Ok.I see. Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s only a marginal benefit in terms of protection against data scrapers (you can also build that profile based on who they follow, or what they write about…) and it makes things more difficult for moderators and hides important information from other community members.

Stop thinking in terms of “votes”. Think of the activities as a “fixed content messages”: John liked this. Alice liked that. Bethany did not like that other thing. Each “vote” is a meaningful interaction. A server that says “2734 people did not like your message” means absolutely nothing.

This is not a political council nor a popularity contest. No one will make critical decisions based on the amount of worthless Internet points.

I do not understand arguments about privacy when we are talking about a public, social network. Social interactions online do not need to be that different from real-world interactions. if you are not willing to say “I did not like / I disagree with you” to someone personally, then you shouldn’t say it at all.

Sean proposed something more ambitious: identity-first onboarding, where you import your social graph and content before choosing a server. The idea: set up a “pre-identity” that pulls in your posts and connections from other networks, then pick a server that fits

https://fediverser.network/ has exactly this. The missing piece was (still is) that no lemmy admin that I talked to bothered to integrate with it.

I understand that coming from users, but not from the project developers. They know they’ve built a client for the Mastodon API, so it should be described as such.

I was super excited when I saw the headline because I am just about to deploy a headless ActivityPub server, then I realized it’s a client for the Mastodon API.

Right, I misunderstood. We have daily backups and I can give access to them via SFTP, but to be honest there is no interface to do that via the website yet. It’s only recently that hetzner integrated their storage box solution to their cloud API, and I didn’t have the time (or customer pressure) to automate that yet.

Hey, Communick founder here. End of last year we did the migration for ttrpg.network from K&T to our servers. There were definitely some issues in the beginning as that was the first large-ish instance in terms of community activity, but things now seems to be a lot better. To anyone willing to migrate, I can extend the same deal I offered to @eerongal@ttrpg.network: if you commit to an yearly plan, I can waive the setup fee.

Correct. ATProto is the protocol used by Bluesky. There is one bridge already

Right now: communick members get an account on Matrix, Mastodon and Funkwhale, where they can upload up to 250GB.

Coming soon ™:

• account at an ADAPT instance, with a custom client that can let people interact with any type of server.
• XMPP integration to integrate movim.
• Custom Voyager client to get read-only Reddit access.

Under consideration:

• Bridging with ATProto

It’s quite easy to flip this around: forcing topical discussion through groups are just a workaround for lack of proper discovery and aggregated search…

To give you one simple example: I get a lot more useful and meaningful interactions from following #emacs on mastodon than by waiting for people to find out and post to !emacs@programming.dev. Same thing for #nfl and !nfl@nfl.community or !nfl@a.gup.pe, etc.

Reddit already requires it in the UK

Yes, and do we have any numbers about UK usage before/after the changes? Do we have any idea of how many people there:

• looked for an alternative?
• looked for an alternative and were not satisfied?
• looked for an alternative and migrated successfully?

And for those that were not satisfied, what was failing to them? Was the Fediverse so bad that they rather go back to Reddit, or did they just quit social media altogether?

The UK started asking for age verification ~5 months ago. That should give us more than enough data to take a look at this objectively.

Is there any new development around this or are you just speculating? All I’ve seen so far is discussions about age verification for the UK, and most of the conversation was more about finding workarounds than leaving.

What needs to still improve?

The community here is what needs to improve the most. The majority here is hostile to new users and too prone to demand purity tests from everyone who is just thinking about leaving Reddit.

including a brand-new API (version 2). This means your v2 pod will not be able to federate with v1 pods. 🚨

Wait, why?! What is they are doing that is so difficult to achieve with standard ActivityPub?

There is a client called phanpy which (I believe) provides custom recommendation algorithms, but I never tried it myself. Those who use swear by it.

FYI: I am not going to say that I have all the pieces in place, but I will say that if we put what I’'ve done on https://fediverser.io/ with my headless ActivityPub Server, we are like 90% of the way there. The hard part now, believe it or not, is to get other servers to implement the missing parts of AP instead of the selective implementation they have.

Why did Linus Torvalds then disassociated

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

You are failing at this most basic test of logic, this is why I don’t want to get dragged down into a pointless discussion with you. Enjoy the block, and have a good rest of the weekend.

installing lemmy means supporting an authoritarian

Non sequitur. The software is free to use, free to redistribute and does not come with any obligation to support the ideologies of the developers. If that was the case, everyone using Linux desktops should be associated with Richard Stallman (author of the GNU project), which is on record defending Epstein by arguing that minors can consent to sexual relationships in exchange with money.

dessalines power tripped his own software.

AFAIK, he does not have any power over the other instances and communities that are not hosted over on lemmy.ml?

Uhhhh, are you aware how federated networks initialize?

Not interested in being baited into a pointless discussion today, sorry.

This was one of my stretch goals for https://fediverser.io/, and I would definitely be interested in helping with this. Basically, the end goal would be to create ActivityPub actors that are based on the DID to completely decouple their identity from the ActivityPub server that is serving their inbox and outbox.

Any community that talks about moderation issues. Preferably one that is closer to the users of lemmy.ml.

This is not the place for this. It achieves nothing and gives newcomers the impression that this type of petty drama is an integral part of the Fediverse.