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The Fediverse is Inefficient (but that's a good trade-off) berk.es/2022/11/08/fediverse-inefficiencies/Fri 18 Nov 2022
The original internet was set up decentralized, with the goal to be resilient to failing parts and to attacks. A lot of this property has been undone by re-centralisation: if AWS has an outage, half the internet goes down. When Twitter is run into the ground by some Billionaire Chaos Monkey, the whole world sees it's journalist and government communication break down. A (lifted) ban on Twitter has actual effect on democracy and society
@berkes
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Is the fediverse about to get Fryed? (Or, “Why every toot is also a potential denial of service attack”) ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fediverse-about-to-get-fryed-or-why-every-toot-is-also-a-potential-denial-of-service-attack/Sun 13 Nov 2022
On the risk of not doing decentralization correctly with Mastodon and the fediverse
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Goodbye Twitter, Hello Fediverse! xeiaso.net/blog/rip-twitterSun 13 Nov 2022
I've been aware of how bad it was getting. This has been made slightly worse by the fact that a large part of my job involves stalking Twitter, but in general it was starting to be a problem. At some level, I am relieved that Elon Musk is destroying Twitter. At another, I am horrified that one of the main ways that I communicate on the Internet is being destroyed
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Le Fédivers est tellement plus grand que Mastodon framablog.org/2022/11/11/le-fedivers-est-tellement-plus-grand-que-mastodon/
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Everyone Hates Facebook (but this is more than just about Facebook) ar.al/2022/02/07/everyone-hates-facebook-but-this-is-more-than-just-about-facebook/Thu 10 Nov 2022
A good read these days with what is happening on Twitter
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Jack Dorsey says his biggest regret is Twitter became a company www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/jack-dorsey-says-he-believes-twitter-should-not-be-owned-by-state-company-2022-08-25/Mon 05 Sep 2022
When asked about what structure he wished Twitter would operate under, Dorsey said that it should be "a protocol" and that Twitter should not be owned by a state or another company
That would be called… ActivityPub? 😏