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At a certain point, people stop telling you “no” and then you end up with a gold nose ring and hippie beard. Dorsey probably hasn’t heard a “no” since 2006
Me reading this with a gold nose ring 😅
Me reading this with a hippie beard.
Me reading this not having heard a "no" since 2006.
If you tell that that's a hippie beard in my local metal bar... You might be politely corrected because we are awesome.
Also, punks and metalheads get beards and rings too.
Yes they do but ‘ol Jackie boy looks neither punk nor metal in this photo. He looks like a douchebag
Is it because of the Mel Gibson cosplay?
Like it or not, Nostr is the only one that doesn't tie my identity to a server. I've lost several Lemmy accounts during the Reddit migration and I've had to subscribe to new instances all over again. Once it's down, really hard to migrate anything
This is the advantage of decentralization over federation. IMHO the fact that Lemmy is only federated really hurts it. Not so much for user accounts (in theory these can be backed up restored and moved. Not ideal but not awful) but in that communities are tied to servers. When the server a community is on goes away it is hugely damaging to that community.
Hubzilla has successfully implemented portable identities for a number of years and i am surprised how its unheard of. Coupled with magic sign-on it has some of the craziest features that are much needed in the broader fediverse.
Dear Jack:
Please go back to playing with Square and leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
Thanks.
Jack Dorsey should just fucking stop.
Why is he so hated here? Twitter model is one thing that is kinda fit for global-open-decentralized approaches without much difference for the user. I could never use it, but plenty of people do and seem to have a feeling of hivemind over it.
Because the tech he makes is inherently terrible and despite being used in a positive way it is still centralized and ripe for misuse by people like Musk. On top of that the long term feasibility is based on advertising potential to get the funding.
He says positive stuff most of the time but his actions are the opposite. Blusky is supposed to be decentralized, but the structure as it exists requires it to actually be centralized when implemented. Plus his most recent 'secure' thing wasn't even tested for security issues because he is a hype man who constantly lies.
Figure head syndrome. Literally a man with money, otherwise completely unremarkable
Is "better than Zuck" a valid argument?
Not really, I have stepped in dogshit was better than Zuck.
I feel like nonprofit should come with default quotations nowadays. At this point it's just a way to avoid taxation during development until you have a feasible route to profitability.
don't you avoid taxes anyway if you're not profitable?
Nah, you still end up paying state and local taxes. Income/revenue is different than profit.
Plus, being a non profit allows for people like Jack to utilize donations as tax deductions.
We need stronger rules for non profits then.
Looks like he and Zuck have the same stylist. Anyone know what this look is called, with the oversized tee and chain around his neck?
the “i dress myself and everyone around me is too afraid to tell me it looks like shit”?
The word you’re looking for is douchebag
He looks like he’s turning into Mel Gibson.
Techbro
But techbro 10 years ago was an undercut and a leather jacket. I'm hoping there's a label for this iteration.
Those were the web-techbros. Then came the crypto-techbros, now we have AI-techbros. Very different styles, as you can see.
All styles have some variation within them.
Techno King Asshole. TKA for short.
Thank you for the article, it was an interesting read. I don't think he'll make anything better than Mastodon or even Bluesky so I won't try Nostr, but I'll keep an eye on it. It may be interesting to follow.
I'm out of the loop, what went wrong with Bluesky?
It's so "decentralized" that political activists from authoritarian countries get deplatformed on request of the government.
He doesn't like it because it's the same as twitter according to him.
Journalists don't like it because they get called out on bullshit there.
jack hates trans ppl and trans ppl made bluesky what it is.
I'm not sure he's the one who fucked it up.
140 symbols and the whole atmosphere I don't like, but I have my own fair set of disorders.
Hashtags are honestly a good idea, just like a social system organized around them.
Except I probably would prefer that to be similar to modernized Usenet. Actually going to pressure my family members to install Briar, want to start using it, and apparently it has such a functionality. Not sure yet. Anyway, the framework under it (right now Briar itself is the only application, but authors have ambitions) definitely would support such a thing. Maybe I'll finally have an incentive to learn Android development.
Good luck if someone picks an iPhone.
I dunno, Java to native code compilers exist. Maybe one can compile Bramble into that with some interface wrapper, and then use it under iOS, but I don't know what the hell I'm talking about.
I kinda agree Twitter was born of a more innocent age, and he was just a tech kid with a good enough pitch to get Silicon Valley VC. The problem is that he did little to rein in powers that were purposely using the platform for social manipulation. Then -- when he already knew better -- he went and started Bluesky, which he specifically said was going to counteract all of Twitter's deficiencies, but capitalism got the better of him, so to make the platform attractive to VCs, advertisers, whatever, his team started to ditch what made Bluesky unique in favor of business tools to help it make money. Business is gonna business, it's not 100% his fault, but I can't imagine what will change a 3rd time around.
Well, that Bitchat thing of his may (after, eh, fixing a lot of it) turn to be not so bad.
Though I went to the Briar site, and apparently it's not just Briar, but also a framework for virtually everything communications-wise offline-enabled.
What are the differences between Nostr, AT Protocol and ActivityPub?
I think the main one is that Nostr is supposed to be really simple, and derive some security/privacy from that simplicity. Whereas ATProto and ActivityPub store and forward content so that each rely has a copy, on Nostr nodes the messages are all ephemeral. So it has something of a following with crypto bros and privacy enthusiasts. With nostr IDs are also based on public/private keys unlike ATProto/ActivityPub that use a username@instancename scheme, so signing and identifying content that belongs to a user is easier and more guaranteed to be correct, and your username isn't tied to any specific server "instance"
That's more complicated than a short comment can summarize