Dutch government starts own Mastodon instance as reaction to the instability of Twitter
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GrapheneOS is amazing!!
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I'm also a big fan of GrapheneOS which I've been using for over a year with not many issues. It feels nice to have a system with no bloat and decoupled from Google. Between F-Droid and the Aurora Store, I still haven't installed Google Play Services or any other dependencies as I've never needed them.
There's a couple of issues, but in the end they didn't affect me too much:
- Many push notifications simply will not work as they rely on Google services, such as Discord. "Better" programs such as K-9 Mail and Element will work fine, however.
- If a program requires Google Play Services, such as the idle RPG "Melvor Idle", it will simply not work. There aren't that many of these though, so it's not really something to worry about.
You can install Google Play Services however and have them sandboxed to work with specific applications, but I decided to just not bother.
If you're curious, banking applications work fine on GrapheneOS, although perhaps it doesn't work for all of them, but I have had no issues.
Debian 12 with KDE Plasma, works perfectly on every system I have thrown at it.
Your comment doesn't really contradict anything I said, and I agree with you.
I don't subscribe to the idea that the Fediverse means everyone should have to interact with everyone, to be clear, but people absolutely have the choice to federate with those we may consider bad actors, and then we can respond in kind.
I am all for defederation of bad actors, I'm mostly just explaining why others are not against the defederation of Threads.
True, the claim that people "absolutely trust corporations" is definitely hyperbole, but I would say they most certainly have some implicit trust for them in a way that people might not trust a volunteer.
Sports is definitely hard to have take off in these sorts of spaces, since sports are generally talked about much more amongst regular/casual users, than the more tech-savvy crowd who are willing to try these things out.
It's the same on the biggest ActivityPub platform (Mastodon) - the really popular regular subjects such as sports and cars just don't have a presence there.
For a non-tech answer, it's basically the "language" used between these websites to make them talk to each other.
If a website uses ActivityPub, it can fetch information (and send information) to other sites that are using ActivityPub in a specific way that's designed for social media.
Another example of this would be SMTP (simple mail transfer protocol) which is what e-mail uses so that different e-mail servers (outlook, yahoo, gmail, etc) can all talk to each other seamlessly.
They are actually, communities are ActivityPub groups, the issue is that Mastodon does not implement groups (but it is soon!), so what the Lemmy group has to do is boost all the posts/comments so that people can see them in Mastodon.
Once Mastodon gets groups though, the experience should be much better.
Haha, this is how fast-moving open source projects work, things change constantly as they believe it's better to just get (perceived) improvements out of the door when they're cooked up, instead of waiting in any capacity.
And that's fine, the Fediverse gives you tools to not have to deal with that through silencing or defederation.
But for many people on the Fediverse, they're here specifically for other things, and being able to interact with the corporate social web from outside of it is ideal for them.
Note that I'm not arguing for or against here, it's just very easy to see why many aren't interested in defederating.
It's not that complicated.
Threads is another instance that brings people to the Fediverse, and people like the idea that they can stay on their instances while still interacting with the world at large. For many people, having everyone on the Fediverse is the goal, and in fact, is a long-term goal of most of the platforms - the "Fediverse" is not meant to be a sort of closed community only for marginalised people to get away from the corporate web, it's for everyone to use in whatever way they see fit.
There is literally nothing more to discuss if you're wondering why people "defend" Threads.
Ultimately, it's because the concerns of privacy are simply too far removed from people, or they trust certain entities more than others.
For example, if your next door neighbour knows all your browsing history, people would be bothered, but people are not bothered if Google knows as it feels they would have no direct effect on their life, whereas your next door neighbour might.
This can be easily seen in the whole discussion regarding privacy on Mastodon.
A lot of people refuse to use Mastodon over Twitter, because "Mastodon admins can see my DMs", even though Twitter absolutely could as well (Twitter apparently has encrypted DMs since May 2023 though). The reason for this is they see a Mastodon admin as someone who could potentially have an effect on their digital life, whereas they trust Twitter not to do anything with the data since they're a big corporation who has nothing to do with their personal life.
Unless it is an effect they can directly observe (or imagine to occur), people simply don't care. This applies to almost all discussions around the big picture, such as things like climate change or unions, or whatever.
Whether we like it or not, people absolutely trust corporations.
Because they use ActivityPub, both of them can potentially interact with each other (post, viewing, following, liking, boosting, etc). There's no way to stop Threads from being able to interact fully with Lemmy if it's something Meta wanted to implement. Mastodon can already interact with Lemmy directly by following communities, posting to communities, and interact with posts/comments. Lemmy doesn't go the other way though because it isn't implemented, but it could be.
Any ActivityPub software/platform/website can interact with any other ActivityPub software/platform/website if it so wants to, because the backend of things like posts/comments/communities/etc are the same across every single platform if they choose to implement them, the difference between the ActivityPub platforms is how they choose to show you information and how you interact with it.
Edit: Made a few edits for clarification.
This is a strange take - Mastodon makes up ~80% of the Fediverse, whereas Lemmy makes up like 3% or something.
Mastodon is the entire reason the Fediverse as a whole ended up taking off - for most people, it is the only thing they are aware of.
GamingOnLinux has been on Mastodon for ages, Nov 21 2016 in fact!
But with the recent migration to Mastodon, I guess it couldn't hurt to let people know you're there already.
Mastodon does this (you can download a full backup of your entire account - although not sure about media) every 7 days, which can be imported into various other Fediverse platform accounts, depending on what they allow.
I suspect that all Fediverse platforms worth their salt will make this a core feature.
I don't think your drawback example is something inherent to open source at all - people absolutely do demand things from closed source programs as well.
- It's probably better to think of each instance as its own website, except each website can talk to any other website. You can make multiple accounts because each instance is standalone (think of them like separate forums, if it helps), they don't share account data with each other.
- There's not meant to be. Accounts are owned by each individual website, and the entire system is designed to be entirely decentralised.
- In practical use, not much, but depending on how each instance federates, you may find it useful to view content that is blocked by one instance and not on another.
I've noticed that despite setting my default view to "All" in the user settings, my default view on the home page appears to be local.
It's not the worst thing ever, since hitting All is not a problem, just interesting it doesn't seem to work, unless I'm missing something!
Edit: It appears to have fixed itself, so maybe there was some time for the setting to kick in, although the local tab shows highlighted.
There is verification of sorts for what it's worth - you drop some HTML on your website, then tell Mastodon to crawl your website to look for it, and if it picks it up, it verifies that your Mastodon account and website are linked.
It helps for all sorts of use cases beyond "this is a famous person", since people who run smaller projects can also verify who they are on Mastodon - I have 2 verified links on my profile for example.