Now, that looks like an interesting project. I have updated my SaveRSS page to include a link to Winds in the RSS clients section. You might also consider linking to the SaveRSS page for arguments on why to use RSS/Atom as a publisher.

Personally, the project isn’t for me, though. I’m a happy user of elfeed, but I can absolutely see how your project can benefit the RSS/Atom community.

Dang, this bloatware is pushing 6k stars on github already. Nothing like an RSS reader that combines Electron, Mongo, Algolia, Redis, machine learning (!), and Sendgrid

The problem is that the spec doesn’t specify what you are supposed to do with these activities beyond some very basic things, so essentially the first implementation of a certain object type (e.g. ‘Video’ for peertube) becomes the ‘standard’ that isn’t documented anywhere.

The Fediverse is a welcome pushback against this centralizing trend

“If Twitter shuts down, you’ll lose your followers. If Facebook shuts down, you’ll lose your friends. For some platforms, it’s not a question of “if”, but “when”. Such events are usually followed by a scrambling into a variety of different platforms, where you inevitably lose some people as you have to make a choice which one to stay on. This happened before. But it doesn’t have to happen again. Use the federated web. Join Mastodon.”

Adding to your comment, this is particularly such bullshit. More like you won’t have many friends, esp in real life, if you’re on Mastodon instead of those sites. The people on those major sites also use more than one. If one shuts down, they almost always have another way to contact them. The shutdowns also don’t usually happen overnight. There’s often time to see things are in decline. For instance, there’s plenty of posts about Twitter’s financial troubles where anyone with sense will have some other account on the side. It’s also amusing to see them saying “if X shuts down” after seeing a headline about Instagram alone being worth $100 billion, watching Facebook’s revenues grow over time despite all its threats, Slack doing what IRC isn’t in growth/profits, and knowing that previous shutdowns sent users to sites like Facebook instead of P2P software or Mastodon.

The backend API and frontend are both open source: https://github.com/getstream/winds We rely on Algolia, Stream and Mercury though which are closed source. Now that doesn’t stop you from running your own backend or changing the app’s functionality as you see fit.

well… it used to be a beta registration page. which we copied from another landing page that required your work email. it doesn’t make sense at all and I’ll remove it on the next deploy.

which platform are you on?

I don’t know, depending on your company, country and position you may feel this differently. In my few working experiences, people would run away from Javascript. Backend people moving to golang majoritarily and frontend people going from javascript and moving to Typescript, Elm or Reason. I think it totally depends of where, who and what you’re working on…

In our buzzwords-driven field?

Probably people considered API access “a good thing” just because “Facebook/Google is doing this too!”

But the problem was not the technology back then, just like AI is not the solution right now.

It’s the business model.

I remember a younger Zuckerberg explaining the world how privacy had no value for modern people.

He meant it!

back in those days, the tech ecosystem was definitely pushing for this openness.

I would hardly call 2015 “those days”.

If you don’t want your information online and searchable don’t put it online.

This is not a panacea. Facebook has my phone number because other people chose to upload their contacts. Google has incredibly personal conversations because other people chose them for email. Equifax has my credit history because nearly every banking institution reports to them. Nielsen-Catalina Solutions knows my shopping preferences because retailers secretly sell it to them.

If you don’t want your information online and searchable, get data protection laws.

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Replacing a corporate data aggregator with a distributed one doesn’t actually reduce the amount of data gathered.

It does if the data you share is subject to aggregator influence. And it is, since the aggregator controls the platform and its defaults.

Facebook went through a period where everytime I checked my privacy settings I found something open that I didn’t want to be open. The years of the Cambridge Analytica scrape line up pretty well with that phenomenon. Facebook used to be hugely incented to make as much of your data public to the world (search engines and, it turns out, CA) as possible. Mastodon has no such incentives.

Yes, if I share something with someone I share it with them. But I’d like to not share it with everyone else.

I agree with this sentiment but I think all the bruhaha is currently about something entirely different. When you use an account on Mastodon, your toots are federated across the global timeline. That, along with an email address that stays local to the server you signed up on, and maybe some HTTPS traffic logs on your server, is the sum total of the information you are exposing via Mastdon until you choose to add more.

This is, from where I stand at least, a vastly different kettle of fish than Facebook.

I agree. To some extend the distributed nature even makes it harder to remove data you don’t want online anymore.

(5 years) Security, cost, and regulatory concerns are going to move people back towards running their own hardware.

As of today, public cloud is actually solving several (and way more than people running their own hardware) of these issues.

(10 years) Containers will be stuck in Big Enterprise, and everybody else will realize they were a mistake made to compensate for unskilled developers.

Containers are actually solving some real problems, several of them already were independently solved, but containers bring a more cohesive solution.

(5 years) VR fails to revitalize the wounded videocard market. Videocard manufacturers are on permanent decline due to pathologies of selling to the cryptobutts folks at expense of building reliable customer base. Gamers have decided graphics are Good Enough, and don’t pay for new gear.

While I might accept that VR may fail, I don’t think video card companies are reliant on VR succeeding. They have autonomous cars and machine learning to look forward to.

(10 years) No significant changes in core count or clock speed will be practical, focus will be shifted instead to power consumption, heat dissipation, and DRM. Chipmakers slash R&D budgets in favor of legal team sizes, since that’s what actually ensures income.

This trend also supports a shift away from scripting languages towards Rust, Go, etc. A focus on hardware extensions (eg deep learning hardware) goes with it.

(10 years) Containers will be stuck in Big Enterprise, and everybody else will realize they were a mistake made to compensate for unskilled developers.

One can dream!

(5 years) Mesh networks still don’t matter. :( (10 years) Mesh networks matter, but are a great way to get in trouble with the government.

Serious attempts at mesh networks basically don’t exist since the 200#s when everyone discovered it’s way easier to deploy an overlay net on top of Comcast instead of making mid-distance hops with RONJA/etc.

It would be so cool to build a hybrid USPS/UPS/Fedex batch + local realtime link powered national scale network capable of, say, 100mB per user per day, with ~ 3 day max latency. All attempts I’ve found are either very small scale, or just boil down to sending encrypted packets over Comcast.

(10 years) There will be at least two major unions for software engineers with proper collective bargaining.

What leads you to this conclusion? From what I hear, it’s rather the opposite trend, not only in the software industry…

(5 years) All schools will have some form of programming taught. Most will be garbage.

…especially if this is taken into account, I’d argue.

(10 years) Some schools will ban social media and communications devices to promote classroom focus.

Aren’t these already banned from schools? Or are you talking about general bans?

I like the container one, I also don’t see the point

All schools will have some form of programming taught. Most will be garbage.

and will therefore be highly desirable hires to full stack shops.

I would add the bottom falling out of the PC market, making PCs more expensive as gamers and enterprise, the entire reason why it still maintains economies of scale, just don’t buy new HW anymore.

(5 years) All schools will have some form of programming taught. Most will be garbage.

My prediction: Whether the programming language is garbage or not, provided some reasonable amount of time is spent on these courses we will see a general improvement in the logical thinking and deductive reasoning skills of those students.

(at least, I hope so)