rako

@rako@tarte.nuage-libre.fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s historical and can be traced back to how it was formed: some of the people were coming from the instances perspective, where a bunoh of people congregate and network, some from the individual website perspective where you can do absolutely anything and everything you want, you’re home after all. So it landed somewhere in the middle: some very basic use cases were laid out, every platform did whatever they wanted and tried to fit the basic use cases in. Now we have independent platforms doing what they want and if we’re nice we can, maybe, talk with others.

  It’s a sad state but some platforms, like emissary and bonfire, are trying to go beyond and offer the possibility for anyone to build their own interface on top. One should also defocus from mastodon and look closer at the friendica family of software which have always looked at fulfilling many usecases, so compability can be better than others

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalist propaganda is rampant on the fediverse. We need to discuss ways to combat this. Most big instances -generalist, tech or something are wholly controlled by bourgeois people who would rather uphold state violence than democracy. What do you think?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Be the change you want to see. You want the right kind of content to magically come to you, how do you think this content exists in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About decentralised storage of fediverse data.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but “decentalised” here is not clear. Do you mean a storage that is not controlled by the instance ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About decentralised storage of fediverse data.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Centralized where ? Each instance is autonomous and independent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me, or does anyone else wish there was a federated, decentralized alternative to YouTube Music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious as to what is wrong with funkwhale ? It does have issues but it also seems to fit your usecase

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Society isn’t fate. It doesn’t come out of nothing. Accepting/keeping the status quo is accepting the balance that exists, and it’s been going right for a dong time.

  It’s not just about what you can or can’t do, it’s about where you’re pushing to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You must care about money in a capitalist world, of course; the real question is do you want money to matter all the time or not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A more interesting way is to understand that there is a difference between what is and how it affects us. The point isn’t so much to decide whether gravity exists or not but to make sure it doesn’t impose any unfair weight (ha) on some members of the society and not others. When we say “it’s just exists” we’re very close to say “there’s nothing we can do about this” and that justifies unfair situations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going against bilionaires is going pretty left though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Caring about money is taking a side though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Social Web Working Group at W3C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The mastodon api, or the lemmy api, or the xyz api. Eagh platform has its own. Being public doesn’t make it standard, hence the “proprietary” qualifier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah if you want to do the same community it’s going to be harder, but if you want to make your own community with your own content and views it’s different.

  Also, the history of the internet contradicts your point, communities have moved servers since the beginning, there never was a unique central point for everything. Lemmy is a bit inferior here because it only allows you to see communities one by one, but piefed can group communities into feeds that you can directly follow. By not placrng focus on a single one piefed can push for much more diversity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Social Web Working Group at W3C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because AP as it is implemented today is crap, it’s a superficial compatibility layer on top of a proprietary (as in, doing non-standardized stuff) platform. We need to take it on its head and make AP the actual core then build on top

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pro-capitalism garbage is putting me off, yet is everywhere. I like that it’s different, not everyone wants the same things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that communities/instances have opinions and go in a direction. That’s what make decentralization useful rather than one big average thing that always pushes towards the status quo in the end. Mako your own community with your own rules without all-powerful overseers, that’s a system I believe in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m taking the data as it exists on the API …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The stats with all softwares

  We can see a globally slowly downward trend, probably not good but I’m definitely not equipped to analyze that

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then again if it’s some guy in his corner doing stuff on his own, is it really a community ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither nostr nor simplex make “community building” a thing. The most important defining point is the ability to have communal intermediaries. All protocols can do a forwarding bot, starting with the good old mailing-list, but anything more complicated than that is rare. In nostr that would be running a full relay (which is just out of the question if you’re not technical). Simplex isn’t much better. Both are built for individualistic purposes, so it’s not really surprising.

  ActivityPub isn’t perfect but it has Groups, with some people working on making them controllable. XMPP has highly configurable pubsub. Those are proper foundations for billions of people building billions of communities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been thinking about that a lot and plan to build something I’m more interested in:

  • powerless instances where all you can do is create accounts and store stuff to be served but every logic and integrity is done by clients
  • anonymous account creation so that everyone can participate -> freedom of speech …
  • follow-based interaction: if I don’t follow you, you cannot send me anything -> … not freedom of reach
  • because instances are powerless they do not define community anymore. Communities are good old accounts, created, managed and animated by users directly
  • because clients have all the power, they are the primary storage source
  • Communities are the primary dissemination vector. If I don’t follow you but we’re both part of the same community and you post something to that community, I’ll see it
  • when I block someone, that block can be propagated to others so they can automatically block that same account. This works for communities as well.

  Hopefully a design like this should empower users and communities by letting them focus on the social aspect of building the group, nurturing it, instead of the technical parts that constrain users into artificial uses