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I am not sure if humanity should adopt federation of every service on the internet. I am wondering, if humanity will. Consider what would have happened if there was federation from the get-go: we would not need to make different social media accounts on different platforms, because a Facebook account would have been able to…

Twitter already did it — more is yet to come. Facebook — and by extension Instagram and Whatsapp — are about to do it (I am not calling it/them Meta). Snap already did it (you may have not know about it). Call the orderlies with clean sheets for this is about to get messy. And one can only hope that this…

… and it’s sad. I originally signed up in the hopes of high quality content from a diversity of writers. At $5/month, I felt like I had the best magazine subscription in the world, when this was first introduced in 2017. And I wanted to support the writers. So I have been happy to fork…

And wasn’t e-mail always a federated system? And why didn’t Gmail and Outlook think of piggybacking email with a social network? Or did they? I have been trying to grok Mastodon for the last week now. And this one thought has been gnawing at me for a while. Seen those handles yet? Mine is @krishnavp ……

… and everyone has glass houses. Scene: Bangladesh lost to India. It was their game to lose. They responded with a flying start in the second innings, all wickets intact. Rain happened. Game resumed and Bangladesh lost its rhythm. There was an unfortunate runout. But really, Bangladesh could have still won easily. India was not…

So Twitter went to shit. But something really strange happened as folks started talking about Twitter alternatives: Mastodon emerged as the kool kid to replace Twitter. And I follow the who’s who of Tech and Journalism on my Twitter feed. Instagram got a few mentions. Reddit got laughed out of the room. No one mentioned…

🖋️✒️🖋️✒️🖋️✒️🖋️✒️🖋️✒️ One thing I like to do every once in a while is to refill my fountain ink pens with different colors and write some crap. The problem of course is that this remains a fleeting fascination and after I am done with my burst of writing (on paper), the pens go dry. After some…

I resisted authoring this one for as long as I could… but here I am. Printing code in a professional setting for code review purposes is dumb for a few reasons. Let me enumerate the top three reasons: #3: Scale… for the amount of code even a moderately sized project contains, reams of paper and…

Watching India, Australia, New Zealand and England win cricket tournaments over, and over again… is tiring. Although in all fairness, India can do a little more winning in the finals of ICC events. What I would love to see as a cricket fan is the equivalent of the Asia Cup (for cricket) take root in…

If you read the little I have written about Social Media, you know that I am not a fan of any aspect of this technology/product landscape. Social Media does not have a clear upside to humanity. If the likes of FB/Twitter/Reddit stopped exiting tomorrow, the internet and the world would be better off. Having said…