Yeah, I agree. I said you wouldn’t be spamming.

It sounds like you’re grabbing posts about topics you’re interested in, knowledgeable about, and that you want to talk about. It’s almost like having a deck of cards with conversation topics on them and just drawing a random one every few days or something.

You should probably get consent from communities you want to include. I appreciate that you have good intentions and wouldn’t be spamming communities, but this is the kind of thing that people can get pretty angry about.

I made the mistake of giving robo wingman a gatling turret.

I’ve done a few solo+robo runs with the small ship and it’s a great time. It’s a bit less chaotic because there are some ship effects (like fires and radiation leaks) that don’t get enabled until you have at least 3 players. I’m excited to see how the game develops over the next few months.

One Community Group document that will be moving into the Working Group is LOLA, the live data portability spec that originated in the CG’s Data Portability Task Force. LOLA lets users move from one ActivityPub server to another while retaining all their social connections, their content, and their reactions. It’s a great improvement for data portability on the social web.

Exciting stuff!

I’ve been having a great time playing Jump Space with some pals.

No doubt, if the goal was to be some rich, worthless scumfuck I’d be doing different things. I’d probably have to spend my days trying to suck Trump Coins out of some grifter’s dick. Or maybe I’d build a time machine to go back and make sure I popped out of a lady with a connection to an emerald mine. But… we all have our paths to walk. Mine is to toil endlessly in pursuit of purpose…

This conversation is actually a great example of complexity not mattering. You’re on an Australian server, I’m on a Canadian server. We’re replying to a post from a user on a third server to a community on a fourth server that people mistakenly think is American but is actually hosted in Germany. None of that matters because it just works. It’s indistinguishable from posts and comments – including you trying blame the whole thing on me – at the same place. You can make it seem very complicated but all anyone has to do is type words in the little box and press the button to post it.

The way too many people think about the Fediverse right now is like thinking that you need to know every minor detail about how a call could make it from a cell phone in Australia to a cell phone in Canada. You don’t need to know that to make a call. You don’t need to know all the minutia about ActivityPub or federation to use the fediverse.

I think it’s really overstated how tech savvy you have to be. I don’t do anything highly technical here. I signed up to a server, searched for things I was interested in, and subscribed to communities with the stuff I liked. I vote, comment, and post. There are great apps on the mainstream app stores. Yes, more than one thing is inherently a bit more complicated than one thing. But, lest we forget, one is also the loneliest number.

We should really be telling people how easy this shit is.

People over-react because it’s new to them, but it’s not really that complicated. It’s not like email never caught on because it’s federated.

You’re really just renting hardware. You own all your games and they aren’t tied to that service. The appeal is to play PC games without being on the perpetual hardware upgrade hamster wheel.