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| * Everything else, and in my opinion the vast majority of not-so-good aspects of the Fediverse, partially caused by some of the topics mentioned above but not only, is about a sheer endless amount of interoperability glitches and complexity side-effects that are tough to avoid, see [[fediverse-notes-interoperability]]. | * Everything else, and in my opinion the vast majority of not-so-good aspects of the Fediverse, partially caused by some of the topics mentioned above but not only, is about a sheer endless amount of interoperability glitches and complexity side-effects that are tough to avoid, see [[fediverse-notes-interoperability]]. |
| * Privacy in the AP Fediverse is an interesting topic too, see [[fediverse-notes-privacy]]. | * Privacy in the AP Fediverse is an interesting topic too, see [[fediverse-notes-privacy]]. |
| | * Client choice, just like everything else, comes with its own share of aspects to consider, see [[fediverse-notes-clients]]. |
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| Some words on myself for context here, pushed to the bottom because even though it might help to follow my perspective, it shouldn't be priority here at all. Per 2025 I'm in my late 40s. Professionally, I've been into IT ever since the late 1990s, have spent 20+ years building distributed in-house applications and most of the time had a focus on reliability and availability of these solutions, in 24x7 operations. I've been involved into second level support for end users, internally, externally. On a technical level I've touched CORBA, SOAP, Java RMI and REST, built monoliths and microservices and used Java, PHP, Perl and Python for that stuff. I've learnt to suffer from the drawbacks and issues of both centralized and decentralized systems in that context, and I've even more learnt to suffer from user communication in situations in which technically crafted user interfaces failed to meet experts users demands. The last decade I spent as both a scrum master dedicated to getting a very skilled and motivated team to do a good job (which worked quite well) and recently as a project lead in customer environments implementing a specialized software solution focused on information management and retrieval and integration of both old and new, standard and custom systems. | Some words on myself for context here, pushed to the bottom because even though it might help to follow my perspective, it shouldn't be priority here at all. Per 2025 I'm in my late 40s. Professionally, I've been into IT ever since the late 1990s, have spent 20+ years building distributed in-house applications and most of the time had a focus on reliability and availability of these solutions, in 24x7 operations. I've been involved into second level support for end users, internally, externally. On a technical level I've touched CORBA, SOAP, Java RMI and REST, built monoliths and microservices and used Java, PHP, Perl and Python for that stuff. I've learnt to suffer from the drawbacks and issues of both centralized and decentralized systems in that context, and I've even more learnt to suffer from user communication in situations in which technically crafted user interfaces failed to meet experts users demands. The last decade I spent as both a scrum master dedicated to getting a very skilled and motivated team to do a good job (which worked quite well) and recently as a project lead in customer environments implementing a specialized software solution focused on information management and retrieval and integration of both old and new, standard and custom systems. |
| Personally, I've been on the GNU/Linux/Software Libre train ever since installing Linux for the first time in 1996, reading through the usual documents like the GNU Manifesto, the GPL, the Cathedral/Bazaar document and Stephensons Command Line article and still am enthusiastic about the idea of community-driven technology to be able to leave behind corporate solutions - if there just is "a community" with a reasonably well-agreed-upon set of goals and priorities to pursue, given it's ... just incredibly hard to complete with global companies both determined and funded to do exactly what they currently do. Too, I've seen XMPP, I've seen and been on platforms like identi.ca, Diaspora, GNUSocial or early Friendica, I've seen their aspirations and where they repeatedly, again and again, ended up. And there's a bunch of frustration especially arising from the latter and the community part. It's been growing. When it comes to the Fediverse, I'm somewhere in between having a lot of thoughts and noticing a lot of things that feel slightly odd but at the current stage of my life lack the time to really do anything about it. | Personally, I've been on the GNU/Linux/Software Libre train ever since installing Linux for the first time in 1996, reading through the usual documents like the GNU Manifesto, the GPL, the Cathedral/Bazaar document and Stephensons Command Line article and still am enthusiastic about the idea of community-driven technology to be able to leave behind corporate solutions - if there just is "a community" with a reasonably well-agreed-upon set of goals and priorities to pursue, given it's ... just incredibly hard to complete with global companies both determined and funded to do exactly what they currently do. Too, I've seen XMPP, I've seen and been on platforms like identi.ca, Diaspora, GNUSocial or early Friendica, I've seen their aspirations and where they repeatedly, again and again, ended up. And there's a bunch of frustration especially arising from the latter and the community part. It's been growing. When it comes to the Fediverse, I'm somewhere in between having a lot of thoughts and noticing a lot of things that feel slightly odd but at the current stage of my life lack the time to really do anything about it. |
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