spaduf @ spaduf @slrpnk.net

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I love this idea but how do you decide to which community a new comment gets posted?

Very cool idea. There are a lot of decent apps on fdroid where the only way to find out if the app is a good fit is to install it yourself. This would go a long way towards improving that experience.

IANAL, but I'm not sure that's legal everywhere facebook operates.

Worth noting that Meta through threads currently plans to collect and monetize the data of all users that it federates with.

Fascinating that a recall can mean a mandated OTA update. Seems like that means that there's really no onus to ensure everybody gets these updates.

One of the big problems with crossposting as it currently exists is that only link posts will actually take advantage of the crossposting mechanics. That is, they will show crossposts under the main title and be combined in your feed. There is no way to do this with text posts, however.

I was fairly skeptical initially, but as I've seen it interoperate with Lemmy/Mastodon my whole perspective has changed. The issue of cost is maybe still a big one (I think it depends on how the instance landscape shakes out) but I am no longer worried about the issue of discovery.

I've only ever found one channel (https://tilvids.com/accounts/alliterative) that does this sort of short form content, but it feels right at home in my Mastodon feed.

It's more of an announcement about allocating the resources for a mobile app (in the context of what their resource allocation looks like for the next year).

Captain Disillusion! More VFX than anything else. He debunks viral videos and explains how the effects are achieved.

Just went open source too.
https://github.com/jgw96/mammoth-app

Newsmast is trying something similar but they're backed by a nonprofit

The rest of this is up for debate but science is absolutely green.

Friendica. Never had an issue with finding Mastodon instances

It's very possible this will change once this rolls out more broadly simply because the overall activity on smaller communities will increase substantially. I suspect a lot of people will make it a habit to check this sort but the overall size of these communities will probably not see a huge increase.

Is there a good general use instance? I swear I've looked and never seem to find any

I think one of the biggest practical hurdles here is the authorized fetch issue which prevents some Mastodon instances from correctly federating with lemmy and peertube. From what I understand the issue there is actually Lemmy-side, so that probably needs a serious look at first.

A lot of people are talking about multi's, but I think the new ground here is this idea of a fluid shifting with a change in the user's interests. The first method that comes to mind is something like a "personal" sort, where posts are further weighted based on the number of recent interactions with a given community.

I suspect it actually has more to do with the organizing principles of Lemmy's code exasperated by a relative unfamiliarity with rust. Just giving the codebase here a once over I think I would have a pretty good idea of where to jump in while I've had no such luck with the Lemmy codebase. Worth noting I've done a fair bit of work in rust but not in go.

Well that's exactly why I'm bringing it up here. Lemmy didn't start as a federated service.