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Finished reading Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin recently, it's a really good read. At the start it feels like the writing keeps branching in unrelated ways, only to abandon the plotlines and jump to something seemingly unrelated, but it all comes together in the latter half of the book. A very interesting read with a fairly unique execution. #bookstr

I personally think that Bluesky's PDSs should have remained neutral infrastructure. Before, when they were like that, you could effectively build out your own platform using Bluesky's infrastructure for hosting, kinda bootstrapping the protocol and letting anyone build a platform with the rules of their choosing. Now that Bluesky moderates at the PDS layer AND the relay layer, and since they host the vast majority of AT Proto infrastructure, they've more or less locked the entirety of AT into Bluesky's community guidelines. (Who'd want to build a platform on AT with different guidelines, if no user of Bluesky - which is practically the entire network - could partake in said alternative AT platform?) As far as other platforms though, I'm more agnostic on neutral PDSs - if I understand the issue with that controversy it was with Blacksy. If an alternative platform moderates at the PDS layer that's not going to effectively apply the rules to all of AT like Bluesky can. Once a protocol is more widespread individual instances of it can have a diverse set of rules, but if one instance (e.g. Bluesky Corporate) can apply it's rules to the entire network before it expands, then the protocol could be captured and prevented from expanding beyond that initial niche base that captured it. My 2c anyway.

My reading kinda ebbs and flows, but I've been reading a fair but lately. Over the last month or so I've read two books in their entirety, read parts of another one or two, and re-listened to a 6 book audiobook series. A lot of times I use audiobooks and ebooks via TTS as background audio when working/gaming/driving etc. Overall, if audiobooks count, maybe 30-50. If audiobooks (and using TTS to read some or all of an ebook) don't count then maybe 2-10 depending on the year. But just a rough guess.

Read and reed ryme with lead, read and red ryme with lead.

You think a quick docker compose file with cloudflare tunnel and a relay would be something to consider as well (or, alternatively, just a bash script to install cloudflared + a relay)? Most people here are probably technical enough to do something like that, and running it on an old laptop or Raspberry Pi might be something interesting to a lot of people if it was pretty much plug and play without need of a static IP or open port.

Just logged into Primal, I'm seeing all your posts. It seems like that'd be an odd topic to have one off censorship on. Do you think there's a chance that they just failed to broadcast to the Primal relay, and now that people are talking about it, they've been re-broadcast? I believe you when you say they were missing earlier, but it doesn't look like anything's being actively censored (from what I can see anyway).

DiVine, a Vine style shortform video app using Nostr, is in the process of being launched.