I’ve said this many times before, but if you operate an instance, host a TERMS OF SERVICE.

It’s easy to do, and gives the option of legal action against this. Please spread the word to your site admins.

For example, from Reddit’s user agreement:

Access, search, or collect data from the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) except as permitted in these Terms or in a separate agreement with Reddit (we conditionally grant permission to crawl the Services in accordance with the parameters set forth in our robots.txt file, but scraping the Services without Reddit’s prior written consent is prohibited); or

https://redditinc.com/policies/user-agreement

Make them run instances that can be defederated.

Any influx of new users that appear to be valid human meat popsicles should be the new normal. Would you like to create a downloadable zip file of a codebase that demonstrates this?

What exactly is multi-community? It’s not defined above and the PR has no description.

No I’m not, you’re just hot-swapping between ATProto and BlueSky, cherry picking the best parts of whichever to suit the debate. See: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/47335289/19626444

Sure seems like that’s what you’re doing. Notice how no one is against ATProto. Your post title is about BlueSky, not about ATProto.

We don’t care about the protocol, despite what you think. Your average Lemmy user isn’t on a standards body. We care about the network it facilitates.

Volunteers run the Fediverse, keeping it open. The former Twitter CEO runs BlyeSky. Want to start an actual open network running ATProto? Go for it.

Mastodon is more open than you think.

You made a post to attempt to dispell what you consider a misunderstanding about BlueSky, yet your comment suggests you dont understand the Fediverse.

Well, that problem also exists with mastodon.social

No, it doesn’t. There are thousands of instances, some with hundreds of thousands of users. If you sort the instance list by active users, the population spreads out even more, because smaller instances have more active users.

and a lot of the actual fediverse.

Wrong again. Lemmy.world is about 30% of Lemmy, and less when you include Mbin, PieFed, etc.

Its less distributed, but its still decentralised.

I run a Fedi instance connected to hundreds of others. If one, even a large one, defederates me, it does not cut me off. If I ran a PDS, I’d be connected to BlueSky, and they can do what they want.

You are rationalizing this to yourself because you like BlueSky.

Still is. Always will be.

Gives them legal standing against scraping for if it is needed in the future.

Yea there is zero context here. I assumed PieFed since every post like this seems to be about that.

Publishing this on PeerTube is also a problem. I mentioned this in another post, but to expand, I really, really, want to like PeerTube. But:

• Many running servers don’t fully grasp the bandwidth requirements. The video I tried to watch in that post got “popular” (800 views) and it took 2 minutes to even get the progress bar to load. People will leave.
• The federated nature is even more disjointed than Lemmy. It feels like a bunch of different sites still, which makes it feel like less content.

IMO PeerTube could be great, but it has a lot of shortcomings that aren’t solved by adding features and fixing bugs.

You need a factor for niche communities. A post with 4 comments in a backpacking community with 20 subscribers is way “gooder” than 40 comments in a 5k subscriber news community.

I.E. add a community size factor.

What do you mean public voting? Everything in the Fediverse is public. Spin up a server and you can see all votes, even in the UI as an admin. Do you mean for users?

Not with sub domains.

The whole point of this issue with Pixelfed is that none of what you describe is required.

Find any follower of a Fediverse account of any kind (Target Account) that’s on a Pixelfed server. Go to that Pixelfed server, view “private” posts from Target Account there.

No need to set up a server, or get sent anything. Granted, even without this flaw ActivityPub is not the way to go for anything private.

This is why I think ActivityPub needs DIDs for identity management like Bluesky has with AT-Proto, but in a true, user owned way: https://fedid.me/

Give AP the benefits of AT, without Bluesky involved.

Open an issue? Devs are pretty responsive.

The docs are super unclear, and written for those not familiar with ActivityPub.

In future, we hope to develop a deeper integration between your social web profile and followers <> and your public website and registered members. To start with, though, they operate independently from one another.

Your social web profile and followers are separate to the rest of your site and memberships, so you can think of it as a new, additional distribution channel.

Emphasis mine. I think the setup is basically federating links in Mastodon style. So if you have a post available as a subscription, it will prompt a login after clicking through.

If you like FOSS, I’d recommend giving Thunder a try: https://thunderapp.dev/

And @[email protected], welcome. Others have recommended some useful communities, but as you join the Fediverse, which is distributed across many servers, a useful way to find new communities you like is: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

There are also an absolute ton of free and open source app choices. I personally prefer Thunder for the customizable options, but everyone has their preferences.

Enjoy exploring!

This is nothing new. Fire up any ActivityPub server and you can see everything over the wire. As a Lemmy admin of my server of just me, I can also see it in the UI.