As a dev, another really cool development to me is the introduction of ActivityPub to things like Gitea, and forgejo, again this is really where the concept of federation just kicks ass to me. Like imagine commenting on code issue, on lemmy/mastdon/discourse? No need to setup webhooks, bots, webscrapers. Just native support for cross-platform discussions.
Want to follow latest releases of your favorite FLOSS projects? Just follow their repo! You can crosspost it or boost too if you want to.
I would love the move towards federated, p2p, all in one apps! Supporting the back ends on ActivityPub, peertube, IPFS, RSS, email, matrix, and sms, and then you can have tons of different UIs depending on what you are the user's preferred user experience.
Imagine sending someone a direct message via Matrix, email, or sms. Scheduling a break-out session from a peertube comment block to talk over matrix. Pinning a comment on Matrix and turning it into a fediverse post and sharing it via hashtags and to communities. Sharing files over IPFS and peertube reducing hosting costs so more people can host! With things like thirdroom you could really give more options for UIs, but the greatest thing is that if the backend standards are kept normalized a VR chat, could be seen as a text on my phone, as an email or on a desktop chat application.
So for me, it's more acknowledging these different mediums and making sure the backends of major fediverse platforms support them, and then the UIs can splinnter as much as needed to cover all the different ways people want to use these apps. Maybe even support a UI addon system and UI layout/theme sharing, so that you can further reduce the amount of duplicate work out there.
Basically KDE Plasma Desktop style configurability but for the Fediverse
I mean, being a death nail on a corporation's IPO for spite and content is on brand for him
To be honest I don't think we are ready for that level of scrutiny. I would imagine if he were to agree, he would do research first, and the Fediverse has a lot of unanswered questions for the mainstream person.
Can the Fediverse sustain users, both in usability and costs (see also "Can we keep up with user growth")? How will NFSW moderation work, since so far I see most instances saying it won't and just shutting down that vector of work and questions? How does regulation or working with authorities look like on the Fediverse (this is antithetical to most Fediverse goals, but for main stream people a normal question)? How will user verification work for celebrities or important figures? What are the ethical consideration to support devs, like the lemmy devs, with controversial opinions?
Some of these are whataboutism when comparing to Reddit. Some of these just stuff the average Redditor and Fediverse user couldn't care less about, or frankly don't want asked, but these are top questions I would expect a liberal journalist to be asking, even if they are generally anti-corperate and pro-grassroots.
I really hope matrix/element takes more space in enterprise space. Sure Teams has some more features, but they suck tbh, so even i wanted to use their white board or "wiki" features, I don't because I don't want to wait a few minutes for a "wiki" to load, and no else does either!
I don't get the medium critic either. If medium paid someone for their content, sure, they should have the right to host it even the writer now disagrees with them, but if they a platform and sharing some profits or no profits with the creator, pound sand, they absolutly get to hold their content hostage. They have every right to move their free work or stop sharing their free work where ever they feel like.
No, I mean it, they really have taken the models of the British Empire and the American Empires and expanded them in a way neither at their heights could ever justify nor imagine. Surveillance system sales to authoritarian governments? Selling surveillance in other countries?! Like the CIA look like idiots spending money to get surveillance in other countries on that one. Plus they get to support the dictators keeping the peasants sending raw resources to China!
Purposely loaning money to countries with bad credit histories for leverage to get them to build ports for the Chinese empire's trade network?! Britten spent so much time and money fighting wars, and colonizing just to be our shined on that.
And let's not even get to started on the levels of control business have over workers there. The US robber barons use the State here looks like child's play to the anti-union, anti-solidarity work done by the CCP. A giant union ran by the largest capitalist in the country? With authorities able to crack down on grassroots organizing on the opposite side, and the ability to send slaves from regions in need of "reeducation" all around the country. Makes the US look practically socialist on some fronts (we aren't and have a good way to go).
They "need" numbers to justify work, to justify budgets. Poorer people are easier targets so they get more numbers against poorer people and therefor target poorer people. Trying to ticket a rich guy in a Lambo is just asking for months of trial work and a lawyer.
That needs to be fixed. Either by address the way police get their budgets/selected, and/or making the courts more fair (progressive fine schemes also help make the bigger whale cases "worth it" for example).
Yeah, no one LIKEs mixing bikes and cars on roads, but little is given towards making them separate. There are 4 things on a street being balanced though, pedestrians, bikes, greenery, buses, and cars. The first 3 IMHO should be the priority for a street (the area people travel short distances between close destinations). Roads on the other hand should be limited to buses, cars, and greenery OR a bike highway limited to bikes and greenery.
Like you said, though, using police as the primary method to enforce these separations is a failure of design. It would be like if Lemmy required you edit the webpages code to comment instead of having comment boxes, and having some dedicated to just going around and checking the code to make sure you were only putting in good formatted text and hoping they could punish people enough to do encourage it.
You would either shut down the site from excessive enforcement or shut it down from unusable design.
I personally 100% support the use of peertube as the primary video platform. It really seems to go towards addressing the cost issue with being a video hosting platform. The only step I would take further is having IPFS being the cold storage backend for images as well, and integrate both into the app/website levels, so clients can participate in contributing sharing. If needed, a proxy service so that clients that are concerned about IP leakage, but can't use TOR or a VPN have an option.
Offense has been losing to defensive technology since after WW2 the major exception being ICBMs of course.
Same reason I want more forums like Fedora Discussion, Ask Ubuntu, and Stack Overflow on the Fediverse. I like the Fediverse as a way to see information and have discussion on it. More good content, the better. Without good content, I would never have used Reddit in the first place.