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deadsuperhero OP Mod , 2 months ago to Fediverse in Talking to Manton Reece about IndieWeb, Federation, and Personal Blogging

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deadsuperhero OP Mod , 2 months ago to Fediverse in Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server?

I dunno, federated communication systems have a very different utility than lemonade stands. 😅

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 2 months ago to Fediverse in You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

It feels like the fediverse is being gentrified

As someone who has repeatedly seen cities become gentrified (first Peoria, Illinois, then San Francisco, then Phoenix), I get what you're trying to say, but also don't think it's an appropriate metaphor.

The half that doesn’t federate with Meta will move on, like people priced out of their own neighborhoods by gentrification, and become the new “real fediverse” where people can go to live free from corporate interference.

Frankly, I think this is a bit melodramatic. The Anti-Threads part of the Fediverse will stay in their isolated bubble with little to no change, while the rest of the network continues to grow or change. It's not like operational costs are skyrocketing, or that hosting will become any more scarce or more difficult. It's not like the servers have to move to a different neighborhood. Gentrification is predicated on the finiteness of physical space and affordable places to live.

and become the new “real fediverse” where people can go to live free from corporate interference.

This is probably news to you, but there's not even a coherent, all-encompassing definition for what the Fediverse even is. The idea that there's a "real Fediverse" vs "Fake Fediverse" glosses over all kinds of history and nuance. The best anyone's gotten to defining it is by specifying protocols and interoperability, but even that doesn't quite cover it.

The Fediverse isn't just the parts you like, minus the parts you don't like.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 2 months ago to Fediverse in You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

I'd actually love to see something like this happen, as it seems to be something European governments and officials are embracing. To have something similar for the United States would be incredible.

I think at the moment, there's a real need for advocates, consultants, and vendors that can actually cater to government entities here. I would imagine there's probably some crazy data requirements needed for US Government Officials.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 2 months ago to Fediverse in You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

Thing is, for federation to work, his team had to opt into it. The fact that his statuses and profile render natively in Mastodon and Akkoma are a pretty strong start.

I'd like to see Meta put their money where their mouths are, and finish the integration. I think we'll probably see that happen sooner rather than later.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 2 months ago to Fediverse in You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

They probably thought they'd reach a greater number of people. They're probably right.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"

It's not that crazy, the Threads devs are already looking at specific FEPs for things like quote posting. If they really wanted to, they could implement Lemmy-compatible community groups.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Our Live Coverage of FediForum March 2024!

Sadly, that's a little bit too chaotic for what we want to do. For this go-around, we're improvising with a modified WordPress plugin. Moving forward, we might do some custom development and integrate it with the ActivityPub-WordPress plugin to post out entries to the Fediverse.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

I think another way to look at it is that accounts are tightly coupled to instances, to the point of being a detriment. I've personally lost all of my data and had to start over from scratch 5 or 6 times due to servers suddenly going down over the years.

Groups are one way to abstract community functions up a level, and what's crazy is that Group Actors themselves could also have a similar thing. People have talked about merged cross-instance communities on Lemmy; this would be one way of enabling that.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

No.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

Yeah. While I could take or leave Hubzilla's UI, this concept in particular was mind-blowing. The fact that it's like, 8 or 9 years old at this point, and the rest of the Fediverse barely supports it, is crazy to me.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App

He's periodically shown updates on it. From talking to him, there are a number of challenges:

• Being blocked by other features, like a UI refactor
• Compatibility with other existing implementations (less of a problem now with the Group Federation FEP by @nutomic)
• Wanting to include Private Groups
• Bringing in moderation, assignment, and delegation tools for groups.
• Dealing with unrelated issues pertaining to the day-to-day maintenance
• Needing to break out new experiments in a branch to see how well an idea actually works

I think the biggest thing is that he probably does spread himself pretty thin at times, and is still learning how to rely on community pull requests and contributions. It can be a really hard thing to do, especially if you feel the need to provide the creative direction for how things ought to work.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App

So, one interesting aspect here is that you can log into it with your existing Mastodon or Pixelfed account. Loops and Sup both seem to be building on the idea that you can use existing Fediverse accounts to log in, meaning you don't necessarily need to create a new account and navigate a new platform all over again.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App

He is a bit bombastic, and has a habit of biting off more than he can chew sometimes. I think these side-projects are ultimately useful, though, and probably help fend off boredom or burnout. Maybe he gets better at coding and design through doing that, I dunno.

Regardless, he's continues to do a lot of great development work.

deadsuperhero OP Mod , 3 months ago to Fediverse in Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App

You know, that's actually a really good point. Dansup tends to iterate on certain parts of his apps several times over, like how Pixelfed handles image uploads and filters prior to posting. It might be that just going with the simplest possible thing makes sense for right now, until a better approach can be devised.