In this particular case I think the group that matters most isn't the majority of end-users, it's the much smaller group of people who produce the majority of the content – and who really will think hard about what platform they trust most not to rug-pull them in the future
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Decentralized Social Networks: The Feature That Matters Most
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I ignored Mastodon for 6 years because I knew that decentralized social networks could never be as low friction and easy to use as something like Twitter … but they also can't be bought by a billionaire narcissist, and it turns out that might be the feature that matters most!
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Fediverse as Twitter Alternative: Decentralized Future Trust
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I'm honestly having trouble imagining a viable future Twitter alternative that isn't part of the fediverse (Mastodon is currently just the most visible implementation) Are we really all going to trust some new centralized startup, after how badly we got burned on Twitter?
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Early Adopters and Ponzi Scheme Dynamics in Crypto
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And some of them were! There were plenty of examples of people who really did get in early and make money on this (assuming of course they didn't then lose it later) Of course that only works if there's a steady stream of latecomers to take the money from
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Twitter Culture Shift: Firings for Previously Celebrated Behavior
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Evidently Twitter culture previously celebrated the exact things people are getting fired for (especially since many of those fired were talking on company Slack, not in public)
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Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts Victims of Unintentional Long-term Deception
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"I do not believe the people you see on Twitter – the average cryptocurrency enjoyers – are morally bankrupt, but a victim of an extremely long, messy and unintentional con"
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Technical Debt Loan Officer Role in Senior Career Ladder
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Oh I like that terminology – I think being a technical debt loan officer should be an acknowledged responsibility of the senior/staff career ladder
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SQLite to Text Converter Tool for Git Version Control
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I have a tool I wrote that converts a SQLite database into a "diffable" text format – based around newline-delimited JSON – which is intended to help keep SQLite databases in git without committing the binary files (which are much less efficient to store)
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Incredible demo of name indexes search tool showcased
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OK this demo is /incredible/ …
https://glam
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Datasette Celebrates 5th Birthday, Seeks Public Case Studies
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It's Datasette's 5th birthday today – to celebrate I'm trying something new and asking for birthday presents in the shape of endorsements and case-studies If you use @datasetteproj for something cool and are ready to share it publicly please get in touch!