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@ maegul @hachyderm.io

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A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.

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  • Not knowing US constitutional law, it seems to me the SCOTUS decision might mean that the Dems missed an opportunity when they had the house

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  • @barney @politics

    Sorry, just read 14A, sec 5:

    > The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

    The decision seems pretty predictable to me then.

    In fact it seems that this was never going anywhere and that the provisions are actually pretty weak. If an insurrectionist is popular enough to be a plausible presidential candidate, then they’re not unlikely to have significant support in congress.

  • Not knowing US constitutional law, it seems to me the SCOTUS decision might mean that the Dems missed an opportunity when they had the house

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  • @barney @politics

    Were there not conversations at the time about how 14A would have been enforced? None of the issues around that are new and would have been obvious at the time.

  • Performance reviews are just employers controlling the narrative when employees are underpaid

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  • @henfredemars

    Yea. Which touches on the issue of who determines the performance score of an employee and how transparent and inclusive it is.

  • Not knowing US constitutional law, it seems to me the SCOTUS decision might mean that the Dems missed an opportunity when they had the house

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  • @barney @politics

    Who should enforce it then? Seems like exactly the sort of thing a court wouldn’t want to touch so as not to look too political, no?

    Unless there’s no way around the fact that the 14th effectively creates a “constitutional crime” within federal courts’ jurisdiction that can be pardoned by a congress super majority, which would have been my intuitive reading.

  • What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss

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  • Mildly notable social media moment for me watching a Dr Becky video on YT.

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  • @makeasnek

    Yea for sure. I’m not enough of YouTuber to use an account and comment though.

    Plus I get the feeling that the astrophysics community kinda bounced off of the fediverse. But definitely worth a try.

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

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  • @Aatube @1984 @mindlight @maegul@lemmy.ml

    The key idea is that you can have a single unified identity on all the platforms you want. Signing into multiple platforms doesn’t require a new account every time. And cross posting from one platform to another, under your single identity is easy from every platform.

    Then leveraging those features (and an open API), a good unifying client will make that easy.

    There must be a way of doing that without fatal security issues or decentralisation.

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

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  • @Aatube @1984 @mindlight @maegul@lemmy.ml

    Yea I don’t know the best approach to that. Either a separate server for managing IDs. Or you always a principal server that manages authentication for its platform and others within the trusted “circle”. And then, should the principal server fail, you can switch to another server as your principal. Hubzilla/Streams has some process like that AFAIK.

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

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  • @joeldebruijn

    Yep. Add a good aggregator client (hmmm, Google should make one) and you’re cooking.

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

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  • @joeldebruijn

    Quick attempt at coming up with an alternative.

    Something to bear in mind here is it’s my impression that federation creates difficulties that many struggle with. So while it might be over simplified, the scale for me is already weighed with the possibility that we over complication that may need to be remedied.

    Also, that big instances (eg mastodon.social) seem to be a natural thing even on the Fedi, there’s clearly perceived value for many there.

  • Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

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  • @fediverse

    All of the shared/single sign on and easy cross posting would probably be trust or allow-list based.

    As the platforms would be FOSS, anyone could run their own instance and start their own "circles of trust". So even with big vs small server friction, there could be a few "gardens" of small and big server networks providing different "spaces" for different purposes ... all without having to worry about defederation and the software difficulties of building against the protocol.

  • What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss

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  • It's probably (very) naive of me, but I hadn't quite thought that the whole thing is a grift against everyone.

    Ads, data tracking, *and* tricking you into ignoring the economy/industry that actually matters in the name of "evolution" and "breaking things".

    Can't help but see some (stretched) resonance with the #fediverse. Is this just some tech idea that needs to convince all of us that it's the good new thing? What if at its core there's something wrong and it fails us?

    @workreform

  • What the new tech creator-content platforms and economy miss

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  • Death of the Middle Class Musician

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  • @workreform

    Great line in there from Tim about how everyone is now viewed as an Uber driver and how its hard to justify being paid more than one.

  • Fediverse hot takes:

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  • Dealing with a government welfare system for the first time in a while.

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  • @pmarksen

    So so sorry to hear.

    Otherwise, yea this doesn't sound surprising. From my recent limited experience it seems like a system held together with duck tape.

    Which is funny, because if the fear from govt is to prevent people from becoming professional "dole-bludgers", making the system so hard to use that it requires special skills and experience is the wrong thing to do.

    I'm sure there are all sorts of silly loop holes and bugs that plenty of people have learnt to exploit.

  • Well looks like a Lemmy comment is making the rounds on Mastodon!

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  • @masimatutu

    Yea. Generally a good demonstration of how the promise of the fediverse isn’t really there yet.

    Lemmy does groups and mastodon does users with neither really understanding the other.

    I think there’s more scope for lemmy to cover the user side of social media than mastodon the groups side. Kbin is an example of a continuing effort to do that.

    If some keen devs got involved, I’d suspect lemmy could add some good user based functionality.The core devs have recognised it’d be good.

  • Well looks like a Lemmy comment is making the rounds on Mastodon!

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  • @Bebo @masimatutu

    Friendica definitely is one of the underrated fediverse platforms.

    Many bounce off of it because it seems a bit slow and its UI is dated. But in terms of the general ideas about what the fediverse can be and the functionality it’s implemented, it’s very interesting and it would be awesome for it to seem more love.

  • How to Post from mastodon?

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  • @PorkButtsNTaters666 @maegul@lemmy.ml

    You should be able to, yes, just as I am here.

    Copy the link to the lemmy post/comment, and search for it in the mastodon interface. It should get fetched and come up. Then you can just reply (and like) as you normally would.

    Beyond that you can follow lemmy communities and users normally. Following communities might flood your timeline as comments as well as posts will go in there.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io
    \#lemmy

    (https://hachyderm.io/tags/lemmy) is starting to reverse the spam account problem. See users graph here [https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse](https://fedidb.org/current-events/thre

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io
    \#Threadiverse

    (https://hachyderm.io/tags/Threadiverse) mobile apps looking like a surprisingly healthy space already!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    This happened quickly…Lemmy is now the second biggest platform next to mastodon!?!

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    So r/startrek opened their subreddit back up.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    New #lemmy instance and community explorer (seems to be clearly better than the one of feddit.de):

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Lemmy.world may be quickly becoming the relative centre of the #threadiverse

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    The #threadiverse growth, so far, is exhibiting some nice instance parity.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    There is no good ad for trains and how central they can be in our liv...

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io
    @ajsadauskas

    (https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas)

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Fediverse hot takes: