Are there any good books or other media with an overview of how it got like this?

I'm on a phone ATM but should be easy to check for yourself

afaict editing posts from pdsls works even if they have media attached, am I missing something

both only for ios/mac 😞

exposed its firehose over jabber/xmpp

pepperidge farm remembers blog.twitter.com/2008/07/twit...

"Other layers" first and foremost meaning easy/reliable tools for migration and managing backups and rotation keys, so you aren't fked if your shared pds goes down.

imo it's reasonable to say those "scale" better than having everyone self host the actual pds

while "typically privileged males" is uhh certainly a turn of phrase, i don't think the argument is wrong?

like i'm not sure having literally everyone running their own personal servers makes sense as a goal, especially not over focusing on building shared infra at other layers besides pds hosting

the difference is that old posts become undeniably non-canonical (it would be impossible to fool anyone that they're your current posts, whereas on nostr you'd need positive proof of a retraction event). but in some cases I imagine that's small comfort

I'm a fan of just having private (but portable) contact lists tbqh

well ok, hard if you want live updates. but if you are fine with occasionally pulling the data from constellation then it's fairly trivial

you could build a blocklist based on who subscribes to a different blocklist easily enough, no?

this website lets you do it but you have to sign in first blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?p...

Hm wonder why they wouldn't announce it

Outsideness walked so may could run

@moji.blue is kind of a thing.. but yeag

afaict the lack of a canonical address for data also means you can't ever delete your posts. at best you can publish "retraction" events.

imo this is kind of a barrier to mainstream adoption