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- Comment on ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward 3 days ago:
Yeah, it was kind of an obscure project to begin with. Still, it struck me as an excellent way to prototype federated services that all hooked into a singular identity.
Hopefully, it inspires future work.
- Comment on Would blockchain work better for the Fediverse, instead of Email Style Instances? 5 days ago:
Nope! The main thing going for a distributed ledger would be global consistency, but there are some very negative downsides. It’s slow, scales poorly, puts a massive burden on admins operating instances, and the blocks would be effectively immutable…meaning that if the contents of each activity were fully nested inside of a block, edits or deletions would be impossible. We already see problems with CSAM showing up in various blockchains, and a Fediverse blockchain used for social purposes would be no different.
It’s just not the right tool for the job when it comes to social networks. There were a few early experiments in this area, such as Twister, which tried to build a Twitter clone on top of a blockchain using DHT. It has a huge list of limitations, though, and development stopped around 2020.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
Silverpill might not like me making this comparison, but its form and function are shockingly similar to OnlyFans.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
OpenCollective is a pretty solid open source contender in my experience. It’s not perfect, but it’s definitely workable.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
PeerTube’s support button is, at best, a lightbox that holds a text string. It’s fine for highlighting links, but you still kind of have to dance around with having an account in another system to make the payment.
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 3 weeks ago:
You might be interested in trying out Nostr. I know it’s more Bitcoin Lightning focused, which admittedly is not for everybody, but they’ve managed to make a lot of stuff work when it comes to paying one another.
In the technical sense, Nostr is really great.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 68 comments
- Comment on Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy 2 months ago:
Yeah, Wafrn uses both protocols, and basically runs its own PDS and AppView.
- Comment on Wafrn is for People Who Miss Tumblr’s Chaotic Energy 2 months ago:
Remote profiles appear to show up, it might be possible to also remotely pull in posts. I didn’t see Subscribe functionality in Lemmy, but maybe PieFed or MBin support that.
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 18 comments
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- Comment on Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time 3 months ago:
Honestly, it’s a tough choice. Hubzilla can theoretically do everything you want, but there’s a steep learning curve.
One thing that might help is to narrow down what kind of features you want. What I’m seeing so far from your description is:
- Blog / HTML hosting site
- Comment on Best Fediverse platforms to do it all right this time 3 months ago:
Yeah, I was a long-term Hubzilla user some years back. There’s some really cool stuff that it can do, but it seems to get slower and more bloated the longer you run it.
- Comment on Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s not great. Unfortunately, there’s not a great way to describe this stuff without either leaning into abstract terms, or using oversimplifications.
The short of it is: only half of the ActivityPub protocol really got adopted by most of the Fediverse: the stuff that lets servers talk to each other. The other half would allow for a lot of cool things to be built, with not everything being its own Fediverse server.
- Submitted 3 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on fediverse/activitypub based linktree alternative 3 months ago:
Honestly, it would be kind of cool if you just had a simple app to log in with your Fediverse identity, and it rendered your existing profile on the page and allowed you to put additional links.
I don’t think it necessarily needs to federate.
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 4 months ago:
Actually, there’s a pretty decent possibility of this happening! Ben from Bandwagon is currently looking into this for the underlying Emissary platform. If it proves easy enough to integrate, there’s literally no reason not to.
Proving it in one project might see adoption across similar efforts.
- Comment on CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse 4 months ago:
Support for other providers is coming. Bandwagon is in a similar situation. The overall goal is to support a multitude of options, so that no one payment solution has a monopoly.
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 33 comments
- Comment on Is Meta Scraping the Fediverse for AI? 4 months ago:
Probably not, but the tradeoff is that you’re limiting audience reach. Occasionally, this can also break context in public conversations, where someone might follow someone else who responds to you, but can’t see your original post.
- Comment on What do y'all think of the live streaming platform, Owncast? 4 months ago:
OwnCast is wonderful. It’s dead simple to set up and use, and works great with OBS.
I tend to prefer streaming through PeerTube, simply because the platform has more features. But for simplicity, OwnCast can’t be beat!
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 34 comments
- Comment on Fedicon is happening in Vancouver, BC this weekend 4 months ago:
If anyone is interested in seeing the recorded talks, we’re in the process of uploading them all to PeerTube! First day is uploaded, currently working through day two!
- Comment on Big Updates Are Coming to Loops 4 months ago:
I would imagine that this is getting addressed in the update as well.
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 20 comments
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- Comment on I totally missed the point when PeerTube got so good 5 months ago:
Wanting to get paid for your work, so that you can keep making stuff, is in fact not the same thing as greed. We have this assumption that everything on the Web should be free, or at least helped along by donations, but it’s not sustainable.