Interesting. Are Lemmy users themselves not Person/User actors? It seems like Lemmy might benefit from allowing those types to be followed, or at the very least, viewed.
Would it at all make sense or work for wordpress bloggers to “at” lemmy communities in the same way masto users have to in order to post to lemmy? It would be just like hashtags, which I presume could also work over on mastodon etc?
It's an interesting thought, but: as an author, I have no pre-emptive concept of who is going to be reading my posts, or which community I should share something to specifically. I think it would be easier to just make certain kinds of Actors and activity types visible to Lemmy, so that those posts can then be reshared to whatever communities that somebody cares about.
Yeah, I love Friendica. The UI definitely needs more love, but it's really come a long way. The team and dev community is also very welcoming, lots of great people there.
I've read denschub's positions in the past, and fundamentally disagree with him. While he raises a lot of interesting points in his writings on the subject, most of the limitations described have been largely overcome.
Unfortunately, he makes up a significant part of the current core team, and seems to default to hostilities any time the subject is breached.
The Diaspora protocol is way better than it used to be, but it can't do half of what ActivityPub can do. Historically, Diaspora's protocol has basically been little more than OStatus with different threading behavior, some addressing modifications, and magic envelope encryption bolted on.
Diaspora used to be great! The problem is that, as a project, it's been kind of rudderless in direction for a long time. It's been in maintenance mode for nearly a decade, where contributions are largely just random fixes and minor improvements sent in by volunteers.
Unfortunately, the old guard is very against adopting ActivityPub in any way, shape, or form. Historically, the project has always kind of put the expectation of federation compatibility on other platforms, rather than doing any work to collaborate with existing platforms or adopt existing standards. They can't even communicate with most of the Fediverse these days.
The project's future is kind of uncertain. They finally got a developer API put together, and work is happening on Account Migration. But, the platform is slowed down by years of cruft and technical debt.
I think the policy has more to do with your server's IP address. The language on the page is a bit vague, since they absolutely collect the IP addresses of their own users.
You aren't making the point you think you're making. Sure, at somewhere between 8 to 11 million accounts, the Fediverse is a small pond. Meta is a gigantic whale. Ingesting the entire graph of everyone on the network would be relatively trivial for them, storage-wise.
Ostensibly, yes. However, as a company whose business model is primarily predicated on sale of personal data and analytics, this does create something of a conflict of interest, especially because of Meta's extensive involvement in surveillance capitalism.
Per the article, I really like Mike Macgirvin's stance of "I'll give you the bare minimum of data to make basic interactions work, but not one thing more."
Altering the language of a service policy (or, writing a new one) is usually a good indication that something is indeed about to change at a larger level.
Did they, though? A bunch of other Fediverse platforms have supported this for literally years, to the point that Mastodon was the butt of jokes for breaking basic search functionality.
Having standard search that just works is a huge deal, and helps solve against the decentralized content discovery problem.
Pixelfed is basically a federated alternative to Instagram that's been picking up a massive amount of momentum. The Groups feature is more or less federated Facebook Groups, with a bunch of robust tools built in, and will be compatible with Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines.
The reason this is significant is that it may prove to be the final push that makes groups a standard part of the Fediverse experience. Some of the biggest platforms in the space have lacked it, for years and years. This implementation could prove to be a really good blueprint of what the standard experience ought to provide, at a bare minimum.
Yeah, I've definitely thought about that a bit. I think I could also see meme groups similar to the ones on Facebook becoming kind of a big deal, which could actually be amazing for getting more people onto something like Pixelfed.
Interesting. Are Lemmy users themselves not Person/User actors? It seems like Lemmy might benefit from allowing those types to be followed, or at the very least, viewed.
It's an interesting thought, but: as an author, I have no pre-emptive concept of who is going to be reading my posts, or which community I should share something to specifically. I think it would be easier to just make certain kinds of Actors and activity types visible to Lemmy, so that those posts can then be reshared to whatever communities that somebody cares about.