rglullis @ rglullis @communick.news

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Well established only relatively to the others.

This is the crucial part you seem unwilling to accept. You don't want to go to LW because of centralization, but you still have to resort to number 2 just to be able to maybe get enough support from the others

Meanwhile, this dinky little instance keeps slowly but steadily growing and outliving everyone else.

Oh, another poorly funded instance shut down when it got a minimal amount of usage? Why am I not surprised?

Ah, so it is not a new one but a consolidation of them all.

And you all still want to ignore topic-specific instance...

Another one?! This is like the 10th TV community already...

It's the third or forth spammer from diggita.com this week. @filippodb@diggita.com are you aware that your instance is being used by spammers? Can you please tighten up your registration policies?

Yeah, but the point is the consistency. It's quite easy to prompt the model to just respond in always in the same way, and one could just say "you are supposed to talk like an average redditor. Keep it positive and short, and only elaborate if asked to."

Bio: "Your Digital Workshop. We build websites and host them, as well as create content for your social media."

Posts: all on a bunch of different communities. All of them short, just one or two sentences.

Ironically, this account's bio and its history is screaming "I am a LLM posting a bunch of AI slop".

Can we get a list of people that are on the Fediverse and you'd like to support?

Because then it wouldn't be "all" any more.

You could do something like that, where instance admins choose what they believe is more relevant, but then it would be better to call it "featured" or "curated"...

All good! https://discuss.online/post/17120451 seems to be most recent one... but I see you are already mentioned fediverser there as well.

Link looks a bit old, but thank you for the mention! :)

To add to your comment: I still have a part of my NLNet grant to deliver and it is exactly about integrating the Reddit-to-Lemmy onboarding process on any Lemmy mobile app - like alien.top does, but directly on the app.

I have some work doing that on a fork of Voyager, but if the Sync for Lemmy devs want to do it as well, I'd be glad to make the switch and collaborate.

Sub.rehab is super outdated and https://fediverser.network/ is easier and crowdsourced.

We need federated identity or else ux will continue to lag

What I am saying is that the ActivityPub protocol is inherently built towards a server-centric system, where identities are owned by the server. Go read the spec: even the "Client-to-Server" specification assumes that the server owns the keys and dictates that the client (i.e, users) must do everything through the API provided by the server (i.e, the client's outbox).

Anything that is built with a design where the client owns the keys may even be able to interoperate with ActivityPub, but is not ActivityPub.

Activity Pods is cool bit not implemented on mastodon.

It's the other way around. We shouldn't be looking for "Mastodon on ActivityPods", but "ActivityPods applications that can talk with Mastodon servers", and those do exist.

We still don't need ATProto for that. ActivityPods solves that.

ActivityPub itself is built around the principle that the server owns your identity: the best you can do is abandon an identity (i.e, your actor URL) and tell everyone else (via the Move Activity) that you are adopting a new identity.

And they are either in for one of the following:

• a $30 Million lesson where they learn that they will have to reinvent ActivityPub in order to be "properly" decentralized
• a rug pull where they come up with a second relay like Bluesky but fork to give exclusive access for large institutions and the enterprise.

AFAIK, Communick is the only service provider offering GoToSocial (disclaimer, I am the owner).

How would it be any different from https://masto.host/, https://elest.io/ or https://communick.com/ (All of them provide mastodon hosting exclusively on European infrastructure)?

I am here because I know that it has potential despite the prevailing culture, not thanks to it.

Nice job linking to the discussions, it really helps to make the case for my argument: community is not enough, and y'all need to start putting your money where your mouths are.

There are dozens of us! Dozens, I say!