Post APqaZL0J7eqOhB7UUi by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
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 (DIR) Post #APqaZ9NGMU4mctlebo by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:53:13Z
       
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       One problem I've noticed with how people are embracing Mastodon.Almost all of the instances are the same.I've yet to see one instance that does something different.The only differences between most of them is how they're being hosted and who's doing the hosting.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZA5Dj3EopEKl7o by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:53:46Z
       
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       There's nothing stopping anyone from coding YouTube integration into their instance, or displaying oEmbed content from links.You could make a setup that only allows users to sign-in with their Steam accounts and have their Steam username be their name on your server.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZAYzwL3cJaGXXU by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:53:57Z
       
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       Could have people sign-in with Google, Apple and/or Microsoft accounts.Discord?Could even support chatting via the Matrix protocol.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZAzEMo2bcwXUQa by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:54:10Z
       
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       Damn near everyone just rolled the same Mastodon build and called it a day.Barely anyone even looked at other ActivityPub server setups like Friendica or Pleroma.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZF0nOvfa6xInQG by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:54:22Z
       
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       Damn near everyone just rolled the same Mastodon build and called it a day.Barely anyone even looked at other ActivityPub server setups like Friendica or Pleroma.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZGWjleoWoJFoqe by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:54:36Z
       
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       And one thing I keep seeing said on Twitter and Mastodon is "It'll be big once there's a commercial instance".Honestly that's just waiting for Twitter to happen again and defeats the point of all of this.Really what people should be looking forward to are services.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZHy4PWGvHN3A5g by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:54:52Z
       
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       Mastodon doesn't need it's Twitter or Facebook IMO, it needs it's Google and Bing.It's federated, decentralized in the traditional sense.A non-essential product that feels central is the thing that'll corral the fediverse into some standards on experience.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZJUijbz20vKkca by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:55:23Z
       
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       This but for ActivityPub...https://twitter.com/Lucid00/status/1518704054251233282
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZL0J7eqOhB7UUi by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:55:37Z
       
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       I see a lot of people talking about how SSB or Mastodon can deliver "global" communication the way Twitter does and I haven't seen anyone suggest "build a search engine" yet.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZMdL41exkWOAyG by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:55:59Z
       
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       It's like with Google.You can ignore Google, Google isn't necessary for a website.But most people don't ignore Google.If Mastodon gets its Google you'll see the most of the network change.
       
 (DIR) Post #APqaZODBCFvIdyAJTU by lucid00@social.vivaldi.net
       2022-11-22T01:56:15Z
       
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       A lot of the "decentralized" HTTP web is just people building centralized services that everyone just takes for granted and thinks of as essential.Like blogs and Gravatar.Mastodon could use a few of those.