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by mariusor 3y ago
Then the fediverse is already there. The video hosting service PeerTube uses bittorrent to distribute the video among viewers. There were some plans at one point for another project which would deal with music and would host the media on IP
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by mariusor 3y ago
Yes, but you were downloading a movie and then you'd delete it to make room for something else on your 40GB HDD. In this case it would be like you'd try to download the whole internet because you're interested in one movie.
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by mariusor 3y ago
They did add support a short while back: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-activity-pub .
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by mariusor 3y ago
It's also at odds with how people consume content. If you cram every social interaction a network has in a massive common distributed store (which is what using a bittorrent like protocol would entail) you have every node requiring to
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by mariusor 3y ago
I doubt "valuing virality" is the real problem. But when you're exposed to a universal network whose numbers increase every day, there are moments when it happens no matter if you want it or not. The "slashdot effect&quo
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by mariusor 3y ago
Since ActivityPub is mostly composed (75%) of immutable json payloads, they are very suitable for caching. The existing infrastructure should be more than enough.
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by mariusor 3y ago
The fact that it resolves to a 404 page?
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by mariusor 3y ago
There are other projects that support the client to server part of the specification (see my profile for an example in the FedBOX project, and from the more mainstream ones there's Pleroma AFAIR). Generally developers justify not addin
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by mariusor 3y ago
I think the justification Eugen (Mastodon's main developer) gave for not loading a user's past activities is that it would actually harm smaller instances when a user goes viral and the whole network hammers their servers for thei
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by mariusor 3y ago
> A junior dev could build a working twitter clone in a couple weeks; tech was never Twitter's moat. Aren't we over saying things like that? That's Dunning-Krueger speak. The bits that you see as a user are just the tip of
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by mariusor 3y ago
I mean, Steam/linux32 is the "platform" to release games on for linux. As much as I'd like to compile random game binaries on my own machine with my own glibc that's probably never going to happen.
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by mariusor 3y ago
Making a sustained high intensity effort for 4-5 hours is not easy to do when you're in a full body suit that prevents you from cooling off. The only types of race in which they use something close to what you're suggesting, where
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by mariusor 3y ago
I also work on a link aggregator and I'm probably interested in cribbing the reddit API compatibility layer. Any interest to refactor it into an independent package, or is it tied into your own data model?
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by mariusor 3y ago
I used it for synchronizing web series to my Kobo reader, and indeed the lack of proper organization makes large amounts of items a very tedious task.
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by mariusor 3y ago
But does wallabag work with Kobo's default firmware?
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by mariusor 3y ago
> embraced and extended it ... but not extinguished it, I see you are careful to avoid mentioning. Yes, XMPP is doing at least as "fine" as it was before Google started using it seriously.
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by mariusor 3y ago
Hahah, that is probably the one lesson that ActivityPub has NOT learned from XMPP. ActivityPub can support new vocabulary through an extension mechanism based on JSON-LD, and I honestly am curious to see where serious efforts in this dire
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by mariusor 3y ago
Here's another "summary of what happened" vis-a-vis XMPP: niche protocol is still niche after big player enters and, eventually, exists the space. XMPP is doing fine, and ActivityPub will be doing fine after Meta. People cryi
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by mariusor 3y ago
This already happens, not with Meta, but with everyone having to implement Mastodon's ActivityPub implementation quirks (which there are a lot of). So for me, as a developer of a small and niche Fediverse project, nothing will change.
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by mariusor 3y ago
Works of great magnitude done by a single person, often take time. Let's try be grateful for when they finish, instead of cynical and demanding. :P
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by mariusor 3y ago
I think we might want to wait with the conclusion on this topic until Miegakure is out, 4D toys is a tech demo, not a game.
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by mariusor 3y ago
Another bunch of what ifs and maybes.
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by mariusor 3y ago
The article is about how XMPP is a foreshadowing for what's going to happen to the Fediverse after Meta will enter the space. What I'm saying is that hobbyists (like me) that develop fediverse software will probably be there _afte
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by mariusor 3y ago
> The author seems to not enjoy planning before writing code Or the author's experience (which is extensive) has led to the conclusion that all that planning you want to do at the beginning rarely gets you the proper abstractions.
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by mariusor 3y ago
It looks like they are a pragmatic project that prefers to have contributors to being ideologically pure. It's not like there isn't an official repository hosted on gitea: https://gitea.com/gitea
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by mariusor 3y ago
The article is not decent because the premise "niche protocol is still niche after big player dumped using it" it's blatantly obvious. It's just another trite "X is dead, netcraft confirms it" juxtaposition of
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by mariusor 3y ago
I recently flew for 2 hours between two capitals in Europe. I had a one hour train ride to get to the departure airport, one hour train ride from the destination to my accommodation. I had to be at the airport one and a half hours before th
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by mariusor 3y ago
> You must admit that is a bit ironic It's a sad situation that if you desire exposure and community building you must maintain a fork on Github, but that's how it is for smaller projects. I am in a similar situation, with some
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by mariusor 3y ago
To me they are entirely different, mirroring represents a pull model, what ActivityPub does is (mostly) push based.
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by mariusor 3y ago
I work on a link aggregator that uses a more minimalist design. An example instance is at https://brutalinks.tech

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