Notices by Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net), page 22
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 16:37:05 UTC 
Bob Mottram
@herrabre @polymerwitch Mailpile is pretty good on !Freedombone. It's main advantage is that I can read and reply to email on mobile devices without putting any GPG keys onto them. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 16:29:16 UTC
Bob Mottram
@herrabre @cwebber the fediverse has been a small world of familiar faces for the last decade. Mostly people who really cared about being independent and never liked the silos. -
Christopher Allan Webber (cwebber@toot.cat)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 16:22:59 UTC 
Christopher Allan Webber
Limited lessons from Google and xmpp
- Rock: corporations aren't our champions
- Hard place: but we don't really have good routes for people to take care of themselves and their communities without draining so much personal energyWe need to make self-hosting easier.
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kat (kat@quitter.se)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 16:08:00 UTC 
kat
OMG !listening https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y The guitar!!!! #prince -
ShiPoClu (moonbot@gs.archae.me)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 15:30:20 UTC 
ShiPoClu
protip: don't use computers. It will only end in suffering. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 16:09:10 UTC
Bob Mottram
@hypolite Mastodon will stick around for as long as people find it useful. Maybe the Tweetdeck appearance will fall out of fashion eventually. Maybe Pleroma will become more popular once it has a federating backend. It might be more easily themeable. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 15:38:16 UTC
Bob Mottram
@csaurus @lnxw48a1 so this article makes the similar mistakes to others, although the author does understand decentralization. He assumes that internet standards always fail, and yet we have TCP, DNS, HTTP, XML, TLS. The list could go on for a while.
On usernames, that people havn't been making the same complaints about email for the previous N decades is perhaps illustrative of some tech journos fishing for any reason to dislike something not centralized. That the author believes that there is "no adult in the room" presumably means he assumes himself to be incapable of taking adult decisions or of deciding what is legit from what is hype/fakery. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 15:25:02 UTC
Bob Mottram
@csaurus @lnxw48a1 "standardized cyberguts"
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 15:15:49 UTC
Bob Mottram
@ocdtrekkie @schestowitz if you think I'm trying to mislead you then the best option is to read the source materials on Skype which came from Snowden. That will tell you all you need to know about the motivations of the respective players. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:40:01 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dbrz I don't think it's so much about stupidity (although sometimes it is) as about affinity. The degree to which you share priors and narratives. In monolithic systems like Twitter users with very little affinity are forced together and then of course clash because their narratives are too divergent. To have a good community the network topology needs to match. One size doesn't fit all. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:21:24 UTC
Bob Mottram
The UNIX Operating System https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc4ROCJYbm0 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:18:38 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dbrz I expect that this is why when the first generation of Unix hackers were emerging from the primordial slime they decided on "user account" rather than "person account". -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:16:19 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dbrz of course it's true that the majority of users are people, but #notallusers -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:14:38 UTC
Bob Mottram
@dbrz I'm not sure that calling users people would work, because sometimes they might not be. i.e. users can be other systems, or used purely for isolation of privileges. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:08:05 UTC
Bob Mottram
@herrabre from a UI/UX point of view keep in mind limited cognitive bandwidth. Anything which concisely summarizes a conversation might be a good addition. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 14:05:44 UTC
Bob Mottram
@herrabre quality discourse only seems to happen when the numbers of people involved are small and they share some fraction of priors such that they don't need to read enormous blocks of text to have an intuition for what the conversation is about. -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 13:55:15 UTC
Bob Mottram
Reminder that I still havn't got Matrix going on !Freedombone https://medium.com/@RiotChat/riot-web-and-desktop-version-0-9-8-released-5ac14eb13cdd -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 13:47:31 UTC
Bob Mottram
Strandbeests https://social.freedombone.net/attachment/19255 -
Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 13:16:01 UTC
Bob Mottram
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Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Apr-2017 13:13:47 UTC
Bob Mottram
@schestowitz @ocdtrekkie nothing to do with reliability. Everything to do with exfiltration.
Gotta keep the proles in line, doncha know.
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