Yup

Thanks. It was due to me using a wrong port. Its working now.

Sorry for the inconvinience

Ok, yeah, I’m using a certiciate of my domain provider. Maybe that’s the problem … thanks! I will try to do it with letsencrypt/acme

Ok, I see. To be honest, I didn’t put as much thought in this than in the last stories. Maybe it would have worked if it was longer … I will think about it! Thanks anyway for the feedback.

And it isn’t very Solarpunkish 😉

Well yes, but Solarpunk also supported dezentrality 😇

Yeah its kind of amazing :) (Although I think the story also is kind of universal)

PS: The similarity was noted before, check this out: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/this-crazy-japanese-film-just-blew-away-twitters-tweet-record/

"Twitter revealed a new tweet-per-second record on Friday and it seems the 143,199 tweets-per-second milestone was triggered by the airing of a Japanese animated film. […] In the film, the protagonists send the city’s airborne fortress tumbling out of the sky with the magic word, “balus” which roughly translates to “destruction.” […] So strong is the pull of “Laputa” – even apart from the Ghibli Rule–that during the last airing on Dec. 9, 2011, Twitter logged a then-record-breaking 25,088 tweets per second of fans posting “balus’’ at the same time it was spoken during the movie–despite a public plea from the social-networking site to hold off.”

• Donna Tam, CNET 16/08/2013

I think Twitter always in a way tried to be the castle in the sky. Also, I think people just found it fun to mess with it.

Ok, you’re starting to convince me. I still think some of his works are great solar punk even though maybe he didn’t intented them to be …

never watched it sry

Ok, that’s a little let-down. Although I don’t think its that he is completely against tech, maybe his views changed over time since many of his movies feature technical advantages and not always in a bad way, for example the moving castle …

That would still have been an interesting way to explore these questions. Royalty does not exist in a vacuum, it is a product of many principles that Sheeta and Pazy would not be fan of (not even Muska I bet).

That’s true. Could certainly be interesting, I mean, they build the whole thing and probably spend a few generations there.

But thing is, Miyazaki is very anti-tech. He did not want Laputa to be a dream followed by solarpunk, it was supposed to be a cautionary tale about the fall of technological societies. It prefered to focus on the destructive powers rather than on the post-labor utopias that the Laputa robots could have brought.

I would call his relationship with tech ambivalent, because the tech of Laputa is primarily positive and exists in harmony with nature. It just falls into the wrong hands.

Interesting. Although I think at some point there will always be a Muska. Exclusivity and aristocracy doesn’t usually led to good things …

1. Why universe? It has nothing to do with virtual reality and it sounds very sealed. But what we currently see with the introduction to ActivityPub to Wordpress for example is that it actually becomes a part of the Web. Its more similar to the web than it is to virtual universes.

2. The concept “federated” only makes sense in the current context. We have centralized social networks. They are bad. We want something else and think federation could do it. But it would be nice to have a metaphor that somehow stands on its own legs without relying on the old system. And the main thing that ActivityPub brings us is that the web becomes a social place.

That’s why I find “social web” better. It’s more future-oriented and less defensive.

I’m not a fan of fungi, I just think its a good metaphor for what ActivityPub does.

But I see your point: fediverse makes sense in the context, however:

1. The context in which the Fediverse was created is one that should be overcome. We don’t want walled gardens, in a world without them, the term Fediverse doesn’t make sense anymore. I think what we need to achieve as a society is a true implementation of the “social web”. And federation is not a main thing here, it’s just a by-product that could make it work.
2. I still think it would be great to have a handy metaphor that basically explains itself and that makes sense without having to explain centralized social networks first

For me it runs down to this: how do you explain the Fediverse to someone when walled gardens don’t exist anymore? Its a term created with respect to the old times. I think its contraproductive. The term “social web” is much better imo.

Why an alternative term?

I find the term fediverse irritating and I’m currently writing a short story about the Fediverse.

If you want something that carries more meaning then those proposed terms are maybe not the best as a mycelium network does not represent very well what the fediverse does.

For me, ActivityPub does for the web about the same thing that fungi do in the forest: they allow communication about the content in the web without a central entity.

If you want some more practical comparison then maybe a network of scribes in monastery libraries that copy texts and exchange them via a postal network?

But they aren’t sharing only text. Also: the monk doesn’t exist. The communication works dezentralized through a protocol.