What does Google play do to remediate it?

Couldn’t you do that by just joining an existing server?

Is there even a good alternative to Google? DuckDuckGo does not count to me as it is close source

A team? For what OP described, all you need is one person

if enough people do it

And now will you make sure of that? As the other person mentioned, without a campaign, it’s futile. Most people won’t even hear of this

I would even say XMPP would be a better underlying communication protocol under ActivityPub, as it specs many aspects that ActivityPub does not.

It may seem so due to its success, but I’d argue its success was more tied to luck and timing than technical superiority.

Mastodon was growing and “new” during the period of the decline of social media, and specifically during several moments of Twitter having issues with moderation, and later on acquisition by musk.

Similarly to lemmy, the Reddit third party API fiasco.

I don’t think this means that it works better than anything else. It was just the most obvious choice to users at the time.

From my understanding developers often complain about activityPub. Can we really say that it “just works”? Federation and interop issues are common as well.

Hey nutomic! Thanks for adding the context. I hope my comments above didn’t mis-represent what you said, and I’d like to add that I respect your position to not add a lot more work on the plate if it doesn’t agree with your goals, especially when other platforms that do it exist (which is what I’m asking about in this post).

However I do respectfully disagree with the point on unix philosophy: unix philosophy also talks about interoperability, and you can see that with unix tools everywhere being very interoperable among each other. In my humble opinion, lemmy is not quite there yet with interop regarding other fediverse platforms, when that is a key benefit of the fediverse.

This isn’t meant as an attack. This is surely easier said than done, and your work on lemmy has been amazing and I applaud it. But I also cannot confidently say lemmy is following unix philosophy in an exact sense here, not until interop is fully functional.

Cheers and thanks again for the great work!

But if the feature already exists in another platform, I’d gladly use that instead.

Plus, lemmy developers said this would be a very difficult change to make and requires a lot of rewriting. I presume it is because activityPub was only added to lemmy much later on.

I’d argue that discoverability on fediverse kinda sucks.

There’s the network effect kind of discoverability, where someone you follow reposts something, and you discover this new something and possibly follow it. RSS has all the technology necessary to make this happen.

There’s the discoversbility where you sort by “New” or “all” on your fediverse feed. I suppose that is discoverability that RSS doesn’t have natively, but I’d argue this sucks pretty badly.

Last, there’s the search engine type of discoverability, where you search through fediverse communities or users. This isn’t native to ActivityPub, and a RSS search engine can be implemented pretty similarly.

In summary, So activityPub might have some discoverability paths, but the one that RSS doesn’t have natively, I argue sucks and is not the right way to do it.

Is there something about activity Pub that enables it do this, that other protocols or architectures wouldn’t have?

This is extremely overkill…

I actually do all of that, thanks to Gentoo :')

It does require some effort to manage, but I would argue it’s easier to keep all packages (including dependencies) up-to-date across the system, which is a huge security benefit imo.

The permission system, once you set it up, you never need to change it unless you’re changing something.

I thought protonVPN does, does it not?

What’s the appeal of seedbox over using VPN? You can get a lot more storage with the money you spend on seedbox, right?

I would be glad if a unified web client exists. Mobile app is not necessary.

A fellow gentoo user in the wild! Do you have any thoughts on using containers with gentoo? It pains me the idea of foregoing all the awesome features of portage by using containers.

What exactly does SE Linux provide over users / groups?

Monocles looks really nice! I’ll try it out, it may be exactly what I need. Thanks :)

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