You know what, yes. Let's build a power efficient AI simulation where all the tech bros can play their little pyramid games with digital Monopoly money — and keep that rubbish in that simulation. Just siphon every emerging grift into the bubble and ensure the bullshit doesn't have real world ramifications like using most of Kazakhstan's energy production to run Bitcoin mining server parks.
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Probably onboarding one cryptocurrency scam or other. Gala even peddles NFTs which by now have been so utterly, publicly ridiculed that it's a wonder the term still makes it into product descriptions.
Nope, and I bet Mark Cuban isn't really invested in TikTok either way. It's just a current talking point pivoted to make him feel relevant.
Oh, I know "Web3 is going just great" already. It is the true ledger of the blockchain hype, and it's all in the red. Hopefully your link brings it to somebody for the first time.
i loved Michelle Yeoh on Discovery, loathed her character. The closer this gets to release the more I dread the results.
I'm going to hate watch this even more than I do Strange new worlds. I do appreciate fresh takes on the Trek universe, dark or no, but this seems like generic action sci-fi that happens to tie into ST canon. I'll be happy to be proven wrong when it airs.
I see, I thought the finger was aimed at Nostr and cryptocurrencies. As you describe them they sound like the last hiding places for the worst assholes of the internet, and I feel confirmed in staying far away from everything web3/blockchain.
I agree with your initial paragraph, certainly to the point that we shouldn't focus on ActivityPub as some grand unifier or a goal in itself. It's just the protocol that currently federates with the most different platforms.
AFAIK some bridges from AP to other protocols currently exist, but we would really need to bridge (or somehow fully integrate) all the federated protocols you mention to talk about one fediverse. Whether it will be made possible through ActivityPub or some other protocol, that remains to be seen.
I don't disagree with your point, but how do Nostr or Monero play into the article? They aren't mentioned at all.
I weren't even aware it was a Signal fork! What kept me away was their heavy integration of the Oxen crypto token (now apparently replaced with their own "Session token" instead). Anything that deep into web3 is a red flag to me, but the security flaws discussed in the above blog post look white hot.
Sorry for your loss!
If I may offer my own experience in sympathy — last year my brother passed after a few years of cancer treatment. We grew up as TNG aired, and Trek was always a shared reference.
During his final illness, one effect of his treatment was constipation which he alleviated with... prune juice. Often in the last months he would raise his glass and say, "A warrior's drink!" It never got tired 😄
On the night he passed away the only meaningful thing that I could think to share on social media was the TNG screenshot of the Klingon death ritual — I'm sure you know the one.
Star Trek may be a utopian sci-fi future, but the shared stories and communities lend meaning to our everyday lives nonetheless — your deep, shared experiences with your grandfather, or my brother putting up his best Klingon warrior face against his illness. We need those optimistic stories to ward off hopelessness, and to remember the good moments by.
In the face of grief and loss — Qapla'!
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I'm not a developer either, so take this as an observer's speculation.
My impression is that venture capitalists took a long look at the fediverse and chucked their money at Bluesky instead, because it actually works more similar to "ye olde" social networks — specifically with a business plan, road map and traditional organisational structure.
The parts of the fediverse that I am most inclined toward is too unruly, recalcitrant and noncommercial to attract deeper interest from VC investors. They are deliberately built and organised to resist expectancy of capital return on investments.
So my conclusion is the reverse of what you'd rather not discuss — in my eyes, the fediverse isn't very good for investors, because until now it's largely been grassrootsy. It will be interesting to see what VC-friendly platforms emerges in the vein of Bluesky or even Threads, and to what degree they will overlap with the current fediverse.