Yeah wholesome mom and pop businesses getting eaten by larger, more specialized and efficient corpos is not a bug, it's an inherent feature of capitalism. A worker at a specialized firm can manage dozens of apartments for the same salary as your aunt managing just one or two- she stands no chance in the long run. Same for retail stores and most other kinds of businesses really.
The only solution is democracy- having the larger more efficient firm be democratically owned by its workers and accountable to them and through them the community, rather to a cigar chomping investor hundreds of miles away
No, not all investment is the same. look up the difference between rent and profit.
The freshrss GitHub has a list of supported iphone apps and indicates some of them work offline. https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS?tab=readme-ov-file#apis--native-apps
For all that Russia is an imperialist police state, our e-government services are pretty slick too
for all that Russia is an imperialist police state, our e-government services are also pretty slick
That's cute but as a rule when dealing with the government, physical access is root access
Yeah so far i'm happy with .ee and its mod/federation policy but it's always nice to have backups
let me know if you find a good one (good chance it won't federate with .world)
trust me i know.. i used to have high expectations and think like that too. but nowadays i'm more into meeting people where they're at, even if that means "barely literate" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You gotta read the room and put the conciliatory part up front when people's emotions are up. They put it at the end unfortunately
According to police sources, the three words “deny,” “depose,” and “defend” were carved into the live rounds and shell casings
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The three words bear a striking resemblance to Jay Feinman’s [20]10 book Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.
Yes, this is the strongest argument against it and the biggest flaw. They keep saying in interviews that they are treating their future selves as adversaries and they do open source most everything but I would be a lot happier if the protocol development was spun off into a separate org from the for profit service. If it dies, this will be what killed it. But I hope they make it (by it I mean the tools for everyone else to make the ecosystem).
Yes, and I've been yelling at them about the problem of scaling down for a while, since the same "relay" service needs to be both a firehose and a full mirror. This requirement (and thus scalability) of running a relay is becoming a big problem even for the main devs. According to them however you can mitigate this to a reasonable amount for a home lab (~8 cores, 16gb ram, ~2Tb ssdl) if you simply don't store any backlog and just retransmit posts https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lbjdux6ubc2f
This is what they're doing internally to manage the load and are also working on implementing relay sharding/scoping to let you just index a small slice of the network, which should eliminate the problem. https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3036 and here's someone implementing a proof of concept third party version https://bsky.app/profile/pet.bun.how/post/3lbwnx2rxxs2o
It's true that the main devs' priorities are building the large scale parts first and then worrying about downscaling, the whole point was always to replace twitter and work at a similar scale, which requires hard tradeoffs. I do worry that they'll run out of money before they can do the work to let the ecosystem become sustainable by itself.
But I have faith (for now) because they have people I know from when they worked on secure-ssb and dat protcols, which are truly decentralized but never took off for other reasons.
Thats the opposite of what I said. You can use the same data with multiple services at the same time, in fact this is already possible. The whole thing would be kinda pointless otherwise.
Oh I thought you meant decentralized currency. What you're describing is just standardized storefront apis though, the vendors don't need to talk to each other (federate) for it. unless i'm missing something
The entire point is that your pds can interact with multiple "instances" of bluesky or whatever other apps people build on the protocol.
For example there is a reddit/hn clone that people can post on (keeping their same identity) when the official bluesky service goes down. The reddit clone is fully independent from the twitter clone, but they use the same protocol and (unlike AP) the same hosting and authentication infrastructure.
Whereas on Lemmy and mastodon, my accounts are totally separate. And unlike AP, your data lives on your own pds and is never hostage to the owner of the instance that actually runs the load bearing interactivity. If they become compromised or shut down you can switch to another. No cooperation from the old owner required (unlike activitypub).
Idk about china but Israel carpet bombs apartment buildings. You don't need precision ai for that
Surely we've learned by now that decentralization and markets don't mix well