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ZeroGravitas
joined 2 years ago
I'm not even going to pretend that BlueSky is more open than any Fediverse tool designed with federation in mind from the ground up. BlueSky is certainly not Mastodon or Lemmy, but it's not Meta AI-pushing crap like WhatsApp either.
Let's do a thought experiment. What if we would get a Wikipedia like NGO with proper funding setting up a EU based BlueSky instance? It won't be the decentralized dream of Fediverse, perhaps, but it could still prove useful. I think Twitter was successful because of its unified, global reaching platform appeal, not in spite of it, and the fact that users flock to BlueSky tells me that appeal is still there. Having a bit more decentralization in that mix just makes it better, but Mastodon shows that decentralization is not sufficient to give a platform a wide appeal.
As context: I'm one of those people that donates annually to Wikipedia, but I have no interest or capacity in managing a decentralized federation server in my basement. Lots of kudos to the people that do!
Surely that's a bit unfair to BlueSky.
From my brief lecture of the underlying protocol, public instances could exist and federate, it's only that they become quite expensive to run if done right.
Not to mention that the "more and better teachers" mantra should be applied all the way down to primary education.
Unfortunately our societies prioritise these things differently.
I'm not excluding hiring good teachers and TAs from the picture. I'm not excluding paying them a good enough wage to attract talent either. But that's another conversation.
In my university days lectures were paired with seminars. And those had a max size of about 30, and a TA who would explain and help apply the lecture knowledge. The lecturer would visit seminars on rotation and ensure the quality of TAs. And the kicker? The whole gang would be there for the (free form) exam, including the grading.
In short: it can be done because that's where we come from, actually.
And personally I hate multi choice tests, there is no opportunity to see the thought process of the student, or find and be lenient towards those that got the theory, but forgot to carry a 1 somewhere. They simplified the grading, sure, now you can have a machine do it, but thats about it.
Here's a novel idea, maybe it needs less students per teacher. Or more teachers per student, however you want to call it.
It makes sense that they would go where the users are.
But not having a separate, European instance federated into the BlueSky network, that's the real wtf.
Hint: only one of these comes with a so-called golden handshake.
Friendly reminder that there are open source password managers out there, and if there's anything I'd rather not entrust to a corporattion, my passwords are at least in the top 5.
Lots of dynamic DNS providers allow you to register a aubdomain and update the IP it points to with an API call. You can use something like this tool for it: https://github.com/lopsided98/dnsupdate - just run it on a schedule on the same machine and you're golden.
There are also Docker container based solutions if you'd rather go that route. Once you have a stable entry point, you can decide what to do with it.
I would personally get a Raspberry Pi and run Wireguard and Dnsupdater on it, use port forwarding in the router for Wireguard and close down everything else. Then share the Wireguard connection details with your friends and family. You can even set it up so that Wireguard connections are only granted access to your Jellyfin server, plenty of tutorials out there on how to configure firewall rules on the Wireguard machine.
WHATEVER DO YOU MEAN, SIR! I AM OUTRAGED BY THE SHEER IMPLICATION! HE WOULD NEVER!
Caps as stand-in for Victorian levels of indignation
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Ah, the "don't be evil days". I'm old enough to remember Jabber was a thing. We really took a hard right at some point, didn't we? Technologically speaking, I'm not getting political.
And don't get me wrong, I'm not a BlueSky fanboy either. Their implementation of DMs simply sucks from an open standards POV. I just think they deserve a bit more credit than Zuckersoft. A lot of people I admire are active over there, reason enough for me to stick around. But I'm not giving up on Lemmy either.