Notices by infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social), page 2

good points here: https://ianbetteridge.com/2023/06/21/meta-and-mastodon-whats-really-on-peoples-minds/

> John’s question is whether “the goal of the Fediverse to be anti-corporate/anti-commercial, or to be pro-openness” is simply a false dichotomy, because resistance to Meta is based on its past behaviour, not simply anti-capitalism.

> It’s incredibly naive to think that openness automatically makes things better when you have companies totally willing to exploit that openness to dominate a market.

to expand on this: the number one draw of fedi has always been that it won't fuck up everything in the name of profit. profit seeking has a corrupting air and you used to be able to palpably feel the detoxifying effect of just being in a noncommercial space. that's been happening less and less as the migration wave refractionary period keeps getting shorter, and it probably has not been in effect since november 2022, but it's definitely something i remember fondly.

https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_blocking

> Is the goal of the Fediverse to be anti-corporate/anti-commercial, or to be pro-openness? I think openness is the answer. Others clearly disagree.

idk about y'all but i'd rather see the anticapitalist cooperative fedi thrive than some neutered watered-down mainstreamed version. "others clearly disagree"

nonetheless, that does seem to be the salient factor in the divide and there is a point that fedi isn't at all resistant to corporate takeover of the specs behind it

@silverpill @pere This is something that I have also toyed with -- the concept of programmable actors that use ActivityPub as a message-passing framework. It's part of why I want to see a truly generic Server. You could build a distributed computer over ActivityPub if you really wanted. But part of me stops to question if we "should" even though we "could".

cc @ademan

@silverpill @pere

- The representation is based on describing resources, a Resource Description Framework (RDF)

- When you produce an ActivityStreams document, there is the expectation that it should be possible to show it in a stream of activities

- ActivityPub lets you send Linked Data Notifications and prescribes some limited side effects for managing objects and collections

Again: You could define your own activities and side effects, but why do that when you could do proper RPC?

@forgefed reading this, i have to wonder: if you think activitypub is for publishing, then why are you trying to use it for invocation? why not use something more rpc-like instead? conceptually it seems like y'all are trying to turn email into a programming language

@pere mostly i'm just wondering why bother using ActivityPub for anything other than notifications and bridging into issue trackers. the closest analogue is email, and it makes sense to treat AP like that. trying to turn AP into a programming language or using it to do method invocation is *possible* but doesn't seem like a particularly good idea.

how it feels to talk about #activitypub and how #fedi implements it

https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/

ai generated moon textures in the past ~2-3 years of samsung camera phones

> Samsung is leveraging an AI model to put craters and other details on places which were just a blurry mess.

this person took a pic of the moon, blurred it and downscaled it, put it on their computer screen, turned the lights off, then took a pic of their computer screen showing the low-res extremely blurred photo

...and the result had *more* detail