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mkarliner

@mkarliner@mastodon.modern-industry.com

Technologist at Large,
Retro Futurist,
batteries included.

Programmer, maker of hardware, 3D stuff, and jewellery.
Been CTO-type a number of times, best known is Shazam, but I really prefer making stuff to management.

Stable genius

Open to gigs.

Being nice to people absolutist.

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maegul , to Random stuff
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Just zooming out on this rant a bit (on whether federating blogs into mastodon is actually good or not) ...

I think the viability of a multi-paradigm social media ecosystem is still an unanswered question.

Has it actually happened (yet)?

The success of federation so far seems to be limited to community ownership and moderation within a single platform/paradigm (eg microblogs).

Multi-paradigm federation though still seems like a wild west though.

https://hachyderm.io/@maegul/112319245679533802

mkarliner ,
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@maegul @Loukas @laurenshof

Doesn't it come down to survival of the most useful? Sure, there'll be plenty of duds, but the point of the Fediverse is to enable the evolution of social media.
It's almost impossible to launch a standalone social platform, but AP should allow niches to prosper.

My 2c

maegul , to Fediverse
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People are actually on BlueSky

There's now a decent measurement of user numbers (https://bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/bskycharts.edavis.dev/bsky_users_total.html) ...

They've got about 1.6M MAUs ...
& 0.8M Weekly unique users & 0.340M Daily.

That's not nothing!

Roughly double mastodon and 60% more than the whole fediverse (by MAUs, see fedidb.org).

Bluesky is quite "international" with large Japanese and Brazilian popltns, and there's real attrition happening IMO.

Still, let the protocol wars begin I suppose?

@fediverse

mkarliner ,
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@maegul @Loukas @fediverse

So none of you thinks the Threads / Activity Pub thing will have an impact?

My personal opinion is that its a strategic move to avoid regulation by being able to claim they are open.

mkarliner ,
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@Loukas @maegul @fediverse

Why pyrrhic? Genuine question.

mkarliner ,
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@Loukas @maegul @fediverse

I may be an optimist, but maybe adoption of AP will help reduce the worst of social media monopolies, and the "our" Fediverse culture is always going to be a minority taste, which is possibly OK.

april , to Random stuff
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I finally did it! Today I used a cable (TB2→DVI) that had been sitting in storage for an entire decade.

All of you tech people who have bins and bins of obsolete cables, know now that your hoarding is completely justified.

mkarliner ,
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@april

Especially as as soon as I throw away one of said cables, I need it just after the rubbish collections has left.

srfirehorseart , to 3goodthings group
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@3goodthings

  • golden syrup porridge, toast with veggie ham and tea for breakfast
    🥣

  • 3rd time lucky? Had another go at cleaning up the bathroom.
    🛁

  • ate a decent supper and decaf tea to help me wind down for the night
    🫖🌜

mkarliner ,
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@srfirehorseart @3goodthings

Harpo, Groucho, Chico

tedchoward , to Random stuff
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Great write-up by @pluralistic on how the fake AI debate obscures the real one we should be having.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/

There is a serious, meaty debate to be had about the costs and possibilities of different forms of automation. But the superintelligence true-believers and their criti-hyping critics keep dragging us away from these important questions and into fanciful and pointless discussions of whether and how to appease the godlike computers we will create when we disassemble the solar system and turn it into computronium.
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    @tedchoward @pluralistic

    Loved this

    "This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we'll get a locomotive"

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