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Regarding “AT was written because ActivityPub can’t handle portable content and identity”, I wrote up stuff about this *in 2017* https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot5-boston/blob/master/final-documents/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md and wrote a demo on how to do the portable content part https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

Good luck to the Bluesky / AT folks, truly. The main thing that frustrates me is this claim that AP can’t do this though. (The Bluesky folks are aware of this, we both wrote some documents about it together, so they *should* know, that’s my main irritation with the FAQ item that says ActivityPub can’t do it.)

But also:

– I am not currently focused on ActivityPub so maybe it’s not the best question to direct at me anymore
– I am focused on Spritely, which will eventually loop back to AP stuff, but that’s not its current focus (it’s a bit more general and dare I say a bit more revolutionary to how applications are written than that)
– I have never been interested in making a Twitter replacement because I am not convinced a global content space is necessarily a good idea
– It’s good that almost everyone agrees that decentralized networks are fundamentally necessary now though
– I am glad that AT/Bluesky is using DIDs and some other components that really might be truly useful
– I am not the best person to ask this question, but I guess I am one of the most obvious people to ask this question

—@cwebber

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Please DO NOT quote post me.

The feature isn’t even here yet, but just the idea of it is causing me so much anxiety. Quote tweets were the source of so much stress, harassment & misery for me on twitter. It’s an instant anxiety trigger.

So I’m just putting the request out there now & will add this to my bio when quote posts are a reality.

Please. I am begging you – DO NOT quote post me, even for positive reasons. Boosting is great. Replies are great. Quote posts NO.

Thanks 💙

—@MistyMelanie

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I want to send a special shout-out to my very VERY patient, chill livestock guardian dog Jack: every single baby goat we’ve had on this farm has to check and see if maybe, just maybe, there’s an udder with milk hiding somewhere on the dog.

And Jack just patiently lets them all learn he does not have an udder. He’s a very good boy.

—@sundogplanets

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@BlackAzizAnansi

Landlord has given us until May 1st to catch up on late rent and we have just raised half of one month since relaunching this GFM.

We’re at $7,781 out of $10,000 most of which was raised and spent over a year+ ago before a paid fellowship. Started sharing again to help with rent while between gigs.

Please share this where ever you can to help keep us housed.

https://gofund.me/dd92aa8a

—@NaomiAye

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Hi folks, a reminder that @deoan and I wrote up a blog post I’m really proud of about neurodiversity in cybersecurity – both our experiences, and practical tips for ND and neurotypical folks.

https://www.domaintools.com/resources/blog/removing-the-mask-how-neurodiversity-strengthens-cybersecurity/

If you prefer to listen rather than read, we also combined with the awesome @NotTheLinux for a podcast around the same topics.

https://www.domaintools.com/resources/podcasts/154-not-your-neurotypical-episode/

This is a topic important to us, and I think important to infosec as well, so boosts, other shares, and feedback are all appreciated.

—@neurovagrant

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Lots of speculation here, but:

Probably one reason it’s taken so long to implement quote posts isn’t because it’s all that hard to pull a preview and display it when embedding a link to another post, it has to do with notifications.

And likely also things like filters.

For instance, if I block/filter out the original post, are all quote posts of that post also filtered?

I mean, I’d certainly hope so.

And then there are the people who don’t want quote posts at all. Will there be a profile setting to disable the ability to quote post anything? Will it only be enabled for Public posts? Will it work across servers (ie., if you reply to a post on some other server, will your quote post settings work there, too? Will this be honored by other fediverse software?)

Lots of potential factors to get right here, depending on how much work they put into the implementation.

—@oliphant

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I see people telling us that we shouldn’t be negative about Bluesky, that we should give it a chance and see what happens. But how else are we supposed to judge the trustworthiness of a new system than by our past experiences with the people involved? And frankly, the Twitter experience was absolutely miserable. I simply don’t trust Jack Dorsey or anyone who works with him, with good reason.

—@Green_Footballs