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- Comment on How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed 4 months ago:
- Comment on How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed 4 months ago:
Using a CDN does not come without downsides, though. Cloudflare itself is becoming another “too big to fail” entity of a system that is not supposed to depend on the resilience/capacity/budget of any single actor.
Personally, I’d rather see a tiered architecture for data, where servers are only responsible for guaranteeing the data from actors on their own servers, but everything else stored in a distributed, append-only stream of data. This would make a lot cheaper to run individual instances and would allow clients to obtain the data from multiple sources.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Could you please write the same comment, but without the namecalling for what seems to be an honest mistake?
Good Lord, for all the talk about the Fediverse being a nicer place than corporate-controlled social media, comments like yours really show how that is very far from the rule.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
410 Gone! I was creating an implementation for the activity pub instance service transfer, but it seems to have spread far. We are very sorry to those who have experienced inconvenience. All temporarily used data has been removed and all data has been removed. The figures in the data will soon converge to zero. I trawled unintentionally.
- Comment on Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify) 4 months ago:
The whole paragraph starts with “as a backer”. I can rewrite it, but to be honest it’s not that difficult to comprehend it as is.
- Comment on Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify) 4 months ago:
I think you should have 2 “shortcut” buttons
Yeah, I think having sensible defaults would make a lot of sense and it is not hard to implement.
UI-wise, I’d try to implement a page where you can see all the artists you want to support, and each of one them would get a slider scale. It’s (relatively) easy to program it in a way that the payout distribution percentage is preserved even if you add/remove artists.
- Comment on Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify) 4 months ago:
Again, is it that different from Patreon?
With Patreon, the resource allocation signal is determined by the creators, but the people will support as many artists as they can/want. Letting the backer determine the amount given to each just makes this more granular, but besides that the mechanism is the same, no?
- Comment on Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify) 4 months ago:
company taking all the money that customers have paid
I think you misunderstood. What I mean is that the customer will choose how much of their allocated budget goes to each artist.
- Comment on Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify) 4 months ago:
Oh, yeah, I think there could be many “default split strategies”: play time, pkay count, direct/inverse correlation to general popularity, cutoffs for artists that already hit a funding threshold, extra weights for new work vs old catalog…
- Comment on Please give some feedback on this proposed model to fund musicians in the Fediverse (an alternative to Bandcamp / Spotify) 4 months ago:
only make arbitrary payments to me based on nothing but a whim.
How is that different from the current situation? For most people, supporting indie artists is already an optional thing, those using Patreon could cancel “on a whim” as well, no?
based on the number of times an artist gets played
Doesn’t that create a huge skew towards the pop-stars, who are already making money through other means (touring) anyway?
- Submitted 4 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
We’re talking about Meta
No, we talking about Bluesky.
Dorsey’s baby
He’s moved on to Nostr. Also, Bluesky is open source and their work can be forked by anyone. You might disagree about whether it makes sense to work on another different protocol instead of trying to improve the ActivityPub ecosystem, but let’s please not get into mud-slinging and this stupid tribal mentality.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
it’s also a community of people
I guess you are projecting a bit.
The Fediverse is now more than 10M people, it’s bigger than countries. And lots of people here (myself included, and even the developers of the ActivityPub standards) hope to grow it even more. We can not possibly expect to have a single “community” that is so uniform in cultural values. It would be incredibly boring.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
No user cares about the language an application is written in, only about its features.
Also, should Python developers not be allowed to use Rust libraries through bindings? What a weird and broken analogy.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
it’s not up to the admins of the destination instances to block it, but of the ones that have their content being drained.
You could argue then that Twitter has the right to block crawlers, which it does. But it was exactly this crackdown and wall-building that made a good portion of us to leave Twitter/Reddit and came to the Fediverse: to defend an open web.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
The largest Mastodon instance (mastodon.social) has 360k MAU. This means that one can crawl all of its activities with less than 5 requests per second, every day.
Even with rate limits, the Fediverse is still so small that I could crawl the top 10 mastodon instances in less than a day.
From my desktop PC.
On my shitty DSL.
Anyone thinking that bullying one developer into a well-meaning project will be enough to keep their “secret clubs” away from malicious actors are in for a sad realization.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
That’s what the ActivityPub protocol provides a platform for.
That’s ridiculous. ActivityPub is a standard to allow communication between different systems. What you are saying is that people should only be allowed to speak English if they want to be part of the British Empire and be subjects to the crown.
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
The whole idea in the first place was to NOT be corporate
The idea is that the network should not be owned and controlled by a corporation, not that no corporation should ever participate in it.
Besides, how “corporate” is a startup with a few dozen developers working on a fully open source project?
- Comment on Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges 4 months ago:
bird.makeup is not a bridge in the proper sense, it only brings content from Twitter to the Fediverse, not the other way around.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
it sounds like everything through the bridge would appear as coming from @web.brid.gy.
Because this is the only current deployment of the bridge. The code is open source, if you want to host/run/manage your own bridge, you can do it.
That was the same issue that I had with fediverser and alien.top. Everyone got so obsessed with the bots from alien.top and caused so much drama that no admin would be interested in using it for the “login with reddit” functionality. If there was a few more other instances running the software, it would have been incredibly more helpful to get people to move away from Reddit while helping bootstrap the niche communities here (which are until today completely lacking in content and not attractive at all for the masses).
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
Lemmy’s federation model is that all posts and comments get replicated across all instances. If an instance goes down, the copied content still will live in my instance. It’s not just caching.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
their platform
Can we please get out of this tribal mindset? The thing about decentralized systems is that it lets everyone where they want to be without being forced into a walled garden. Why should I care about the platform that other people are using, if I can reach this just the same?
Who cares if Bluesky or Nostr become more popular than ActivityPub? As long as the “platform” is open source and not actively working to hold its users as hostages, we should praise and hope they get to grow as large as possible. We should be fighting against the big corporations, not the small independent developers. There are almost 3 billion people using Twitter/Facebook/Reddit/TikTok. They are the ones that we should be actively engaging and trying to win them over to our side.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
How is that any different from content from user@smallinstance.mastodon being followed by a single individual from mastodon.social?
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
That’s is not the right analogy. No one is making the bridge and saying “I can take the content from person A on Lemmy and sell it on Bluesky”. they are just saying “Here is a copy of what Person A posted on Lemmy”.
In terms of copyright, why is it okay from someone on a different Mastodon server to relay content from a Lemmy server and even redistribute it (through, e.g, RSS readers), but it’s not okay for a bridge to redistribute it to a Bluesky server?
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
No. There is a difference in context and intent.
Bottom line is, if people are concerned of having their conversation and content distributed out of their intended audiences, we’ll all have to move to a fully encrypted network, where every message can only be decoded by the intended recipients. Getting upset because other people are not agreeing to your expectations of privacy is pointless.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
Copyright has fair use provisions, and one could argue that a bridge that lets you public content on a different network is no different than providing a VCR-to-DVD service.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
My choice of present continuous was deliberate.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
I’m not a fan of Bluesky, but to call it “centralized billionaire backed platform” makes no sense anymore. They are opening for federation already, and Jack Dorsey is now just shilling Bitcoin on Nostr.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 4 months ago:
Should federation between servers be opt-in?
Should Mastodon-compatible clients have posts private-by-default on the UI?
This argument against bridges is beyond stupid. If you are posting on a public network, it’s more than reasonable to work with the expectation that your content will be visible outside of original channel.
- Comment on Selfhosted twitter alternative, not mastodon if possible 4 months ago:
If you are looking for a system just for you and low on resources, I’d recommend gotosocial.org. Single binary, easy to setup and supports S3 storage.