There are a lot of architecture astronauts that will keep talking about “we should develop a grand-unifying system”, but most of them are all talk and little result.
When push comes to shove, the developers that actually ship are the ones that look at problem they want to solve and work on that.
Whether enough people want it is a different story, and most developers are stuck in the app store mentality, so it gets difficult to get enough support for this to move faster.
Maybe we should introduce a gated API and charge $12 for 50k requests…
Not sure if there’s a legit use for just fetching only comments outside of a post
The ability to see all comments is right there at the Lemmy UI.
I’m not going to go out there and do extensive business research
I didn’t ask you to do any research. You said “I’d legitimately would pay for it.” and I asked one simple question: how much?
The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.
This attitude right here is why the Fediverse is bound to stay small and amateurish. Everyone is just focused on keeping their own little pipe dreams and wishing that someone else to take on the sacrifice to do these gigantic efforts without expecting any reward.
You didn’t respond the second part: how much are you willing to pay for this? Anything less than $100k/year and I will guarantee you there is no serious provider who will care about being certified for it, and any who is willing to pay that much money surely will be better off by running their instance on their own.
I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances
Communick offers access to Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix for $29/year
I’d legitimately pay for that.
How much? “Regular auditing of the infrastructure” seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.
But then why do you worry about the ap_id patterns from other software?
So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.
Isn’t that the whole point of webfinger? Moreover, why would you paint yourself into a corner and hardcode the logic for all the different types of services, if ActivityPub uses JSON-LD and therefore provides a straightforward method for document dereferencing?
I’m not trying to be snarky. It’s just that I’m writing ActivityPub server where the id of each object is just an ULID, because to the server there is zero difference between serving the information about an actor or an activity.
Safer in the sense of “less likely to go down or disappear”.
If you are willing to have professional support and also support the underlying projects: Communick offers accounts only for paying-members. $29/year gives you an account on Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix, and we pledge to give 20% of the profits to the fediverse projects that we offer.
instance size is not necessarily a strong signal that the instance is safer.
XMPP is for private messages, not public discussion.
XMPP is just the transport. You can build a public social network on top of XMPP just fine.
WebSub solved the efficiency issue, no?
Yes, but almost no developer is looking at ActivityPub as a protocol to “add a social layer to their websites and applications”. Instead, we are stuck in this “let’s replicate the centralized social networks! With blackjack! And hookers! And ActivityPub!” way of thinking.
There’s a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other.
Yes, the reason is that corporations can not profit from an unsiloed web of data, so they all created their own walled gardens and successfully fooled users into believing that the UI needs to be tightly coupled with the data they host.
having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.
What would be stopping us from having these tabs using the same data from the social graph?
You might be interested in my proposal for a Social Web Browser. I am working on the idea, but the main challenge is that I see a bit of a generation conflict: greybeards who grew up the www prefer general “browsers” which can navigate an abstract graph, while the younger people want to rely on platforms and they prefer use-specific “apps”. You can see this issue right here in this thread: all the people telling you “just use mbin” or arguing in terms of capabilities from server-side software are completely missing the point.
Not being developed anymore, never gained enough traction and afaik its lead developer is working now at bluesky.
I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto’s strength is that it was built for a “credible exit”, i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.