#ToughtProvoker :blobhyperthink: Is it #ethical to build on top #civilian technologies coming from and still provided by manufacturers in the military sector? To what extent would you avoid using such tech? Then.. Is it ethical to build next-gen #fedi #SocialStack that's fully unprotected to corporate takeover (unless BS manages to push fedi into calm waters again)? Knowing your innovation will serve needs of oppressive powers, incl these arms dealers? Let's ask fedi #ethics csar.. oh wait. image
"Following" is about the poorest social networking interaction we could implement. "Following" is also freaking cringe as a concept. #ReimagineSocial? ๐Ÿค”
Someone starts a new #FOSS project as a hobby activity. "No one bossing me around like at work, just having fun, do as I wish." they write in the README. After some time the project starts to get noticed, people request new features, and some Pull Requests are contributed and merged. There's a good vibe with similarly interested devs. One year later. An unhappy community has formed. People complain about the #BDFL and harsh words circle the social channels. Is the label of "BDFL" justified?
Cool! ๐Ÿš€ > #Nova is a #JavaScript (#ECMAScript) and #WebAssembly engine written in #Rust and following data-oriented design principles. It is currently nothing more than a fun experiment to learn and to prove the viability of such an engine, but may very well become something much more in the future.
Why build a JavaScript engine? ยท Nova
Addressing the most important elephant in the room.
GitHub
GitHub - trynova/nova: JS engine lolz
JS engine lolz. Contribute to trynova/nova development by creating an account on GitHub.
 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42168166
It is a pity that #Peertube has never been well integrated with #Microblogging. The primary way we become aware of a #video is when someone drops the URL in a toot, and we open it in a separate tab. We watch while not logged into the particular @PeerTube instance, thus not giving likes and having interesting discussions in the comments section. Same is true for #Pixelfed and #Mobilizon etc. While organically building my social graph for years, this stuff just doesn't reach my timeline mostly.
Check out @npub1p9lk...l05x on #SocialHub with a proposal to work on #ActivityPub #C2S, the client-to-server Social API part of the #W3C Recommendation. The Social API didn't get much uptake on the #Fediverse where generally the #Mastodon API is used (and abused) for client/server communication. It is not because the Social API isn't good, just that no one ever did the legwork to mature this part of the spec. Are you interested in C2S and help push the #SocialWeb? More info:
SocialHub
NextGen ActivityPub Social API
The current ActivityPub Social API (C2S API) is not widely implemented in servers and almost no clients exist for it. Part of the reason is that t...
#SocialNetworking: How we interact. #SocialWeb: How we support human interaction online. #Fediverse: How we support the social web using decentralized social networking technologies. #ActivityPub: How we support the fediverse with an open standard communication protocol. #ATProto: Another fediverse communication protocol. #Mastodon: How we support activitypub for our microblogging app. #Bluesky: An atproto app.
#Society is rotten with a disease. It is called #Hypercapitalism. Among the symptoms are melanoma called #Billionaires. These are particularly bad for the fragile organ of #Democracy which they eat from the inside.
Top comment: > I've kinda given up on the internet at this point. It's sad but comforting. My social networks are just my friends and I've started to get back into reading books and long form blogs. Don't want to be exposed to this endless slop. Every day it gets harder to find something that was so easy before. It's all being buried by endless content. I'm hoping some non AI generative content branch of the internet will be created. [..] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41740965 #AI #generativeAI