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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How about during the signup process(step) the user gets instance allocated randomly?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of having it be completely random, I am thinking of a site similar to sub.rehab.

  Instances that are open to public signup would register on the site, and give updated states on how many users they have along with a brief description of what they are for.

  Users can decide roughly what size instance they'd like to join and view a list of matches. We could add a "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that picks a random one out from the list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can ActivityPub do that RSS can't?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The really intriguing thing about ActivityPub, at least to me, is it's capability and potential to be a bridge for many other protocols.

  For example, here's ActivityPub via email: https://apubtest2.srcbeat.com/apas.html

  That page also references the longstanding NNTP(Usenet)-email bridge that existed for the linux-kernel mailing list, so we could get ActivityPub to Usenet.

  In fact there are a couple of RSS->Mastodon projects out there already, such as https://github.com/dariusk/rss-to-activitypub or https://github.com/jehna/mastofeeder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Instance] Kbin.run down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I have backup accounts on fedia.io and piefed.social

  But when I left spez's site for the fediverse, I recreated some lost content (while it was still fresh in my head) and added a bunch of new content to kbin.social - AFAIK with ernest MIA and no way to reach an actual admin of kbin.social my new content is now gone.

  That was a very discouraging experience. Since then I decided I wouldn't return until I could set up my own single-user instance - as owning and controlling my own instance largely means I always have a copy of my content, no matter what happens elsewhere.

  I wish piefed.social (which only fully opened this year in Jan IIRC) had been around earlier. The lead developer of piefed is really helpful and responsive, and created a lot of documentation on how to run your own instance of pyfedi - including how to set up your own at-home instance via something like ngrok. Basically you get a HOWTO guide on how to do this. Compare with the complexity of getting a Kbin instance up and running in the early days...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts Around KBin's Current Status and the Importance of Community Migration Features⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has there been any news from ernest or regarding kbin.social at all?

  It's different from e.g. kbin.run or kbin.cafe (neither of which even load anymore). kbin.social appears to be broken but the servers are still around and kicking - just with no one to go in and fix things. But doesn't this mean that someone has kept kbin.social around and alive?

  So ernest may not be able to get to it anytime soon, but might it not reappear in a year or two - when ernest has recovered a bit and had a good break and holiday?

  The latest I've seen is from https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/1383 where two months ago ernest said he's try to fix things, and nothing since. Was wondering if everyone was just assuming it's gone since ernest has been MIA for so long - or if anyone has heard of something a bit more definite about the subject.