“These are the two factors that make services terrible: captive users, and no constraints. If your users can't leave, and if you face no consequences for making them miserable (..) then you have the means, motive and opportunity to turn your service into a giant pile of shit.”
“To stop enshittification, it is not necessary to eliminate the profit motive – it is only necessary to make enshittification unprofitable.”
by @pluralistic https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861019696086103
Is there a common practice for how to automatically detect the social icon of a fediverse site-link when adding it to a ‘personal links’ section like in GitHub? We’re trying to implement this for #weirdone
Right now we don't properly show a mastodon icon for social links to mastodon. The issue is that you may have any number of different mastodon servers so we can't match on domain like we do for the other platforms. We need to have the cl...
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@zelf hmm no, what docs did you derive ipfs from? Oh, the fact that I did a talk at the ipfs conf I guess.
Weird was never based on ipfs, but it has been prototyped using a close cousin, Iroh:
FedCM, OIDC and IndieAuth are converging; Iroh gives us p2p superpowers; and, the Norwegian Buddhist Foundation has partnered with us as early adopters!
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That’s what led us to Willow, which is now a core part of our architecture, whereas Iroh is being relegated to a more optional net-protocol for p2p connectivity.
How does Leaf compare to AtProto and ActivityPub?
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@steve as hard as it is, I really do think it’s happening, and I think this will be a momentous year for the user-friendly #dweb .
The breakout success of a *somewhat* decentralized atproto has set a new bar of pragmatism for lots of decentralization nerds who better understand the ‘terms of adoption’ now.
@smallcircles @zelf I had a mixed impression of the term. Before any context I thought ‘uh-oh, do we have a case of web5 type branding here?, but as soon as I read that it stands for peer *for* peer it made complete sense and I like it, heh.
@zelf sounds marvelous. I’m gonna try to make my way through it (we’re using Willow in #weirdone after all) but 90 pages of academic text is admittedly a bit intimidating to me, although what I skimmed so far was quite legible to me 
Just to check, I don’t suppose there’s like a ~10 page version of this in the works for laypeople?
Yay!
@kissane yes! It’s a senseless simplification, tantamount to saying ‘that’s just the body’ when trying to diagnose and treat disease.
We have to talk about the constituent parts of the whole to figure out what ails us.
@unsafe appreciate it nonetheless! 
We’ve had another request for this. It essentially comes down to our payment provider Polar supporting other options, e.g. cryptocurrencies. We can’t just add it as an option ourselves since we rely on Polar as our Merchant of Record to simplify tax management.
First step towards fediverse compatibility in #WeirdOne is complete!
All Weird sites (which can have custom domains like my erlend.sh) now automatically verify against Mastodon & co. 
HOLY MOLY – Weird is now publicly available to all! Our v0.3 mvp is finally done after a year of development and many more spent pondering cozy community design. https://blog.muni.town/selling-dreams/ Today it's a minimalistic personal site generator. Before long it'll be a social network made of people's personal websites. Nerdy web weirdos unite ✊❤️🔥 #indieweb #weirdone
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HOLY MOLY – Weird is now publicly available to all!
Our v0.3 mvp is finally done after a year of development and many more spent pondering cozy community design.
Make a $10 bet on where Weird will be in a year from now, and we will do our very best not to disappoint. Every paying customer is also an automatic stakeholder in the Weird indie enterprise.
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Today it's a minimalistic personal site generator. Before long it'll be a social network made of people's personal websites.
Nerdy web weirdos unite 
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Honestly we might get a lot more good in the world if nlnet pivoted to ‘paid sabbaticals for open source maintainers to take a mental health month, no development work’...
I mean that half-seriously.
note: I should add that this was not tacitly targeted at anyone in particular, but rather just came out of a general well-being conversation in a group chat.
@kaleb afaik there’s no good amalgamation three you mentioned already, but another common tool for large scale sense-making is https://pol.is/home
@silverpill does Mitra support OIDC logins?
In order to facilitate seamless login into a Mitra instance via Weird-app, Mitra needs to support logins via Rauthy (OIDC backend of Weird): https://github.com/sebadob/rauthy
The instance type we’d like to host is most likely gonna be @mitra #mitra
..specifically because it supports nomadic identity, so neither our instance nor our users are locked in stasis; Weird net can migrate to a different AP instance in the future if necessary, and instance tenants can migrate to any other instance that supports Nomadic Identity (FEP-ae97), e.g. with:
It’s pretty easy to self-host; the real challenge is instance governance and moderation.
We would like to run an #activitypub instance as part of the #weirdone platform, same as the excellent #omglol by @prami
This instance will be operated as a paid extension of Weird, costing $10/yr ($20/yr after beta).
All member subscriptions will go entirely to the AP instance hosters, which should be a team of at least 2-3 sysadmins & moderators tending to the instance part-time. This is expected to be a fairly low-volume instance since all members are paid (to begin with).
@anildash “video is not available” when trying to view from Norway 
From @bnewbold:
https://whtwnd.com/bnewbold.net/3kwzl7tye6u2y
A relay of the entire Bluesky network can be run for $153/month. That’s mighty impressive!
Many #ActivityPub hosters are paying this amount for member counts in the low thousands.
#nomadicidentity over ActivityPub is a big deal; might this release be accompanied by a blog post or other such technical writeup about the implications of these new features?
Where should we be referring instance developers who’d like to implement their own version of nomadic identity?
@pfefferle could be a lot easier if all the WordPress site had to carry was the Actor ID:
