Notices by Kote Isaev (koteisaev@mastodon.online)

@aral Moreover, whole current internet architecture is based on pyramid. Servers on top, and you, "pity "internet user" (used this term to show how situation is bad), allowed only to consume data flowing on you from server.
Upload speed is less than any download speed.
Email send from "residential" IP address considered as spam by default, as I know.
Many ISP including my current, do not provide option of "white IP address" - public stable IP mapped to my hope PC-or router.

@aral Even if something "pods"-based, when you e. g. rent some VPS or something like Solid "pod", or some PDS as bluesky calls it, you still need it be hosted somewhere. At place that is not controlled by you. A place you have to pay for.
This makes such stuff already harder to adopt and _decentralize_.
Even if Places or other such project like this requires usage of the server-client model when you need some software running on your behalf on non-residential IP address.
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After reading that old but still actual post of https://ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/ by @aral I tried to think a bit. May be I am not best at this, sorry if so.
that anything that is not a really decentralized thing, literally a peer-to-peer stuff such as Utopia, it will eventually will end up the same way as Fediverse which is merging into few large clamps over time, like mastodon[dot]social/online I am sitting on.
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@aral As a conclusion, I would to say that even Small Web projects such as Places/domain/kitten not immune to get concentration/centralization disease, as it too require a paid resource at some servers.
Only peer-to-peer software that can work right from people computers can be immune enough from centralization.
And it also restrict what such software can really do and can be useful for.
And also sorry if my thread was sad or disturbing or non-interesting for you.

@aral There are few projects who try to move to mesh and peer-to-peer architectures, such as #yggdrasil or #veilid but they don't have any mass adoption among people - either nobody knows about them, or it has a high entry barrier (need some knowledge) or it seems to lack of known apps to attract people (as veilid is too low-level.
Utopia is closed-source, so it can not be trusted. Part of people there too concentrated on crypto, some are even look sorta dangerous..
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@aral Yeah I remember that they got venture capital funding, without specific details, though.
From perspective of people concerned about their data, I find the Kitten apps and Domain infrastructure project close to that goal.
Sadly, big corps and govts may find Solid as something more "formalized" and therefore "more understandable" for them.

@BBC This article at BBC about #Solid looks like some business-to-business promotion material stuffed with some "success stories".
Still, this is not so clear, whether it is possible to bootstrap own Solid pod on device or hosting I would control or trust.
#SmallWeb from this perspective sounds as something better.
What you would say about that, @aral ?

@nixCraft The "AI" crap is some scam where sequence of matrices math done on irrelevant hardware (impulse-driven machinery with separated memory and computational units) shown as The Artificial Intelligence, as God blessing, and as cure for literally anything, meanwhile we will end up the largest pile of useless e-waste in history.
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@nixCraft All what these generating algorithms able to produce and used for are scams (e. g. fake robocalls, automated spam generation), political disinformation articles, imagery and video and revenge porn media "content" at industry scale.

@aral As it all looks hopeless, I just don't know what to do about all this global mess which "should not be a concern of an individual by design".

@aral And this all gone so far I even doubt it even can be solved at individually, except may be by getting rid of IT at all, and rollback personal life to pre-internet life. Political decision impossible at all because of nature of existing political system.
I an feel sad about that, and I still donating to Mozilla Foundation and Thunderbird, just as gesture of protest.

@aral It was not deleted, so I guess there is some federation issue between servers.
In shortly, that post is critique of that practice of using "Yes" and "May be later", without any option of say "No" to something, as common practice of today "user experience"

@thezerobit Lack of "No" or "No! I said you, NO, b@stard!!!" button is not about being adult, it just about considering people as "users", some kind of slavery, similar to relationship between dealer and "user" of an abusive instance, like heroine or crack.

@aral Looks like another example happened of what you said about, when people seen as "users" without any autonomy and personhood.

@Sofie
That thing @aral builds is for making that how websites built easier to understand and use by newcomers, by people who never built websites before.

@aral Due to my professional background, I put most attention not to ownership of project, but to project functionality, provided to people who will use the project - for personal needs or as an organization. I intentionally say "person" and "organization" instead of "user", after reading web0 manifesto and other your works.

@aral Sorry, Aral, I am not asking about _these_ aspects.
I just noticed that there are _technical_ similarity around concepts, like:
⭐ user owns data
⭐ user controls who can read or update data
⭐ user hosts data on some special thingy - that is generally speaking "publicly accessible" - you can discover it via some URL. In sense that data not hosted e. g. on user device as phone or PC, but on somewhere in internet?
⭐ decentralization is a goal.

What is difference between the SOLID project https://solidproject.org/ and the work the Small Tech Foundation https://small-tech.org/ does?
@aral can you explain the practical difference?
Their website is more developers-oriented, in hope that if developers will make apps that follow SOLID spec, more people will get their pod, looking for functionality or useful behavior these apps provide. And more people get used to idea they can own the data about themselves.

@TheBigOCommunity It would be nice to have some transcript for "language-impaired" people like me who have issues with proper detailed understanding of English aural speech. I was able to understand more or less what video is about because I am already aware about the things @aral and Laura do.

@aral May be this is about something I am not literate in, but I just can't understand what this is about.