reach of the fediverse and Mastodon in particular. If people on Facebook can interact with Mastodon, this can only grow the fediverse and make it more relevant. This is a failure to recognize the real threat of Meta.

This pro-Facebook sentiment is usually accompanied by accusations of #FediPact supporters being irrationally dogmatic, overly paranoid about advertising and other for-profit ventures, overly concerned with privacy, and/or ignorant of how technology works. The attitude here is "Don't be so paranoid, just try it and you will see the benefits." This is a straw-man argument against #FediPact.

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#Mastodon #Kbin #Lemmy #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Fediverse #Facebook #Meta #FediPact

#Mastodon (and other #ActivityPub #fediverse services) needs to see themselves the way the #Meta corporation sees Mastodon: as a competitor and a bitter enemy. Mastodon and the larger fediverse needs to strive to make itself a better and separate from #Facebook. The federation should not be providing free content that improves the quality of their competitor who is trying to shut them down.

Therefore all #fediverse instance admins (#Mastodon #Kbin #Lemmy #Pixelfed #PeerTube) should agree to #FediPact . Federating with Facebook entails nothing but risk, and provides no actual reward. Federating with Facebook will not grow the fediverse, it will destroy it, slowly but surely.

Maybe, if hell freezes over**, Meta might agree to pay admins of Mastodon instances for federating with Facebook. Those who provide the service of quality content should be compensated, after all. But that is a separate discussion entirely. Let's just say that any Mastodon admin that allows Facebook to federate with their instance without compensation, especially for the increase in web traffic to their server accompanied by the increased bandwidth costs, is poorly informed fool who is happy to be exploited by a massive corporation.

**EDIT (2023-06-23 16:10) Someone I trust has explained to me that Meta will in fact pay some instances for federating with Facebook. In that case, I favor an evidence-based approach to deciding whether to defederate with the instances "blessed" by Facebook.

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#Mastodon #Kbin #Lemmy #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Fediverse #Facebook #Meta #FediPact

#Mastodon (and other #ActivityPub #fediverse services) needs to see themselves the way the #Meta corporation sees Mastodon: as a competitor and a bitter enemy. Mastodon and the larger fediverse needs to strive to make itself a better and separate from #Facebook. The federation should not be providing free content that improves the quality of their competitor who is trying to shut them down.

Therefore all #fediverse instance admins (#Mastodon #Kbin #Lemmy #Pixelfed #PeerTube) should agree to #FediPact . Federating with Facebook entails nothing but risk, and provides no actual reward. Federating with Facebook will not grow the fediverse, it will destroy it, slowly but surely.

Maybe, if hell freezes over, Meta might agree to pay admins of Mastodon instances for federating with Facebook. Those who provide the service of quality content should be compensated, after all. But that is a separate discussion entirely. Let's just say that any Mastodon admin that allows Facebook to federate with their instance without compensation, especially for the increase in web traffic to their server accompanied by the increased bandwidth costs, is poorly informed fool who is happy to be exploited by a massive corporation.

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#Mastodon #Kbin #Lemmy #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Fediverse #Facebook #Meta #FediPact

@ms

@troodon @JohnLoader6 @SallyStrange @williampietri
Once I went to Amsterdam for a conference. I was wearing a suit and tie loosened up because the conference had adjourned for the day. I went to a cafe out in town, a dozen other guys from the conference who looked just like me in loosened up suits with ties were waiting in line. The barista spoke to everyone in Dutch, the customers all ordered in Dutch. When it was my turn to order, before I even opened my mouth the barista immediately asked me for my order in English. I still have no clue what tipped her off about my appearance that told her loud and clear, "I'm not from here, speak English," even though I looked exactly like everyone else in the room. Maybe the other guys were all regulars and she knew them? I don't know. But people can just tell with enough experience.

And that is how it goes with black people on social media. If you write a long enough sentence, they don't need a photo to know who is who. This is a generality, there are exceptions, but this will hold true for the vast majority of the interactions online.

According to this source on GitHub, before James Gosling invented the #Java programming language, he had implemented his own clone of #Emacs in the early #1980s written in C. This was done because an Emacs-like editor had not been ported to proprietary Unix systems at the time (this was before GNU was a thing). The code is now "open sourced," but the licensing is unclear. Still, might be worth a look for anyone who is interested in #TextEditor and programming languages.
https://github.com/bobbae/gosling-emacs

(EDIT: correction, thanks to @carcosa -- ML is "MockLisp", not Standard ML.)

Metro.co.uk headline "Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars" https://metro.co.uk/2023/02/14/tesla-goes-down-across-europe-leaving-some-drivers-unable-to-charge-cars-18282364/

DID YOU KNOW? You can actually design electric cars that can charge their batteries WITHOUT AN APP or any computers of any kind? Kind of like how gasoline pumps used to work? Sure, a battery pack with a microcontroller tends to be more efficient, but it is not strictly necessary. The electric motors of the car must be fully computer controlled, but these computers need not be tied to apps either.

Electric cars all being designed to become useless without an app controlling them is not inherent to electric car technology itself. It is a result of modern day #consumerism (capitalism) where every single business on the face of the Earth gathers data about you, and earns money from selling #ads to you. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. This is what @pluralistic calls #enshitification .

And I can't wait to hear people argue with me about how gasoline-fueled cars are better and more reliable because their engines work just fine without apps or cell phones. Electric cars could be this way too, but due to the way businesses make money nowadays, they do not.

@cwebber Goddamnit, why I am only now hearing about "Pre-Scheme" for the first time in my life!?
https://groups.scheme.org/prescheme/1.3/
- no garbage collector
- no closures
- Tail call optimization is not universal
- Types are strictly verified with Hindley-Milner type inference.

If anyone wanted to write an OS kernel in a Lisp, Pre-Scheme sounds like it would be a very good choice.