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Sam Clemente
@countablenewt@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Professional Maker of Sand Thoughts
Founder | Social Web Builder & Creator
#ActuallyAutistic | He/They
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As someone who has spent significant time on both the #Fediverse and the #ATmosphere I'm completely open to talking a bit about the differences in data ownership, feed creation, identity, and other user-relevant topics
The Social Web is a super interesting place, and I love that I've been able to be a part of it from multiple angles
ATProtocol implementing permissioned data is going to enable some cool stuff that I've wanted to build
And make some of the stuff I've already built better
Some (most) data shouldn't be indexed at will; this allows for that in so many different applications
RE: @countablenewt@mastodon.social
Thinking about this more: Bluesky going down would be more like *every* Mastodon instance going down
A much bigger impact to a lot of people, but ultimately a lot of other parts of the network would still exist
When you try to centralize on a decentralized network it always goes well
Eurosky, a grassroots project built by people who care about the network existing as opposed to caring about being able to parade something around, actually has people on the network
And https://mu.social is the best microblogging client on the ATmosphere as well
Europe can build, and it can build well, the Fediverse has proven that, but a cheap knockoff of an American app is not going to accomplish that
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@lukaskubanek Craig coming to break down the door of the infra dev who managed to ship this broken
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Oh and can't forget about Bridgy Fed so that I'm accessible across open social networks
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@lukaskubanek Craig rolling in his grave (that golf cart that rides around Apple Park) right now
Placed my pre-order for @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org 13 Pro: Ultra 5, 32GB RAM, 1TB storage, 4x USBC, and the fun black/orange/gray keyboard
Definitely interested in checking this thing out, probably going to run Pop!_OS on it
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Feel whatever you want about Bluesky proper
That's pretty damn cool
I'm so fucking tired of the ActivityPub v ATProto discussion
It's a waste of time, do something more productive with your limited time than shitting on the things you don't like
Actually work to improve the things you do like, I assure you that's a better use of your time
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@thisismissem @nileane I stand corrected, sounds like their relay is down too (the thing that gets the data from PDSes and builds “the firehose”)
Which I don’t believe have been independently stood up by Blacksky or Eurosky yet
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
Boss makes a dollar
I make a dime
That's why I read about tactical dicks
On company time
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@Pepijn@mastodon.online
If the opportunity doesn’t present itself in life, go and find it
More people should be sitting on cows, it’s an important rite of passage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow-hugging_therapy
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@matt_birchler On top of that there's something so self-centered about commenting that you're mad that someone didn't make you the media you wanted them to make
It's really "the whole internet is just for me" kind of behavior
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God forbid I don't dogpile on something and instead offer a nuanced explanation based on industry experience
Because I've quite literally been working with these systems *all day*
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It's one of those "take your work seriously, but don't take yourself that seriously"
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@thisismissem @nileane I could have sworn they did, and I've only seen bits and pieces of info from Rudy about what's going on for them so that makes sense
And glad to hear that Eurosky's making good progress too!
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@dansup@mastodon.social Bluesky went down, but blacksky, eurosky, and others were still up
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In theory, you could host your own PDS and only subscribe this one small relay with an AppView that only pulls from that relay and you're effectively building a small little instance, except you store your own data instead of the instance admin doing it
Which is kinda neat
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@tvaziri it’s more likely that, if this were done by AI, it was done by the studio, not Apple
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Social Media needs more lil guys, courtesy of https://mu.social
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I think I like sarcastically pointing out when I broke things, I'll probably keep doing that in my update notes
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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca Was daily driving Ubuntu on the family computer at 7
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@thisismissem @nileane The relays are the hard part, they're big and expensive (currently they basically handle all of the traffic for the whole network)
As the protocol builds itself out, ideally we can get some smaller relays that start to look more like different instances on the Fediverse that would be easier to run