@craigmaloney For a second, I day dreamed that Kiwi made novelty breath mints

https://www.kiwicare.com/en-us/products/kiwi-shoe-polish

@GeoffWozniak @thegibson I had, many many many years ago, bought a Daring Fireball t-shirt back when I really liked my iBook

@GeoffWozniak @thegibson Yeah, IIRC, he also said that native iOS apps were part of the open web because they used HTTP APIs. And I said that was like saying the Walt Disney World Monorail is part of the US highway system.

@phooky Yeah, I think I read like half the works of Cory Doctorow on a Palm IIIe

@trevorflowers @phooky FWIW, I just got a BOOX Tab Ultra C with a Kaleido 3 color e-ink display. It's surprisingly fast - maybe like 10-15FPS for scrolling and dragging things around on the screen. Will occasionally leave things ghosting around at high-speed modes. Can be adjusted down to a 0.5s refresh in the highest quality mode.

A thing that will need more attention in conversations about "portable identity" on the fediverse is the whole "I want to move my posts" feature request.

A problem is that I've seen many such conversations breeze past the folks running the instance to which the posts are meant to move.

A request to "move my posts" is, essentially, a request for the destination instance to review all those posts against their policies. Or, an assumption that the destination instance will neglect to do that for the sake of expediency.

Most instances are not simply fungible service providers for posts. Folks running instances have opinions, impose policies, and moderate content.

While you may own your words in a fediverse post - the publishing & hosting of those words is a negotiated agreement with the admins of a fediverse instance.

This is not usually a customer service relationship. Just because you posted something on one instance doesn't mean you should automatically expect another instance to welcome your posting history with open arms.

None of this is my sole realization. I've seen multiple instance admins express this stuff now. I think it bears frequent repeating.

Really, in general, I think there is a great big blob of unresolved tension here on the fediverse between folks wandering in who expect a customer service relationship - or at least a "my eyeballs are valuable" relationship - and find that folks running instances are not inclined to simply act as obligatory ushers.

Almost forgot I blogged about exactly this, while under the influence of a large dose of cold medicine

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2022/11/07/no-ushers/

@danhon Here's a worm hole to 2006, when I was mad about how Firefox broke styling RSS using xslt (I don't even know if it works at all, these days)

https://blog.lmorchard.com/2006/11/02/firefox-20-breaks-client-side-xsl-for-rss-and-atom-feeds/

Great, now I have the theme song for MacGyver stuck in my head.

@craigmaloney dang it

@Bitplumber I think this sounds a lot like Secure Scuttlebutt, but it's been awhile since I tinkered with that.

As I understand it, in that system "admins" host "pubs" which are exchange hubs for folks to share self-signed chains of posting history to be downloaded and assembled in aggregate on their local machines. But "admins" in that world don't really host folks' posts or moderate content as much

@Bitplumber Yup, I would agree that's a root issue for sure. I like the former personally but think the latter is more important