@db0 stay tuned for further blog posts (or read our backlog).

In short though, we’re combining website-identity with authz/authn identity (Login with Weird/YourDomain).

Under the hood, Weird is also fully #p2p capable. For the sake of simplicity we just can’t start there.

@db0 the renting in our case is optional and for convenience, indeed same as with WordPress.com

Homeownership on the web is highly analogous to the physical world. Modern homeownership is mostly a story of home-rentership, not real ownership.

Incredibly, this matches the online experience, even though the World Wide Web has an infinite amount of real-estate!

You deserve a home on the web that’s built to keep you safe; a magical place for virtual living that‘s yours for life, existing in a sociable web.

https://blog.muni.town/digital-homeownership/

(Now stealth-releasing Weird v0.2 🥷)

#socialweb #weirdweb

@silverpill speaking of DID methods, I ran into another promising one recently: https://fedid.me/about/

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2024/11/14/OSI-AI

> The Open Source Initiative’s recently announced “Open Source AI Definition” surprised me in a way I expect many readers could miss: they’re defining “open” not just in terms of what bits we can get and what we’re allowed to do with them, but also partly in terms of OSI’s own institutional blessing.

> It isn’t just a definition of what “open source AI” is or ought to be, but implicitly also a process for bestowing that [OSI] status or withholding it.

#opensource #ai

@Daojoan brilliant!

@zicklag yeah that’s pretty much my whole point: Bitcoin and its ilk is only “easy” insofar as we ignore its externalities, just like it’s easier to burn fossil fuels than to invent better forms of energy capture.

@zicklag surely proof-of-stake/storage and similar such solutions can check all of those requirement boxes without the waste of PoW?

@iftas love what you’re doing etc.etc. but on an extremely trivial note:

the puzzle-piece thumbnail that appears in these posts? It seems pretty clear that the top-right piece actually isn’t gonna fit, because the piece below it (weirdly) lacks a top-side protrusion/attachment-point

(Instead of updating the graphic though you could alternatively say that piece represents a maligned actor that’s about to be exposed as such thanks to the IFTAS framework.)

My Sunday is going great thank you.

This is the Batman’s Joker way of making a new currency:

Burn a bunch of legacy money to make room for your own currency.

In the Joker’s case the new currency was fear and chaos. For bitcoiners it’s alt-money and power.

I hear #bitcoin has been surging lately?

I’m not blanket anti-blockchain and crypto currencies (though I’ve yet to benefit from it any way), but the proof-of-work believers continue to perplex me.

You’re saying that in the year 2024, half a decade into the Information Age, we should all agree that this token of yours not only stores but *appreciates* (increases) in value over time, because you did us all the great favor of crunching some loopy math and burned a lot of energy in the process?

@designthinkingcomic tbh a punch line like ‘surveillance advertising’ would’ve been funnier and more accurate to the VC enshittification playbook.

There are plenty of beloved subscription products and making money in such a straightforward manner shouldn’t be vilified.

@retr0id that’s kinda what Willow does: https://willowprotocol.org/more/timestamps-really/index.html

@bnewbold @pluralistic isn’t this missing a crucial detail?

The whole reason why those 100k users can be switched across service providers so easily is because all of their ID keys (did:plc) are stored on the singular Bluesky-operated https://plc.directory

That key-ownership does not change with the move, so complete Bluesky-independence has not happened yet in this case. Those users are still dependent on an essential piece of Bluesky-infrastructure.

‘Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life’ by @ntnsndr also comes to mind.

https://nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/

(Any Erin+Nathan collab in the works? We desperately need More Governance)

Wholeahearted-agree, and @kissane is well on her way to back such statements up with both science and better practice https://sfba.social/@neuralgraffiti/113393059427973956

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991291

Self-interested hyperbole aside, I think that’s a laughably low number for what is now effectively an ‘AI Company’. I’m sure >95% of Google employees use Google (well, at least until recent years).

If this stuff really works as well as these companies claim it does, wouldn’t their entire workforce excitedly be using these tools already?

cc @pluralistic @baldur @Mer__edith

#ai #GenAI #aibubble

It makes me sad that some #fediverse and #activitypub
advocates don’t believe a pluriverse of social web protocols is possible;

that’s literally all the web has ever been. Additive, composable stacks.

It was never that *one* protocol. It’s the mixing and matching of multiple protocols - like http+html ad infinitum - that makes the World Wide Web so resilient.

Plurality is the web’s superpower; the more you fight it the more the pluralists will route around you instead of with and through you.

@matthew @matrix
1. Industry/ecosystem adoption (Facebook, Discord..)
2. I’m still experiencing a lot of the lost-message issues due to encryption, and I feel like a move to MLS might be what’s needed to solve that once and for all.

@matrix congratulations!

> what might Matrix 3.0 bring? (…) Could it be switching to #MLS (or Decentralised MLS) for encryption?

That would be absolutely amazing as a top priority for v3