unfoldingdiagrams.leaflet.pub
"What makes Bluesky expensive?", asks Jacqueline.not the user data: a "PDS... is little more than a JSON-returning webserver wrapped around a SQLite database. A single PDS on a raspberry pi can host and serve data for tens of thousands of users"nor the relay, which can "run just fine on a raspberry pi... [with] beefy storage drive (a dozen or two …
peergos.net
Mathematical comparison of ATProto and ActivityPub
publicinfrastructure.org
A podcast with Charles Broskoski. founder of Arena, which "boasts a healthy, creative community and stable finances while rejecting many of the hallmarks of popular social media".
publicinfrastructure.org
The Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure's manifesto sets out the three legs upon which an open public sphere must rest.
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algorithm,
social media,
regulation,
community,
privacy,
publicsphere,
moderation,
fediverse,
adversarial interoperability,
cozyweb,
pluriverse,
vsop,
pubhub,
robert putnam,
idpi,
ai4communities
subconscious.substack.com
Excellent piece on the Dunbar number, and its implications for social media and society: "For hundreds of thousands of years, we lived together in small hunter-gatherer bands... with the same few dozen people... Our wetware reflects this fact. We can keep track of about 150 friends... 22,350 relationships ... number grows exponentially with the nu…