dustyweb.bsky.social
Co-author/co-editor of ActivityPub (what connects together the fediverse, including Mastodon, etc). Executive Director of the Spritely Institute. Lisp/scheme enthusiast, chaos transfem, sketcher of tiny creature drawings.
https://dustycloud.org
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I remember I thought, well of course nobody ever wanted a king, this part of the book is just silly, that wouldn't happen
welp
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Similarly, I remember reading A Confederacy of Dunces and pretentious medievalist studies student Ignacius J. Reilly tells his mother that he opposes a democratically elected republic and would prefer a monarchy.
"Ain't nobody ever wanted no king, Ignacius", his mom says
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oh wait they did
oh shit they're in power now
oh shit oh fuck fucking yikes
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"Oh haha sorry it took me two years to get to this I'm behind on my email"
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The rules have changed—there’s no room for bothsidesing or whataboutism anymore. Given the current trajectory, mainstream media is likely to be replaced by more pro-regime outlets. bsky.app/profile/soci....
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It was intentionally anonymous, but is well informed and is being widely circulated. Here's a blogpost with more about it america2.news/america-unde...
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Thank you! As I write this we have ONE HOUR LEFT of our campaign and we have raised OVER $85k!!!! spritely.institute/donate/
THANK YOU EVERYONE! And if you haven't supported @spritelyinst.bsky.social yet please do so! And thank you to those who have!
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Thank you! As I write this we have ONE HOUR LEFT of our campaign and we have raised OVER $85k!!!! spritely.institute/donate/
THANK YOU EVERYONE! And if you haven't supported @spritelyinst.bsky.social yet please do so! And thank you to those who have!
💜💜💜💜💜
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In short:
- Horray the fediverse/ActivityPub is great
- Except literally the two people at the top of that spec are saying it's NOT ENOUGH and we have more to do
- Except THEY'RE BUILDING IT and so is the rest of their awesome team!!
- We need your help!
- Pls donate!
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spritely.institute/donate/
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And if that's not enough... if that's not enough! If the moral ask ALONE was not enough!
We show off our tech by making video games and if you donate at the silver, gold, or diamond levels YOU GET YOUR NAME IN OUR OPEN SOURCE VIDEO GAMES how cool is that? spritely.institute/donate/
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And if that's not enough... if that's not enough! If the moral ask ALONE was not enough!
We show off our tech by making video games and if you donate at the silver, gold, or diamond levels YOU GET YOUR NAME IN OUR OPEN SOURCE VIDEO GAMES how cool is that? spritely.institute/donate/
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"Spritely, brought to you by the people who brought you the fediverse!" We've done the research. Not to be smug but we ARE the experts.
We are telling you, decentralized social networks as they exist today are not enough.
And we are building the future.
Please help us! spritely.institute/donate/
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We are a nonprofit research institute building open source tech and open protocols for the commons that CHANGE THE GAME on how the internet works.
An internet for you, for your friends and community, controlled by you and friends, without large corporate gatekeepers.
But we need your help.
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Here is where I pivot to the ask.
I am asking YOU to support the Spritely Institute.
If you want to read up, do it! The information on what we're doing is laid out for everyone to see. There are papers on our homepage. Find out for yourself.
But I am asking YOU to support us.
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This next year, you're going to start to see the first pieces that start to hit users' hands.
Very technical users for the most part mind you, but more users' hands.
We're breaking out of "core foundations" mode. 2025 is the year you'll start to see people turn heads about Spritely, I think.
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All this research, all the work the Spritely Institute, it may seem like it's been low level, a bunch of computer science nerdery, the kinda stuff you'd expect out of a bunch of SICP-hugging catgirls.
Well, okay, it is. But it's not ONLY that.
And it's that way for a purpose.
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But this also misses the point.
"Social", as perceived in "social networks", misses a lot of what "social" means to me. A lot of what I thought and assumed "social" meant when we were standardizing ActivityPub, anyway.
A society doesn't just send postcards to each other. It *does things* together.
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I worry about the future of activism if it needs to happen on ATProto, on the fediverse, as they exist today.
*Especially* on ATProto, a system whose primary design point is "publicly index all content"; hardly safe for the current political environment. But the fediverse isn't much better.
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The world is becoming far, far more dangerous of a place to be.
If human rights are going to survive, we're going to need better ways to not only communicate, but to collaborate. To do. To act.
We need stronger foundations than we have today. Stronger by a *long shot*.
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ActivityPub has been a big success. The fediverse as it exists has been a big success. I'm proud of that work.
But personally, I think retrospectively, it'll be a footnote in history compared to what we're doing now.
Yes, I really do believe the jump is that large.