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by rakoo 4y ago
Right there's https://a.gup.pe/ but it's a hack and isn't meant to work long term. The long term thing is proper group actors and stuff in ActivityPub, and it's being discussed here I believe: https:&#x
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by rakoo 4y ago
We agree fundamentally: federation is not compatible with community-on-a-server, and the latter is being phased out by the Mastodon devs. The future is in groups that can span multiple servers and fully use federation.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Federation isn't symmetrical: I might be able to read mastodon.art posts, but be blocked such that people there can't see me. But that's not really an issue. Being part of the fediverse is learning that people may not want to
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by rakoo 4y ago
20 requests/sec is absolutely nothing for a server in 2022. Even if you have many relationships, any individual server will handle the load without any fuss. Worth that can happen is a few minutes in the propagation of messages, which
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by rakoo 4y ago
> whether I should start my own server This is the right answer. All the questions about moderation, resources, choice and whatever will disappear and you'll be part of the Fediverse like anyone else.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Why yes, if you reply to someone they will see you reply, unless they or their admin has blocked you or your instance. Just like any federated network.
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by rakoo 4y ago
One user per server is absolutelty fine. Don't fall for the hype telling you that you MUST be part of an existing instance: the Fediverse goes beyond your server. Honestly at this point if you don't want to self host just pick any
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by rakoo 4y ago
I built this: https://sr.ht/~rakoo/rss2ap/ . It posts RSS entries to a given account, and that account can now be subscribed to, entries can be commented, etc... It works well for one or two feeds but can get tedio
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by rakoo 4y ago
AndStatus definitely speaks it
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by rakoo 4y ago
Check out this reading guide made by the creator of Hometown, a pleasant fork of Mastodon: https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/
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by rakoo 4y ago
Exactly, email servers like Gmail, Yahoo, hotmail are extremely centralized. Even if the protocol is open and anyone can technically speak on the same level, being big gives way more leverage over where the network is going. Being centraliz
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by rakoo 4y ago
How do you buy/sell coins without going through a centralized service ?
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by rakoo 4y ago
You absolutely can [start your own pool], it just takes a lot of work to become profitable. Which is the only reason PoW blockchains still exist.
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by rakoo 4y ago
It's also funny considering that blockchain absolutely uses central servers. The bulk of mining is still done on big datacenter farms and you can't really be part of the game without joining a pool.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Pretty much any bittorrent library implements peer discovery through DHT (global database of who is interested in what hash), PEX (Peer exchange, ie if you and a peer are interested in the same content you can both exchanges other peers eac
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by rakoo 4y ago
This is the reason why GDPR is something good. Developers are not above the law. Companies are definitely not above the law, considering that the law is an impediment to their functioning and not something they will fight for. The reign o
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by rakoo 4y ago
But do we want widespread adoption ? It'd be nice if people used federated/decentralized means of communication, but the objective is not to reproduce the schema of domination and control by a few people in the majority; taking
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by rakoo 4y ago
How exactly is it hard to enter the fediverse ? Yes, you need to spend time to understand what you're going into, to understand the lingo, the rules, the etiquette. But it's normal, because Mastodon is not Twitter2, the fedivers
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by rakoo 4y ago
The thing is, AP is not just Mastodon. Mastodon is only one software and only one usage. If Mastodon numbers grow, then the AP is more interesting and it is suddenly more interesting for other platforms to consider AP, and for users to use
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by rakoo 4y ago
You still need to explain why Mastodon should cater to people who want the Twitter experience and nothing else.
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by rakoo 4y ago
> But it is absolutely not fine for those who desirer Mastodon to function as a legitimate Twitter replacement. You know who wants to see Mastodon as a Twitter replacement ? Not Mastodon users, and not fediverse inhabitants. It's al
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by rakoo 4y ago
Mastodon absolutely doesn't want to be the next twitter. It is antithetical with the spirit of the creator and the community. If an actor wants to hyper centralize its users, bets are other platforms won't federate with it
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by rakoo 4y ago
I use pleroma, written in Elixir and hosting everything properly inside pg, for a personal instance and it just works. No magic knobs to turn, no significant delays.
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by rakoo 4y ago
So average Joe can keep using whatever they're using, fine ! There is no obligation for them to migrate, and there is no reason underpaid overworked volunteers should make it easy for Joe to switch, especially if Joe is not open to ch
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by rakoo 4y ago
To note: WordPress has an ActivityPub plugin, allowing you to have your blog and interact with the wider community.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Maybe the things you are interested in do not exist on the fediverse; it's not a problem in itself. It's better to be there than on Twitter, but so be it. Both replies absolutely coexist because of something simple: the fediverse
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by rakoo 4y ago
How did you lose anything ? The fediverse is one way to communicate. IRC, email, BBS, gopher are all ways plebiscited by fediverse enthusiasts to also communicate because there is no one tool that can do everything. If mastodon is not for y
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by rakoo 4y ago
Everyone in the fediverse community says "we're not a twitter replacement". It's a space for taking back control of communication. You don't join the fediverse, you are a part of it and contribute to build it. I don
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by rakoo 4y ago
The comparison was WordPress. No one installs WordPress on their phone or PC.
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by rakoo 4y ago
The comparison started with wordpress. The vast majority of installs don't bother with that. Just take a VPS.

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