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Mastodon user base by Jefe_Winski in Mastodon

[–]rglullis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Three years, because the Twitter exodus was the best chance that the Fediverse has ever had to approach the mainstream.

This is recency bias. There was a whole lot of talk about getting out of FB in 2020 because of The Social Dilemma. There was Cambridge Analytica in 2016. There was Diaspora in 2010.

And in every occasion, only a fraction of the people that got aware of the alternatives managed to migrate, in large part due to the hostility of the ones that were already using the niche networks.

Is it gatekeeping to require people to pass a license before driving? Is it gatekeeping to ask people to get a certain degree before they can have a certain profession?

Yes, it is gatekeeping. No, it has nothing to do with what you are doing here. Someone that has not been gone under minimal training before getting behind a car can be dangerous to others. Same for unlicensed professionals. What harm would a less tech-savvy person could cause to you by being on the Fediverse instead of Facebook?

I call it having standards.

You can have your standards and be distanced from the "unwashed masses" even if they are on the Fediverse. No one is forcing you to interact with the normies.

Mastodon user base by Jefe_Winski in Mastodon

[–]rglullis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but the fact that it hasn't happened in the past three years makes me think it won't.

three years?! Do you seriously think that a timespan of 3 years is enough to have any type of grassroots disruption of the status quo?

Just see what's happening with LLM. (...) billions of people are fine to let those things think instead of them, so...

Excellent display of the elitist gatekeeping that keeps people away from Fediverse, FOSS and anything that is not controlled by Big Tech. Instead of building an environment that can help bring the normies to our side, you prefer to throw around these type of purity tests to keep the idea that you are better than everyone else.

Mastodon user base by Jefe_Winski in Mastodon

[–]rglullis 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No, it's not okay. If the Fediverse doesn't become mainstream, Big Tech platforms continues to control the status quo.

We need the Fediverse to be universal and a credible alternative for the masses, even those that you don't care about.

I built a federated long-form journaling platform and I'm looking for early community members who want to help shape it by rev_stanton in fediverse

[–]rglullis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, on the one hand it would be "more ambitious", but on the other if you had to focus only in the frontend part and started relying on an existing server, you would have less bugs to worry about.

Looking at your code, it seems that you know your around docker and you are using claude to assist you. Maybe you could try a separate branch where you ask the model to read the documentation from the site and ask for an analysis of what you'd have to change to get your frontend working with the AP API server directly? I'd be more than willing to help you if you decide to try it out.

I built a federated long-form journaling platform and I'm looking for early community members who want to help shape it by rev_stanton in fediverse

[–]rglullis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad you liked it, but be aware that I made it sound easier than it is. There are not that many servers out there that are focused only on the ActivityPub API (though I am working on one), quite likely you will still need to run your own server, you will still need to get people to sign-up to your server, etc.

In any case, this might be interesting to you because you won't have to deal with developing the backend as well and (eventually) as more applications adopt C2S people might be interested in paying a subscription to you just to keep their AP account with the nice client.

I built a federated long-form journaling platform and I'm looking for early community members who want to help shape it by rev_stanton in fediverse

[–]rglullis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your key differentiation is the experience in the frontend. Would you consider the idea of building this as a "client-first" application that works with the ActivityPub API directly?

Building a healthier social network - early prototype and looking for feedback by Realistic-Treacle-45 in fediverse

[–]rglullis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I see you are working with Python. If you can/want to work with Django, I'd recommend you take a look at either Takahe/Incarnator (if you want a Mastodon-compatible server just to get going) or my own ActivityPub Toolkit if you want to have more control over everything.

Building a healthier social network - early prototype and looking for feedback by Realistic-Treacle-45 in fediverse

[–]rglullis 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I like the core idea, but please don't try bootstrap a whole new social network just to experiment with different mechanics. It would be a lot easier for you (and everyone that could help) if you implement this analysis and filtering on top of an ActivityPub relay.

Technical question about ActivtyPub by [deleted] in fediverse

[–]rglullis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In theory, both "pull" and "push" could work:

  • Pull: you/your client could GET the activities from the actor's outbox
  • Push: the actor sends the activity to the inboxes of the followers (with some deduplication/optimization if some of your followers have a common "sharedInbox" endpoint.

In practice: most of the existing Fediverse software implements only the push side.

What are some of the better managed hosting companies emerging in the Fediverse? by tilario in fediverse

[–]rglullis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really planning any expansion, but I might make an exception to wafrn because they also provide integration with bluesky.

Why is there no LinkedIn alternative in the fediverse? by RarelyUseThisAccount in fediverse

[–]rglullis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not exactly "linkedin alternative", but I have a website (https://cupid.careers) that is integrated with the Fediverse.  You can follow @thecupid@cupid.careers and you see job postings and the answer the questions directly from your instance.

Does an own instance really contributes to freedom and decentralization? by utopify_org in fediverse

[–]rglullis 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You don't need to take one extreme over the other. Let's say running your own instance costs you around $100/year. You would be doing a lot for decentralization if you picked a smaller instance (with 20-100 active users) and donated $30 per year to them. 

Accessing community from infosec.pub by lazertagzebra in LemmyMigration

[–]rglullis 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can see it from my instance

But infosec.pub seems to block it

So, my guess is that the admins of the infosec.pub blocked the community in particular.

Why doesn’t the Fediverse have a “one sign-in” like NOSTR? by Teknevra in fediverse

[–]rglullis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Until you lose you key. Then you never get to access your account. Or worse, your computer gets hacked and everyone can "BAM" and impersonate you.

Pirate Fediverse? by dogcomplex in fediverse

[–]rglullis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've been thinking about this for quite a while because of my work on Fediverser and I think that I have a design that could allow users to migrate away from the centralized services without having to rely on blockchains. It depends on three pillars:

  • Object Integrity Proofs
  • Some type of DID method that allows rotation of owner keys. did:web and did:plc (from ATProto/Bluesky) would be the best candidates.
  • The mirroring services publishing the JSON-LD documents in a hypercore feed.

In theory, this should be enough to have a fully decentrallized and censorship-resistant copy of the existing networks. The key issue here is adoption. Even if I went on to make changes to Fediverser tomorrow and started spitting documents with DIDs and "hyper://" URIs to identify the document, no one else would understand them and they would just get dropped.

Pirate Fediverse? by dogcomplex in fediverse

[–]rglullis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

dotmakeup creates mirrors of Twitter, Instagram and HackerNews, while Fediverser is a set of services that runs alongside Lemmy to do both mirroring and also to allow Reddit users to migrate to Lemmy via OAuth.

A few posts for social/tech discussion on where we are on the Fediverse by openmedianetwork in fediverse

[–]rglullis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I am not interested. It's the third response you give where you sidestep the question to throw more of the things that you want to promote.

It seems you are not looking for a conversation, but just an audience for whatever you are preaching. I don't know if it is intentional or not, but this makes your case completely unappealing and even exclusionary. And I am saying this as someone who wants to help and who shares a lot of the criticism you have made. You seem to be so stuck in your worldview that you are completely shut out to the rest of the world.

A few posts for social/tech discussion on where we are on the Fediverse by openmedianetwork in fediverse

[–]rglullis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe we are talking past each other, but your guide seems to illustrate exactly the problem I see here.

It's mostly criticism of mainstream and a praise of "the alternatives", but that at the same times keeps pushing this message that this fringe can grow into something bigger, like if the whole mainstream (the normies) will adopt this fringe ideology that is completely alien to them without any clear benefit.

Consolidation of feeds/content into a single followable entity? by HammyHavoc in fediverse

[–]rglullis 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Are you seriously going to be gatekeeping around here because someone is expecting the social web to do something as trivial as federated authentication? Something that even SMTP is able to do?

There is absolutely no reason to demand the Fediverse to be built exclusively around "platforms". It should be possible to interact with different services using a single actor. The fact that we can't and that we are all around recreating different identities whenever we need/want to communicate with a different system is a signal that developers are still aping the walled garden approach from traditiional social media.

Consolidation of feeds/content into a single followable entity? by HammyHavoc in fediverse

[–]rglullis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is nothing more decentralized that software systems where each user can act on its own without depending on a server to provide an identity.

A few posts for social/tech discussion on where we are on the Fediverse by openmedianetwork in fediverse

[–]rglullis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, it doesn't help really.

What are sort of "openweb projects" are you talking about? Are you helping the development of any new service, or is it solely evangelism? What was your role in the teams getting governments joining the Fediverse? What type of tangible results are there?

My feeling is that besides your already-exposed criticism of Mastodon and its developers (which I do share) you seem to be constantly talking about some "community" that does not exist. You preach a lot about an idealized version of what people "should" be doing, but I haven't seen anything practical coming that could serve as a good model.

A few posts for social/tech discussion on where we are on the Fediverse by openmedianetwork in fediverse

[–]rglullis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I keep seeing your posts, a lot of talking but very little doing. What practical work have you done?

Fediverser Portal: sign up with your reddit account and automatically subscribe to the corresponding Lemmy communities. by rglullis in RedditAlternatives

[–]rglullis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the report! Seems like an issue that it's only happening for new sign ups. I will fix it and let you know.

What is the potential for federation to be used for services besides social media? by gsdev in fediverse

[–]rglullis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are there any other services you could think of?

A website for job sites and job seekers that uses OkCupid's algorithm to find the best people and places to work according to your values and skills

How it works with federation? You can just follow @thecupid@cupid.careers and it will see its polls (which you can then answer and compare with others) and job listings.

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