We've been hosting a live show weekly on Mondays at 5p for about an hour, and recording them all; here is the recording from November 28th, 2022.
In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, our special guest was Tim Bray. Other speakers on November 28th included Adam Jacob, Toasterson, and raggi. (Did we miss your name and/or get it wrong? Drop a PR!)
Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:
- @1:20 Tim led the charge in blogging 20 years ago
- short form is different from blogging, particularly around contemporaneous conversations
- Bye, Twitter by Tim Bray
- @14:24 Ad-driven model
- Engagement vs enragement
- Best of dying Twitter
- Tim Bray On Algorithms
- On terrible Twitter ads: @intelnews: "Moore’s Law only stops when innovation stops.”
- @34:00 better moderation - can't we all just get along?
- Mastadon currently weaker than Twitter on the moderation standpoint, particularly damaging to minorities and women
- jwz: Mastodon stampede "Federation" now apparently means "DDoS yourself."
- World class SREs looking after hachyderm, and it's not going well
- Ceding ground on Twitter ensures the hellscape everyone detests
- German government has official Mastadon instances
- The feeds are bad business. The value is curation, federating protocols could open this up
- jwz: PSA: Do Not Use Services That Hate The Internet
- @1:08:33 geeky stuff
- Mastodon has a nice API
- ActivityPub is pretty simple as a spec
- Masdtadon-alike options available on platforms other than Ruby-on-Rails, like Pleroma
If we got something wrong or missed something, please file a PR! Our next show will likely be on Monday at 5p Pacific Time on our Discord server; stay tuned to our Mastodon feeds for details, or subscribe to this calendar. We'd love to have you join us, as we always love to hear from new speakers!