@aral@jwildeboer ATproto exists specifically because the existing open protocols were design against chokepoint capitalism. It's literally designed around the existence of a chokepoint (multiple ones, in fact, when you add PLC DIDs)
@tchambers this is an excellent example of how to do things wrong. The White House has the resources to set up its own Fediverse nodes. That it doesn't and instead endorses a proprietary platform is borderline criminal.
@dansup@pixelfed wouldn't it make sense to “just” provided user access to the To/Cc field of the messages creation? (I know that “just” is carrying a lot of weight there …)
@mcc I don't think I've even seen Linux-preinstalled laptops at all in a while. I think the last one I found was a very low-end Dell (costed something like 200 or 250€?) several years ago but it wasn't more expensive than the Windows equivalent, even though I know MS has some deals with OEMs that prevents them from offering Linux options at less than Windows options, or they don't get the bulk OEM pricing.
@aral (off topic, but # after / does not work for tags, you need to insert some kind of space, even an invisible one, here it is for you: > /# < copy-pasting this should give slash-hashes that tag properly)
Well at least now they are starting to say the quiet part loud, and unsurprisingly it's the fact that they don't actually care about open protocols and federation, and are perfectly fine with the genocidal corporate silos:
Discussing the threat posed by Meta #P92/#Barcelona joining the #Fediverse with some tech enthusiasts feels more and more like debating #ClimateChange with a denier.
«Look at all the data indicating that this will be a disaster. It has even happened twice already!»
Responses: «It won't happen this time» «It won't be that bad» «It's actually good if that happens» and «we can't do anything about it anyway»
This #Mastodon / #email bridge <https://tacobelllabs.net/@nkizz/110340426573847934> by @nkizz is just brilliant, but you know what would absolutely ROCK? A #Fediverse server that had native support for #IMAP. While we're on the topic, I wonder if anybody has thought about building a client with an UX inspired by Usenet newsreaders (personally, MicroPlanet Gravity was one of the few things I missed from Windows when I switched to Linux, would love to see something like that for Mastodon.)
The more I read the #ActivityPub spec the more I see it as an extension of #email and #Usenet protocols. By this I mean I have the feeling that it would be possible to roundtrip e.g. email through AP “losslessly”. Which opens interesting possibilities when considering the development of platform-agnostic AP servers like #Vocata https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata Now I'm dreaming of a client that handles emails, news and AP …