Thirdroom vr / avatar space plus Fediverse mail?

Finally! That is a great feature!

Honestly, for big orgs like that I feel like a federating their website just makes sense to me.

That way they can host the content (resilience to censor ship) and can still natively share it.

Tbh that just doesn’t seem right to me. Like the sunsets has beauty to me without being made. I watch shows and may never know the artist or hear a poetic phrase completely divorced from its context that has a profound meaning to me.

Does any poetry have any value without knowing the person that made it?

Learn Minix today, currently free in limited circumstances /s

Honestly I’m so glad they got greedy and the industry started moving to better things. Harvester homelabs expanding this weekend!

I’m seeing “AI for Web Devs: Addressing Bugs, Security, & Reliability” in Jerboa…

Surely they have a GDPR-compliant way to have your info removed. Right?

I think the Internet really did make people more knowledgeable overall, but my personal theory is that, as a collective, we are in the area of knowing that dunning-Kruger effect takes place. With our current collective intelligence machines really crystallizing that to me, where if ask an LLM something it doesn’t know, it will act like the average person on the internet and make shit up and assume it close enough.

The information age really speaks to the idea that information is not knowledge, but knowledge can be formed from information. I think the next major revolution and why social media algorithms, AI, data science, etc are so hot is because they are attempts to enter the knowledge age. To take all of this access to information and truly learn something from it, at the same scale.

IT being a cost center is a rough position to be in tbh, I get it. For me, even when I can convince them that moving to upgrading to more modern scalable systems will be an investment that should see an increase in uptime and a decrease in the number of admins needed, it is still a fight to get them to actually INVEST in it and not just unfunded mandate a change in systems.

I don’t even want to think about what hundreds of Windows servers administration looks like. Like SCCM and Group Policy is more powerful than Linux admins give it credit for, but still at that scale what a nightmare. I hated it on the scale of tens of servers.

Yikes. I’ve seen that strat before. Dinosaur vendors are the worst. My only advice to focus on replacing bad vendors like that wherever and whenever you can, getting stuck actively building out an already legacy system sucks. Good luck!

The “Adopt, Buy, Build” strategy is good one as well as the “strangler pattern” to help keep you from entrenching your self in shitty systems.

Yeah got to stick to FOSS models that ideally can be self hosted (I count distributed systems here too though like petals.dev)

https://directory.fsf.org seems pretty good, actually. I’ve been lurking at electronics modeling software for a few years now and just found ones I’ve never heard of there but also the usual suspects. Maybe a better FOSS browsing tool, but still pretty cool.

Personally, I see decentralized IDs being a big one, one accepted account that can let someone log into multiple servers as the same person. That’ll lower the difficulty on choosing a server.

The other one, and this one I think may be controversial, but more and better feed algorithms. People want content that is relevant to them to be served to them automatically. Now we’re FOSS, and not ran for profit, so we can do even better a give people control over their algos, but I think most people would rather just click a couple interests and just get going and not have to figure out federated search and subscriptions before they do (not as a replacement but in addition too). The added benefit is we could potentially build a database of what a server’s network has access too and further help people figure out what server they want to join, so you get a little less dead Fediverse syndrome when you join a server that happens to block communities you would have been interested in. It of course could also be used to better refining searches in the first place.

Less feudal systems and more democracy for server admin, and community moderation I think will also help. Currently, admins and mods I think fall into lazie fair and organizers of the great purgers, it’s almost always been this way to me too. I think this will help make more server more aligned to their user’s interests and give servers a little more purpose for the end user.

More bridges! Matrix bridges (e.g. commune)! BlueSky bridges! Nostr bridges! Email bridges! SMS bridges! Signal bridges! XMPP bridges! IRC Bridges! More forum plugins and bridges! Q/A fediverse support! IndieWeb, just website bridges (good example bridgy-fed, but also the word press plugin! ). Meet people where they are. Make the Fediverse ubiquitous.

More selective federation rules, so you can have private server communities limit federation on per actor basis (Community/Group, User/Person, Post/Page, Comment/Note), maybe allow delays or rate limit federation, etc. Give servers and mods tools to be more granular on how they interact with the Fediverse so we get less ban hammer activity. This is most direct one to the current thread’s debate, but I think we need to do more than defederate. I think more servers should have a limited federation policy with Threads because of it’s size and influence, we want to interact with more people most of the time, but added where we need it and in ways mods and admins can handle (again more democratic systems could help here).

I also see a real potential for the fediverse everything app, but a big issue I see here is that the backend support is pretty tightly coupled with the fronts ends for most of the sites. At least there doesn’t seem to be a lot of reusue for the server and interoperability with multi UIs. That seems like the first real step towards that.

Some of these are problems for devs to solve, some for admin to implement, some are documentation issues, some are just the people that need to know about them don’t.

UBI falls into the bread and circuses camp of policy to me. On one hand I really do want people that need bread to get it, so I’m not opposed, but it’s a placating move that I don’t see how it handles the growing fear of labors value to society being eroded. Like it’s great and all to say “human life has inherent value” but most wouldn’t give up a few dollars that could be spent on nick nacks to save a human life, because a random person with no measurable impact on your life isn’t relevant to your life.

Socialism for example is totally built on the idea that because of industrialzation laborers have soft power that they can leverage to influence society in their favor. That’s a real concern that we should focus on addressing and I think attempting to ignore it through ineffectual and local bans will only serve to make those countries less relevant as a whole.

It seems implied that they have labor and work as a means of control and less because they need to. Most of the work seemed to be just oppressing people like him.

Are you trying to tell me that millions of people making informed decisions on what they need is more effective than a few dozen lobbiest, CEO’s and bureaucrats? That’s crazy! /S

I mean they are historians sticking archaic sites is there thing /joking

Has anyone had luck or experience with using IPP for printing from Linux? A standard networking protocol for printing sounds like it should make a lot of these problems mute.

At this point more people have spent time trying to figure out for Meta how they could EEE the fediverse then people have spent trying to make Libre fediverse better.

I mean y’all if want to spend your time thinking of cool and exciting ways meta can better extinguish the fediverse post it to LinkedIn and try to get on their payroll at least.