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by rakoo 4y ago
No, it's not central. Discoverability of the entire universe is not a goal of any fediverse tool; the goal is to put back communities in the hands of users. Diackverability happens by talking to people, asking your way around, follow
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by rakoo 4y ago
Install yunohost. Clicks in a UI. Install pleroma. Or mastodon. Or pixelfed (for images). Or peertube (for videos). Or plume (for blogging). Clicks in a UI.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Lost what, exactly ? Contrary to the capitalistic world of Twitter, where bigger faster is always better, the fediverse is not about that. If you don't want to adapt and are just trying to recreate Twitter, it's a complete non-sta
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by rakoo 4y ago
Good, because Mastodon never was and never will be a Twitter replacement. It's a different world, with different rules.
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by rakoo 4y ago
The author explains a bit of how things work, but no one ever said you need to read the full spec to use it. Just like it's better to know your car has an engine, but you don't need to know the details of how the engine works to d
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by rakoo 4y ago
The whole point of federation is that you don't need a central authorization to do what you want. Discoverability is only easy with centralization. Of course it won't work as well. The fediverse is young. Don't expect a finis
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by rakoo 4y ago
I used to agree but I don't anymore. The crucial point, and the reason reddit works so much today, is moderation. If anyone can post to a generic programming forum, it will be automatically submerged under spam. There is no way around
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by rakoo 4y ago
The fediverse is not about confidential communications though
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by rakoo 4y ago
That's why you need to split "list of all people" (necessarily centralized for discovery) and actual storage (decentralized). Everyone can have their own repo anywhere as long as it's fetchable by git, and the creator of
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by rakoo 4y ago
Yes a web scraper. But it's not (just) an end to end scraper: it gives you easy access to the data so you can do whatever you want with it. Display a table for easy consumption, store it in graphite for historical data, ring a bell whe
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by rakoo 4y ago
This is exactly what Web Out Of Browsers ( https://woob.tech/ ) aims to do: get information stored in websites, and offer a programmatic way to use them. There is an application called woob travel that shows timetables: ht
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by rakoo 4y ago
We are all workers on the same side in this sorry story. It is important to realize who the sides are: one is exploiting the other, extracts all their work, gives back the minimum they can, and prevents them from organizing as a group. In-c
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by rakoo 4y ago
The post says that moderation is first and foremost a signal-to-noise curation. Writing long form content in a Twitter thread greatly reduces the signal-to-noise ratio.
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by rakoo 4y ago
> Right now, I could make a comment on either your first or second paragraph, or on your entire comment. However, there is no way to determine which category my reply falls into until you have read it entirely That is exactly what quot
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by rakoo 4y ago
I understand your view but I feel it's a question of volume: when the discussion is fairly slow it is possible to read all messages, but at some point it takes just too much time and you need to skim some of them (or you resort to the
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by rakoo 4y ago
> 1. Please re-read and follow the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html I'm sorry if my comment was unkind, but your dismissal of all the work done entirely by open-source volunteers afte
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by rakoo 4y ago
The core issue is that you are trying to do Twitter on non-Twitter. You are at fault, and it is expected that it didn't work for you. The tool is different, the ecosystem is different, the environment is different, the contracts are di
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by rakoo 4y ago
> I personally can’t see a good reason why it should be illegal There is a big one: the employer/employee is not a balanced relationship, the employer clearly has more power over where things go. So it's absolutely normal to pr
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by rakoo 4y ago
Briar and Manyverse (based on ssb) come to mind
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by rakoo 4y ago
Which is the mode of operations of the companies we're talking about, yes.
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by rakoo 4y ago
Yes, cattle. Those companies don't see you as humans with rights and wants and needs but as resources producing content and being milked for profit. Whatever happens on FB belongs to FB, whoever wrote it. Your attention is sold to anno
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by rakoo 4y ago
It's a balance between a single company being able to lock its cattle because of proprietary shenanigans, and the users having leverage over how they are being used. The EU is fighting for the second one. Unless you are a big company I
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by rakoo 4y ago
But the backend of Signal doesn't store who talks to who, so Amazon can't have that information. It also doesn't store what groups exist and who is part of it.
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by rakoo 4y ago
If you and everyone you talk to are hosted on servers you trust, down to the physical provider, yes. EDIT: if the person you're talking to is hosted on Google, Google has all the metadata. Even if one person is hosted on Google and is
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by rakoo 4y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to say no one is working on the Matrix ecosystem. The reason Matrix is where it is today is thanks to you guys. But I don't think you can say you have as many resources and as many people working on it as Telegra
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by rakoo 4y ago
> Is there any legit reason Apple is hastening the drop of support for older computers when they can be upgraded just fine with the OpenCore Legacy Patcher? Apart from selling more hardware, which is their one and only goal ?
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by rakoo 4y ago
I'm sorry but if your point of data is the original jabberd server then you are not up to date with the experience you can have today. And the experience today is good, whether you use Prosody, Metronome, ejabberd and probably others,
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by rakoo 4y ago
> Honestly, we just need a drop dead simple chat client/server that can be self hosted XMPP, again and again. But that's not a solution, because the problem is absolutely not technical.
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by rakoo 4y ago
It won't surprise you that to improve a product, you need people working on it. In a capitalistic society you need to pay them to do that. Telegram sits on the billions of its founders and doesn't need to make revenue, they have m
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by rakoo 4y ago
Interesting. I think it's a semantical battle between reliability (literally "can I rely on the system to be up ?") and resiliency ("if it takes a hit can I keep using it in degraded mode")

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