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- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 1 week ago:
Federation is not the natural unit of organization, that’s a hill I’m ready to die on. The problem is that most people get hung up on the idea of instances because they’ve only experienced the two extremes of siloed networks and the “Dark Forest” of blockchain.
- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 1 week ago:
I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto’s strength is that it was built for a “credible exit”, i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
May I interest you in !minecraft@level-up.zone instead? I can make you a mod if you want.
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
There are a lot of architecture astronauts that will keep talking about “we should develop a grand-unifying system”, but most of them are all talk and little result.
When push comes to shove, the developers that actually ship are the ones that look at problem they want to solve and work on that.
- Comment on Unifying the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Whether enough people want it is a different story, and most developers are stuck in the app store mentality, so it gets difficult to get enough support for this to move faster.
- Comment on Politics 3 weeks ago:
Great, that’s exactly what we need in alternative social media: more reasons for people to be angry at the world and those who do not 100% subscribe to my point of view.
- Comment on Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this 3 weeks ago:
Maybe we should introduce a gated API and charge $12 for 50k requests…
- Comment on Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if there’s a legit use for just fetching only comments outside of a post
The ability to see all comments is right there at the Lemmy UI.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
“Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable”
That’s not a good approach, because Y changes depending on the price point and X changes on what these Y customers would expect from the service.
The only variable that can be fixed here is “how much you are willing to pay”, so this is why I am asking it.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
In case you didn’t notice, I have a hosting business. This is why I’m “obsessed” in figuring out how much someone would pay for it, if they were serious about what they are asking.
By asking you “how much would you pay?”, I’m trying to gauge how serious you are about it. Your refusal to go ahead and name any amount for something that you said “I’d pay for that” shows me that you are not serious about it and therefore a bad idea.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab
No, I will look at kebab shop in your area and see how much they are charging, and I will check if their operation is actually profitable (instead of being a front for someone who needs to launder money) and I will see if they have enough customers paying the asking price.
There is no such thing for “hosting providers that have been audited and can certify that the data is secured and properly managed”. And given you are the first person saying “I’d pay for that”, why do you think is somehow offensive to be asked “How much?”
Someone sees a potential opportunity (…) does the research,
Yeah, part of the research is exactly going to potential customers and asking how much are you willing to pay for this?.
Seriously, I do not get what is so weird about asking it.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to go out there and do extensive business research
I didn’t ask you to do any research. You said “I’d legitimately would pay for it.” and I asked one simple question: how much?.
The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.
This attitude right here is why the Fediverse is never going to become a viable alternative.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
You didn’t respond the second part: how much are you willing to pay for this? Anything less than $100k/year and I will guarantee you there is no serious provider who will care about it.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances
Communick offers access to Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix for $29/year
I’d legitimately pay for that.
How much? “Regular auditing of the infrastructure” seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees.
They can. There are plenty of companies offering Mastodon hosting.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
The code is AGPL. They can’t do open core.
- Comment on What are the activity_id formats for various platforms? 4 weeks ago:
But then why do you worry about the ap_id patterns from other software?
- Comment on What are the activity_id formats for various platforms? 4 weeks ago:
So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.
Isn’t that the whole point of webfinger? Moreover, why would you paint yourself into a corner and hardcode the logic for all the different types of services, if ActivityPub uses JSON-LD and therefore provides a straightforward method for document dereferencing?
I’m not trying to be snarky. It’s just that I’m writing ActivityPub server where the id of each object is just an ULID, because to the server there is zero difference between serving the information about an actor or an activity.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
Otherwise, it’ll just fill up with all sorts of crap from communities with no downvoting rules, including edgy borderline racist stuff that’s not quite bad enough to get banned.
I may be wrong, but admins will be able to configure what communities should be visible in the public view. So your instance would not show on their frontpage things that are not representative of the instance
For users themselves who are browsing by /all and feel justified in downvoting because they don’t like what they see, it’s a different story. If a community is (in their view) problematic, they can simply block it. Downvoting has no place in their curation.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
so that you don’t decide to leave a community that you’re already in a position of power over
What “power” does the mod have if the community doesn’t have other members?
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
My Reddit account is from 2006. I joined it when Aaron Swartz was still working there.
In the very early days, it was like that. Even it was an unwritten rule, people expected to see disagreement in a conversation, not in a vote count. Only spammers would get mass-downvotes.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
And you are describing people using their single votes as they see fit as “authoritarian”
No, I’m talking about individuals that feel justifying in imposing their worldviews on minority/dissenting groups.
Go and wave your impotent rage in someone else’s face.
Projecting, much? I’m not the one saying that it’s a good use of my time to be shouting at everything I don’t like, and a quick look at your profile shows nothing but you being upset at other people.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
Cool, I will take this repeated strawman as as a sign that you simply can not address the discussion at hand, and that each of your responses is making the case for anonymous voting harder to support.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
The more you try to dismiss questions that challenge your worldview, the less sympathy I have for you being banned from that community.
You are being given all the chances possible to show that you can engage in productive conversation, yet here you are showing how much you care about nothing but yourself.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
If you feel compelled to try to silence people and try to justify yourself based on your value system, yes, you are being authoritarian.
Also, it’s curious that you only managed to resort to a strawman as a response for me calling you out on your behavior. Surely you can do better than that…
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
How many people did you get to change their point of view and/or behavior after being downvoted into oblivion?
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely no reason why every action I make on the fediverse ahould be saved in plaintext in a thousand different places so that a person can be protected from seeing a largely inconsequential negative number on a UI.
Extend this logic to actual comments and ask yourself how quickly this would descend into 4chan.
Whether you like it or not, a vote is a much expression as any type of reply. Why is it that a button that says “I dislike this post” should be protected while a comment saying the exact same thing should not?
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
Downvoting a toxic community is also a valid use of your downvote.
No, it’s not. You can flag/report/block the author of any posts in the community if you want, but downvoting will not achieve anything of value except of a dopamine rush.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
Votes are (or were) only meant to work as a signal of what the community thinks to be relevant. This is especially important for niche communities. You are being borderline authoritarian when you are not part of a community and you still think that the whole site needs to have a say in their discussion.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 4 weeks ago:
The message is “If you disagree with me, you will be banned”
It used to be that votes were meant to be used as an indicator of the quality of the post according to the community guidelines, not whether how “agreeable” a comment or post is. This cultural change is one the most toxic behaviors that made Reddit such a crappy place for discussion.
This was already bad on Reddit, but at least there one could avoid this problems because people were used to browse only the subreddits where they were subscribed, so a niche subreddits could still have some semblance of good “community” participation. On Lemmy, most people browse by /all and lots of them still treat the downvote button as a some mechanism to train an algorithm. These users are the worst. In the beginning, I was actually sending DMs to people asking them to please not downvote something if they were not part of the community and their reaction was basically “I don’t want to see this, so I will downvote to bury it” (completely ignoring the fact that they could simply hide the post or stop browsing by /all).
So, while “banning everyone who downvotes the post” might seem an overreaction, I could definitely see a moderator could flag a vote as coming from a non-community member and use that flag to ignore their votes in the ranking systems, and I would love to have a bot that auto-messages every clueless downvoter explaining the proper netiquette around votes for non-community members.