people aren't martyred. they are just killed.
@maria it will be a world based on attestations, structured as digital signatures, but ultimately reliant upon the reputations of those who attest. we will judge a mediated thing real because someone(s) has attached an attestation to the thing, on pain of social and legal consequences for knowingly or negligently false attestation.
@Probertd8 @FeralRobots i hear it's a fake.
(sorry.)
maybe the coming deluge of deep fakes will, paradoxically, restore our privacy.
if most of what we see is fake, then everything is deniable.
@CoolerPseudonym (i do the same, use kill the newsletter to get 'em into my feed reeder!)
@CoolerPseudonym (i definitely think all blogs / newsletters / whatev should be rss-first. but i wonder whether there are people would want pings for eg infrequent sources they value so they don't miss them in their rss. for me at least, the rss reader is a bulk environment, though i use folders to make it more likely i see some higher priority sources. frequent publishers can dilute feeds even there, though.)
are there blogs you would want to subscribe to by SMS or similar (WhatsApp / iMessage / whatev), or would that just be noise you'd rather avoid?
We weave such intricate filigrees that no one else can see.
@elan those bridge from the blog themselves to AP, i think. the advantage of doing it from a feedreader, from the consumer rather than the producer, is that posts from sources without such bridges could enter the fray.
(of course we could just make bridges from RSS to AP, and bring in lots of sources. i think @darius has done so, and i'm working on some things related.) 1/
@elan @darius in either case, "canonicalization" is an issue. it'd be nice if there were a "canoncal" AP representation of each RSS guid (setting aside some issues about trusting that G for global). some tensions there with federation — the easiest form of canoncalization is an authoritative central service. when producers publish, arguably an advantage is we get that, let their instance be canonical for their posts. 2/
@elan @darius but i wonder whether there aren't clever ways of defining canonical representations without the author's server as the authority, letting maybe the first bridger register via something distributed like IPFS
(more tensions — what if an instance lots of people defederate gets in the business of "claiming" canonical representations of important things.) /fin
maybe if we'd never moved from there we wouldn't have gotten so old.
@v i encourage your temptation!
@buermann murder has been a bit more than a molehill, i think.
are there any RSS feed readers in the Fediverse? things like what Google Reader once was, what Inoreader / Feedly / etc are now?
One might then "boost" RSS items, for example, which would become sites for comment. (Ideally each RSS item would map to a globally unique ActivityPub article or note, though that might require use of something like a distributed hashtable to register "claims".)
my wife and i knew we were meant for each other when we realized that our wedding anniversaries fell on _exactly the same day_.
The violent crime wave that began in 2020 in the United States seems, thankfully, to be subsiding.
see https://jasher.substack.com/p/crime-in-2023-murder-plummeted-violent https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/low-crime-rates-public-opinion/676365/
most misinformation does not consist of lies, but of true accounts portrayed as representative when in fact they are unusual.
i'm not a con artist i'm a racket scientist.
"Why do you think those billionaires keep pouring absurd amounts of money into school reform, despite decade after decade of failure? Because they know the alternative is to take some of their money and give it away." #FreddieDeBoer https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-doesnt-work
"I guess the best CAPTCHA is to ask people how to make a pipe bomb." @cadey https://xeiaso.net/blog/birth-death-seo/ ht @Luketoop @davatron5000
// a great piece on the strange solipsism, the world made of bullshit, the intersection of LLMs and SEO might soon drown us in.
@astrojuanlu that depends on price and quality of service. a higher-touch, more trustworthy steward of digital life should easily be worth somewhere in the single digit thousands a year to many people (i becomes a role like notary or lawyer, not just i-run-an-activity-pub-thing).
recasting things this way does bring in some equity concerns (like everything surrounding e.g. laws or European style notaries) that i think we'd want to use public policy to address.