ether+nick

Look how good this turned out 😭 it was an experiment and I wanted to cheer when I opened the kiln this morning

Sat opposite a man on the train with a cake carrier containing a half eaten birthday cake.

Pulled into a station, another man got on with an identical cake carrier containing a half eaten birthday cake and sat next to him.

The first guy then got off... BUT I DIDN'T SEE IF THEY SWAPPED CAKES.

Anyway this is how I may have witnessed a spy cake handoff.

(And *how* does ActivityPub avert these problems? Well, ActivityPub has the "instance" abstraction. The federate-or-defederate relationships serve as a basic web of trust so some work, like moderation, doesn't have to be fully duplicated. Data is shared between instances only when a follow-relationship requires it, reducing work. Instances can still get too big and maintainers overworked, but you can fix that problem with more, smaller instances. As above, *there ARE no small Bluesky instances*)