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“The Slashdot Effect” and “slashdotting/slashdotted”.

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/postscript/the-most-ill-timed-website-in-history/

Someone is too young to remember Slashdot I see …

Threat modelling for a possible future is different from threat modelling for today.

The Netherlands kept good records of which religion a person belonged to in the 1930s, to be able to swiftly fulfil any possible religious requirements on burial services. A nice service.

The nazis thought so too, a few years later.

… the billionaire proof version of Bluesky is … Mastodon.

The latest version of Mastodon does suggest accounts to follow. But you’re absolutely right - Bluesky being fully centralized can do a lot of things easier than it is for the Mastodon network. I have high hopes that @dansup@mastodon.social will help alleviate this a lot though with the Fediverse equivalent for “starter packs”:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113497558334297218

ATproto is way more over-engineered than ActivityPub, and due to its crypto currency roots using merkle trees it simply cannot scale decentralized.

Download “Mastodon” from an app store. Create an account. Post.

It’s been a few years since you last tried, right?

“It’s like email. We have our company domain and others have theirs and it all just works”

IOCX has a noticeable increase in new user signups since a day or two back.

There is no Librewolf without Firefox.

Yeah I was able to install sliding-sync on Dendrite without issues. A bit surprising that I didn’t see any guides made for it yet.