rglullis

Invite still stands: become an ambassador at https://fediverser.network/communities/jets@nfl.community and you can get all different sources of material + invite other users from reddit to join you. :)

Subreddits that are not mapped yet, ordered by number of subscribers.

An Apollo-like Lemmy client that is also implemented as a PWA

This would be amazing to be integrated with Voyager. People could migrate to Reddit via Fediverser and clone only their subreddits to the device.

Embrace ActivityPub and use the /outbox endpoint directly.

Transplanting communities rarely work because it takes a catastrophic event to push everyone in the same direction. The Reddit protests were, IMNSHO, such an event. I get it, hindsight is 20/20, but I think that if I had started my work on Fediverser when the API pricing changes were first announced, I would have in June all the tooling needed to make a coordinated mass migration.

We are not talking about complex tasks like video transcoding or ML training. ActivityPub is first and foremost, a messaging protocol. The most heavy thing that "must" live on the device is the user data. Sqlite can handle those workloads without a sweat. Old devices that can do XMPP group messaging should be more than able to do this.

Another article of mine arguing that modern devices are more than able to handle that.

Which is still a client. I honestly don't care if we are talking about a mobile app, a PWA, a browser extension, a SPA or a dedicated app: as long as the business logic goes to the edge and the server is a "mere" dumb pipe, we should be okay.

Mastodon is not any better. Plenty of stories of instances that disappeared, admins made amateur mistakes and lost databases, moderators burn out and leave everything...

Even the "successful" donation-based instances make enough money to cover only the costs of hosting and the admins and moderators are expected to do all the grunt work out of "love for their community". It's simply not sustainable, and it will become even less so with all the upcoming regulations and controls around social media.

Zuckerberg will use and abuse of regulatory capture to make it impossible to run an instance without significant costs. If we don't "suit up" and professionalize the Fediverse quickly, we will have no other choice but to put all social media infrastructure on his hands.

Not sure the solution here

I am more and more convinced that we will need something like what I outlined here.

This goes against the design of ActivityPub, which requires people to follow actors. A hashtag does not have a single name, so people would have to follow all servers and/or the servers would have to relay activities that are not originating from their actors. It is possible, clunky to implement.