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- Comment on Mastodon: Our ideas about Packs 2 days ago:
Interestingly, the person who added these to Bluesky say they’re a bad idea: blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?author=hailey.at&post=…
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 days ago:
Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.
What, you can absolutely ban people on a decentralised network. You may not be able to expunge someone from a part of the network they control themselves, but you can expunge them from the part you control. Bluesky has this power and has used it in the past.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 5 days ago:
They won 84.6% of the vote
I know? I literally voted for the man and reported on him being elected here.
it’s important to examine the characters of influential Individuals
I’m sorry, what? I don’t understand what that has to do with what’s being talked about.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 6 days ago:
It’s still interesting to discuss since they’re going to be leader for years
Only one year, unless he’s re-elected. The GPEW hold leadership elections every 2 years, but it was postponed last year so as to not coincide with the general election.
Those 2 constituent countries fly under the Union Jack.
It’s still inaccurate to call them ‘the UK’s Green Party’ as both Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own Green parties which are separate from the GPEW.
- Comment on Vegan Politician Zack Polanski Elected New Green Party Leader In Landslide Victory 6 days ago:
Why report on this now? The article even acknowledges that this happened last month. Also, there is no ‘UK Green Party’, Polanski was elected leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 1 week ago:
Masto interprets a
Noteset asas:sensitivewithout asummaryto mean ‘blur any media attached, but don’t collapse the text content’. I believe the same is true for non-Notes, but obviously without thesummary= CW logic. - Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 1 week ago:
So a summary included in a non-Note is not CW’d by Mastodon currently.
I know, I was just saying that it prevents a non-Note from being CW’d, as the
summeryis used as the post’s content. Masto treats aNotemarked assensitivewith nosummaryto just mean to blur the images. - Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 1 week ago:
If it has a summary, I will use that as the content
But isn’t that how Mastodon handles content warnings? Baffling that they’d do it like that frankly given that it prevents long-form content (when masto actually starts supporting that) from being CW’d.
- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 1 week ago:
How they see it: sfba.social/…/115267196743748430
Do note that Mastodon forces a redirect to the original instance for non-local posts, here’s a direct link to the comment: sfba.social/@karlauerbach/115267230182946226
It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?
There’s actually some related (yet-to-be-merged) changes to this on the Mastodon side, add support for links in Attachments (this is how Lemmy and the link federate links).
I don’t think anything’s changed, just two users finding a post in a hashtag (Lemmy adds the community name as a hastag for posts). I’ve seen some masto users complain about this in the past on the #lemmy tag.
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- Comment on Keir Starmer in crisis as Labour drops to 16% in devastating new poll 2 weeks ago:
Paedophiles.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 3 weeks ago:
Right now blacksky.community is an app that uses Bluesky’s AppView, which in turn uses Bluesky’s Relay. They’re working on their own AppView (which will have the equivalent of local-only posts) and that will use their Relay.
Interesting, from what I understand of ATProto, this would be hard to do on protocol, it’ll be fascinating to see how they do it. Maybe something off protocol like the recent bookmark feature Bluesky got.
I didn’t mean to undercut your point though, they often talk about PDSs as analogous to web pages, so your “different search engines” analogy is very accurate, it’s just not quite there yet.
I’d love to take credit for this, but the ATProto docs themselves make this comparison which is where I’m getting this from.
if I recall correctly either in (((streams))) or Forte (or maybe both) MIke implemented the nomadic identity over ActivityPub as well
This sent me down a bit a of a rabbit hole. It seems (streams) used an updated version of Zot, Zot/11 but was renamed to just Nomad. I can’t find anything about this, the (streams) repo only contains the spec for Zot/6, so I’m not sure about it’s APub compatibility. Apparently, Nomad had been discontinued in Forte in favour of pure APub, anyway.
If you’re thinking about this kind of stuff for Lemmy, it’s also worth looking at socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…/3738
Oh, I know about Silverpill’s work, it’s really interesting! I even mentioned it recently. I’m glad we have someone smart like them working on this stuff.
I do think some kind of separation of user data from servers, like what AT Proto does, is actually quite desirable. I just don’t like that PDSes can have their data harvested by whoever, I think data sharing with a server should be opt-in.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I thought blacksky.comnunity used Blacksky’s relay. If it uses Bluesky’s then yeah, disregard what I said.
That’s not a perfect analogy though because Blacksky makes different moderation decisions than Bluesky.
I’d hope so given how abysmal Bluesky’s moderation is. The discovery feed is filled with transphobia, but you can’t say Charlie Kirk should rest in piss.
Again though it’s not a perfect analogy because the AT Protocol architecture lets you migrate all your data between PDSs seamlessly, and so far only a few niche ActivityPub implementations support that (Hubzilla et al with nomadic identity, ActivityPods using Solid Pods).
I don’t believe Hubzilla’s nomatic identity works with APub though, irrc it uses something called Zot.
I’ve been thinking about how to add nomatic identity to Lemmy quite a bit and it’s something I’d like to work on after 1.0 is out, but it’s hard a problem for sure.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 3 weeks ago:
A better analogy would probably saying it’s like Bing/Google. They’re independent of each other but broadly what’s on one is on the other.
- Comment on This is what solidarity looks like 4 weeks ago:
independent but still connected (think about Lemmy instances)
It’s not really connected in the same sense two Lemmy instances are connected. They’re able to pull in the same data as Bluesky as it’s all public and PDSs don’t really have the ability to block a relay from crawling them.
- Comment on On discourse and decentralisation 4 weeks ago:
The discourse around decentralisation has elevated a form of network architecture that facilitates and contributes to a healthier social internet into a goal into itself.
Big agree with this.
- Comment on sinful 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what objections there could to the statement other than procedural. It’s a nice ‘let’s work on making stuff better rather than fighting with each other’ message.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG 4 weeks ago:
This from @mackuba@martianbase.net is good and up-to-date: mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/
- Comment on Statement on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol by W3C SocialCG 4 weeks ago:
And the fact that AT Proto requires the full firehouse replicated to all relays.
It doesn’t, not even Bluesky runs a full network archive relay anymore because it proved to be too complicated and expensive.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Unless I’m missing something in the code I linked, they’re not. All that action does is merge one community into another on the local database, nothing federates.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
As for why Piefed and not Lemmy, it’s because Piefed communities are portable. That is, if the admin proves to be awful or a server threatens to shut down, you can just move the community elsewhere.
Are they? The only thing I’ve heard about this is Piefed’s community move admin action, which is just a simple db rewrite only on the local instance.
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- Comment on Calling boss a dickhead was not a sackable offence, tribunal rules 5 weeks ago:
Locking as this is a duplicate, but I’m not removing as there’s comments.
- Comment on JK Rowling slams Graham Linehan’s arrest at Heathrow 5 weeks ago:
The main difference is the Linham has a history that means it’s probably not a hypothetical. He’s already appearing in court on the fourth for harassing a trans woman and breaking her phone.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 5 weeks ago:
Doing it this way is why small instances gets hammered when a user’s post goes viral.
Setting up caching in the reverse proxy layer would alleviate this a lot of this. Like, GoToSocial only recommends to set up caching for the key and webfinger endpoints, where having it set up to cache posts and profiles for like 60 seconds (or however long the
Cache-Controlheader says, Mastodon defaults to 180s) would alleviate the strain on the server so much.There are other thing you can do, like this post explains some other things for Misskey, but the defaults should be sensible so you don’t have to be a sysadmin expert to host an instance and they’re currently not. I host 2 Lemmy instances (ukfli.uk and sappho.social) from a £5/month VPS and they’re able to handle bursts of hundreds of requests without issue.
And as for moderation bluesky also carries information with the top post from the post author and allows hiding replies too, etc. This gets enforced on the appview side, so the posting user’s PDS is unscathed if it goes viral.
This is bad though, the fact PDS don’t allow for access control is bad. Honestly the fact I can’t stop a Nazi relay from indexing my data is actually kinda irksome.
Bluesky is built to assume a handful of big relay (remember that a relay can merge in contents of another) and a bunch of appview and a ton of PDS servers, feed generators, moderation labelers, etc.
People are already building small, non-archival relays so this assumption seems mute. It’s also important to remember that relays are an optimisation, not a core part of the protocol.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 5 weeks ago:
I mean, this would become less trivial the more replays go into use, where to get a full view you’d have to pull from all the relays that exist.
ActivityPub’s solution to this is just IMO better, the original post has a replies collection attached to it that acts as the authority the replies the post has. This also allows creators to eject replies from the collection. There are issues with the way fedi software currently handles fetching from these reply collections, but the missing replies thing is very solvable in ActivityPub.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 5 weeks ago:
If your idea is that the replies to every post look the same to any user, anywhere, at any time
This is only true of Bluesky because everyone is using Bluesky’s infrastructure at the moment. If Bluesky ever deindexes someone and they start posting to an alternative relay, you suddenly don’t have a guarantee of a full view of a post’s replies.
