Just passing through.
I meant that this “critical analysis” didn’t seem to offer any substantial critiques of ActivityPub or its use, but merely a bunch of critiques of this petition itself on points that seem not extremely relevant.
It might be interesting for people who are invested in this specific debate, but I outside of that context it doesn’t seem to have all that much to add to anything.
Not saying the petition is unsubstantial, I just struggled to find any substance to this critique of it.
I started reading, and it seems to criticize some Polish proposal, rather than anything substantial?
Like, paraphrasing, “the proposal says it worked well in context A, but that doesn’t mean it’ll work well in context B”. I mean, sure, whatever. But not very juicy.
Maybe there’s good points in there, but if they had valid criticism they should have spilled the beans right away. If not I’ll keep thinking ensuring digital sovreignity and embracing open web standards are good things.
She’s not interested in using any social media at all, she just wants a place to toot about her publications because it’s part of the job. So some Mastodon instance specific to her field is pretty much as good as it gets for her usecase. As an academic the domain-specific Mastodon instances are pretty great.
I like Mbin a lot though! :)
As an academic, there are several users on Bluesky I would like to follow. Sadly very few are bridged for now. Hopefully all Bluesky accounts will be open for bridging at some point.
Another advantage is that thanks to Bridgy I can convince my partner to join Mastodon instead of Bluesky to promote her work, as the reach is the same on either platform.
I’m honestly quite glad people can stay here for months without getting into the technical aspects of the platform. That’s probably a pretty central criteria for it to ever achieve wide success. :)
I’ll print you a diploma!
Yeah, I think it’s fair to say nothing we do here is particularly well known in a broader sense. You’re lucky if people have heard of Mastodon - if they know that it’s decentralised that’s incredible, and if they understand what that means you’ve basically encountered an expert.
It’s a bit of a challenge that people looking at these sites from the outside will struggle to immediately understand what is really going on here. It just redefines the internet to a point where people cannot really understand it without having it explained.
Also I guess it makes sense that they’ve been too busy with everything else to have a timely release of a perfectly crafted annual report.
It would be nice to have a report earlier because I’m interested, but in terms of transparency needs this is fine.
If a team of three full time employeesand a limited budget had plenty of time to write up reports, that would maybe be a bit of a red flag as well.