Oh, I know "Web3 is going just great" already. It is the true ledger of the blockchain hype, and it's all in the red. Hopefully your link brings it to somebody for the first time.
i loved Michelle Yeoh on Discovery, loathed her character. The closer this gets to release the more I dread the results.
I'm going to hate watch this even more than I do Strange new worlds. I do appreciate fresh takes on the Trek universe, dark or no, but this seems like generic action sci-fi that happens to tie into ST canon. I'll be happy to be proven wrong when it airs.
I see, I thought the finger was aimed at Nostr and cryptocurrencies. As you describe them they sound like the last hiding places for the worst assholes of the internet, and I feel confirmed in staying far away from everything web3/blockchain.
I agree with your initial paragraph, certainly to the point that we shouldn't focus on ActivityPub as some grand unifier or a goal in itself. It's just the protocol that currently federates with the most different platforms.
AFAIK some bridges from AP to other protocols currently exist, but we would really need to bridge (or somehow fully integrate) all the federated protocols you mention to talk about one fediverse. Whether it will be made possible through ActivityPub or some other protocol, that remains to be seen.
I weren't even aware it was a Signal fork! What kept me away was their heavy integration of the Oxen crypto token (now apparently replaced with their own "Session token" instead). Anything that deep into web3 is a red flag to me, but the security flaws discussed in the above blog post look white hot.
If I may offer my own experience in sympathy — last year my brother passed after a few years of cancer treatment. We grew up as TNG aired, and Trek was always a shared reference.
During his final illness, one effect of his treatment was constipation which he alleviated with... prune juice. Often in the last months he would raise his glass and say, "A warrior's drink!" It never got tired 😄
On the night he passed away the only meaningful thing that I could think to share on social media was the TNG screenshot of the Klingon death ritual — I'm sure you know the one.
Star Trek may be a utopian sci-fi future, but the shared stories and communities lend meaning to our everyday lives nonetheless — your deep, shared experiences with your grandfather, or my brother putting up his best Klingon warrior face against his illness. We need those optimistic stories to ward off hopelessness, and to remember the good moments by.
It's been years since I actively used Friendica, but AFAIK the project has always had some form of "circles" that you can choose to share individual posts with? I don't know if it's been streamlined to translate into federation, though.
I believe people have a right to make their own choice.
And yet you argue against the jointhefediverse curator's choice not to list whatever goes against their convictions?
As mentioned in another reply, Soapbox is an example of a Fediverse server software that often goes unmentioned because the developer is a giant MAGA hat. As the meme goes, they're the same picture.
I agree that ideally the concept of "main instances" is beside the point in a federated network. Let's call them "flagship" or "onboarding instances" then, the initial ones set up by developers as proof of concept that usually get the most traction by way of being open for registrations the longest.
I think it's disingenuous to classify the decision to omit Lemmy from a list of fediverse software as "a spat", though. Bringing it up again 1½ years later probably fits the bill better.
Do most people go to jointhefediverse, though? Honest question, I don't know the site's traffic stats vs fediverse.to or fediverse.party (which both show up way above jointhefediverse in my duckduckgo search). It's not like an authoritative index or search engine blackballed Lemmy, it is literally about a single grassroots site.
In the encyclopedic sense, you're right. In this context that I replied to, however, censorship had a negative connotation, and my response spoke to that rather than the formal meaning.
I don't know where people get the idea that censorship is an inherently negative thing.
Right, and I do note that you talk about jointhefediverse "suppressing" Lemmy — another negative connotation.
I'll maintain that, no, they are just leaving it out. Again, that is the privilege of a list curator. Nobody else have a say in what and why is included on the site. Choosing what to publish, and the omissions that entails, are also protected by free speech.
Well, since you've vocally criticised the developers and they haven't bothered changing their ways, wouldn't you agree they deserve to be gatekept?
On the other hand, it's not for you to decide the criteria for what is included on jointhefediverse's curated list. I personally think it is a perfectly reasonable judgement call they've made.
Nope, and I bet Mark Cuban isn't really invested in TikTok either way. It's just a current talking point pivoted to make him feel relevant.