Post AV8DIcJCbUJDY7tJtg by risottobias@tech.lgbt
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(DIR) Post #AV19F35DM6MlVVfjeK by jgarr@mastodon.social
2023-04-25T14:24:39Z
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Here are my thoughts about the future of mastodonhttps://justingarrison.com/blog/2023-04-24-mastodon-is-doomed/
(DIR) Post #AV19FidKs91ONCx41g by meso@asbestos.cafe
2023-04-25T17:36:17.950337Z
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@jgarr switch over to plerpoma
(DIR) Post #AV19LvN0Qlifc3GxWa by Zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com
2023-04-25T17:37:25.870814Z
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@meso @jgarr Post the image
(DIR) Post #AV19fjM4oOdG8mHYZ6 by waifu@waifuism.life
2023-04-25T17:40:21.095230Z
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@jgarr yet another person who doesn't understand the fediverse, many such cases
(DIR) Post #AV1A4wy3L0iVbB4SG0 by pasture@pl.gamers.exposed
2023-04-25T17:45:30.018545Z
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A response to this article can be summarized by "don't do that" or "who cares"
(DIR) Post #AV1FjwAXi9iGlXHCPQ by meso@asbestos.cafe
2023-04-25T18:48:55.880897Z
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@jgarr Holy shit kill yourselftreb14voVgXYEA.png
(DIR) Post #AV8DIZq3mroFtAF1CC by erlend@writing.exchange
2023-04-25T17:55:56Z
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@jgarr this is a necessary wake-up call!I don’t fully agree with your prognosis, but the excessive hosting costs are undeniable and must be resolved sooner rather than later.One thing about your post is unclear to me: Are you still hopeful about the future of #ActivityPub and the #fediverse at large?Faster implementations like #Akkoma and #gotosocial are coming along. I’m especially excited about Kitsune by @0x0 because of its performance and ease of setup.https://github.com/kitsune-soc/kitsune
(DIR) Post #AV8DIacyqywQKt85Ro by erlend@writing.exchange
2023-04-25T18:11:39Z
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@jgarr there are also bottleneck mitigations like https://github.com/astro/buzzrelay by @astro Paraphrasing from @0x0 :One could replace the current Mastodon streaming API service with a custom one written from scratch in Rust.The Mastodon streaming service works by receiving Redis messages, parsing them open, and hosing them out to the appropriate clients.That requires massive concurrency and some CPU bound message parsing, both of which Rust (async) is *really* good at.
(DIR) Post #AV8DIbKEGBXIV1McrI by jgarr@mastodon.social
2023-04-25T19:15:54Z
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@erlend @astro @0x0 After building some of my own experiments on ActivityPub I'm more excited about RSS than APIMO for the internet to scale, be secure, and be better for the environment we should rely on more static hosting than compute required active protocols.I still wish there were a way to run a mastodon instance with static files but it's not possible. My blog with RSS has no such limitations
(DIR) Post #AV8DIcJCbUJDY7tJtg by risottobias@tech.lgbt
2023-04-26T05:47:31Z
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@jgarr @erlend @astro @0x0 RSS and other low compute things like indieweb / webmention are coolthere should definitely be very low interaction stuff that's simpler and easier to host.maintaining the interactions and privacy features would be the one difference, RSS clients already have curation/browsing/search,being able to authorize an RSS post to only some users...isn't necessarily something that static S3 hosts would do for cheap
(DIR) Post #AV8DIcwYFBmhWAIkEK by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-29T03:24:23Z
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I think the problems you're all discussing are symptoms of Mastodon is trying to be both a publishing tool and a social networking tool. It over-engineers for the former, which as you discuss can be done with much simpler IndieWeb protocols, and under-engineers for the latter (no encryption on Direct Posts etc).@risottobias@jgarr @erlend @astro @0x0
(DIR) Post #AV8E84HkLaaR5NkCVk by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-29T03:33:51Z
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I think the problems you're all discussing are symptoms of Mastodon is trying to be both a publishing tool and a social networking tool. It over-engineers for the former, which as you discuss can be done with much simpler IndieWeb protocols, and under-engineers for the latter (no encryption on Direct Posts etc).(1/2)@risottobias @erlend @astro @0x0
(DIR) Post #AV8ECmadZ7CNeWpPUm by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-29T03:34:43Z
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I think the problems you're all discussing are symptoms of Mastodon is trying to be both a publishing tool and a social networking tool. It over-engineers for the former, which as you discuss can be done with much simpler IndieWeb protocols, and under-engineers for the latter (no encryption on Direct Posts etc).(1/2)@jgarr @risottobias @erlend @astro @0x0
(DIR) Post #AV8FGtHCkMCzVGGGn2 by strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2023-04-29T03:46:39Z
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But the future of Mastodon is a related but separate thing to the future of the ActivityPub fediverse. @jgarr's blog piece is analogous to saying in 1995 that the web is doomed because Netscape Navigator is a bit of a pig. Or during the height of Internet Exploiter popularity and before the first Firefox release, that Free Code browsers would never be more than a niche thing, because Mozilla is a bit of a pig. It's applying product thinking to protocols.(2/2)@risottobias @erlend @astro @0x0