I don’t think we need conditional sentences when talking about this. These platforms exist. Just go there and have a look. I’ve scrolled a bit through farcaster.xyz and maybe one or two others. And there are a lot of them which got passed around and failed.

lemmy.sdf.org has some REALLY unique and awesome communities. !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org is an awesome set of comics and one offs. Excellent if you want to go down a rabbithole. Take a look at “Top” to see what I mean. A bit of self promotion here: !peertube@lemmy.world is one Ive put some effort into highlighting “Cool” videos (or at least things I find cool) on peertube.

Obsidian https://obsidian.md/ Hanged, drawn and quartered To be hanged, drawn and quartered was a method of torturous capital punishment used principally to execute men convicted of high treason in medieval and early modern Britain and Ireland. The convicted traitor was fastened by the feet to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn behind a horse to the place of execution, where they were then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded, and quartered. Their remains would then often be displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge, to serve as a warning of the fate of traitors. The punishment was only ever applied to men; for reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake. [image: 330px-BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg] The execution of Hugh Despenser the Younger, as depicted in the Froissart of Louis of Gruuthuse It became a statutory punishment in the Kingdom of England for high treason in 1352 under King Edward III, although similar rituals are recorded during the reign of King Henry III. The same punishment applied to traitors against the king in Ireland from the 15th century onward; William Overy was hanged, drawn and quartered by Lord Lieutenant Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York in 1459, and from the reign of King Henry VII it was made part of statutory law.[1][2] Matthew Lambert was among the most notable Irishmen to suffer this punishment, in 1581 in Wexford.[3] The severity of the sentence was measured against the seriousness of the crime. As an attack on the monarch’s authority, high treason was considered a deplorable act demanding the most extreme form of punishment. Although some convicts had their sentences modified and suffered a less ignominious end, over a period of several hundred years many men found guilty of high treason were subjected to the law’s ultimate sanction. They included many Catholic priests executed during the Elizabethan era, and several of the regicides involved in the 1649 execution of Charles I. Although the Act of Parliament defining high treason remains on the United Kingdom’s statute books, during a long period of 19th-century legal reform the sentence of hanging, drawing, and quartering was changed to drawing, hanging until dead, and posthumous beheading and quartering, before being abolished in England in 1870. The death penalty for treason was abolished in 1998.

Okay, that’s fair. The hard requirement for a microblog user to have to follow the community is often too high a barrier (if only because it’s not immediately apparent that this needs be done) That said, Mastodon gets around patchy federation with mention spamming. Threadiverse gets around this with the distributor model (the community itself). I don’t know how to reconcile this from a technical perspective… yet. Also @db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com this is in response to you as well.

It seems they need the corpo stack: Quarkus (java 21) or scala with akka, a message broker with batching support and microservices But that will be handled in the future, as january is near. Maybe we need a default lemmy implementation and a “scalable” implementation.

Bonfire seems like a very good project, I like the philosophy behind it (beyond platforms, like some criticism raised recently), but it’s a bit concerning that none of the instances seem to have any active users: https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list Edit: found one: https://discussions.sciety.org/

it’s supposed to be compatible with PieFed’s so Lemmy users can subscribe to PieFed Feeds, and PieFed users can subscribe to Lemmy’s multi-communities

I’ve just discovered Ghost but I seem to have hard time finding some instances to check out I mean a real one. Because what I’m finding in https://ghost.fediverse.observer/list looks weird

The new button that will detect AI content

Good to know, thanks! Since you’re here could I ask about the fetching from !newcommunities@lemmy.world? It’s an interesting feature but it assumes LW will always be here, and moreso that specific community will exist. Is there a way to change the community it fetches from, for future proof? I don’t see LW going any time soon. But I thought the exact same about lemm.ee and was proven wrong, which is why I’m asking. It also assumes that instance is federated with LW, which may not always be the case (as an edge case)

This is being worked: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115376513498494866

Wafrn too! Currently seeing this on wf.jbc.lol, a Wafrn instance technically i can also query the bridgy bluesky post

I’d say it’s a useful reminder for users and for developers alike. For the users, make sure you throw a bit of money at open source projects you benefit from. I personally have a philosophy of spreading out recurring donations very thin: My liberapay is full of somewhat insignificant contributions. If even a relatively small share of people benefiting from open source software did the same we would be in a very different position. Currently 14 people support PieFed on LiberaPay, averaging at 0.8 USD per week. Personally I contribute by dragging down this average quite a bit. Do the same for projects you care about—think about how much you can give without it really affecting your financial status at all, and set up recurring donations of small amounts. Don’t stop yourself from giving just because you feel like you couldn’t contribute a meaningful amount: Organizations often stress that small recurring donations are as valuable if not more than larger one-time donations, as they value financial stability. Personally I cancelled my Dropbox subscription for a much cheaper one based on Nextcloud, and I save quite a bit of money every month that I’m trying to distribute to open source projects. For developers, if money start trickling in, think about the project beyond yourself. Even if you’re doing great now and you enjoy maintaining it, things can happen, and you will in all likelihood burn out at some point. Don’t make the fact that you receive some financial support a stressful element that just adds to your burnout. Try to get other developers onboard, to set up structures so that you don’t feel bad for taking a break, and try to delegate responsibility. It probably feels like a waste of time that could be better spent coding—which is what you’re good at after all—but if your project has gotten to this point, it’s probably worth doing.

That sounds good. You can tell the developers to open an issue in the Lemmy repo or use our Matrix chats if they have any trouble to get the federation working. Edit: The main thing they need to understand is FEP-1b12.

Made by Jack Dorsey… but there’s no app that I could find in the Play Store. Not sure how he’s expecting it to take off if the normies expect apps instead of typing it into a browser. Tried using their website and you can’t sign up with email even, so it feels kinda half baked right now unless you’re a Nostr user, which I don’t even know what that is.

I feel there’s never a good and satisfying answer to this very question… Why have 5 competing instant messengers, why not have one perfect one? Why should we retrofit threaded conversations onto Matrix and not retrofit chat onto a platform that already has threaded conversations? The real world is just messy. There’s a bazillion ways to arrive at a similar thing and there’s also quite some ideas out there and we constantly come up with yet more of them. And then projects grow, sometimes different ones into similar directions. We have different technological origins/roots, different ideologies and motivations that all get into the mix and have an influence on decisions. Things sometimes change during a long process. And then this is made by humans and they often don’t abide by logic. They’ll things just out of fun or because they don’t know any better. I think this is a very valid question, but the world just doesn’t work that way.

I think Blaze posted some blog post on how to deploy Onion-Services with Torspray a few days ago. And there’s the official TOR documentation. Basically you’d create a hidden service and point it at the port your software opens, or at your reverse proxy. In case of GoToSocial, the rest of info should be in the split-domain deployment. Think of it as you split it between the regular domain and TOR’s onion domain. But I have no experience with GoToSocial, take this with a grain of salt.

From what I understand, you already do that right now. I do it to get @perfectdark@lemmy.world 's posts on awesome game stuff. [image: aG2xqHotcT0Q8Ci.png] For example this community. Although I do like the “preview” option on the website. Thats neat.

Another feature i admire with frindica and its family (hubzilla is mine) is how they implemented groups, if i make a post on a group it doesnt get delivered to every one of my connection, it only goes to the community and people in it. On the other hand i can make a post on lemmy using my hubzilla account but it will show up in every one of my followers timeline since it is by default a public post.