Bobby Brown @bobbyd0g@hellsite.net
- Social media instances
- https://hellsite.net
- Project repo
- https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab
- Twitch
- https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
- YouTube
- https://youtube.com/@bobbydog
Mod
Scrappy queer
Joined Dec 2021
Bobby Brown
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listen, i'm glad everyone is here/back but platform metacommentary alone won't be enough to make this stick. you need to start posting inane nonsense
what did you eat today. did you see any cool bugs
Bobby Brown
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I am continuing to work on scaling up mastodon.social and mastodon.online to handle the traffic and I've got @Nigma to help answer inqueries over on Twitter
I am pleased to report that Tooot for iOS supports SAML login and I am tweeting from it right now :) That means now you can get push notifications from Hellsite and other CommLab instances!
Let me apologize for neglecting this project -- CommLab and Hellsite -- for the last few months. It's on my mind constantly at this point, and my motivation is there, so things are gradually creaking to a start again. I hope if you have any ambitions for alternative social media that you'll get in touch with your ideas, experiences, and contributions!
Bobby Brown
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Interoperability would end that balancing act: you could leave Facebook and stay connected, eating your cake and having it, too.
So while there's room for improvement in how Big Tech moderates, that's just part of the story. The advantage of giving people the technological self-determination to move to communities where the norms of what is allowed and what is banned is that it makes the inevitable Big Tech mistakes *less important*.
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Bobby Brown
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These are the barriers that prevent co-ops, nonprofits, startups and others from creating products that blast holes in Facebook's walled garden - services that let you leave Facebook without severing contact with the friends, communities and customers who stay behind.
High switching costs have kept the fediverse from taking off: people hate Facebook, but they love their communities, and so long as the latter is greater than the former, they won't jump ship.
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Bobby Brown
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So why do so many of us feel like we have to stay on these platforms whose judgment we don't trust? In two words, it's "switching costs." That's the economics term for everything you have to give up when you quit a product or service, like a social media platform.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs
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Just stick it out. Things always change.
Welp, just heard about the first instance I definitely gotta block, whew boy.
I know I said I would write OpenID Connect support for Mastodon's Helm chart over the weekend, but I am exhausted after launching the site and my eyes are killing me x______x
Look at that, all this time and Atari 2600s are still worthless. A four-switch system can still be had for twenty bucks on eBay.
I usually tell people that HDMI cables either work or they don't, but I'm watching noise flicker across a dithering pattern on my 4K TV right now and thinking twice.
It's ... something... lol, but I need an image to post to other networks because if I put a link in the message body they do NOT show people my posts!!
Consider Hellsite launched! :D
Matrix going up soon
Looking forward to doing a video with the tiniest NetBurst machines ever.
Hey folks! Welcome to the Hellsite.
- Social media instances
- https://hellsite.net
- Project repo
- https://github.com/bobbyd0g/commlab
- Twitch
- https://twitch.tv/bobbyd0g
- YouTube
- https://youtube.com/@bobbydog
Mod
Scrappy queer
Joined Dec 2021
