Jason Green @jasongreen
Academic Technologist in Arkansas, USA - Now tooting from @jasongreen https://social.jasongreen.net/@jasongreen
This is my somewhat regular toot inquiring as to whether anyone I know from the mastoverse uses Twister or secure scuttlebutt / patchwork.
Thanks for pointing this out. I currently use KeePass, by the way. When I went and researched LessPass, several people pointed out that if your LessPass master password is compromised, a would be attacker would be able to use that with your site username to gain access.
Glancing at my mastodon feed while reading Walkaway by @doctorow and pondering the parallels.
"All of these companies have the same weakness: apps are not that hard to build. A determined group of #Uber drivers, once organized, could band together and easily program an app (or hire someone to) that would resemble Uber or #Lyft outwardly, but inwardly send the fruits of their labors back to themselves — no middlemen taking a cut or #BottomlessInvestorMaws to feed."
http://www.salon.com/2017/07/02/there-is-no-reason-uber-should-be-a-for-profit-corporation/ #platformcoop #coop #coops
Favorite FLOSS alternatives to Slack?
@bob Running plinth 0.14.0 (RasPi) which is supposed to include diaspora*. Can't find it.
@ummjackson Well, I got it to work. it was rails console.
@ummjackson Except now I trashed the web interface when I tried to do the 1.2 update . The learning curve continues.
@ummjackson It's working for the moment. Afraid I have pulled from master. Not sure how to tell if I pulled from master or tagged. Just ran git pull as the update instructions for the mastodon repo indicated. Seems to be working at the moment.
commit fc122e9d78131efbe882b664b0186df21b179be0 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD)
Oops.
So is the thing to do checkout the next stable release into a new branch, then merge?
Someone pointed out the awkwardness of entering into a space with an established culture. People often choose to cluster demographically. That tendency is especially pronounced in virtual environments.
I also suspect the public timelines will become less important as people build their own follow lists.
@mikecaulfield @bonstewart
I'm not sure you do. Citizenship happens because we have to share real space with our neighbors. I realized about ten years ago when I hung out in a Second Life community and governance experiment that virtual spaces aren't like that. It's almost trivially easy to take one's toys to another server or another platform/network. Your only incentive to be a good citizen is liking the people in your virtual social circle.
@dajbelshaw Remember that some follower data is instance specific.
@dajbelshaw When I am logged in to my instance and look at your profile I see only your follower count from my instance. Compare the two pictures.
https://social.jasongreen.net/media/C5MF8GVXxnRKBXDgoec
https://social.jasongreen.net/media/DJjp3kBHMJkuv8i4DqU
Haven't seen a toot for weeks. Is my instance broken?
Looks like I'm having issues with cross site follows
I am now on Twister as @jasongreen .