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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • I don’t like centralized services. I also never pretended the opposite.

    This is for me and my usage. The caveat is that not everyone is in the tech. We can look at the disastrous communication of Mastodon. They focussed and lots of people promoting it focussed too on the “decentralized argument”. This backfired. It was not clear for the public. A good strategy would have been to market Mastodon as an alternative with an easy process to create an account on the general website. Tech people would have chosen another server and do their stuffs. People would learn progressively the decentralization part and move from server to server. This takes time. We have to put great strategies in places and be patient to bring the public to the fedi.





  • It’s not censorship. Social media isn’t the street. It’s mostly private companies and when you post something it’s like saying something inside the building of a private company and not on the street.

    The law is about regulating the companies and who can access these spaces.

    Lots of countries have a similar law for work. You have age restriction and speech limits by law.

    And yes, you can ask for a physical ID and even mandate an in person account opening. Or, you built a national account and social media must use it to allow access.

    Most of the people where I live are in favor of this and even until majority including smartphones.


  • It’s not discouraging you to take them. You don’t need a car in the country and a car is actually expensive (taxes, insurance, gas, etc.).

    The public transport system in unified. One ticket is valid on all the transports. A pass is valid on all the means of transport, even some cable cars.

    You can buy a pass for the country or for a local area.

    I want to eat an ice-cream in Ticino because of the sun. I hope on the train and go there for the day. No congestion, no driving, nothing. Also, you don’t need a reservation in long distance trains. It’s like a metro system.