Here are some questions for #webscience researchers who wish to look into the #nostr social network.
Answers to this question should help us understand what kind of #socialmachine it is.
What are its advantages and limitations? View quoted note →
bblfish
henry@bblfish.net
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After deploying the Babelfish [1] machine translation engine at AtlaVista in the 1990s, Henry has been working on Decentralised social Networks since 2004 at Sun Microsystems when he took up foaf, contributing to the Atom Syntax syndication format, WebID Authentication, then in 201x worked on Linked Data Protocol, Social Linked Data Platform (Solid), and now is working on Access Control. He read philosophy, spent three years immersed in [2] Category Theory towards a Solid Phd, and earns a living programming in #Scala. He will also talk to you about the #WebOfNations.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWqHkYtREAE
[2] Category Theory is the mathematics of duality, more https://web-cats.gitlab.io/
With over 20% of democratic support and a lot across the US @Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr and the controversial topics that Kennedy touches on, you'd think there would be strong debate around the #fediverse of what he has to say.
But when one looks at the mastodon instances, most of them only contain negative stories about him, always the same, by the same activists.
Here are some of the largest ones, which I found through
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Mastodon instances
Mastodon hosted on mastodon.social
Mastodon
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profit
Mastodon hosted on mathstodon.xyz
Mathstodon
A Mastodon instance for maths people. We have LaTeX rendering in the web interface!
Mastodon hosted on newsie.social
Newsie
A large and professionally administered Mastodon server that hosts a large number of journalists and news outlets. Content focuses heavily on news ...
Mastodon hosted on mas.to
mas.to
Hello! mas.to is a fast, up-to-date and fun Mastodon server.
Mastodon hosted on w3c.social
w3c.social
w3c.social is a friendly and respectful instance for people involved in the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The instance is run ...
Mastodon hosted on techhub.social
TechHub
A hub primarily for passionate technologists, but everyone is welcome
Mastodon hosted on fosstodon.org
Fosstodon
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software.
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Mastodon hosted on mastodon.world
Mastodon
Generic Mastodon server for anyone to use.
Mastodon hosted on mastodonapp.uk
Mastodon App UK
UK Hosted and Managed Mastodon Instance. General communal space for discussion, everyone welcome! Now with a 1000 character limit for posts!
Mastodon hosted on universeodon.com
Universeodon Social Media
Be one with the #fediverse. Join millions of humans building, creating, and collaborating on Mastodon Social Network. Supports 2000 character posts.
A long interview of @Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr where #RFKJr develops the long-term view of the #Ukraine conflict and outlines the real dangers of #NuclearWar, massive loss of #US economic power (due to the potential loss of the dollar as a reserve currency), the realignment of interests between Russia and China, the creation of new global alliances against the US, etc... etc...
The #neocon strategy of a unipolar world is just not a good idea, as anyone could have told them 30 years ago.
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Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) on X
Ep. 16 RFK Jr. explains Ukraine, bio-labs, and who killed his uncle
"A trans-identified male set a Canadian women's powerlifting record at a championship in Manitoba yesterday."
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Taylor Silverman (@tmsilverman) on X
Parody and reality have become indistinguishable.
"We spend $4.3 trillion annually on healthcare + 86% of those funds go to treating chronic diseases" says @Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr.
That is crazy, especially considering that most of those diseases hardly existed 40 years ago.
I don't think we have that problem in Europe. #RFKJr
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) on X
We spend $4.3 trillion annually on healthcare + 86% of those funds go to treating chronic diseases. When I am President, I am going to end the chro...
Bob Dylan - Gotta serve somebody
#[0] Verifying My Public Key: "bblfish"
Me, connecting #mastodon to #nostr and back.
#sex matters with Helen Joyce
Helen PhD in geometric measure theory, worked in academia before switching to working for The Economist as education correspondent for its Britain section in 2005 and has since held several senior positions, including finance editor and international editor. A previous interview with Jordan Peterson was removed by #Youtube a year after it was put up. So this is the follow up. #trans
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast (@JBPpod) on X
Sex Matters | Helen Joyce | Ep. 379
Choosing an Operating Systems
#OS
I find the new #AI chatbot in #Skype very useful
I am finding the Bing AI assistance in #Skype very useful.
Nearly never used Skype for the past 7 years or so...
“American kids are the sickest in the world”
Speak about #capitalism eating its young!
I am from Europe, but never imagined things could go so bad in the USA. #rfkjr
#sex developed 2 billion years ago as a biological mechanism to cope with parasites.
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/sexual-reproduction-and-the-evolution-of-sex-824/
How can the online environment help deal with #social parasites, and foster long term interactions?
https://www.youtube.com/live/q2m8yWzzl4k?feature=share
Always very interesting to listen to David Corfield's insights on #philosophy from the point of view of Dependent Types #HomotopyTypeTheory
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David Corfield (@DavidCorfield8) on X
@keithfrankish A type-theoretic account of mine, which understands the cogito as concerning presupposition rather than consequence:
Look forward to when @primal's Following and Followers list becomes clickable, so I can see how it sees the situation.
Note that on Safari 17 (beta) there are blue boxes as shown in the screen shot, that don't appear in Chrome.
I seem to have lost the list of accounts I am following.
I was trying out some #nostrclient on the iPhone when that happened...
The list of people following me is still there, and I think the posts I sent out too...
#PeterBoghossian, author of "How to have impossible Conversations", engaging here in #Melbourne in street philosophy on the topic of #sex and #gender
#JulianAssange is still in jail, and the #USA are still pushing for extradition for the #Wikileaks stories, which all the major newspapers republished happily.
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WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) on X
Peter Hitchens urges people to write to Home Secretary Suella Braverman asking her not to permit the extradition of Julian Assange: "No journalist ...