This isn’t just about losing your Facebook account. It’s about what else you can’t do because much of our society relies on Facebook. This is the real problem. From TFA:

This article is not a complaint about Meta; it’s a wider discussion on how we as a society have allowed platforms like Facebook to become borderline necessary to participate in society. It’s about how a company is allowed to be the sole decision maker in whether you can participate in those areas of society.

Through network effects, Facebook, Google, and friends have created a centralized version of the Internet, only accessible through them.

We’re in a situation where companies have managed to embed themselves so far into society, that they’re acting like providers of social services.

Surely not Ted! That mighty hero dines at the Allfather’s banquet, surrounded by the mightiest heros of all the ages!

They haven’t broken up with this country. They’re standing up for her.

Showed this to my family the other night. We’re all fairly well plugged in and read up on things, and we still learned a bunch.

What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not?

This is one possible future for “good” AI.

I’m not doing anything I can’t put off. Come on over. I’ll make iced tea and burgers. Who’s bringing the sides?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

They mean political handcuffs, not the criminal kind. If trump wins but democrats control part of congress, then he will have a harder time pushing through legislation.

I was there, Gandalf, when we named hosts after your horse and didn’t pronounce the “dot” in “.com”

Came looking for zombo.com. Was not disappointed.

But then, zombo.com is the old Internet.

This sounds like a good solution. Can you share how you did it?

This feels like a First Follower problem.

He’s clearly on the right track, but the first steps have a lot of inertia holding them back. Also, is hard to act as a community when we’re looking for those first few leaders to do something on their own that we as individuals can get behind.

We need some frameworks for action. I don’t think we know what that looks like yet.

Careful. From all the B movies I’ve watched, I can tell that volcanoes have standards.

Look into Single Sign-On services (SSO) like Authelia, Authentik, or KeyCloak. Most SSO tools do the sorts of things you’re looking for. Some will talk to the native UNIX user store. I do agree with the others, though: if you’re this far along, then it’s time to spin up LDAP and SSO, but this might be the same tool in your case.

Amiga crew checking in. Now that was an amazing machine.

Tie minimum wage to GDP/GNP, inflation, etc.

Tie congressional salaries to be a fixed multiple of minimum wage.

If congress wants more money, they have to make everyone’s situation better.

Projects like Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and the rest need volunteers to create mirrors. If you understand the risks and are able to keep a mirror running long term (not easy work), please do it.

I first worked on one in a summer thing between high school and college - before Jurassic Park. That experience is what originally got me interested in the Internet.

Right now, I’m using Obsidian. I think I’d like to transition to keeping docs in a wiki, but I worry that it’s part of the self-hosted infrastructure. In other words, if the wiki’s down, I no longer have the docs that I need to repair the wiki.