Maybe they'll finally let me use Julia at work
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
So many AP platforms are made by a couple of guys in their garage, it's not even funny, and the mentality of "just dicking around" means what gets used is whatever the whims of the day dictate, rather than the standard.
"If it works, it's not stupid" and all that.
But that kind of work lacks real world testing, and depe concern for public expectaton or desire.
Plus, you have to keep in mind that the idea of interplatform interoperability isn't this core conceit of ActivityPub. It's a potential use case, but it's not an expectation. There's no reason anyone should expect interop like that, other than some developers wanted to try it.
But some didn't, and now that their platforms are gaining audience, they're refactoring to meet that audience's expectations.
How big of an instance? Hoe many users do you imagine or intend on hosting? What kind of communities? Do you have a specific theme or raison d'etre?
What sort of tools or support do you think you will need? What kind of tools do you think your users will need? How familiar are you with other forum-like platforms on the fediverse?
I would make a list of all of your needs and then do a comparison of Lemmy, PieFed, mbin, nodeBB, and other group-focused federated offerings to see what makes the most sense for your imagined use case. They all have different strengths, weaknesses, and requirements. Set them up and test them on different subdomains so you don't pollute your namespace on remote instances while testing.
Chainlink blanet'll do it
A significant issue here, and what's specifically highlighted in this post, is that this group has strong and direct ties to the CPC leader, and so its status as "third party" is questionable.
Plus the blatant and flagrant lying about things and people.
Like, if the union heads had worked on Carney's leadership campaign and then started running ads saying that Poilievre was a habitual cat rapist, all as a means to create the false perception that there were multiple independent groups opposing PP...
But sure, the situations are totally symmetrical.
She won the nomination vote at her local EDA? That's all that becoming a candidate means.
Techbros killed me, Mal.
I mean, it's not being resolved, since the issue is that LW is too big to effectively federate, and LW is refusing to take the steps to improve the situation. Weirdly enough, this is less of an issue if the network scales horizontally, with a large number of small nodes.
But also, this is a symptom of the current attitude of "it shouldn't matter where the community is hosted". The fediverse is a simulacrum of centralized social media, and a poor one at that. The more we try and beat it into that shape, the more it's going to get all weird on us.
Like, a significant issue here is the insistence people have had that up/down-votes be synchronized. People want to know what the global passive-aggressive opinion on a post or comment is, rather than the local one, which requires every single button press to be sent to each and every subscribing website. And people expect stuff to be sent out as a live stream, rather than being held back for batching, too.
There's a significant cultural issue to be sorted out here. Better mechanical features aren't going to solve it in the long run.
The ones that are owned by PostMedia, of course
"Why won't the liberals deliberalize the economy?"
He needs to explain the dead hookers I believe are in his trunk
Well, I hope this quote is spread far and wide in all channels.