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- Comment on Really liking glance 16 hours ago:
Needs Lemmy support 🤷
- Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities? 1 day ago:
The reverse, i.e. getting outage notifications and so on via xmpp is quite common.
I can’t really think of any usecase to control self-hosted apps from a messenger, but sure, technically you could write such a bot quite easily.
- Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities? 2 days ago:
XMPP is truly decentralized with no single point that collects this kind of data. There have been some attempts over the years, but they always failed to capture more than a fraction of the network. A recent one is more artistic in nature, probably realizing the futility of it.
The popular Conversations app has sold 100k+ units on the PlayStore, but since you can also legally get it for free, that is probably only part of the actual users.
- Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities? 2 days ago:
Please don’t recommend jabber.org, it is super outdated and lacks almost all modern features.
- Submitted 2 days ago to selfhosting@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities? 2 days ago:
What do you mean with bots in this context?
- Comment on XMPP servers / cokmunities? 2 days ago:
We have an !xmpp@slrpnk.net community here on Lemmy. Our SLRPNK instance also gives an XMPP account to every member automatically and hosts a Movim webclient for easy access.
XMPP is certainly more popular for private groups and 1:1 chatting so you will not find that many large public channels, but there is a search engine here: search.jabber.network/tags/
The JoinJabber project also has a curated list of recommended channels and communities: joinjabber.org/docs/faqs/rooms/
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 days ago:
No, they are shutting down their publicly hosted infrastructure and say that their project is “finished” anyways, so it doesn’t matter that much as a justification. But the main point about the post is the infrastructure and how they lost motivation to run it.
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 days ago:
What? They explicitly talk about shutting down their self-hosted infrastructure which includes two git services and other target of AI scraping. Did you even read the post?
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 days ago:
It makes a lot of sense. Both the git repos that they hosted and things like a RSS feed-reader are things that are the prime target for AI scrapers and the same time quite database query heavy on the backend so that the scraping really has a big impact on the costs of running these services.
And yes source-code is among what is the most targeted data to ingest by AI scrapers, mainly to train coding assistants but apparently it also helps LLMs to understand logic better.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 3 days ago:
Played around a bit with hosting Flohmarkt and Manyfold. Promising fediverse projects, but still a bit early days.
Also looked a bit into running Piefed on via Podman, but didn’t progress much with it. Looks easy enough though in general.
- Comment on when hell freezes 3 days ago:
Looks like Windows Subsystem for Linux 😅
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 3 days ago:
Yes and the reason they state sounds a lot like AI scraping made hosting public services such a PITA that they lost motivation to continue doing it. Lots of long running projects that used to require very little maintainance are now DDOSed by these scrapers.
- Comment on Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 release 4 days ago:
1 . As you could have guessed from the community this was posted in, a software that is part of the fediverse. It has various modules for different functionality.
- Because they made a long blogpost that explains the new features that you hopefully read before commenting?
- Comment on The end of tt-rss.org 4 days ago:
The post is abit low on details, but I strongly suspect this is a victim of AI scraping.
- Submitted 4 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 4 days ago:
MAU is a very incomplete measure of active users as by far the most users lurk and post very little.
In total numbers Mastodon has about 10m users and only 30% of those are on mastodon.social, the rest is distributed on the 9k instances. That’s pretty close to the scenario you stated.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 days ago:
So lets say there are 100 instances. My instance needs to issue api requests to each instance to sync with the network. They in turn need to issues 100 requests to me to sync (and eachother). What about when there are 100k instances? Its exponential.
This falsely assumes that everything gets federated to everyone, which isn’t the case for ActivityPub. You only get what you actually subscribe to with it.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 days ago:
Mastodon already has those numbers you mention and there are no performance issues in the overall network.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 days ago:
Modern webservers don’t have a problem serving thousands of requests as long as they are spaced out a bit timewise. And since each AP instance only sees and interacts with a small part of the overall network it should not become an issue to expand the network horizontally. It is anyways probably better to think of interconected archipelagos and not of a singular network in the case of ActivityPub.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 days ago:
ActivityPub is designed to scale well for millions of users with a low number of subscribers each (dunbars number and so on). It is not designed as a mass media publishing tool where a few have tens of thousands or even millions of followers.
I consider this a feature, but feel free to disagree.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 days ago:
This depends on what you think the purpose of ActivityPub is and subsequently the type of scale. ActivityPub is designed for horizontal scale in a “social network”. If you have lots of participating entities with a more or less similar number of interconnected subscriptions ActivityPub scales extremely well, unlike ATProto, which needs to more or less ingest the entire network in its firehose.
But you are right that ATProto is better designed for “social media”, meaning that most subscriptions are one sided affairs with highly visible “influencers” being the main point around which the network operates. Obviously this is what most commercial networks are more interested in as it allows profitable advertisement and other forms of social influence.
I see these two types as entirely different forms of social interaction, and couldn’t care less about the latter. So I am not worried at all about scaling issues of ActivityPub, as it scales extremely well in the “social network” type of interaction.
- Comment on What's the factor when you're planning to self-hosted a instance? 5 days ago:
Hmm, afaik other than some generated small thumbnails no remotely sourced images are stored on your server when you turn off the proxy. At least in theory, but the entire Pictrs integration in Lemmy is such a mess with random unexpected behavior that at this point I am hesitant to claim that no remote images ever get stored (there seem to be alternative code paths for specific image hosts like Imgur and crap like that).
- Comment on What's the factor when you're planning to self-hosted a instance? 6 days ago:
The main issue with hosting your own fediverse instance is that federation doesn’t happen by itself and you need to quite actively search for accounts to subscribe to so that the servers start talking to each other.
- Comment on What's the factor when you're planning to self-hosted a instance? 6 days ago:
I am not sure OP is asking about hosting a Lemmy instance though. They mention non-Lemmy fediverse software.
However I think you misunderstood how proxying works:
Note that this has been drastically reduced with the image proxying, where if someone on say, .world posts CSAM it’s proxied through my server but not hosted by my server. So, liability is still a thing, but as long as the admins of .world take action then i’m protected with them. If proxying is disabled then the CSAM would live on my server too - and that means I’m legally required to report it.
It is actually pretty much the oposite of what you describe. The image proxy in Lemmy is a user privacy feature, but it comes with the downside that the server does indeed download and temporarily stores all media that are requested through it.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
No, this isn’t about individual persons turning bad or something silly like that. You can’t have a little decentralization either, for economic reasons. Once you get large instances in a supposedly decentralized network these by necessity need to professionalize sooner or later. Which means to need to find investors and a way to gain income from it. And then the enshittification commences… it is naive to believe that you as the founder are immune to that and if you try to resist it, the investors and other staff will find a way to push you out.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
I was thinking about activity tracking stuff like Wanderer or DiveDB… as my Flohmarkt instance would be also more outdoor stuff themed. But yes event management stuff like Mobilizon or Ganzio, or (non-federated) Lauti or Karrot might be an interesting option as well.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
No one talks about only one possible alternative, but it is often not immediately obvious to laypersons why a defense mechanism is vital to have and can not be made a middle ground. Like for example there is no way to weaken end to end encryption a little bit to scan for CSAM, without breaking it entirely.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
This assumes all these hundreds of pages are exactly the same and can be automated with bots without anyone noticing immediately.
There is a reason why spam on the Fediverse almost exclusively comes from a few large generic servers.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 6 days ago:
Maybe those European buyers were using the US/global page of ebay? The German ebay is an entirely different legal entity and (at least when I last used it) didn’t interact with anything other than what happened on their website for Germany only. Maybe it works differently in Canada, no idea.