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@fedilab@toot.fedilab.app
Can I mute boosts from my own account?

I'm looking for some interesting people to follow. Please reply with recommendations folks!

@dansup
Since when was PixelFed built on Blockchain?

Just posting from a Librem 5 Birch and grabbing a screen shot.

Apple canceled the project to encrypt iCloud backups two years ago due to pressure from the FBI because it "would deny them the most effective means for gaining evidence against iPhone-using suspects"

reuters.com/article/us-apple-f

@theprivacyfoundation
In short, people aren't joining Mastodon because people aren't joining Mastodon

@theprivacyfoundation
The Network Effect™. No one wants to join Mastodon because it's another account they have to maintain, and everyone they wanna talk to is already on Twitter

I know this is definitely late, but my New Year's resolution is to cut Amazon and anything owned by or affiliated with Bezos by December 31 2020

I just need voice support out of Nheko (no idea when/if that's coming) and plasma mobile on PinePhone/Librem 5 is perfect for me

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What I need in a daily driver phone:

1. Mastodon (mobile site is fine)
2. Calls
3. Matrix with E2EE and voice (this is the hard one)
4. Reddit
5. Minesweeper

It's starting to look more and more like Linux on phone does everything I need

Tusker (my iOS app for Mastodon) is going to need an app icon soon. I can make something crappy to use in the short term, but in the slightly longer term I'd like to commission. someone to make a nice one. So, if you are or know an artist who does app icons and are open for commissions, please let me know!

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If your app wins this war, maybe you won't care, but history tells me tech giant dominance is temporary. All those devs writing proprietary msging apps today are writing tomorrow's abandoned code. We'd all go much farther if we went together. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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We still haven't learned the lesson. The next decade promises even more duplicated effort as each org reinvents proprietary e2e encryption protocols on private networks in the name of privacy, but with the effect of making compatibility almost impossible.

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Is it really better that FB has three incompatible msging apps they now have to wrangle into one new proprietary protocol? In the 20 year fight to own the market, all we have to show for it are mountains of abandoned proprietary code, dead networks, wasted efforts.

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These companies went fast alone, but they didn't go far. The last 20 yrs show few real innovations in msging. How many attempts has Google made? If they all had worked together, you wouldn't have a half-dozen incompatible messaging apps with similar features on your phone.

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The buildings full of devs he references all labored over the past two decades to reinvent the same messaging wheel, but w/ a network they owned. Libpurple plugins serve as a graveyard of proprietary chat protocols--failures to capture the market, wasted dev effort.

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There's a well-known African proverb: "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." What Moxie's centralization talk misses is that the faults in early decentralized protocols came because dotcoms wanted to capture the market.

invidio.us/watch?v=Nj3YFprqAr8

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