A PHP developer who, in his spare time, plays tabletop and videogames; if the weathers nice I climb rocks, but mostly fall off of indoor bouldering ones.
"For example, if every time I post a new update on BlueSky, if I had to send my post to every single one of my followers’ repositories, that would be extremely inefficent"
Somewhat ironic to have this posted on and activitypub driven fediverse.
It literally prompts you to install to your desktop, meaning it's had at least the minimum amount of effort spent to make a decent mobile experience. Did you try it?
Just paid £650 out to get my 2007 Astra hatchback through an MOT.
It doesn't get driven much so it makes zero sense to replace it. Even if I'm spending double that in a year to keep it on the road it's still waaaaay cheaper than me paying for a "new" one. It's got bodywork rust now though and it's apparently really hard to find a place that'll do repairs like that :(
but those concerns appeared to have disappeared by the time the Vision Pro and its two screens directly in front of users’ eyes took the (virtual) stage.
Lost me here. The focal distance of those screens is not 2cm. Unlike the phone you hold 25cm from your face, when you're lying in bed at night failing to sleep, they have clever lenses and shit.
Got a third of the way through before realising this was just the opinion piece of a decidedly anti-nuclear journalist.
There is literally no cleaner way to provide base-load. Storage is great for spikes in usage but is not a replacement. To retire the gas and coal stations we need to replace what they do, not what they are.
But, the theory goes, you're not supposed to be reliant on third parties as you should be in control of your own domain (or within a few degrees of the person who is).
Large instances are what are antithetical to decentralisation.
Of course, the reality of it is that, it just hasn't worked out like that.
queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban
Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.
Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.
You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.
Someone is having a very bad day