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Chris Messina

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😬 Man of the internet; generalist. 🆕 Come for the app updates stay for the snark. 🫡 Twitter sober since April '23.


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Not wrong!

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🥞Hot takes on #WWDC24, including Apple declaring [eventual] war on OpenAI, like it did on Facebook:

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Ok, I signed up!

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How do you do that without creating downstream accounts on all the services? What happens if/when someone reacts/comments on a post on one of the federated services? Happy to look at your docs.

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"[open] social web" gets my vote; it builds on the success and familiarity of "the web", and adds the context of people and social interactions. "A web of connections" is also easier to explain than "federation". Plus, people hear the alternative as "feta verse" on podcasts. 🧀

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I don't think he cares. He only wants to build toys where he's at the center of everything. Decentralization personally offends him.

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Only if you're insecure about interoperability.

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This is a known problem/limitation. It's a hard problem to solve.

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This is a known problem/limitation. It's a hard problem to solve.

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News for nerds!

ActivityPub 🤝🏻 ATProto

Congrats @snarfed.org!

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#TrumpGuilty

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I swiped left, which is how I expect to uncover message management controls, as on WhatsApp, Instagram, and X.

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Oh! Look at that! Totally unintuitive! Thanks.

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Got my first Bluesky DM spam!

But how do I delete it? It's in my inbox but I can't interact with it.

Maybe @pfrazee.com knows... 🤔

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Got it. Yeah, without a unified or compatible identity system, that would prove challenging — integrity requires a robust way to identify actors/people and content...

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What would true federation mean to you? But yes, the storage/identity models are quite different, so the content can proliferate, but it's hard to maintain integrity with accounts and content interactions...

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Let's clarify things since my mentions are turning into a dumpster fire. I'm responsible for designing T&S policies, systems, and processes that scale. One of those areas is spam, since as the network grows, so does disruptive spam. That's why you can't mass spam people in mentions or replies.

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The bridge is what allows the networks to federate, but since they run on different protocols, the bridge interpolates.

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Everlane!

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Plotting and scheming with gargron@mastodon.social. 😈

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Oh?

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👀

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Indeed. 😪

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Trust but verify! 😜

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That's so weird. Back in my day, I just put the hashtags in my posts and they "worked". Kids these days.

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Very accessible. Nice! And to prove that I read the whole thing, you have a typo: "neccesary".

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Basically my observation... It's not hard to find another view into the house.

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You're Paulnough!

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Hard to say it doesn't work, given the goals of the platforms.

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Same!

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I agree with you. It also seems that several are simply resistant to accepting how's things work and how things must grow in order for them to continue to be built and maintained. A fallow garden does not feed a community.

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I wonder how composable moderation will make this better or worse... Because rather than system designers pulling levers to keep people "engaged", it's now up to reach individual to take on the role of curating their feeds, which might only reward the already well-known or most popular topics...

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TikTok had probably reset user expectations on the effort to reward ratio.

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Got it. And if a third party wanted to create Bluesky embeds that didn't respect the login flag to increase the reliability of the visibility of content, that would or wouldn't be possible?

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But is that feeling accurate? It's just a curious technical and design challenge.

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Cool, that's what I thought but wanted to confirm.

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If everything on Bluesky is public, what's the logic behind respecting the "only logged-in users can see this" setting?

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Ok but also, Bluesky v 1.17.0 has some great improvements to hashtag support!

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I wouldn't call it evil, I'd call it complying with the letter of the DMA, rather than the spirit.

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This is the first ad for Mastodon I've seen in the wild — on @techmeme.com. Baby's growing up! 🐘

When will Bluesky run ads?

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Because NIH APIs are more fun?

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If you are interested in building integrations with the Threads API and want to share feedback, fill in this form:

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