084: Federation Is Bad with Aurynn Shaw

01:30 – Federation and Your Internet Identity Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/) Stayin’ Alive in Technology: Who Are You? Coraline Ada Ehmke and Identity on the Internet (https://player.fm/series/stayin-alive-in-technology/who-are-you-coraline-ada-ehmke-and-identity-on-the-internet) 05:59 – Flaws of Federated Identity Usenet (https://www.usenet.org/en) 10:18 – Onboarding Eternal September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September) 28:51 – All Technology is Political & Speech At All Costs The Californian Ideology (http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/2007/04/17/the-californian-ideology-2/) Survivor Bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias) 15:45 – Mastodon Vs. Twitter and The Social Cost of Running an Instance 21:56 – When People React: Internet Backlash and Defensiveness The Post-Meritocracy Manifesto (https://postmeritocracy.org/) Poe’s Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) 30:58 – Service Lock-in 37:48 – Losing Your Identity: The Failure of witches.town 39:32 – Creating Sub/Micro Federations/Communities Metcalfe’s Law This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep (https://twitter.com/therubyrep) of DevReps, LLC (http://www.devreps.com/). To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode (https://www.patreon.com/greaterthancode). To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps (https://www.paypal.me/devreps). You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well. Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks! Special Guest: Aurynn Shaw.