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.
Let's leave the ocap stuff to the side for now, then. Let's focus on what Bluesky and the fediverse have to learn from each other.
- The fediverse should adopt content-addressed storage and decentralized identity
- Bluesky should adopt real, actual federation and decentralization
The reason I bring up the proposal here is that I think it has all the right analysis of *what the fediverse should do*, if it was going to rise to the challenge of fulfilling its true potential
So let me lay out what the things in that proposal were:
Here is your recipe for making the "Correct Fediverse IMO (TM)":
- Integrate ocaps, which is possible because actor model + ocaps compose
- Content addressed storage!
- Decentralized identity (notice the *y*, I did not say DIDs) on top of ~mutable CAS storage
- Petname system UX
(cotd...)
Spec-wise in ActivityPub, I think it's possible. The ecosystem, as deployed? I think the ecosystem can and will only do part of it, if we really get everyone excited, maybe the content addressed storage and decentralized identity parts, in which case the fediverse will also survive nodes going down
The ocap stuff, I tried getting fediverse implementers excited about this and tbh, it's pretty hard to design into a Ruby on Rails or Django style framework and mindset. Backporting the right designs to existing systems is a real challenge.
Especially ocaps need to go bottom-up.
Here is your recipe for making the "Correct Fediverse IMO (TM)":
- Integrate ocaps, which is possible because actor model + ocaps compose
- Content addressed storage!
- Decentralized identity (notice the *y*, I did not say DIDs) on top of ~mutable CAS storage
- Petname system UX
(cotd...)
(cotd ...)
- Better anti-spam / anti-harassment using OCapPub ideas
- Improved privacy with E2EE ("encrypted p2p" even a better goal)
Whew! An improved fediverse?
"Uh, Christine, this sounds like a lot, do you think the fediverse can take this on?"
To the end of the fediverse, perhaps I sound bitter, "they didn't adopt ActivityPub the way *I* saw it!"
The truth is that Mastodon didn't, but Mastodon also saved ActivityPub. It then painted a vision of the future that wasn't, at least, what Jessica Tallon and I expected of it. But it saved AP.
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.
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.
To the end of the fediverse, perhaps I sound bitter, "they didn't adopt ActivityPub the way *I* saw it!"
The truth is that Mastodon didn't, but Mastodon also saved ActivityPub. It then painted a vision of the future that wasn't, at least, what Jessica Tallon and I expected of it. But it saved AP.
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.
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.
When I laid out the ideas of OCapPub to various fediverse developers, the response was "this sounds cool but I have *no idea* how to retrofit a Rails/Django app for this kind of actor-oriented design".
And they were right.
Remember when I said Conway's Law flows in both directions?
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.
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.
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.
The vision laid out for the fediverse, both independently in my writings and even in Jay Graber and I's joint proposal... well, it's a big lift.
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute would like to see if we can retrofit our version onto ActivityPub. Time will tell if that's a separate thing.
The vision laid out for the fediverse, both independently in my writings and even in Jay Graber and I's joint proposal... well, it's a big lift.
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute would like to see if we can retrofit our version onto ActivityPub. Time will tell if that's a separate thing.
And perhaps this is all my *massive* Cassandra complex speaking. I won't deny that I have one, for better or worse
Still, despite all I have said about both Bluesky and the fediverse technically, it is because I want a hopeful direction for all of us. Secure collaboration. More important than ever.
Spritely is built by people who know and understand decentralized (social) networks and their strengths and weaknesses today very well: 
@tsyesikaJessica Tallon and I, two co-founders (and the first two working on Spritely's engineering) are both co-authors of the ActivityPub spec powering the fediverse!
Unfortunately it's not feasible or easy to do everything we'd like in decentralized social networks today... not on the fediverse nor anywhere!
The vision of Spritely is "secure collaboration". Finding how to do it was a four-year research project before the Spritely Institute even launched!
Before I get any further, I just want to say that the Spritely Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, your donations are tax-deductible in the US!
And we have a few different donor levels... some of them even let you get your name in video game credits! (More on that in a few!)
Spritely is built by people who know and understand decentralized (social) networks and their strengths and weaknesses today very well: @tsyesikaJessica Tallon and I, two co-founders (and the first two working on Spritely's engineering) are both co-authors of the ActivityPub spec powering the fediverse!
“This is really a turning point and we’re in a historical transition at present.”
https://www.404media.co/at-the-worlds-largest-general-science-meeting-surviving-trump-is-the-topic/
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.
One of the things I'm most proud of about the fediverse is that it owes its success to a lot of queer people working on it. This lead to the fediverse being very queer itself. I'm proud of that.
Maybe it's weird to say, but that seems to be happening again with Spritely.
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.
I laid out a strong critique, but let me end on a call to empathy.
Bluesky is built by good people, and the fediverse is built by good people. Neither reflect the designs I presently would like to see today, but ultimately these are built by humans trying their absolute hardest.
This is pretty broad but thank you every open source developer who makes my computer awesome
明日早いかもだし
으흐흐흐
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116102639569199871
Follow up to the article from this morning. In which I argue how 
@pluralisticCory Doctorow was right in his article: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/
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 #ActivityPub 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
My bank wants me to rate them on a scale of 1 to 5
おくすりのんだしがんばって
ます
The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling
nooooo my niri :(
https://kre.pe/0Kuj
안녕하세요 연합우주 여러분
제가... 제정신유지비(상담비+취미생활비)가 딸립니다
그와중에 사고픈것도 생겼답니다
...샘플도 옛날 그대로인 후레지만 홍보 부탁드려요 🥹
ねむなので今日はこの辺で
I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over
Link: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098245
The world’s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city
Gross #wikipedia
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
소인이 지속된 노동에 정신이 곤난하여 이 한몸 잠시 뉘어도 될까 여쭙고자 합니다.
@marie마리 오늘은 콩콩절이야
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
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
#날아다니는스파게티괴물님 #성면 #면발 #스파게티 #라멘 #파스타파리안 #성무일도 #성무일과 #매일전례
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #Noodle #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #Pastafarian #FSMism #FSMist #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
macOS's Little-Known Command-Line Sandboxing Tool
Link: https://igorstechnoclub.com/sandbox-exec/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47101200
One Battle After Another, very minor spoiler, but actually this is about tech and politics
@joeyhsee shy jo I'm not quite sure what you mean "from the 70s to today", could you elaborate? I thought it was from today to 2042 basically.
One Battle After Another, very minor spoiler, but actually this is about tech and politics
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber it's based on a book that starts in the 70's, that's why we have that particular flavor of militant protest
DOJ busted deleting evidence of Ghislaine Maxwell holding 'blackmail' over Trump - Raw Story
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. 
@steveSteve Bate it's ok if you haven't heard of a REST API. It's an API that uses HTTP for reading and writing data. Wikipedia has a good
article about it:
@smallcircles🫧 socialcoding.. @steveSteve Bate one anti-pattern I dislike seeing in ActivityPub discussions is that only one interaction defined in the ActivityPub spec is valid: an HTTP POST to an actor's `inbox` for server-to-server interactions.
We can use HTTP GET to fetch additional data about objects, actors and collections.
Come hang out with the 
@phillydotnetphilly.NET community on Discord!
Talk code, swap ideas, get help, and stay updated on meetups and events. If you haven’t joined yet, jump in, introduce yourself, and be part of the discussion.
Linux 7.0 is coming, and it could be one of the biggest updates in years https://lobste.rs/s/tckuhn #linux
https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-7-coming-could-be-biggest-update-years/
ねこの日ってことは
の日でもよろしいか？ #三連休はフォロワーさんが増えるらしい
책좀 읽다가 밥 먹고 널부럭중
아까올린 금마랑 동일인물인데 확실히 짧머는 어려보이는구만
잘 자라 거북이 남생이 
あーでもプログラムが指示書でそれを書くように指示するならやっぱりメタでメタプログラミングそのものだな
cereggii: Thread synchronization utilities for Python https://lobste.rs/s/7jojhi #python
https://github.com/dpdani/cereggii
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."
One Battle After Another, very minor spoiler, but actually this is about tech and politics
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber I think one thing changes: people get more cynical about humanity and tech.
Capitalisme, IA et éducation
(extrait de mon journal)
Inside Fediverse
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