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- Architectural Differences: ActivityPub’s model did not align with Bluesky’s vision for scalability and flexibility.
- User Experience: Integrating with ActivityPub could have limited Bluesky’s control over its features and user experience.
- Technical Challenges: Compatibility with existing ActivityPub networks would require significant adjustments that might compromise Bluesky’s goals.
- Scalability: Designed to handle higher traffic and expand seamlessly.
- Modular Flexibility: Allows customization without being constrained by the limitations of ActivityPub.
- User Data Portability: Focuses on improving data interoperability between platforms.
📑Read: Japan’s Team Mirai Is Rewriting What Tech in Politics Can Be
A political party using tech to strengthen democracy? Team Mirai is doing exactly that.
🇯🇵 They built AI tools that help voters understand issues, challenge assumptions, and get involved. 📈 They won 11 seats after garnering ~4M votes; massive for a new party. 🤖 Their apps drive 100k+ volunteer actions per day. 🧠 Policy ideas are crowdsourced from tens of thousands of citizen questions. 🔍 They open‑sourced tools for legislative transparency that even the ruling LDP party is adopting.
🤔Could it work elsewhere? Or are we doomed to be serfs of a techautocracy?
My damn-near-daily “I tried to tell y’all” posting series continues:
AI dubs are almost as comically bad as AI slop videos.
We. Aren’t. There. Yet.
And putting this stuff out there in its not-ready-for-primetime form just makes it clear that that AI driven tech bubble will burst that much sooner. It’s a solution in search of a problem with this sort of thing.
my heart goes out to all the Tokyo commuters finding their way without the Denentoshi Line.
田園都市線なしで道を見つけるの東京の通勤者たちのために祈ります。🙏🏾
バス停行列長い！
The whole news cycle is endless despotism.
So the 1st Amendment is only for citizens now and not just anyone wanting to experience and tour our country? This was being done on a case by case basis where warranted, but now is mandatory.
US Visa Applications from Japan Now Require Disclosing 5 Years of Social Media History
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Well so much for my business idea involving my Japan and Taiwan connections for now. 🤷🏾♂️
Currently reading: Dust (Silo Trilogy) by Hugh Howey 📚
GA Republicans introduced a bill to give the State Election Board more power, including enforcing hand ballot counts, ruling on voter eligibility appeals, and leaving a voter accuracy group. Critics say it overreaches, while supporters argue it adds accountability. I call it voter suppression.
Putting 2 and 2 together, our favorite 🍊 🫏 thinks Canada will become the 51st state because of tarriffs…
So that’s where all this ‘Canada will be a state’ 🐂 💩 came from. He can’t keep a single congruent thought in his mind. He just read a cliff’s Note from the Wikipedia page and that’s that. 🤬
This smells like some Nazi/Bolshevik/Orwellian type shit right here. Why does it seem like nobody else is giving the slightest damn about this?!
I swear what Dylan has written here is on the minds of pretty much every expat in Japan.
Read: 📰 Tokyo drift: what happens when a city stops being the future?
Automation and distance working… the laboratory is Japan, believe me when I say I have seen the future.
Japan convenience store hires remote worker in Sweden for night shift - Nikkei Asia
“It was a skill more critical as the United States and the world confronted the coronavirus pandemic.” #page42 📖
Best thing about newish web browsers and smartphones: The ability to turn long articles and blog posts into a voiceover/podcast/audiobook on the spot.
Definitely helping me digest @cwebber@social.coop’s article How decentralized is Bluesky really? which you should definitely read/listen to.
💻️ Reading BlueskyがActivityPubを採用しなかった3つの理由 (Three reasons why Bluesky didn’t adopt ActivityPub)
This page discusses why Bluesky chose not to adopt ActivityPub, the open protocol used by Mastodon and others, and opted to make its own, ATProtocol.
AT Proto addresses these by improving:
🤔 The author equates ATProto to solving for “Big Fedi” while still maintaining the nimbleness within to handle “Small Fedi” ideals on a granular scale. This is as opposed to Mastodon’s catering to “Small Fedi,” only. Oh what are these anyway? It’s a concept that Evan Prodromou (@evan@cosocial.ca) outlined in his blog post here defining two schools of thought regarding social networks. It’s highly encouraged to read through that post and perhaps even drop him a line if you’re interested in these topics.
At some point I’ll give my thoughts and post them over on the main starrwulfe.xyz blog once I unpack them, and also how I’m doing this with some #indieweb secret sauce; stay tuned! 📺️
Great read from Ben Werdmuller: Bluesky, the Fediverse, and the future of [open] social media… werd.io/2024/blue…
📚 Finished reading: Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urba…
A great primer for anyone fascinated by how the Dutch went from almost losing the war with the automobile in the 60’s and 70’s to becoming the beacon for creating an entire country that is designed for humans first and cars last. It also details how these ideas are being exported to places around the world as more and more people seek to reclaim public spaces from cars.
Currently reading: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
I’m actually 100/360 pages in. It’s a serious 🐰🕳️ of a page turner so far!
[Previously: 📚want to read: parable of the sower and also Previously.
Want to read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler 📚
Intrigued by how so many authors kinda predicted our current predicament uncannily. From The Washington Post via Apple News this morning:
A 1993 dystopian novel imagined the world in 2024. It’s eerily accurate. Octavia Butler’s ‘Parable of the Sower’ predicted devastating climate change, inequality, space travel and ‘Make America great again’