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  1. @travisfw
    > "using the internet" should always mean engaging directly with other individual humans, with nothing but routers in-between.

    We need to un-shackle the internet from its current lords, and return the net to the proper .

    web.archive.org/web/2005082802

  2. one of the goals of #tRumpism is to prevent individuals from suing #bigcorp. but in their fight to establish their #feudal governments they are suing.

    "...[t]hese crypto coiners have found themselves at the centre of political intrigue and have had to resort to suing Honduras through the investor-state dispute settlement, a little-known but central component of global capitalism’s neoliberal bureaucracy. "...

    donotpanic.news/p/the-trumpist

    #honduras #Prospera
    #democracy is more than voting!

  3. #DefaultsMatter, because while *some* people are confident enough to fiddle with them, many people are not. And it should not be necessary for them.

    Everyone deserves software already configured for #UserNeeds, not some #Feudal master.

    @thestrangelet

  4. , because while *some* people are confident enough to fiddle with them, many people are not. And it should not be necessary for them.

    Everyone deserves software already configured for , not some master.

    @thestrangelet

  5. #DefaultsMatter, because while *some* people are confident enough to fiddle with them, many people are not. And it should not be necessary for them.

    Everyone deserves software already configured for #UserNeeds, not some #Feudal master.

    @thestrangelet

  6. #DefaultsMatter, because while *some* people are confident enough to fiddle with them, many people are not. And it should not be necessary for them.

    Everyone deserves software already configured for #UserNeeds, not some #Feudal master.

    @thestrangelet

  7. #DefaultsMatter, because while *some* people are confident enough to fiddle with them, many people are not. And it should not be necessary for them.

    Everyone deserves software already configured for #UserNeeds, not some #Feudal master.

    @thestrangelet

  8. @mnot
    #georgeOrwell, 1984, would be so proud. All he got wrong was the date.

    #progressive, #woke, #pagan religion are all good terms for good things. #Regressive is what the likes of Palantir are doing; regressing to the 1300's, rule by a #feudal system of government.

    It is amazing how they can use word salad to completely turn around the sounds of forward progress. Their creative fiction writing professor would be proud.

    #democracy is more than how we vote!

  9. Did you know that there's a place in #Europe that still has a #feudal system?

    The #crown dependency of #Sark is a curious place. It has no paved #roads & #cars are forbidden, #women only got the right to inherit #property in 1999, & the whole island is, to this day, a fiefdom.

    This means the #monarch is the head, with a #lord (seigneur here) as the executive power & the tenants (effectively liegemen) as the vassals.

    Sark has to pay the #king a yearly #knight's fee.

    It's £1,79.

    #history

  10. takahē - A new Fediverse paradigm


    Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century.

    That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts.

    In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population.

    The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms - first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub - **this is huge**, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single user "virtual Fediverse server instances", in consumer based home #LAN environments - let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors.

    To my knowledge, ***this is the very first time* this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached**.

    jointakahe.org/

    ***If you hurry***, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program.

    Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎

    And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, **Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server**. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking!

    A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @[email protected] *AND* @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 *AND* @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 - that, at least to me, can only be described as, **"The Bees Knees"**.

    I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant - *the cat is already out of the bag*.

    Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway - but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space.

    There's a lot more. **Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI?** Of course I did!

    There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, *before your eyes*.

    Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr).

    The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #World Wide Web over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests - the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacy disrespecting and #legacy #monolithic silos - owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, **Sunnyvale Syndrome**.

    This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributed network of services and sites truly belonging to the #individual participants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me.

    For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality - with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities.

    It's dark, so *incredibly dark*. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you *apparently* have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, ***"It puts the lotion on its skin!"***

    And in a manner of speaking, following an *"Internet century"* (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where _Homo sapien_ drones existing in #Lords and Vassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?...

    ***Fast forwarding to the scene where...***

    Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later *rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth*.

    Kinda like the true story of the **Takahē**. And we too, *are beautiful*.

    I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow:

    @takahe




    I can be reached on Matrix at:

    `@tallship:matrix.org`


    via XMPP at:

    `[email protected]`


    and in the Fediverse at:
    `@[email protected]`

    I hope that helps! Enjoy!





    #tallship #FOSS #virtual hosting #multiple identity #DeSoc #Sunnyvale Syndrome #AOL Effect



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  11. #### takahē - A new Fediverse paradigm

    #### 19 January 2023

    Fresh out of the oven is #Takahē, introducing a very interesting basic functional motive for development and delivering a beautiful #UX. It also derives inspiration in the form of its #mascott from a species once thought extinct for about a century.

    That is, until a single man obsessed with the saga of this large, flightness bird since his early childhood, endlessly sought out and eventually rediscovered it was actually extant 75 years ago through his tireless efforts.

    In recent years, and not without some particularly problematic attempts in the management of this #endangered_species, the population of these magnificent birds has more or less stabilized at around 100 members living in the wild, thanks to the committed efforts of a government sponsored #refoliation, hatching, and rearing program; in conjunction with a comprehensive scientific tagging, tracking, and monitoring effort of those members released into the wild alongside the wild-born members of the #population.

    The software project itself has struck me as rather special too, and not just for its two functionally unique characteristics amongst other #Fediverse platforms - first, and similar to name based #SSL hosting on #HTTP servers with #SNI, Takahē provides multi-domain virtual hosting capabilities to #ActivityPub - this is huge, and opens the door for for even the casusl home self-hoster to provide #turnkey #SaaS offerings to their friends and family members in the form of small and #single_user "virtual Fediverse server instances", in consumer based home #LAN environments - let alone the potential for commercial hosting endeavors.

    To my knowledge, this is the very first time this novel approach to Fediverse networking over ActivityPub has been broached.

    https://jointakahe.org/

    If you hurry, you might still be able to secure for yourself an account in their limited beta program.

    Go ahead, you can do that now, I'll still be here when you get back 😎

    And as if that alone were not enough to revolutionize the paradigm and dynamic of the Fediverse, Takahē also introduces multiple account (alt) identities for each user user account on the server. This can only be described as freaking groundbreaking!

    A single user account for a person might be the base for say, both @[email protected] AND @userone@SLD02 .TLD02 AND @usertwo@SLD02 .TLD02 - that, at least to me, can only be described as, "The Bees Knees".

    I'm sure that many will cite, and of course it is not only possible but quite likely, that this will lower the bar for abusive actors to engage in shenanigans. However true as that may be, such potential (and existing practice) exists already within the Fediverse so the ease with which bad actors will avail themselves of such toolings only is only trivially simplified, not introduced; besides, complaining about such a thing is irrelevant - the cat is already out of the bag.

    Indeed, there are already other Fediverse server platforms (such as the Hubzilla (ZOT) and Misskey families of forks and variants that already support the creation and management of multiple identities under a single account anyway - but Bringing the SNI shared hosting experience into production with a single Fediverse server instance is truly unprecedented in Fediverse space.

    There's a lot more. Did I mention the beautiful, and exceedingly intuitive UI? Of course I did!

    There's another corollary that I alluded to. Did you miss it? It was right there, before your eyes.

    Yes, there's a metaphor, craftily scripted between the lines of everything you just read (that is, if you didn't tl;dr).

    The impetus for much of #decentralization (DeSoc) and the #Genesis of the Fediverse is arguably the notion of what was indeed a #decentralized #World_Wide_Web over the fully decentralized #Internet, having falling victim to capture by special interests - the #deprecated, #proprietary, #privacy_disrespecting and #legacy #monolithic_silos - owned, spawned, and managed by mega surveillance-capitalism #data_mining corporations.... IOW, the so-called, Sunnyvale Syndrome.

    This effectively killed of much of the notion that there even still existed an independant, #distributed_network of services and sites truly belonging to the #individual_participants, i.e., average #schmoes like you and me.

    For sometime now, many have even claimed and argued that the kinder, friendlier #web of days gone by, where small #communities of #people and #websites belonging to #individuals and small businesses were actually #extinct in reality - with only those well heeled analytically correct, SEO optimized, #subjugated websites and #chattel in the form of people that had sworn #fealty to their lords and masters remaining. #Apple, #Amazon, the #Google and #Faceplant having long since taken #possession of their souls and #identities.

    It's dark, so incredibly dark. And you have awakened to find yourself at the bottom of a well that you apparently have fallen into. There's plenty of water, you're knee deep in it, and a voice from above booms aloud that food will be delivered so long as, "It puts the lotion on its skin!"

    And in a manner of speaking, following an "Internet century" (think, 'dog years') of a #dystopian #feudal Institution where Homo sapien drones existing in #Lords_and_Vassals lockstep, told what to think, how to believe, where to shit, and when to wake up and punch the time clock, had completely replaced the actually extinct human race... Well?...

    Fast forwarding to the scene where...

    Some awkward little child in a dimly candlelit bedroom, many children, truth be told, consumed with the dreams of, and empowered with an obsessive belief that, a world where real, unique and independently diverse human beings actually existed, grew up and many years later rediscovered that they really did still walk the earth.

    Kinda like the true story of the Takahē. And we too, are beautiful.

    I'm leaving the rest for you to discover for yourselves, and look forward to many discussions on this invigorating topic. In the meantime, you can follow:

    @takahe

    I can be reached on Matrix at:

    @tallship:matrix.org

    via XMPP at:

    [email protected]

    and in the Fediverse at:
    @[email protected]

    I hope that helps! Enjoy!

    #tallship #FOSS #virtual_hosting #multiple_identity #DeSoc #Sunnyvale_Syndrome #AOL_Effect

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