asjmcguire

AN (or even) multiple admins signing NDA’s does not mean anything for the functioning of the Fediverse though, admins are running software, many of them do not have the knowledge to go in and start making significant code changes to the protocol. That’s what Codeberg is for https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep THAT is where changes to the protocol happen.

I’m in the camp of welcoming meta to the fediverse, BUT - not bending over backwards.

If they start making changes that affect federation for them, then that is their problem. Treat meta as a platform, no different to mastodon.
Remember that the fediverse consists of more than just Mastodon.
If meta makes a change and suddenly pixelfed can’t federate properly with meta anymore, it’ll be a shame, but it does not mean that pixelfed should make changes and add workarounds so that it is able to speak to meta again.

Meta might think they have the power to do this, but they only have that power if we behave like they do.
If instead we take an attitude of, it’s fine for you to be here, while you are being a good citizen, but if you start making demands - you are on your own.

I mean I find it quite ironic really that The fediverse has been screaming about how threads/meta will destroy the fediverse, but in reality - it is the fediverse destroying itself from the inside with this nonsense take.

And really - who wants to be part of that, it’s actually batshit when you take a step back and think about what is being said:

“I don’t want anything to do with X and I don’t want anything to do with anyone else who has anything to do with X either”

OK, right now it’s meta. But let’s talk about lemmy, there are people on the fediverse who think the creators of lemmy are problematic - so what happens when we get “I don’t want to associate with lemmy.world but also I don’t want to associate with anyone else who does associate with lemmy.world”

Some instances defeded mastodon.social for problematic moderation, but they did not defed other instances that do still federate with mastodon.social.

It seems like an extreme reaction, and if the fediverse does die, it will be the fediverse itself that implodes rather than being destroyed from any company on the outside.

You can absolutely block an instance as a user - see for example: https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml hitting the no entry 🚫 sign on the right of subscribe will block that entire domain for that user.

So I’m a bit confused by the last part of this post. The protocol is definitely more than a year old, ActivityPub is not new. By any means. And ActivityPub builds on top of protocols that came before it.

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/
http://martin.atkins.me.uk/activity-streams/

As for the posts that appear in the /m/random magazine, they are basically the same as looking at the federated tab on Mastodon - they are posts that arrive here, because someone else on this server follows that person, or they were written by someone on this server. No posts will magically appear on the server without someone here actively following either a person or a community on a remote server. They appear in random, because they are not attached to a magazine, though if they use a hashtag that does track that hashtag, then they will be added to the microblogging tab of that magazine, instead of being shoved in /m/random

kbin isn’t even classed as beta yet, it’s early alpha. There is LOTS of work still to come - which is part of the excitement. The fact that it even works as well as it does right now - is a good indicator of things to come.

Ernest gave similar figures yesterday in his post on /m/kbinMeta

https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/68541/kbin-server-update-or-how-the-server-didn-t-blow-up

Reddit has been going for like a billion years, and you only got 80GB - I mean even zipped, that can’t even be a fraction of the data surely?

It’s funny, people have all sorts of worries about how the world might end if AI chooses it to. But if AI was smart - it would create a new social network, and really ramp up the engagement factor. The reality is we do get physically addicted - we do need that dopamine hit. If AI created “the perfect” social network, we would all be far too busy screaming at each other online, to notice the world dying around us.

…or did AI already do that? cue X-Files music

They might say that, but they don’t really mean “the internet” - they mean social media. Which I can understand, I was bullied “offline” when I was at school, but at least when I got home - I had respite. I can’t imagine how stressful it is these days for kids, being bullied online, getting home and still being bullied.

#android #fediverse #homeassistant for my interests - and #introduction to make sure that I see and boost plenty of newcomers to get them a good start on the fediverse. It’s introduction in particular that requires a very aggressive purge policy! I only keep I think 50 introduction posts across 3 days, but even then - my FreshRSS is typically 1200 articles on a daily basis.

I self host FreshRSS and among the many sites I subscribe to, I also subscribe to quite a few hashtags on Mastodon which I’m aware isn’t highly publicised so not everyone knows you can do that.

If someone reads this comment that didn’t know you could do that -

Instance/tags/hashtag.rss

Eg:

https://mastodon.social/tags/introduction.rss

You are welcome.

(Set your purge limits aggressively, because despite people suggesting otherwise, you will very quickly have thousands of unread articles to trawl through)