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Kind of like the BBC has their own Mastodon server instead of being on someone elses.

Who the fuck wants celebrities here?

This is a good thing.

Blahaj is not unmaintained but it only upgraded from 0.19.3 a few weeks ago. They are always a tad behind, and so I think calling them “unmaintained” is a bit much.

Hats off, Admiral, thank you for doing your due diligence and sharing with the community.

Agreed, but during the exodus it was less “this is a positive feature that we need and I’m willing to be patient” it was more like:

“This feature not existing is why no one will ever use this product! I’m sick of this and going back to reddit!” after being on Lemmy for 10 fucking minutes.

Valid question, but Americans in particular are easily swayed by the fact that the corporate ownership is listed as a “Public Benefit Corporation.” Bluesky is a PBC and for most people that’s enough “proof” that they will “be for the public good.”

In that it is set up to “benefit the public good” people just… buy into that, even if the company isn’t actually benefitting the public good.

Look at how long it took for people to wise up that the Susan G. Komen foundation was spending most of its money on their CEOs and ads and very little on actually helping people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_G._Komen_for_the_Cure#Pinkwashing

For the general public, Open Source generally means “difficult to set up and use with bad user interface.”

And yes, the whole self-hosting thing with numerous servers is confusing to people who have never had to step outside of the corporate-dominated internet.

All that is self-evident based on the original reddit exodus to here on Lemmy. The initial exodus lead to tons of people complaining about lack of features on Lemmy with very few people actually stepping up to contribute to the code-base to bring those features to light. They’re just far too used to private company doing all that “for free” (*cough for all your private data cough) and struggle to understand how the different way it is set up means you don’t get all the fancy features from the get-go.

So people saw an option with corporate sponsorship and money behind it, and they leap to that. Also I’m sure Bluesky is investing in advertising their product, which is competing with zero advertising dollars spend on the no-corporate fediverse.

This would be massively exploitable by anyone who wanted to know the personal networks of someone they wanted to harass (and businesses wanting to scrape and make shadow profiles on consumer connections).

All you need is their email, since you’re doing this before you make an account, you can see all their personal connections and start to use that information to aid in your harassment of them.

Good idea in theory, but it needs a lot of work for showtime.

But where would a unified Web client run in the first place?

Man, I already run like 10 different microservices that all have their own web portal and they’re all locally hosted.

What’s one more?

I literally connect to every IRC instance through The Lounge, a locally hosted web interface for multiple concurrent IRC connections.

You could definitely do the same for a web UI for the fediverse.

I’m not actually super familiar with the unified web clients, but you could be right that one is out there, or perhaps we’re just asking too soon in the general Fediverse development cycle. In a year or two, someone might have designed something like that, perhaps with a post like this as inspiration.

Unpopular Opinion:

Fuck apps.

Use web browsers.

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Fuck yeah, the most wholesome gaming community, no less.

*Laughs in 0.19.3-kt.2

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People care way too much about stupid internet threads.

They get deleted. Yawn.

Sometimes you gotta purge some fucking Nazi shit and its easier to just dump the whole thing down the loo. Sorry, not sorry.

If you want a super secure platform for private communication use Matrix for fucks sake, this is a media aggregator and social network.

Use the appropriate tools for the appropriate use-cases.

Everything on Mastodon gets publicly posted. Like, what even is this?

Security and accessibility are always at odds with each other.

You don’t increase security and safety and also increase accessibility. No, by increasing security, you have decreased accessibility.

Security and accessibility are a balance. If it’s easily accessible, it’s not secure, if it’s secure, it’s not easily accessible.

This “Jon” guy has been writing these fucking long ass screeds about all this for at least a year now.

Maybe if this motherfucker stopped writing and took some time to learn to code and then contribute to the codebase themselves, they might have more luck. As it stands, all they do is grandstand about the way things should be without even trying to understand the technical side.

Seriously, the pages and pages and pages written by non-technical people about “how things ought to be” when they aren’t willing to put in the legwork to figure out how any of the technical side fucking works or how to get the technical side to fit “how things ought to be” its just fucking blowing smoke out their ass.

I get that Mastodon has problems, but complaining about the problems while doing nothing yourself to improve the issues feels just so worthless.

Contribute to the code base or shut the fuck up about your demands.

I know, I just always think it’s humorous that its technically a fediverse project, although it seems it doesn’t do federation (that I know of, and thank god for that).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_Social#Platform

Truth Social is modeled heavily after Twitter; users are able to make posts (“Truths”, similar to tweets) and share other users’ posts (“ReTruths”, similar to retweets). The Truth Social platform uses a custom version of the free and open-source social network hosting software Mastodon as its backend, which omits several features, including polls and post visibility options.

The platform uses the Soapbox frontend instead of Mastodon’s native frontend. TMTG has advertised for developers with skills in using Elixir, the programming language used to build Pleroma.

On October 21, 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy group stated they suspected Truth Social had violated Mastodon’s AGPLv3 license by not offering its source code to all users. The Mastodon developers then formally requested that Truth Social comply with the terms of the software license, with Truth Social publishing its source code as a ZIP file on the website on November 12, 2021. On February 22, 2022, the source code download was moved to the website’s legal section. A mirror of the source code is available at GitHub, where it was uploaded by uninvolved individuals.

Also, with no built-in mechanism for embedding, say, youtube or peertube videos, Lemmy just is a primarily text-driven site like reddit used to be, and while there will be reams of text written about such a disaster… the video drastically speaks for itself. So the dearth of video on Lemmy, especially embedded video that allows you to watch without leaving Lemmy is holding it back in certain arenas.

Video storage costs a lot, it’s not a surprise Lemmy chose not to support it, but here’s hoping maybe someday they add the ability to embed videos and have them function in-page.

I’m just gonna fucking say it:

If we need to gamify everything just to get people to do good works we have categorically failed as a fucking species and giving in and gamifying everything to fight the gamifying is a losing fucking prospect.

You don’t fucking beat capitalism by saying “let’s try just a little capitalism.”

EDIT: Just look at Raymond Hill of uBlock Origin. He won’t take donations because he doesn’t even want to have any kind of possibility of being influenced by money (up to and including wanting the freedom to walk away from the project if and when he wishes). At the end of the day, what does he get out of his endless work on uBlock Origin? I’ve never said thank you to him directly, and I doubt most have, yet he toils at it endlessly, because it is an overall benefit and good thing for humanity and the internet. To him, that’s enough, and it should be for all of us.