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wisdomchicken

@ wisdomchicken @piefed.social

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  • Delusions of a Protocol

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  • i ddos my wordpress-activitypub-enabled website every time i boost a post made from there to my 10k followers. tried every single caching plugin for it as well.

    activitypub scaling is a very real issue

  • On discourse and decentralisation

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  • open social web is used here as a descriptive term, to mean the collection of networks that includes activitypub, atproto, nostr (and potentially more like matrix and farcaster, depending on your inclination).

    whether open social web is the correct term or not does not really matter, because if it was not than i would simply have to replace it with another term that describes the exact same thing

  • SocialHub and the Substrate of Decentralised Networks

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  • yeah, there are two aspects to this: what do you think is beneficial for the ecosystem, and what do people do in practice. And those are largely different things, turns out.

    I think you can make a pretty good case why it would be beneficial for ecosystem development to have protocols more standardised. But that also kinda doesnt matter much, because in an open network you dont have control over what other people are doing.

    Bluesky has a much more structured protocol, and much more control over their protocol and anyone in the fediverse has over activitypub. Still, the first thing that people do is tweak the protocol. The three most successful other products on atproto (tangled, streamplace and roomy) all significantly modify the protocol to fit their own needs, theoretical arguments be damned

  • Fediverse Report #127 - an overview of all the fediverse clients

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  • ohh indeed some interesting recommendation system in there, thanks!

  • Fediverse Report #127 - an overview of all the fediverse clients

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  • ah great, thats exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

  • Mitigating the "7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins"

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  • very curious what server you are on? im on a server with 1k active users, so not big by any measure, and manually counted the federated timeline just now, and it shows at least 50 new posts per minute. like how do you even use that? do you just watch it until an interesting account pops up on there? im very confused by this idea of using federated timeline to find people

  • Pull request to begin to add ActivityPub support to the bluesly PDS

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  • i think the main takeaway is that the fediverse has hugely overindexed on relays being this big huge centralising force in the atproto network. And thats simply not true at all. The flipside of that is that relays also dont really matter much either. All they do is simply aggregating from a distributed network of data storage into a single firehose. Its really cool that you can do that for super cheap. but its also just a small part of the entire network architecture. like, atproto relays are not CDNs, for example, and video CDNs are expensive to run.

  • Pull request to begin to add ActivityPub support to the bluesly PDS

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  • because hosting a full-network relay is super cheap, including bandwidth. there are multiple people who are running full-network relays (monitoring and relaying everything from every PDS) for less than 30USD per month

    https://fediversereport.com/atmosphere-report-116/

  • JWZ: "I prefer to meet people where they are" says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar, redux.

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  • Loops is not open source lmao, its just Dansup promising that he'll opensource it in an eventual future.

    Saying "this platform is not actually open because the people running it are bad, come to these actually open platforms", and then proceed to list a closed-source platform is incredibly funny

  • Free Our Feeds: "it will take independent funding and governance to turn Bluesky’s underlying tech—the AT Protocol—into something more powerful than a single app"

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  • Is Funkwhale dead?

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  • do you have a link by any change to where the dev is saying that? it seems very likely considering the lack of activity, but cant find anything on his profile or blog

  • [POSTPONED] Loops by Pixelfed • Public beta launching in 16 hours

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  • A post from Mastodon, that's supposed to reach all the Fediverse

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  • hello from piefed!

  • To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users

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  • PieFed represent! Highly recommended, the 'Topics' feature that aggregates multiple community is super valuable to me

  • Bluesky backs a project that would let Mastodon apps, like Ivory, work with its network

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  • So confused that skybridge is now getting all the media attention lol. Its been around for over a year and hasnt been updated for 3 months. It works fine, its just that nobody actually bothered to use it. Not really clear how 800 dollars is going to make a difference here.

    They couldve just checked the repo lol.

    https://github.com/videah/SkyBridge

  • Whats the state of algorithms on Mastodon?

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  • Check out Phanpy.social for the Catch-up algorithm, which allows you to fully customise and sort your feed.

    For a real 'For You' algorithm that suggests posts by people you dont follow, check out SoraSNS on iOS. That has a fully customisable algorithm where you can completely customise the topics the algo recommends, as well as how likely each topic is to be recommend.

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  • Piefed has this, and it's great!

  • What's your take on Bluesky?

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  • It is worth noting that what they posted in their business plan in July 23 (1) differs quite a bit from what Jay Graber mentioned as their business plan in an interview with The Verge in Feb 24 (2), which again differs on quite a few points from what Jay Graber mentioned in a podcast with The Verge in March 24 (3).

    (1): https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan (2): https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24062837/bluesky-drops-invite-system-begins-federation-at-protocol (3): https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

  • When you block an instance, should PieFed hide all posts in communities on that instance, or all posts made by people from that instance?

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  • Definitely both, but I'd probably separate the options? Think they can serve different purposes.

    Example use case: blocking a NSFW instance to prevent seeing NSFW content, but if an account thats hosted on that instance would want to participate in SFW conversations on other instances that would be fine to see