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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • you never said it.

    The whole conversation started with me talking about Communick offering a subscription service. Communick is my business. I thought that was clear. My bad if it wasn’t.

    “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable”

    That’s not a good approach, because Y changes depending on the price point and X changes on what these Y customers would expect from the service.

    The only variable that can be fixed here is “how much you are willing to pay”, so this is why I am asking it.



  • I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab

    No, I will look at kebab shops in your area and see how much they are charging, and I will check if their operation is actually profitable (instead of being a front for someone who needs to launder money) and I will see if they have enough customers paying the asking price. If the math checks out and if I see an opportunity for the market, then I’d go invest time and resources to open a shop there.

    There is no such thing for “hosting providers that have been audited and can certify that the data is secured and properly managed”. And given you are the first person saying “I’d pay for that”, why do you think is somehow offensive to be asked “How much?”

    Someone sees a potential opportunity (…) does the research,

    Yeah, part of the research is exactly going to potential customers and asking how much are you willing to pay for this?.

    Seriously, I do not get what is so weird about asking it.










  • So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.

    Isn’t that the whole point of webfinger? Moreover, why would you paint yourself into a corner and hardcode the logic for all the different types of services, if ActivityPub uses JSON-LD and therefore provides a straightforward method for document dereferencing?

    I’m not trying to be snarky. It’s just that I’m writing ActivityPub server where the id of each object is just an ULID, because to the server there is zero difference between serving the information about an actor or an activity.