Posts by maegul@hachyderm.io
(DIR) Post #AXotxWXTaprAqqSDvU by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-07-18T06:41:53Z
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@seachanger @Loukas @Dangerous_beans For sure.But as for preventing dogpiling, how many are going to do that?
(DIR) Post #AYM2c6tRXFDlYRmNIO by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-07-02T04:12:52Z
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#Lemmy settles on its big central instance: lemmy.world (#lemmyworld) run by @ruud Its numbers are now big enough to be counted amongst the top 5-10 masto instances! (https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.world) as #threadiverse become the “second platform” by size.Apart from running it well and keeping up to date (recent update seems to have gone well, with a nice example of instances and admins helping each other!?), some redditers seek the big instances?? Curious how communities will adapt.@fediversenews
(DIR) Post #AZOb999eU6hnxzCtcW by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-09-03T14:38:43Z
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@reiver seems in keeping with the vibe that I’ve picked up on since the Reddit migration: they’re relatively much more openly critical of the whole decentralisation thing and much more embracing of “big public squares” all while still valuing FOSS and “freedom”.Otherwise, I think lemmy/kbin growth stopped at an awkward point for a Reddit alternative, that will bleed users over time.I suspect a worthwhile project now for the Fedi at large would be to bridge masto with lemmy/kbin better.
(DIR) Post #AZOb9AvXtWbtSoceuW by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-09-03T16:33:55Z
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@reiver Yea ... it makes a lot of sense, we're all people writing plain-text posts to each other, there's no reason for us to not talk to each other.Beyond that, there's a good chance masto users would benefit from being able to use and engage with communities/groups in a meaningful way, where hashtags have problems and aren't for everyone.
(DIR) Post #AaoSovfRKeJ48noi5Q by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-10-15T11:59:53Z
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@UlrikeHahn are scientists moving off of Twitter primarily driven by open science reform though? Picking a for profit basis for scientific communication is par for the course unfortunately, so picking BS seems about right.Science, as a profession, seems childishly allergic to taking control of their work/industry. I’d bet the Fedi feels a bit too much like that.Plus, a decentralised anti-public square platform is maybe unattractive, and BS’s model genuinely more appealing?
(DIR) Post #AaoWGcFJQwjNsSUQHg by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-10-16T02:33:45Z
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@simon @eyrea @UlrikeHahn Generally, very much agree and have pushed for a more “blog-ish” approach and perspective elsewhere. With mastodon though, the “skinning” as Twitter is significant.500 char limits (for most) along with lack of formatting and post portability … all arguably make for a pretty poor blogging platform.Of course, not an ActivityPub limitation, at all. Eg, everyone self hosting #lemmy instances with personal communities would probably be a better blogosphere.
(DIR) Post #AbPIkhC29oDtGhrPDk by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-11-02T04:51:54Z
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@tchambers > Joining ActivityPub would have been a big engineering effortGenuine and naive question: Is engineering against ActivityPub too hard? Any time I hear about the task, it’s difficult and often not worth it. Is this an impediment to the ecosystem? Could generic AP software be viably made and shift this, by perhaps at least covering a decent subset of the spec?
(DIR) Post #Acpm3NboSC2UKxfNc8 by maegul@hachyderm.io
2023-12-15T12:43:26Z
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@simon As others have said ... only select accounts at the moment (senior and maybe some eng accounts it seems).Big one is @mosseri And if you're curious, posts are federating over, but everything else seems to be, and intentionally so, one-way.
(DIR) Post #AdYVjErIht4dMDccuu by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-01-05T06:17:32Z
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@Linux_Is_Best Yep.Out of the ashes of firefish, we've gotten an interesting little ecosystem of new misskey forks:- iceshrimp- catodon- sharkeyThey're all different but also seem to all be friends (having all come out of firefish) and willing to share code and ideas.Silver lining of the "fall" of firefish/calckey is that a healthy ecosystem of western misskey-like platforms has probably developed.
(DIR) Post #AdYjSdFYAOzLRMwLFQ by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-01-06T05:23:54Z
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@mima @Linux_Is_Best Thanks! I was aware of the lineage differences (which I hope doesn’t become regrettable down the line). But as I understand some of the people in the Sharkey dev group came from or were involved to some extent with firefish, so there’s a little cross-pollination at least. How meaningful that is I don’t know.
(DIR) Post #AdYjpC4xLym9pdk8Su by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-01-06T05:27:50Z
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@mima @Linux_Is_Best Otherwise, yes, I did misrepresent how close Sharkey is to firefish.I also underemphasised how much each of these projects aren’t especially interested in simply carrying on the firefish project but rather have their own ideas and directions that wouldn’t have been possible under the firefish banner, which seems to be a wholly healthy thing TBH (firefish seemed to be a bit hype hungry and not quality conscious).
(DIR) Post #Adhn5TA2UKJ7EmDakq by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-01-10T14:15:33Z
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@dave yea ... sighs.It may get to the point where the "free fediverse" (ie, defeded from meta) may want to become "friends" with bluesky (and/or other atproto apps) in the interests of pursuing the ideals of decentralisation.AP-ATProto bidges could be successful and some sub-cultures across both may find they some values in common.
(DIR) Post #Ahf3YMPTABYypWaoue by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-05-05T23:39:21Z
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Lemmy is experimenting with plugins. https://lemmy.ml/post/15187879Still in experimental prototyping stages it seems, but cool to see. Hope it gets worked on and works out well.Could be an interesting experiment for the Fedi in general?It’s using rust’s extism, so webaasembly for plugins. #fediverse #lemmy #rust #extism
(DIR) Post #AhthU5V8nrinbuCamG by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-05-14T23:39:10Z
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@Wolven Yep. A cynical production line of certificates and publication metrics.The University as an institution can no longer be taken too seriously while it is also not worth the resources it consumes.Perhaps naive of me, but I wonder what connections there might be between “defund the police” and ideas along the lines of “reboot education/university”, the main one in my mind being that both institutions are overloaded in the problems they’re targeted at and so bloated+ineffective.
(DIR) Post #AiJA4ErZ83RujqiQvA by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-05-26T23:50:56Z
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Iceshrimp: A #csharp fediverse platformWas just told (by @Subversivo ) about this: https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp.net#Iceshrimp are rewriting the whole thing (a JS/Node #misskey / #firefish fork) in C# with Blazor for the frontend.Cool to see. Should handle the performance issues that have plagued the *key forks and maybe provide a new general branch of fediverse platform.What lang/stack isn't represented on the fediverse now? C++, Kotlin?@fediverse @fediversenews
(DIR) Post #Ajr1WgZ5dW9CvrZV7w by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-07-11T23:12:23Z
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Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?Basically something like a web browser but for “all the social media” along with useful organisation features too.For locked down big social APIs, this makes less sense nowadays, but for open alt-social systems, *it is likely the most valuable promise of such systems* that they can become like the web, reachable through an awesome all-in-one app. @fediverse
(DIR) Post #Aku2jCGpJJeKb9CXj6 by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-08-09T02:05:50Z
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So, kbin.social (and likely #kbin itself) is dead.I only joined the #fediverse in the "twitter migration" and *already* have 2 accounts that died on instances that were "flagships" but just disappeared (kbin & firefish).No blame or shame for the devs or anything. They tried which is much more than most of us.But whoever "decided" that true mobile identity isn't a priority for #activitypub / fediverse, probably fucked up.Why hasn't the fediverse grown more? Instances & immobile accounts!?
(DIR) Post #Aku2jFl4LKchPoNEmW by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-08-09T02:09:11Z
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And yes, I know there's #mbin 1. I'm talking about instances here, not platforms2. Word is that mbin's lead dev is supporting lunduke who's known for transphobia (see lemmy comments here: https://lemmy.ml/post/18935315/12861600)The situation may be more nuanced than that or incomplete, but it's there.
(DIR) Post #Akuoh8kuCfSKuxM6We by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-08-13T02:57:58Z
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@silverpill My understanding is that that’s new-ish, so it’ll take time and commitment. Also, the nature of the fediverse is that being in the protocol doesn’t mean anything really. The actual protocol is what a critical mass of platforms implement consistently. With mastodon’s dominance, that basically means it’s whatever mastodon does.That each platform has to implement protocol compatibility on its own necessitates this.
(DIR) Post #Al0URJjQnHayBwbSEK by maegul@hachyderm.io
2024-08-15T23:52:29Z
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@stux The animalistic rage, the way he immediately leaps out of the truck and attacks the dumpster, after hitting it blindly at speed … this is the depiction of a hellish society.