Sandro Hawke @sandhawke
Works at W3C/MIT on Social Web. Grew up in Berkeley, settled in Boston. Father of four. http://hawke.org/sandro
@href Okay, I'm going to be posting from here, while w3c.social is maybe down, so hopefully you can still help.
youtube -> mediagoblin tumbly -> lychee soundcloud -> koel facebook -> friendica or hubzilla
This is what we get when we let a monopolistic advertisement company take over the one tool everyone use to access the web:
"So this is a way for Google to crush its few remaining competitors by pre-installing an ad zapper that it controls to the most common web browser. Thatβs a great way for a monopoly to remain a monopoly."
And even more shit. Read this:
Next meeting of Social Web Community Group (which you're welcome to join) is tomorrow (via mumble). Agenda: https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG/2017-06-07
@rysiek Every year or so I get curious and look at the hosting industry, and there's very little in the cheap-terabytes category. Hetzner and online.net are the two I've seen, and neither is in the US. Oh, there's this: http://oneprovider.com/dedicated-servers/dedicated-server-promotions (click on North America). Of course, then you'd have to install some software. Maybe nextcloud.
If anyone knows a service similar to Hetzner's StorageBox, but based in the #USA, please let me know.
basically, I need a few TiB of space accessible via SFTP/WebDAV/NFS/CIFS/whatever that does not cost too much and preferably has no costs per GiB downloaded down the line.
Reference:
https://www.hetzner.de/en/hosting/produktmatrix/storagebox-produktmatrix
@stitchxd No, I don't. Thanks for trying. Maybe I'll use this as the nudge to write a download-my-social-history tool.
@stitchxd It's not particularly important, but I'll be fascinated to see if this works. (I'm a huge fan of #Mastodon getting search. I know some people don't want it: https://github.com/swicg/general/issues/3 )
@jsavalle ridiculous that you can't search, although that wouldn't be terribly reliable. I see the author's contact web form here: http://hoverkitty.com/contact/ via http://altplatform.org/about-us/
@stitchxd keyword would be 'subtweet' or 'sub tweet' or 'sub-tweet'.
Really missing search. I was in a conversation here about two days ago where I said something completely wrong, and I'd like to delete or reply-to-correct, but I have really no practical hope of finding it. (It was about the concept of "subtweeting", which I'd naively misunderstood until today.)
@nolan now I'm thinking I better make private the code I released today, before I get any users
@maloki @maiyannah Hopefully in fairly short order the community can improve fediverse solutions to the point where discussion can be federated, instead of using discourse (or github). A lot of the problem seems to be context collapse, which we need to handle to solve anyway, as in: https://w3c.social/@sandro/2349 . Hoping @rhiaro can help come up with a good design.
@nigeldgreen I assume it's a reply.
The number of users on Mastodon is stabilizing around 700k users. We've seen only a 10% growth in user count over the last month.
Fewer users are joining us, and some instances are even disappearing from the network.
We don't necessarily *need* growth, though, but remember to keep this place warm, welcoming and open, as new people means new blood, new ideas and more fun πΊ
Cheers to all of you !
Is #xkcdsplaining a thing yet? If not, why not? It's clearly more real than all the other *splainings. https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/media/FgKV1shN6EyEMiPv0cI