The Internet was built as a kind of decentralized democracy. Change is slow and messy but it protects us from a single entity forcing their will on us.
When you move your data and social graph to a closed platform you vote for authoritarian rule.
Such choices never end well.
When you move your data and social graph to a closed platform you vote for authoritarian rule.
Such choices never end well.
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
The Russian government saw him replaced with someone more ethically flexible and now they control those systems.
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
In China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong we saw apps and emoji used for dissent were banned, rooms on private networks like Telegram were pressured to be banned, and encryption keys for iMessage/iCloud were handed over to the CCP.
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
They sold to Facebook, who told them they would carry that vision forward and never require Facebook accounts.
Facebook changed their mind when they saw value in the data.
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
Facebook offered to buy them and help them scale their vision for privacy, and keep them independent.
Spoiler: they lied.
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
I am sure if will be different this time.
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
HTTP is standard and controlled by no single party. You can choose whatever web browser or ISP you want and people who made different choices can all communicate and cooperate.
Same story with SMTP, ActivityPub, or Matrix.
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
I ran a machine learning company that analyzed social media data.
Unlike competitors I made this a free public search engine.
Investors demanded I turn it into a political propaganda machine.
I ultimately quit.
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
But then we got acquired by Fitbit. I realized I could not protect user data anymore. I quit.
Now that data is owned by Google.
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
We must stop taking the easy road or picking things based only on their UX.
Learn to use decentralized systems and teach others or the free internet won't survive.
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira 1 week ago •
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
XMPP while first of its kind, is also heavily XML based and was largely developed without universal end to end encryption, or battery budget in mind.
Matrix corrects a lot of the XMPP failings that made it ineffecient and expensive to scale which is exactly why Facebook, Google, and others abandoned it for their large scale deployments.
federico 1 week ago •
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
On that note, Matrix p2p is in testing now though where each client can be a server for itself automagically.
federico 7 days ago •
Elena ``of Valhalla'' 1 week ago
The standard did have a few years of stagnation, just around the time when facebook and google started defederating from it (but afaik they kept using xmpp for quite some time, although they added some proprietary extensions with time), but it has since recovered.
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Adonay Felipe Nogueira 4 days ago •
The argument that “it's bad becaus of XML” is moot. Sure it does consume more resources depending on the message, but with the #XMPP #XEP for push notifications, it provides incentive for account providers to make those push services available for their own accounts, thus no longer depending on #GAFAM and such like.
federico 4 days ago •
Yet, both JSON and XML require linear parsing and do not support zero-copy operation. It's like racing donkeys VS mules.
Christopher Lemmer Webber 1 week ago •
Clients, yes. But servers? I thought there was basically only one real server implementation that anyone used?
Christopher Lemmer Webber 1 week ago •
Slacktoid 7 days ago •
They just need to implement the different specs. This issue is that matrix is growing really fast and servers like dendrite are fairly new. There will soon be a time when dendrite catches up fully and only needs to add new features as and when they come.
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
Some left China over this. Apple readily complied. Some more evidence:
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/01/16/icloud-in-china/
Apple can run different firmware with different rules on different HSMs, and even encrypt data to an extra special set of keys.
Apple web services in China are hosted locally and controlled by the CCP without question now.
Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
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Lance R. Vick 1 week ago •
Synapse was a great protocol MVP but it is a monster to run and likely has outlived it's usefulness.
friendly operator from hell 1 week ago •