Zaktor

@Zaktor@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fediverse is a specific thing. And even if it were just referring to any federated social network, it’s very questionable whether Bluesky really can have independent instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because this is not c/maybefederatedsocialnetworks, it’s c/fediverse, which is a specific thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Read on to literally the next paragraph, which says Diaspora is the only still developed platform that matches the original definition and does not use ActivityPub, or to the section that explicitly calls ATProto a Fediverse alternative.

  The first paragraph is descriptive of the Fediverse, not a test for whether something is part of it. The Internet is a collection of computers communicating via TCP/IP. That doesn’t mean any two computers communicating over TCP/IP are now part of the Internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither this community’s sidebar nor Wikipedia agree with your definition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great ATProto blog post on the reasoning behind their design architecture⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ATProto is not the Fediverse. Is there something in this blog you think should be discussed in the context of the Fediverse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on if the shortfall in rent is coming from something server related. If stux is pulling a good salary for his hosting work and the shortfall just came from a different job falling through, that’s a fine time to ask for donations, but not something people would feel warrants shutting down the server rather than taking out a loan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine having the burden spread unevenly. I don’t mind donating more so that a free platform is available to anyone who wants to use it. Whether something is funded by donations or fees is separate from whether the cost of people’s time should be included in the revenue target.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume he’s applying donations to the server costs firsts, then considering extra as profit/salary. We should be considering developer time as a core part of server costs, but I think people would react poorly if server donations went to personal expenses before server expenses.

  I think one of the best thing hosts could do is be transparent about costs and how much time maintenance takes and what sort of effective wage they are getting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’d need a little more than that to make sure the restriction isn’t used defensively by harassers (one of the reasons people ask for this is to show others bad behavior in their replies). But it does feel like a solvable problem.

  And Mastodon having more active moderation (since you can proactively look for an instance that meets your moderation expectations) also means the stuff that can’t be handled mechanically can be managed.