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nromdotcom.cloud
Always remember that social media is trying to trick you into having an opinion about everything. But you are still free to take the power back by Not Having An Opinion.
nromdotcom.cloud
Plus it's a heck of a lot of work to internalize the details of _one_ of these protocols and the technical and social systems they enable, much less two. Or more. Anyway, I know you, Bailey, know this so tbc this isn't directed at you - or any specific person. Just general patterns I've seen.
nromdotcom.cloud
And there are folks like that in atproto spaces just as there are in AP, tbc. I think there's much to be gained from working across communities and protocols, but that requires empathy and curiosity rather than sniping at one another from our own trenches (not a specific or personal accusation).
nromdotcom.cloud
If you want a self-contained community space you own that can optionally federate with other such spaces, you might want AP. atproto is trying to solve slightly different problems in slightly different ways. And that's okay. But folks have trouble seeing past their own use-cases and mental models.
nromdotcom.cloud
When I talk to casual AP folks about this, the disconnect often turns out to be atproto is less tangible in its decentralization. Like a nerd with a $5 VPS isn't docker compose upping a self-contained "bluesky server" for their friends that interacts with other "bluesky servers." And that's fair.
nromdotcom.cloud
🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/nromdotcom.cloud How about some King's Field?
galvagna.com
📊 I’m conducting a very simple market research survey for the next @fediforum.org on growing the open social web. It would be great if folks could forward this questionnaire link to anyone (16+) who doesn't already work on or research social networks or open social: form.typeform.com/to/ntzoOyqB
fediforum.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Norm MacLennan (@nromdotcom.cloud) put his position paper for the upcoming Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop on his blog: https://my.badtake.space/growing-the-open-social-web/
nromdotcom.cloud
Okay, problem solved lol 🫡
nromdotcom.cloud
Huh, a bunch of linebreaks went missing from the post body 🤔. Sorry for the readability issues for people who hate giant blocks of text haha - I'll sort it out after work.
nromdotcom.cloud
This is making me wanna try Unicorn Overlord again. I _almost_ liked it, but it didn't quite click before I moved on to something else. Maybe it was just a wrong time for me to be playing it and I should try again. Anyway, glad to hear you're enjoying it!
nromdotcom.cloud
Turns out I stand corrected. Either it's been added in the past year, or I just didn't look very hard before. Element does indeed have the option to hide all media by default.
nromdotcom.cloud
Which of course happened even back in the day on IRC. And it was moderately annoying, but at least my IRC client didn't automatically render images. Maybe I'm not looking hard enough but I've never seen an option in element to refuse rendering images and embeds.
nromdotcom.cloud
Yeah, Matrix has plenty of sharp edges even as just a regular user, not to mention a homeserver admin. And it seems like the mod tools may lacking. I try it every year or so, then within a few weeks some moderate-sized public channel I'm idling in gets gore-spammed (or worse) and I don't need that.
nromdotcom.cloud
Internet Doomerism is easy. And something I've engaged in plenty of myself. The good news is: it's never been easier to Be The Change You Want To See On The Internet. Lotta discussion here on top-down solutions, which is good and important. But maybe more important to discuss bottom-up solutions.