jaseg, to random Wow this is bad. Some Italian researchers decided there wasn't enough anti-right-to-repair hardware #DRM in the world already, and developed a way to physically profile and recognize individual battery cells that can be combined with classic DRM technologies to prevent non-OEM battery cells from working inside a device, even if the classic DRM portion is circumvented. Whyyyyyy?!
kubikpixel, to random German Ach guck, das #Fediverse / #Mastadon wird nun immer beliebter, weil selbst Konzerne wie @SAPOpenSource und Medien wie @ntv (schon länger) hierher flüchten. Diese Welle von der #X-Flucht ist wohl kommerzieller Natur und deswegen evt einflussreicher? 🤔
Wenn du ihr #Account nicht sehen willst, könnt ihr diese stumm schalten oder sperren damit sie euch nicht folgen können (dann aber seht ihr sie gar nicht mehr). Sieht so aus, als seien #Kommerz-#Alternative'n noch unfertig und nicht reif genug 🤷
peertube, to random We tried to simulate 1000 viewers on a #PeerTube video, and then on a livestream. (Note that 99% of twitch livestreams are under 1000 simultaneous views.)
We optimized accordingly... And here are the results: it works!
With a ~20$ server, PeerTube can now support such usecases.
Read all about these stress tests on our blog : https://joinpeertube.org/news/stress-test-2023
operationpuppet, to random I dunno who first coined the phrase “the re-wilding of The Internet” to describe the post-enshittification push towards the #Fediverse, blogging, self-hosting etc, but I love it.
Digital bohemian, me.
rolle, to random Over the past year these are the top arguments against the Fediverse:
- Too left wing
- Too difficult
- Not enough people
- Not enough mutuals
- Too nerdy / too niche
- Too confusing
- Too ugly
- Too many different options and apps
- Too many servers
- Not owned by a corporation (yes, really, one person told me he prefers an oligarch)
- There is no algorithm
- Hard to discover people
Many of these are based on the attitude and feeling, but there is some truth to it, for example discoverability is still a bit of an issue. I personally find most of the Fediverse web UIs clunky considering the big world standards, but I’m sure they will get better over time.
tothedaring, @rolle i think this crusade that so many on here have joined is a fruitless one. i think if we all just chilled out on here, ppl would start showing up. like, part of the issue of the fediverse is that half of the convos on here are about the fediverse or how we get more people to join.
if 30 ppl were all standing outside of a bar shouting about how great it is in there, would any of us believe them?
sour, @rolle
what wrong with left wing
Ruth_Mottram, to random I just found #Flipboard's #peertube channel.
This is an interesting interview with @BBC_News_Labs on how #BBC see the #Fediverse developments
BBC’s Experiment in the Fediverse, with Senior Firestarter Ian Forrester
https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/2ce52ee8-fe4a-46c2-9b4c-a6e4b8637a77
darnell, to random A few #Fediverse suggestions for #Flipboard https://darnell.day/a-few-fediverse-suggestions-for-flipboard
Too Long; Did Not Read:
👉🏾 Federating Flipboard magazines using subdomains. Instead of following all sports news from @espn you could follow #NFL magazine via @espn
👉🏾 Verification for prominent accounts & organizations (needed now as the masses on #Threads will be activating #ActivityPub next year)
👉🏾 Custom domains (Premium feature)
CC: @mike
mike, @darnell This is so awesome! Thank you for putting the time to pull this together Darnell. I've already sent this to my board in email and flipped it into the Flipboard Team Magazine which is our private mag where we share posts together as a team. Will come back to you with thoughts next.
dschulten, to random While Mastodon is quite a lively place, my attempts with #peertube were disappointing. Did I start on the wrong instance?
Youtube has a lot of interesting content, and I pay them to get rid of ads. They collect revenue and share some of it with the creators. That allows them to sustain an ecosystem, where independent creators can make a living from their uploads. Also, they get on my nerves by suggesting a lot of right-wing videos, and by making me pay to suppress ads. Advice?
timbray, to random I don’t believe the EEE narrative about Threads federation. The number of #fediverse citizens isn’t large enough to justify the (substantial) investment in Fedi/Masto/ActivityPub interop if the goal is just to bring them to Meta. @mosseri explicitly said that the goal was to enable people to move off Threads and I believe him, because…
timbray, …All the Big Techs are under considerable political pressure to be less lockin-y and more interoperable. Especially in the EU. If any Threads user is free to step over to some Masto/Akkoma/whatever instance, it’s hard for any regulatory agency or politician to make a case that Meta is locking people in.
mike, to random The last 10 days have been a whirlwind for the #fediverse. Important new versions of @mammoth and @ivory launched. Wordpress and Tumblr reaffirmed their commitment to ActivityPub. And Threads and Flipboard began to federate. What does this all mean for the fediverse? How will moderation work? Who will be next to federate?
I asked @Gargron the founder and CEO of Mastodon.
Check out this very special interview which notably is hosted on our #PeerTube instance.
mike, to random Hello Fediverse!
I'm excited to let you know that we have stood up our very own #PeerTube instance. This is so cool. We've posted all the videos for my Dot Social podcast. We also posted our original Flipboard launch video for fun.
You can check out our PeerTube instance here:
You can follow the Dot Social channel on our PeerTube instance here:
I'm super impressed with PeerTube. It's quite a capable platform and it is fully federated via ActivityPub.
LeftistLawyer, to random
liaizon, to random shoutout to journalists @Sarahp and @davidpierce who have both been continually covering #fediverse news in the mainstream press!
J12t, to random @davidpierce at the Verge describes what makes the #fediverse so interesting extremely well. Go read this.
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub
ThatOneKirbyMain2568, (edited ) to fediverse Now that for-profit tech companies are beginning to implement #ActivityPub, I think it's important to establish what we want with the #fediverse and whether federation with #Threads, #Flipboard, Tumblr, and the like bring us closer to or further from those goals.
With that in mind, I've come up with a few statements (in no particular order) that describe what I think is an "ideal fediverse" — a fediverse that's not necessarily realistic but that we should aim for:
- No actor controls a large portion of visible activity.
- Users can move between instances without penalty.
- Creating and running an instance requires minimal effort.
- People on or entering the fediverse understand the variety of available options.
- There is no downside to using free and open-source platforms over proprietary ones.
These definitely aren't comprehensive, and if you have anything you'd add, let's discuss that! They're currently helping me reassess my stance on Threads now that Flipboard is also entering the stage, and I hope they're helpful for others as well.
I'll elaborate on these five statements in the comments.
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rah, I’d say the fediverse in general
The whole point of the fediverse in general is that there is no single “we”. There are those ActivityPub servers that one federates with and those ActivityPub servers that one does not federate with. Lack of consensus is built into the technology by design.
but I think it’s still important that everyone at least thinks about what they want the fediverse to grow into
To have wants about the social constructs that sit atop the technology is to misunderstand the technology. The technology enables your enemies/people you don’t like/etc. to communicate and benefit in all the ways you do. By design. You cannot exclude from the fediverse, you can only exclude from your server. If you have wants about excluding then you’ve misunderstood the technology.
ThatOneKirbyMain2568, @rah Maybe I'm not being clear. When I say that "we" means "the fediverse in general", I don't mean that everyone should gather 'round and come to a consensus on what values they should uphold and who should be excluded. This is obviously something that should occur on an instance or individual level, as (A) there are a large variety of different people and instances on the fediverse with different priorities and (B) as you stated, anyone can implement ActivityPub and tap into the fediverse if they want to, regardless of what anyone else thinks.
What I mean is that people should be thinking about what they think instance owners should aim for and form their opinions on the current situation based on that. My goal with this post is to show what I think an "ideal fediverse" looks like and have others share their thoughts. Having thoughts about what's healthy for people on the fediverse and having wants based on that isn't misunderstanding the technology — it's simply expressing preferences.