Jacob @mooshoe@fosstodon.org

all talk no substance amirite?

I think the web right now works well. The whole idea *works*, it's just the inde web works better.

One thing they do well is advertising and making things look good. That's how you get investors and users.

I guess I wrote this in frusteration over how these guys can just waltz in with some designers and get a lot of tracton with a bad idea when the solution to the problem is sitting in front of their eyes (inde web)

Thanks for reading, I guess

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Now I'm just going to punch Substratum specifically.'yes but' they say, 'we are fighting against big corperations and big brother taking out web!'

That's not how it works nothing is stopping big corperations from just creating big websites on this blockchain web.

Another point on their whitepaper for Substratum is that they want to dethrone ISPs. Fair enough because it's private and ISPS can't exactly block a blockchain. But they can block a large chunk of one.

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Seriously though let's take a moment to step back and think through the idea of dApps creating a decentralized web (looking at you Substratum) Every server host every website, no downtime and only fair and trusted math rules the whole blockchain but it cost 3x more and is at least 3x slower. 🤔

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Yes, because we totally need hosting websites to be replaced by blockchain.

I dont think they understand how the internet works.

need -> really light webserver easy to set up and configure to plop on my pi that non-irc people will use

get -> rocket chat, synapse

I first learned about linux through steam's website. I wasn't too bright computer wise back then and I thought it would make csgo run better on my crappy laptop.

yeah.

trying to think of the most elegant way to have more than one activitypub server on one domain.

mastodon.website.com seems a bit long.

m.website.com seens a bit vague

thoughts?

Still working on my (attempt) to redo joinpeertube.org.

Completely reworking how the instance picker works. you search for people (it's a predetermined list right now and I have no idea how it's going to find people on its own) and then you get linked to their instance

#projectidea

ActivityHub, activitypub based platform where you list all of your activitypub accounts

identity

I watch a few youtubers and the community around them is really important. YouTube doesnt do this too well though.

Peertube right now doesnt do much better but with activitypub I'm sure it could make followers a lot closer to their favorite creator's community (which could include other creators) while still being able to watch and discover other creators.

Peertube could do this by making it more like patreon. Make creators able to post updates and surveys.

I think mastodon is pretty good as a product. However, mastodon isnt taking advantage of what it's really good at - small communities. We can totally get regular people to come on if they have a mastodon community they want to join.

I think everyone has their "thing." IMO mastodon is really good at this.

As much as I like libreoffice as a project, it's clearly showing age.

Heres an #projectidea:

Create and maintain a modular, robust back end for an office suite. I think you can see where I'm going. :P
Frontends can then be made to fit really nicely with each desktop environment.

https://blog.digitalocean.com/how-2000-droplets-broke-the-enigma-code-in-13-minutes/

this was pretty damn cool

opennic has a .neo domain

nothing else needs to be said

@dansup can two different activitypub servers tell what implementation each other are?

eg can pixelfed tell if talking to a mastodon instance or a plemora instance?

I have some interesting ideas for activitypub implementations. You could really make some interesting social experiments.