"the MP3 technology became patent-free in the United States on 16 April 2017 when U.S. Patent 6,009,399, ...administered by Technicolor, expired"
still missing the quote toot
Civic Betterment > Sursum Corda, Washington, D.C. > United States Department of Housing and Urban Development > Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 > United States Statutes at Large > Mace of the United States House of Representatives > Frederick Muhlenberg > John Boehner > Ohio's 5th congressional district > Ohio's 4th congressional district > 43rd United States Congress > Tennessee's 3rd congressional district > Phil Bredesen > John Sevier > Ben W. Hooper
Ultimately Mastodon's killer feature is that it's a public good that someone built because they thought it needed to exist and not a startup someone built because they wanted to get rich quick selling other people's data.
@anthony re: https://mastodon.xyz/@anthony/74070
Hashtags are federated, but only show posts which your instance has happened to see -- it doesn't actively ask other instances for their posts.
So for example, compare:
https://icosahedron.website/tags/tootheorizing
https://mastodon.xyz/tags/tootheorizing
https://mastodon.social/tags/tootheorizing
This conversation seems kind of weird to me because it is very different from an analogous situation.
Usernames are like usernames
Node names are like mail domains.
"Oh no, there isn't a globally unique Mastodon name" seems to me like alice@gmail.com being upset that somebody else can take alice@comcast.net. How else would it work!??!?!
"No globally unique usernames across federated universe" This is a feature not a bug!
Globally unique usernames require a single source of truth. Single source of truth requires centralized authority. You literally cannot have both
WE ARE MASTODON.XYZ, HEAR OUR RALLYING CRY:
"We got on the bandwagon slightly too late so we chose the one with the second most people on it and similar name mostly because we were kind of confused by the whole situation."
I assume the space containing unfederated instances is called The Neutral Zone
I've heard it said we're living in a post-factual era. I don't know if that's true, but I wrote a song about it. #Music #Epistemology #jazz #geocentrism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aSq1hoLsb4
I miss quote tweets though
by the way I really dig the layout on S-Town's web site #STown https://stownpodcast.org/chapter/1
I have a follower! Hi, @mattcushing
Also everyone has single digit numbers of posts
My twitter strategy of finding interesting people and following the people they follow is undermined by the fact that everyone on here follows like 3 people
So 'posts from a user on another other instance won't show up on the federated timeline unless someone from your instance follows them' is a thing I did not know about federation until just now. I thought ALL posts from connected instances show up on the federated timeline, but that is not the case!
and here's a song about police violence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jacT0zzK98o
Here's a song about Google #GoogleIsListening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvzzFs6jerM
