The best #tech #support of any company I've ever interacted with comes from Prusa, the Czech #3D #printer maker. Consistently, they listen to what you have to say, and right away have a good answer. No how-are-you-doing-you-are-so-important-to-us bs that only aggravates everybody, but straight answers to each question, always backed up with links, sometimes with more background info than you had any reason to supposed might exist.

On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says: “We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..” How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?

The Verge

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on breaking free from Twitter and competing with Threads and Mastodon

Bluesky started inside Twitter. Now, it’s competing with X, Mastodon, and Threads to push a decentralized vision for social networking.

How to talk about the #fediverse so people can understand why it might have value to them. (Skip the term "marketing" if you don't like it. The conversation is still very interesting) From a session at #FediForum hosted by @npub1jh57...jak4

FediForum

FediForum | Marketing messaging / content creation to advocate for Fediverse

"Currently, Threads accounts do not see individual likes on their federated posts, instead getting a notification that says ‘4 fediverse users from 3 servers liked this post’. According to Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput, Threads cannot use profile info from fediverse accounts on Threads yet because they are not allowed to do so yet by their Legal department." h/t @npub1qu2f...uj0d

What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse? Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between. Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale. I want to run a #FediForum session on this next week, and brainstorm with you all. Join me?

FediForum

FediForum

FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

Time zones are the worst. Other than time zones with daylight saving time changing on different dates.

What would you say the #Bluesky people are trying to build? Why does it matter to them? What about the #Mastodon people? What are they trying to build, and why does it matter to them? And what about the broader #fediverse? What are we all trying to build, and why does it matter to us? Curious what everybody thinks.

Has #Medium done any Fediverse integration so far other than standing up their own Mastodon instance? And, I think, integrated their user database somehow? (I might be terribly underinformed.)

We need to reduce energy consumption, they said, to mitigate the #climate. “By 2050, India will be among the first places where temperatures will cross survivability limits … And … the demand for air conditioners (AC) in the country is expected to rise nine-fold.” 9x https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/india/extreme-heat-india-climate-ac-intl-hnk/index.html

Have you watched the cool #fediverse software demos from #Fediforum? Online at

FediForum

FediForum | Notes from FediForum, September 2023

Signal costs $50m / year to run!

WIRED

Running Signal Will Soon Cost $50 Million a Year

Signal’s president reveals the cost of running the privacy-preserving platform—not just to drum up donations, but to call out the for-profit su...

So I just shared an article to the #Lemmy group on Fediverse press coverage, and as I hit refresh, the number of Likes goes back and forth between 1 and 2. Given that both are from me, and I'm not changing them, what is going on here? https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press

No more T2/Pebble.

TechCrunch

Pebble, the Twitter alternative previously known as T2, is shutting down | TechCrunch

The grip Twitter, now called X, has on the market may be stronger than some believed. Unfortunately, that's led to the first casualty among Tw...

#t2 #pebble #fediverse

Anybody can explain how this #Matter #iot connectivity standard actually works? The specs requires registration, and I don't feel like registering. Also, can I connect my open-source code without having to go through their certification? How?

The Verge

Matter 1.2 is a big move for the smart home standard

Robot vacuums, fridges, and smoke alarms join Matter.

It’s practically impossible to use #https for devices on home networks, such as #iot devices — the #certificate system simply isn’t made for servers behind firewalls. Why? E.g. why can’t I easily get an intermediate (and official) CA cert for my home gateway, which then could issue certs for my devices, maybe in the same breath as assigning local dns names? Is it that simply nobody cares about this use case, and everybody is happy enough with going through vendor clouds? Or why is that?

The Free Software Foundation Europe set up a website to help move governments from proprietary social media to the #fediverse. Excellent idea!

FediGov

federated communication for authorities

Reddit is now making their internal user #reputation score available. This is interesting. We could do something rather similar for each #fedverse #instance.

Reddit - The heart of the internet

Apparently 6 schools have been burnt down already in Belgium over a 4 hour sex ed class in schools.

Brennende Schulen in Belgien: Protest gegen Sexualkundeprogramm

In der belgischen Region Wallonien ist bereits die sechste Schule in Brand gesteckt worden. Behörden vermuten, dass die Anschläge mit dem Protest...

(in German)

My testing with a sample size of one (me) concluded that years ago.

Ars Technica

The spectacular downfall of a common, useless cold medicine

This week's unanimous vote on phenylephrine's ineffectiveness was decades in the making.

Libya after the flood. It’s like a piece has been cut out with a very large scalpel.