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- Comment on ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward 2 days ago:
Yeah, before I started working on DAT I spend a good amount of time trying to make Vocata work. If the performance of the rdf store was minimally acceptable, and if I had managed to efficiently query for collections, I would see if I could revive it.
- Comment on ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward 2 days ago:
Vocata has some great ideas, but it’s mostly abandonware. If someone here likes working with Python and is interested in a vision of the Fediverse as a true “Social/Semantic Web” instead of the current hodge-podge of poorly integrated software, take a look at Django ActivityPub Toolkit.
- Comment on Would this be possible with the fediverse? 6 days ago:
The point you are trying to get is exactly where Wordpress and Ghost are going.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the frustrating thing is that activitypods.org already does the hard part, but we need more developers interested in creating these clients that can work well with it.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 2 weeks ago:
You only heard the term in context of centralized big social media so you think the term has bad connotation
Please, don’t assume things about the people on the other side of a debate. It’s condescending and it robs us all of learning.
I’m not saying that we don’t need platforms because of “bad connotation”. I’m saying it because I have worked on a “social browser” for the fediverse, an application server for using activitypub as a transport mechanism and I know that we can develop an open social web that does not rely on server-centric applications.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 2 weeks ago:
No, far from me saying that the clients (apps?) need to look the same. What I am saying is that the differentiation should be happening at the client, not the server.
It’s the thing with Communick. I wish I didn’t have to offer separate instances for each of the services (Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale) but that every member could get one account which then could use as their main fediverse actor, regardless of “frontend” suited them best. The shell should adapt to the user, instead of the user being forced to adapt to the application.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 2 weeks ago:
We don’t need all fediverse platforms to be a Mastodon clone
We don’t need platforms.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 2 weeks ago:
We are going to build this as an opt-in feature
I think that the the problem is that it’s opt-in, when it should be the default.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 2 weeks ago:
What’s thr point of making pixelfed just another mastodon type app.
The problem is the Fediverse could be a lot more than just “decentralized versions of existing apps”. Most people now have this app-centric mentality because it was beneficial for Big Tech sharecropping, not because it was better for us.
We shouldn’t need different types of apps to see different types of feeds and to sort our data in ways that we want.
- Comment on Is there a way to mirror corporate social media to the Fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s good or bad, but it seems that most people forgot about alien.top and fediverser.io
- Comment on K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down 1 month ago:
Take a look at communick.com/lemmy, I don’t have an automated way to import an existing instance but if you have a backup of your media and database we can work something out.
- Comment on K&T Host, a hosting provider for many Fediverse software including Lemmy has announced they're shutting down 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, Google/Alphabet is announcing today record revenues of U$ 100 billion for the latest quarter alone…
The less the community support smaller, independent service providers, the more we will all be assimilated by the Borg.
- Comment on Threadiverse... on ATProto?! 2 months 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?! 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
The code is AGPL. They can’t do open core.
- Comment on What are the activity_id formats for various platforms? 2 months 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? 2 months 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.