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I don't know, I've seen a lot of tweets lately that have been like "Hey, Mastodon users, if you see people with anime avatars, they're probably just like artists and geeks, and LGBTQ folks, instead of nazis..." Actually, Nolan said this. So it's like a bit of a culture shock. |
Then I saw a post the other day that was very nice and interesting, and it was essentially "Oh my god, Mastodon is a way to be nice, but in a chill way, to strangers on the internet. This is all I've ever wanted in life, to make some mother-- feel good" - censor that if you need to. "I came here to be nice to people an... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** That was the most millennial thing I've ever heard in my life. That was amazing. It sounded like an ad for Gryzzl from Parks and Rec, or something... \[laughter\] |
**Rachel White:** Oh my god... I think it's really nice. And it feels nice to go on and be in a timeline where people are not being jerks, and they're just wanting to be helpful. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** So how are they enforcing that in the federated model? I understand how you can enforce that in an instance and have a code of conduct for that instance, but because they're federated and they're connecting to each other, how are they filtering the content out of the federation network? |
**Alex Sexton:** Well, I'm gonna make an educated guess based on how a lot of the other stuff works. The federations can choose based on who you follow and who the people in the federation follow, what other instances to share content with or not share content with. So both the beauty and the pain of this is that it's ... |
**Rachel White:** Totally! |
**Alex Sexton:** But then the crossover of those two federations is actually very small... |
**Rachel White:** Basically, they would be isolated. Other federations would opt out into seeing that stuff, so if people do try and join and abuse the service, they're going to be isolated into those silos that they've created for themselves. |
**Alex Sexton:** Right. So essentially, in three years you have the Facebook timeline problem where you only are looking at people who are confirming biases - not that I think nazis should have a platform for anything, but also there's a chance for hyper federation -- not federation; hyper-something, where it'd actuall... |
\[52:20\] I try to follow people who I disagree with currently on Twitter, in order to just understand perspective in those types of things. In no way do I mean nazis or misogynists, or anything like that... I mean fiscally-conservative people, or whatever. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** I actually really hope that they do create their own instances and have their own federation network, because then you're gonna see them fracture and get mad at each other... The people there are crazier and crazier; it's gonna be great. \[laughs\] |
It's like the 4chan/Achan problem... |
**Rachel White:** I mean... Yeah. It's just subsections of horribleness. |
**Alex Sexton:** That's a really good example. |
**Rachel White:** But I have to go now. \[laughs\] |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Okay. Well, share your pick with us before you go, and then me and Alex are giving our picks. |
**Rachel White:** I didn't pick one, because I thought I was able to go early. \[laughter\] |
**Alex Sexton:** Your pick is undefined. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** What's your favorite hot sauce? That'll be your pick. |
\[phone ringtone in the background\] |
**Alex Sexton:** Oh, gosh... |
**Rachel White:** Well, I can tell you my favorite ringtone... It's not that one. I'm gonna actually say that my pick of the week is going to be Nolan Lawson's branch of Mastodon, because I'm a moderator on it! Come be nice with me and let's make cute things on Mastodon! |
Okay, I'm going now. |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, Mikeal just got dropped... The episode is falling apart live. You heard it here first. He's back... |
**Rachel White:** He's back? Okay, I'm leaving now. Have a good weekend! |
**Alex Sexton:** Bye Rachel. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Yeah, for some reason when my phone rang, Apple decided that anything else should just be cut off, so... \[laughs\] So picks - Alex, what's your pick? |
**Alex Sexton:** My pick this week is GPG Tools. Actually, that was a little bit of a joke... My pick is Keybase. I think all of the -- so, GPG is GNU Privacy Guard, which is an OSS version of PGP, which used to stand for Pretty Good Privacy (maybe it still does). It's all encryption/privacy type stuff, so if you have ... |
Have you ever seen an email come through and it says "Begin PGP encryption"? That's what this is. The thing that I'm actually suggesting that you use though is Keybase.io. |
\[55:07\] You generate yourself a private key and a public key, you keep the private key to yourself, you push the public key up to Keybase as well as other key servers, and then you can tweet out from your Twitter account that says "I'm this person on Keybase", and based on that, it verifies that you are really that p... |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Awesome. |
**Alex Sexton:** It's kind of like a user interface for being able to do encryption and privacy and all that kind of stuff in an easier way than it used to be. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Basically it's an identity authority, essentially... |
**Alex Sexton:** Yeah, but federated, in the sense that... Well, it's not federated. But it uses other services in order to do those certifications. But it also doesn't need -- so it can be a web page or your email or something like that as well. |
**Mikeal Rogers:** Cool. Awesome. So I picked this before and I talked about it a ton... WebTorrents is just one of the coolest projects on the internet... There's a whole Changelog episode about it, there's a great desktop client for using WebTorrent; if you don't know it, it's an implementation of BitTorrent on top o... |
So start playing with the idea of just dragging and dropping files into the browser and sharing them out like that, and think about ways that you could integrate this completely alternate mode of content delivery and usage. The Changelog podcast on WebTorrent will be in the show notes. It's already been posted in the c... |
That's the show for today. Thanks everybody for showing up, it's been a great show. Thank you to all of our sponsors. Rate us on iTunes. Go to github.com/thechangelog/jsparty and suggest any new topics for us to cover. Also, we record live every Friday at noon Pacific. That's it for this show. |
**Alex Sexton:** \[beatboxing\] That's the outro. \[laughter\] |
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• Discussion of Node.js and other server-side use cases where JavaScript is still a popular choice despite having alternatives |
• WebAssembly as a JavaScript file with an external API |
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