GadgeteerZA

@GadgeteerZA@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @General_Effort it's about retaining a single identity for yourself, and one which you control and link to where you are using it vs a unique profile at every different social network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Berners-Lee: Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @SorteKanin my biggest worry is that his Solid POD has been coming from about 2016 in design and was funded 2021 or so, and I remember it being announced in 2022 or so. In today's world, that is pretty slow-going. It seemed to always be imminent. I even registered a POD back in 2022... and then nothing still after two years. So many other decentralised protocols have been adopted since then.

  Admittedly we do have an urgent need for one's own POD identity no matter where you are on social networks, but I still don't see how we're going to get ActivityPub, Nostr, WhatsApp, Facebook, etc to all adopt it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Fediverse truly decentralized? Not exactly.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @mypasswordis1234 being behind Cloudflare does not stop an instance being decentralised at all. I have a very small site that I can only afford a little money to host it. Although it is "behind" Cloudflare, it is hosted in the UK. That hosting is decentralised. Without a CDN my instance could not exist unless I had a ton of cash to pay for superfast hosting.

  None of this makes my site "centralised".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Already 110 instances updated to 0.19.2!⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @Blaze this relates to Lemmy versions in case others are also wondering what it refers to...