rglullis
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- Comment on Request for Feedback/Collaboration - Bytescape, an Iroh based identity layer for the open web 3 days ago:
FYI: I am not going to say that I have all the pieces in place, but I will say that if we put what I’'ve done on fediverser.io with my headless ActivityPub Server, we are like 90% of the way there. The hard part now, believe it or not, is to get other servers to implement the missing parts of AP instead of the selective implementation they have.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 4 days ago:
Why did Linus Torvalds then disassociated
Absense of evidence is not evidence of absence.
You are failing at this most basic test of logic, this is not what I want to get dragged down into a pointless discussion with you. Enjoy the block, and have a good rest of the weekend.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 4 days ago:
installing lemmy means supporting an authoritarian
Non sequitur. The software is free to use, free to redistribute and does not come with any obligation to support the ideologies of the developers. If that was the case, everyone using Linux desktops should be associated with Richard Stallman (author of the GNU project), which is on record defending Epstein by arguing that minors can consent to sexual relationships in exchange with money.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 4 days ago:
dessalines power tripped his own software.
AFAIK, he does not have any power over the other instances and communities that are not hosted over on lemmy.ml?
Uhhhh, are you aware how federated networks initialize?
Not interested in being baited into a pointless discussion today, sorry.
- Comment on Request for Feedback/Collaboration - Bytescape, an Iroh based identity layer for the open web 4 days ago:
This was one of my stretch goals for fediverser.io, and I would definitely be interested in helping with this. Basically, the real end goal for me would be to create ActivityPub actors that are based on the DID to completely decouple their identity from the ActivityPub server that is serving their inbox and outbox.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 4 days ago:
Any community that talks about moderation issues. Preferably one that is closer to the users of lemmy.ml.
This is not the place for this. It achieves nothing and gives newcomers the impression that this type of petty drama is an integral part of the Fediverse.
- Comment on Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns 4 days ago:
Please find a better place to air out this dirty laundry.
- Comment on ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web 4 days ago:
None of that pays the bills of the developers.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
In the most practical cases, yes. But in theory, there is nothing about the protocol that says that message addressing implies message visibility, or even access control.
Also, be careful of taking your assumptions and treating them as universal truths. One day somebody could build an IRC-like system on ActivityPub and decides to treat a “ChatMessage” object as public objects which may or may not be addressed at a single participant. There would be no “bug” if the server picks up the object, relays to others, or even indexes it and makes it searchable.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I wasn’t talking about the specifics of Lemmy, but ActivityPub in general. You can not guarantee that just because a message has been addressed to a single actor that only that actor will see it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes, but if you want a real one-to-one, private chat system use Matrix or XMPP. Treat anything you write on Lemmy as public information.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The fact that a message is addressed to a single person does not mean that it’s only sent to that person. In theory, anyone following you will receive a notification about the message.
- Comment on ADAPT: the server to bring back the (Social) Web 1 week ago:
This is how federation was sold to me
But did you pay anything for it?
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Are users data protected on the fediverse? 1 week ago:
“it works when everyone behaves well” is not the same as being protected.
It doesn’t even take a malicious actor: I am working on a local-first browser extension that is very aggressive about caching content in the database. There is no “please delete this data” for an extension. You of all people should not be making claims about privacy that you know you can not guarantee.
- Comment on Are users data protected on the fediverse? 1 week ago:
Asking to delete data that you published on the public internet is the same as asking for water to be not wet.
Don’t fall for the illusion of privacy that the proprietary networks give you: there are people that copy data from reddit just for the fun of it. Always assume that anything you publish online is publicly available.
- Comment on Another Quick Test (Disabled Federated Upvotes) 1 week ago:
Please use a test instance…
- Comment on Converser.eu is being flooded 1 week ago:
they seem to want this service to stay free and open
The admin might think they are being this generosity is good for the users, but at the end of the day all it just gets them burned out and gives people who signed up the impression that all matrix servers are slow. Meanwhile, acess to my matrix server is not free, ($29/year, less than $2.50/month) but by charning just a little bit I can make sure that it grows at a rate that I can manage and doesn’t make my infrastructure implode.
- Comment on Converser.eu is being flooded 1 week ago:
There is a super easy way to solve this: make registration available only for users that contribute.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 4 weeks ago:
Cara, eu já estou com com uns 70% da API do Lemmy implementada, e passei esse fim de semana todo trabalhando numa entensão pro browser que “puxa” o grafo social localmente e mostra os dados, como se fosse um browser. Quero ver se consigo fazer posts via C2S antes de ir dormir. :)
Tudo isso pra dizer: sim, eu tenho muito pitaco pra dar nessa história…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
He likes the process of working on greenfield ideas and gets bored once he ships the MVP, which is fine. What is not fine is that he makes a ton of hype around new projects, but after he gets tired of playing with it, he refuses to let go. It sucks the air out of the community for very little benefit.
I was hoping that the PixelFed kickstarter would force him to finally focus on the damn thing, but it seems he simply does not have the drive or interest to work at a steady pace in one single product.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I was excited about this. Went on to look at the website and was greeted with a “Coming Soon!” message. It all made sense when I saw it was yet-another project from Daniel “Overpromise and Underdeliver” Supernault.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
If the idea of a healthy Fediverse requires people moving instances whenever one finds themselves close to bottom-feeders and opportunistic parasites, we already lost.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 5 weeks ago:
Once you achieve any kind of scale, whoever your client is querying to get the book data for those kinds of queries is going to block you
You know that the whole of wikidata can be copied with just a few hundreds of GBs, right? There are plenty of examples of community-driven data providers (especially in the *arr space), so I can bet that there would be more people setting up RDF data servers (which is mostly read-heavy, public data sharing) than people willing to set up their Mastodon/Lemmy/GoToSocial server - because that involves replicating data from everyone else, dealing with network partitions, etc…
Also, there are countless ways to make this less dependent on any big server, the client could pull specific subsets of the data and cache data locally so the more they are used the less they would need to fetch remote resources.
Think of it like this: a client-first application that understands linked data would be no different than a traditional web browser, but the only different is that the client would only use json-ld and not HTML.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 5 weeks ago:
Or are all of the books objects stored on activitypub and I get the data from the social graph itself?
Not “stored on activitypub”, but each book could be represented with RDF (it could be something as sophisticated as using DublinCore or as simple as just using isbns to uniquely identity the books (
urn:isbn:1234556789) , and then each activity for “CombatWombatEsq read a book” would be an activity where you are the actor and the book is the object. - Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 5 weeks ago:
and building an “everything server” that implements every message you might want to send is prohibitive just in terms of complexity and scope.
It is not. A server that “speaks” the ActivityPub is not that difficult to build, I’ve done it. The complexity is in getting the data from the social graph into and creating a good UX for users who are too used with the “app-centric” mentality.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
All the “features missing on Lemmy” could/should be implemented on the client. The fact that developers don’t understand that and go on to reimplement a whole part of the stack (instead of joining forces and helping the existing effort) is counterproductive.
- Comment on Why is Pixelfed an extra network and not just a Mastodon client? 5 weeks ago:
It stores the complete data for any given user post in its databases
That is not fully correct. The index the data from the different personal data servers, and they host the largest personal data server out there, but you can have your own PDS and interact with other Bluesky users without having to rely on their data.
This means each one has its own data model, internal storage architecture, and streams/APIs.
Yeah, but why? ActivityPub already provides the “data model” and the API. Internal storage is an implementation detail. Why do we continue to accept this idea that each different mode of interaction with the social graph requires an entirely separate server?
Because they were built for different purposes, they support different features
Like OP said, on bluesky is possible to have different “shells” that interact with the network. Why wouldn’t that be possible on ActivityPub?
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 month ago:
Social Engineering for Good. Social Engineering for Progress.
- Comment on Can we make federation less dependent on domain names? 1 month ago:
AFAIK, “community migration” is done in PieFed by having the target instance making a request to the source one to change, and if the owner authorizes it then it PieFed recreates the actor and its objects on the target instance. Then it is up to the owner of the source community to delete the/close the source community.
My objection is to this recreation of the objects. If someone creates a post on “community@alpha” and the moderator decides to move to “community@beta”, history is being recreated and it makes “beta” with activity that is not original. Also, having the consent from the community owner is not enough, because it ignores the fact that the members of the alpha community might not be interested in being associated with beta.