Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@Wildbill Thanks!

@sisiwei @themarkup Welcome!

@coleens_@infosec.exchange I'm a firm believer in making sure how I spend my time (especially outside work) aligns with the things I say are priorities. When I realize they aren't, I try to adjust. So I'd *like* to say things would be much the same, just the hours allocated to things might change.

I'd spend more time reading, weaving and pursuing my many other hobbies. I'd travel more. I'd likely still volunteer some time/expertise for free software projects.

While following people's boosts and hashtags is enough for me, I understand why some people new to chronological timelines are fearful they will miss out on popular posts.

It might be interesting if each instance had a "trending" account you could follow that routinely boosted the latest popular posts. That would be opt-in and it doesn't mask the rest of your timeline.

Whatever the reason, the app or the bots,
He looked at the Fediverse, hating it lots,
Staring down from his cave with a sour, Grinchy frown,
At the new registrations, below in their town.
For he knew every Toot down in Tootville beneath,
Was busy now, posting decentralized tweets.
"And they use content warnings!" he snarled with a sneer,
"And with Federation there's no 8 buck tier!"

@matthew_d_green Now that they have gotten heavier into the advertising business, and have successfully pushed competitors out of their space, they have business reasons too.

When I hear them talk about privacy it's the same definition as when Google or others say it. They mean protecting your data from third parties or competitors, but not themselves.

Every Toot down in Tootville liked Fediverse a lot
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Tootville, did not!
The Grinch hated Fediverse! The whole federation!
Now, please don't ask why, there is no explanation.
It could be his app's round trip times weren't tight,
It could be, perhaps, the bots weren't counted right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been his net worth's $42B too small.

@Viss For some reason that made me think:

Every Toot down in Tootville liked #federation a lot, but the Musk who lived just north of Tootville - did not.

So now I'm going to have to write up a full-blown parody.

@katherined To me interoperability is almost always a good thing. It can become a bad thing when "embrace" moves to "extend" and "extinguish."

For instance, it was great when Slack was interoperable with IRC. It allowed it to attract all sorts of community rooms to move from IRC. The downside was when they extended the protocol beyond IRC and ultimately extinguished their IRC support, closing the door behind them after everyone walked through.

@f1337 Email me at my work address from the email you'd like to use to collaborate and we can go from there.

I was interviewed about supply chain security (around 15 min mark) in a longer CNBC feature about manufacturing phones in the USA. In short, it's less about trust concerns with any particular country/govt., and more about reducing the links in the supply chain to reduce the opportunities to tamper with hardware.

Our Made-in-USA-electronics Librem 5 USA phone also got a number of shout-outs. Pretty neat!

https://youtu.be/YdbA7Z8Ae4w #security #supplychain #infosec #manufacturing

@gardiner_bryant I was digging it before, but now that pretty much everyone I want to follow is now posting here instead it's amazing.

@timmgleason I suspect (or at least hope) that people that are new here will grow to understand and respect what it means to post into someone's chronological timeline. The incentives are different here, and attention is finite. I think people who demand *too* much daily attention from their followers will find their audience shrink over time.

@timmgleason If someone posts an *infrequent* firehose I suppose it just depends on how disruptive that is to the rest of your reading.

I have unfollowed people I like very much because their *constant* firehose overwhelmed the rest of my timeline. I still see highlights boosted by others though so I don't miss out completely.

One sign is when I find myself skimming/skipping a lot of posts/boosts from the same person. When I find I'm doing it a lot, I question whether it's time to prune.

I think everyone recognizes just how bad algorithms can be at predicting your interests. Relying on algorithms so you don't miss out on something means you do miss out on a lot of posts from people you do follow. I always wondered just how many posts on Twitter my followers actually saw.

Ultimately, the only one who knows what I want to see on my own timeline is me, and even then my tastes/interests change. My timeline is an information garden I tend to, weeding, pruning, and planting.