Jared White
Nerd about the fediverse, based in Portland, Oregon. đ˛ Nice to meet you! đ
Blog & Podcast: jaredwhite.com
On Mastodon: @jaredwhite@indieweb.social
You seem to be incorrectly stating what is on Wikipedia, which leads:
The fediverse (commonly shortened to fedi)[1][2][3] is a collection of social networking services that can communicate with each other (formally known as federation) using a common protocol.
That last bit is absolutely key: a collection of services using a common protocol. Imagine if two different email servers didnât both speak SMTP. Imagine if two different web services didnât both speak HTTP. The Internet as a singular entity is only made possible because of protocol interop between all of its constituent parts.
To say âthe fediverseâ is comprised of multiple incompatible protocols goes against that grain, and to go back to pre-ActivityPub-as-W3C-specification days as an argument that itâs fine to label multiple incompatible protocols as all being components of âthe fediverseâ is a stretch.
To me, this isnât a letâs-agree-to-disagree-issue, honestly. While the term âfediverseâ is arguably colloquial and doesnât necessarily imply any specific technical attributes, it ceases to be useful as a term if Fediverse Platform A cannot in any way communicate with Fediverse Platform B because the two platforms happen to be using 100% incompatible protocols. Aside from a third-party bridge, the AT protocol used by Bluesky is 100% incompatible with ActivityPub used by Mastodon, Threads, and others. Therefore, they cannot both be simultaneously services in the fediverse.
Iâm squarely in the AT protocol is not the Fediverse camp. Fine if people want to enjoy Bluesky, but the Fediverse is built on top of the W3C protocol ActivityPub. AT is incompatible. Cool that thereâs a bridge, but a bridge between incompatible protocols will always be a bit of a hack in my book.
Iâm totally fine with the SWF engaging with Meta just like they would any other entity building software using ActivityPub.
Funding on the other hand is a different story. It sounds like Meta contributed to an overall fund in order to launch the SWF. OK, I suppose â but if thereâs specific funding down the road for some specific project or funding in some way which appears to influence decision-making on which projects to work on or how to approach them, thatâs when I have a huge problem with it.
Portland, MaineâŚjust in case itâs not clear. (Wasnât to me until I poked around the website a bit.)
My hot take is that short-term posture doesnât matter all that much. If you have bad posture but you get up every 20 minutes and stretch/do chores/exercise for 5-10 minutes, you probably erase the original issues.
My one-two punch, if youâre looking for advice: make sure you use a chair that makes good posture easy, with your keyboard+mouse & monitor height well separated on your desk (if computingâs the main thing youâre doing as you work). And then make sure youâre getting a lot of activity throughout the day. Spans of 2, 3, 4, etc. hours just sitting at your desk will be really bad for you, no matter how good your posture is.
I guess what Iâm saying is if you can either focus a lot on posture or focus a lot on physical activity routines, prioritize the latter. But both are certainly important.
Adamâs been making some of the best YouTube takedowns of corporate tomfoolery for a long timeâŚglad to see him turn his talents towards an epic takedown of automobile culture! đ
Yeah, I donât care for the those kinds of jokes. However, I care for tone policing even less. Maybe the occasional comment like âok buddy, maybe that one went a bit farâ is fine, but now weâre having a entire thread about it and now Iâm spending my time commenting on this instead of commenting on what is actually a Big Deal which is that cars in urban settings suck monkey balls.
(sorry monkeys!)
Test in screen readers and see how content is being announced.
Lists have certain semantics which are very useful. Definitely good in navigation (aka nav > ul > li).
Grids are also useful BTWâwe donât have specific âgridâ tags in HTML, but using ARIA attributes you can set up grids which might map onto div tags or even custom elements.
Personally, Iâm much less concerned about ul/li than I am âdiv tag soupâ which is a plague upon modern web development. Use div tags sparingly, and almost always see if you can reach for either (a) a more semantic HTML tag (e.g., key/val pairs should probably be dl/dt/dd tags, not list tags), or (b) custom elementsâŚyes, authoring tags with one or more hyphens which are purely for developer comprehension and hanging CSS off of is perfectly fineârecommended in factâand in some cases if you need some JS component logic as well, then boom you have web components.
Some things never changeâŚ
Iâm all for making fun of the Cybertruck, and anything from Felon Husk really, but Iâd bet real money that thumbnail photo was doctored. I tried searching around for verified photos of rust but nothing substantial came up from a reputable source. Anyway, just wanted to point this out.