Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Why do you assume i’m saying it should be centralized? My annoyance is literally that it’s too centralized!

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• palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why? I don’t quite see the relationship between losing access to a domain, and it being uniquely bad for activitypub.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because it means losing access to the content unless the operators go through the ardous process of moving to another domain, whereas with the matrix protocol the content would remain perfectly available and the only thing that happens when a server has domain issues is that the accounts and specific room alias become unusable.

    XMPP has the same issue because it also relies on one central server to host a room, whereas with matrix ALL involved servers replicate the room which means that there is no central server to go down, which is just objectively better for things like chats and forums.

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    • MeowdyPardner@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      With activitypub all involved servers also replicate the content so I'm not sure what distinction you're trying to make. That's why we can still see all the communities, posts, and comments on the servers that are still online.

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    • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      that is not entirely true from a lemmy perspective. When an instance subscribes to a community, the remote instance gets the last 20 or so posts, as well as subscribes to all new posts from then on. IT has a local copy of that community. What it doesn’t have is any of the embedded media.

      AFAIK, this is similar to how matrix works too. I do not know if this is a lemmy implementation choice, or a AP standard?

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    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Technically instances do actually duplicate the communities. Right now I’m responding to a comment cached on the database of lemmy.thesanewriter.com, and I would retain that ability even if your instance defederated from mine or went down forever.

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• TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Do you have a better protocol in mind, or any fixes that could be made to make ActivityPub better?

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  • ianonavy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The AT protocol that Bluesky runs on is designed to address this specific limitation of ActivityPub.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, the matrix protocol is very mature and perfectly suited for forums.

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    • palitu@lemmy.perthchat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      do you think that the matrix protocol may be a bit too heavy for this sort of usecase?

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    • lohrun@fediverse.boo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you know of any forum-like websites that use the matrix protocol?

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      • 456@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        i’m going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel here, so bear with me:

        • cerulean - an experiment to do with threading features, so it is not guaranteed to be as good as lemmy, nor is it maintained
        • commune - it feels more like discord, and has its own api in front of matrix, but it is still built on matrix!

        yeah i dunno, there are others like somix and morum but they seem more early stages.

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