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📣 Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. ❤️

@dylan

It's definitely a shame that reddit is making these changes. The fall of reddit is going to have pretty negative affect for a lot of people.

I'm no fan of corpo platforms—I'd love more widespread adoption of open protocols and software—but I don't want _users_ to get hurt by the loss.

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I like this significantly better than Mastodon

@DidacticDumbass

I think one of the best things about the fediverse is that it allows for a diverse set of paradigms.

A "twitter-like" experience isn't for everyone and it's great to have variety. I have friends who mostly use bookwyrm—a fediverse "goodreads" alternative—and it's awesome that I can still follow and interact with them even though I picked a different fediverse option.

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Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds? - Ian Betteridge

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@PriorProject @PorkrollPosadist

All the examples you provided were infrastructure, not social communities, so I think it's a poor comparison.

Instead, I'd compare AP federation to _social_ constructs. Communities, clubs, groups of friends. Even larger constructs like cities or nation states.

In _those_ examples it's clear that limiting association is commonplace and healthy.

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Leaked Tesla documents shed new light on why the Cybertruck is taking so long

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@tookmyname @BaroqueInMind

I think there's still a place for certain types of pre-orders.

There are many projects where the production of the product requires an upfront cost and a pre-order is needed to cover these.

I have pro-ordered many a small batch electronics device and have had no issues. However, in these cases the design of the device is already complete and the features/specs all known in advance.

The same goes for all the books I've pre-ordered from indie publishers, for the same reason, the book is already finished but production is too expensive for a small publisher to cover without pre-sales.

The issues come when pre-ordering something that _isn't_ complete, especially if it's working on an as-of-yet unsolved problem. Frankly, I wish that platforms like kickstarter would have a dedicated section for "production cost" pre-orders that had a different sales agreement and some vetting to ensure that products got delivered and were as advertised.

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US States enforcing new age verification for adult content—how could this be done properly?

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It can't tell the difference between an adult and a child but only the adult would have access to the ISP account credentials.

You're right that, using a simple captive portal system, there's no way to differentiate between devices on the local network, but if each session is short enough that's not too big of a deal.

Let's say it requires reauthentication for each different domain and a domain will stay unblocked for only 5 minutes after traffic to that site stops.

It's imperfect, but _any_ system is going to be imperfect. I'm inclined to optimize for low friction for users and no additional PII being sent.

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US States enforcing new age verification for adult content—how could this be done properly?

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@TheCuriousCoder87

You wouldn't necessarily have to actually give a CA any details about yourself, just integrate this into the existing ISP portals.

An adult can log into the provider's website and click to generate any client certs they need.

I think this method is maybe a bit _too_ technical (compared to a simple captive portal like you get on public wifi) but I think it would work okay as long as end-users didn't have to go to a 3rd-party or provide any additional information to their ISP to use it.

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@BlameThePeacock

It's the US republicans who want to do this, not me, I'm just approaching this as an interesting problem.

As for my suggested solution, the only database would be the list of sites with adult content. No new personal data would be stored about individuals.

I'm not suggesting that ISPs implement photo-ID checks, just a login with your ISP username/password (an account you already have).

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US States enforcing new age verification for adult content—how could this be done properly?

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There are lots of ways around doing a full SSO integration, though.

In the simplest form, the ISP could simply use a captive portal of some sort directing the user to authenticate first.

While captive portals can't serve the correct certificate most browsers these days are smart enough to detect a captive portal redirect and give the user a smoother experience.