The Arbiter - Group Management for Permissioned Spaces and Beyond The permissioned data proposal has the concept of membership, but leaves it to the app to orchestrate it. The arbiter is our idea for a general-purpose, interoperable ATProto group membership service.

At @roomy.space we've been cooking up the design for the next, ATProto-native iteration of Roomy, and that includes private data on protocol!

The first component that we're working on is a group membership service that we're calling the "arbiter".

Here's full overview of the design so far!

But this is *lot*

I dunno, he’s got such a stranglehold on the party, they’re desperately hanging on until the May elections

Damn, Starmer's cooked, huh?

Reader's guide showing all my book covers and my website alanbaxter.com.au

It's my birthday this weekend. I'd love it if you helped me celebrate by buying yourself or a loved one a book of mine. Or two. 🎂 🖤

Ooooh, new Crippled Black Phoenix album

A bluesky account called Cover 3 Sports & Betting that has been blocked by me because absolutely the fuck not.

ooh a new follower...

Absolutely the fuck not

Thought that Nine Inch Noize album might be new material but sadly it's just the Coachella live set. That's a shame.

The Garden | Paul Stephenson | Offprint The future of the internet isn’t bigger platforms, it’s smaller gardens.

So, Bluesky's been bollocksed all morning? Kind of reminds me of the days of the #failwhale. Ah, the good old days. Speaking of...

here's a post on getting back to them.

woo hoo!

One built on smaller, interoperable communities on decentralized platforms, where we connect to others based on what we share rather than what the algorithm drives, where good behaviour is rewarded, the price of admission is empathy rather than outrage, and where what you create belongs to you.

For the afternoon/not in this timezone crowd, I've written a new post on my blog about how the future of the internet isn’t bigger platforms, it’s smaller gardens. Come have a read!

"there's no ethical way to consume media in this day and age" is just soulless capitulation to the worst impulses of capitalism. of course there are ethical ways to enjoy things: go to a concert, go see a live show, buy CDs. etc. I mean come on.

This is going to be the first in a series I'm calling The Garden. You lucky, lucky people.

A nice view in Kew gardens

I published this a few days back and just realised I never posted it here. I'm *amazing* at marketing. Latest post on my new @offprint.app blog about building a better internet.

blog.hollowstone.press/a/3mj5jiboyy...

ugh, it should be illegal for any company online not to have a big DELETE ME button in the settings.

Wow, really becomes clear how shitty they are as a company now that they seem to have removed any obvious way to close your account. nothing in the knowledge base, account settings, faq's

Damn, need to get on this, then.

It’s inevitable!

It’s @popfeed.social

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Today's free newsletter is about the dangers of treating AI as being more than it is - a website or app built on expensive technology, with dubious reliability and inherently unsustainable economics.

The rhetoric from AI labs has to change.

www.wheresyoured.at/i-will-never-respect-a-website/

I don't know why this is so hard for some people to grasp. If we extend our use of fossil gas, rather than going all-out for grid batteries, heat pumps and induction hobs, we extend our dependence on *foreign* sources of gas, regardless of whether we also use the UK's last remaining reserves. 🧵

GB News Hosts Reform UK and Conservative Politicians and Activists Posing as Ordinary Voters The individuals were presented as ordinary members of the public, without informing viewers of their political affiliations, a new Byline Times investigation reveals

GB News repeatedly presented Reform UK and Conservative politicians and activists as being ordinary members of the public, without declaring their political affiliations.

Byline Times investigation reveals pattern of behaviour by the Channel, but Ofcom still refuses to act

BBC News channel highlight 'Trump v Pope'

Is this PPV?

Richard Tice tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims A property company owned by the Reform UK deputy leader failed to pay £91,000 in tax on dividends, according to the Sunday Times.

Odd how the minor administrative errors always seem to produce the same results.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have had an absolute motherfucker of a weekend all told so I’m really glad I get to wake up early and point myself at my increasingly stressful job tomorrow

With the news from Hungary it feels like there’s hope in the air in Eastern Europe for the first time in decades.
If I could quote the immortal words of that poignant Scorpions song, “Here I am, rock you like a hurricane. Are you ready, baby?”

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Being an Arsenal fan is absolute shit at times.