irelephant [he/him] @ irelephant @lemmy.dbzer0.com

Failing optimist, can code poorly.

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I doubt it would get shutdown, all the communities there would have to shut down.

So, are all the posts and stuff on your instance gone?

Were you able to migrate the DB?

join.piefed.social has a list somewhere.

Piefed being written in python means nothing.
Instagram and threads (and parts of the clusterfuck that is facebook) are written in python and seem to have scaled fine.

Performance is negligable -- the main bottleneck is I/O.
If a new python release breaks compatibility, Piefed can keep using the old version of python.

But python isn't the webs scripting engine. If it was, browsers would have support for python3 and 2.

• being able to move communities.

too heavily promoted of late to be believeably organic

No. Its promoted because of its fast development and extra features.

Piefed is decentralised itself.

i wouldn't say they invented the threadiverse, groups have existed on the fediverse since diaspora, but they certainly popularised it.

Diversifying the amount of software in any network is always a good thing though.

Also: the anarcho/communism one annoys me, because I thought I was original when I thought of that joke.

A lot of servers require signatures on GET requests as well, for private posts and to block specific people/servers.

Yeah, that was the inspiration.

I also read every tagline from /api/v3/site because I'm too impatient to just reload the page.

That looks amazing actually.

I love the GNOME/libadiwata apps.

The main bottleneck is I/O anyway.

Its great for nerds.

The recurring characters to me are:

• You
• Blaze
• Sunshine
• Ladybutterfly
• TotallyNotJessica
• Stamets
• Cm0002
• Coelacanth
• PugJesus
• Squirrel
• BytesOnBikes
• The Picard Maneuver
• Track_Shovel

There's always at least on of them on the frontpage.

I do not, ActivityPub uses HTTP signatures to make sure messages and requests from other servers are legit,

Essentially, it adds a "signature" header which contains a link to a users public key, a list of headers in the message and a signed hash of all the headers and the request.

There's a better explaination here: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/spec/security/

A delicated bot to scrape ActivityPub posts is possible, but generic bots shouldn't work. If a delicated bot is made, people can block its keys or server anyway.

I doubt they're crawling stuff over AP, you usually need a HTTP signature for that, and no bot is going to bother with those.

Most crawling would just be spamming the web interface.

I got called an alt of db0 because I explained the instance's stance on Ai.

I don't really see the issue with that, its just a mod doing that, no admins.

I don't think anyone annoyed about being banned from there wanted to engage with the community properly anyway.

There's an (official) version of the ubuntu logo with butts somewhere