What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

Of course, adapting an existing system as deployed isn't easy.

I will say though that I think if Bluesky were to become *actually decentralized* it would look a lot like ActivityPub in terms of having directed messaging. This will also introduce similar challenges around eg replies, etc.

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The fediverse and Bluesky, at great effort, could learn a lot from each other in the immediate term.

In the longer term, neither is implementing the ocap vision I think is critical for the big vision, and in a way, I think maybe neither can be easily rearchitected to achieve it. Well, not yet.

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Remember when I said that IMO @jay.bsky.team is the right person to lead Bluesky and that I am sympathetic with many design decisions of Bluesky (even if critical of them for being non-decentralized)?

Bluesky is building what they can for a scale big objective. The tech flows from goals.

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So too does the social structure flow from the tech. It does on Bluesky, and it does on the fediverse.

I won't elaborate further on this, I actually would like you to pause and think about it. In which ways are tech and social systems bidirectional, here and otherwise? It's important.

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I don't know about you, but there's a lot about the world today that worries me. I don't think building decentralized versions of Web 2.0 era social networks is going to get us there.

We need tech that's secure, that's robust.

We need tech that's *participatory*.

We need tech for you and me.

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I laid out definitions of "decentralization" and "federation", and Bluesky meets neither, without major rearchitecting or moving the goalposts on those terms, which I cannot accept.

However, "credible exit" is a good goal for Bluesky. Bluesky created that term and it's a good and feasible goal.

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:blobhyperthink:

The current fediverse is an evolutionary dead-end for 2 reasons:

1. It has painted itself in a small niche of decentralizing typical social media use cases, by means of post-facto interop and the introduction of protocol decay.

2. Lacking a proper grassroots standardization process, and with the primary mechanism for fediverse extension being only post-facto interoperability, there is no way out.

Congratulations to the early adopters, who managed to "cross the chasm" with their own app platforms. It took true grit to become deep experts, and plug holes needed for your app, but you have made it. Post-facto interop works in your favor now. You are unrestrained to productively add more features in your app, and put them on the fedi wire for others to deal with.

To avoid fedi to become less and less attractive to newcomers, we must now consider:

“Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom?” -- @benBen Werdmuller

coding.social/blog/shared-owne

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트위터식 불매의 가장 아이러니한것은 일단 그 사람들이 "X"를 여지껏 불매안하고 쓴다는 점에 있다고 생각하며...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bmkgnkgowz5lpvrxve7sjj4k/post/3mfexog45622v

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낮 동안 우리를 활기 있게 하신 저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님,
당신과 함께 있으리니, 자는 동안도 지켜 주시어 편히 쉬게 하소서.

"15. 내일도 주님의 소스와 성면으로 살아갈 힘을 얻게 하소서. "

🍝 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님께서 여러분과 함께.
😋 또한 주교의 면발과 함께 하소서.
🍝 기도합시다.
저의 주님, 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님, 이 밤을 편히 쉬게 하시고, 거룩한 죽음을 맞게 하소서.

2026-02-22T00:51:30+09:00


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One Battle After Another, very minor spoiler, but actually this is about tech and politics

In all seriousness I was thinking about this because of the choice of One Battle After Another to say "16 years later, not much has changed", and they really do not change much. The tech doesn't change, the way people interact with the world doesn't change, and the political environment doesn't change. It doesn't get better and it doesn't get worse.

Which ties into a conversation I had with a friend recently. I said "there's probably worthwhile stuff that will be easier and less divisive to extract once the AI bubble pops."

My friend said "lots of friends are waiting for the AI bubble to pop. It probably won't pop. It will just move on to the next grift. The world won't get apocalyptic completely, but it will continue to go sideways in hard to predict and terrible ways, and while some good things will happen also, the grifts will continue."

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- do you want to use google to sign in?
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I'm tired boss

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猫の日ということでにゃんぷっぷー祭り
自分でデザインしたにゃんぷっぷー全然描いてなかったね
:meowstare:​​:blobcat_daisuki:​​:blobcat_yoyuunoemi:​​:blobcat_redcomet:​​:blobcat_orangemushroom:​​:blobcat_in_cardboard:​​:blobcat_snowman:​​:blobcat_kagamimochi:​​:blobcatginger:​​:blobcat_sakura:


:blobcat_new_beginning:​​:blobcat_celebration_cake:わたしたちも描いてにゃ
:blobcat_ota:ごめん…また今度機会があれば

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It’s all well and good to be worried about centralized social media when it’s owned by fascists and there are troops on the streets and peaceful protesters are being kidnapped and killed and we’re about to strike Iran, but next time, can we listen to the people sounding the alarm a little earlier?

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미소년이 자라서 미청년이 되고 미중년이 된다? 그런건 없습니다 미중년은 태어날때부터 미중년이었습니다 뭐 그냥 종이 다른겁니다 천 년동안 사람 행세만 하던 구미호가 사람이 되고 여의주를 문 뱀이 드래곤이 될 수 있는 그런 세상이 아니지 않습니까
하지만 미소녀는 노력하면 될 수 있는거라고 생각합니다 노력합시다

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