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maegul

@maegul@hachyderm.io

A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.

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maegul, to random
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Is decentralised federated social media over engineered?

Can't get this brain fart out of my head.

What would the simplest, FOSS, alternative look like and would it be worth it?

Quick thoughts:

  • FOSS platforms intended to be big single servers, but dedicated to ...
  • Shared/Single Sign On
  • Easy cross posting
  • Enabling and building universal Multi-platform clients.
  • Unlike email, supporting small servers

No duplication/federation/protocol required, just software.


@fediverse

maegul,
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@Aatube @1984 @mindlight @maegul

Yea I don’t know the best approach to that. Either a separate server for managing IDs. Or you always a principal server that manages authentication for its platform and others within the trusted “circle”. And then, should the principal server fail, you can switch to another server as your principal. Hubzilla/Streams has some process like that AFAIK.

Arataka, to random
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Is https://firefish.social usually so slow? Was looking to see how things changed since I last heard about it and man that instance is SUPER slow to load everything, is this an instance issue or a firefish issue?

#firefish #fediverse

maegul,
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@Arataka at the moment it seems to be a dead instance. Too many problems too often with an admin distracted by other things now and not actively maintaining the instance.

Unless there’s contrary information and I’m out of the loop I’d say stay away and consider firefish to be a bit more hype than it’s worth. Other Misskey forks are out there.

maegul,
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@Arataka yep I’ve heard others talk about sharkey too.

Blahaj devs are moving to sharkey I think which is probably a good sign.

Don’t know where iceshrimp is up to but it’s still being worked on AFAIU.

TBH it would be nice if a major misskey fork for English/western-lang speakers could be settled on and provide a stable alternative on the Fedi. Hopefully the effect of firefish will be to have established awareness.

BoydStephenSmithJr, to random
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Hey, #Fediverse experts. Is there is simple way to Boost a Kbin/Lemmy post I like onto my #Mastodon?

I know I can look up the #KBin / #Lemmy poster on my Mastodon instance and boost from their timeline.

But, that's a bit difficult, I have to translate the KBin/Lemmy user URL into a remote Mastodon user URL, and then I have to manually match up the KBin post URL with the contents of a toot in the timeline.

maegul,
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@BoydStephenSmithJr

Hmm ... not sure you have to do all of that ... if you find the post on your masto instance you should be able to just boost that.

Otherwise, yes, there is a painfully lacking degree of interop. From what I've gathered, mastodon needs to do better at representing group based structures. Lemmy/kbin federate just fine, but masto can't represent and manage the content in any way that is useful, which is hampering the growth of the fedi IMO.

maegul,
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@BoydStephenSmithJr Well, that's just the lemmy post. Boost it directly if you like.

In truth, it's not the original lemmy post, but that's normal on the fediverse ... all posts from instances other than our own are duplicated on our instance with interactions and replies synced, often, as you may have discovered incompletely.

reiver, to random
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What topics about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech are you most curious about?

What questions about the Fediverse, social-media, or Tech do you hav?

(The Fediverse includes all the Fediverse software.)

Reply with your topics and questions.

#AllYourBases #Fediverse

maegul,
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@reiver what’s the deal with decentralised social media protocols … like at a full comprehensive theoretical problem and solution space level.

More directly, what features are reasonably expected but unavailable on the Fedi and which are often expected but unreasonably difficult

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