Misskey talking about leaving the Fediverse
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How can the best team win when ATproto is structurally giving Bluesky an advantage over any possible other team? The best solution is not to play such a rigged game.
ATproto and ActivityPub are not in a competition, despite many people having this wrong impression. ATproto ultimatly tries to solve a different problem than ActivityPub.
ATproto tries to make the influencer type social media (many follow a few) more robust by giving those influencers better data ownership and outsourcing moderation to community operated filters. At least in theory, as most of it didn’t work out with Bluesky dominating everything and few others interested in becoming part of it.
ActivityPub ultimatly tries to solve the social network problem where network effects lead to large centralized walled gardens like Facebook or Reddit locking in users. The overall design is thus modeled on that problem and it isn’t particularly suited to cater to social media influencers with large amounts of followers.
ActivityPub ultimatly tries to solve the social network problem where network effects lead to large centralized walled gardens like Facebook locking in users. The overall design is thus modeled on that problem and it isn’t particularly suited to cater to social media influencers with large amounts of followers.
I never thought about it this way. Probably that’s why Mastodon was always struggling with discovery, while on the other hand federation on the Threadiverse works quite well
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And do they have some alternative? I mean without anything to replace it with, that probably means switching off the networking and either split up or all agree on one large service?!
They’re working on their own federation system which they’ll only switch over to when it’s ready. They expect things to be fine for the next few years still.
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ActivityPub ultimatly tries to solve the social network problem where network effects lead to large centralized walled gardens like Facebook locking in users. The overall design is thus modeled on that problem and it isn’t particularly suited to cater to social media influencers with large amounts of followers.
I never thought about it this way. Probably that’s why Mastodon was always struggling with discovery, while on the other hand federation on the Threadiverse works quite well
Mastdon’s discoverability issues are as political as they are technical. It fundamentally requires some aggregating and process of people’s data, something Mastodon users are infamously opposed to. Not for entirely illegitimate reasons, but the extent some go to oppose it is troubling.
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Mastdon’s discoverability issues are as political as they are technical. It fundamentally requires some aggregating and process of people’s data, something Mastodon users are infamously opposed to. Not for entirely illegitimate reasons, but the extent some go to oppose it is troubling.
Ah, that makes sense. I assume than that discoverability is better on Sharkey and other key forks?
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Ah, that makes sense. I assume than that discoverability is better on Sharkey and other key forks?
Maybe? You’d have to ask someone who’s used them.
I’ve actually never used anything beyond my basic mastodon.social account.
I’m hoping to finally be able to move of it if FEP-1580 goes anywhere: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115376513498494866
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Maybe? You’d have to ask someone who’s used them.
I’ve actually never used anything beyond my basic mastodon.social account.
I’m hoping to finally be able to move of it if FEP-1580 goes anywhere: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115376513498494866
Let’s hope!
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They’re working on their own federation system which they’ll only switch over to when it’s ready. They expect things to be fine for the next few years still.
Is there any background information on this? Wikipedia mentions this but they only link to the very same post.
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Is there any background information on this? Wikipedia mentions this but they only link to the very same post.
I saw a separate post linked in the Reddit thread on this, where it was said.
https://misskey.io/notes/af5udbqosfca05lo
Via machine translation:
I won’t be leaving the federation immediately, but I will be migrating to the low-overhead federation system MisskeyHQ is developing. Servers incompatible with that system may eventually lose connectivity.
The full transition will likely take several years, so it should be fine until then.
Source for the full quote of link + translation (Reddit alert)
Don’t know more information than this. But the wording there suggests to me that what they’re switching to isn’t fundamentally incompatible with the fediverse. They seem to be treating loss of compatibility as an allowed risk, not a guarantee. So they’re probably still using ActivityPub as a foundation for what they’re building.
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How can the best team win when ATproto is structurally giving Bluesky an advantage over any possible other team? The best solution is not to play such a rigged game.
ATproto and ActivityPub are not in a competition, despite many people having this wrong impression. ATproto ultimatly tries to solve a different problem than ActivityPub.
ATproto tries to make the influencer type social media (many follow a few) more robust by giving those influencers better data ownership and outsourcing moderation to community operated filters. At least in theory, as most of it didn’t work out with Bluesky dominating everything and few others interested in becoming part of it.
ActivityPub ultimatly tries to solve the social network problem where network effects lead to large centralized walled gardens like Facebook or Reddit locking in users. The overall design is thus modeled on that problem and it isn’t particularly suited to cater to social media influencers with large amounts of followers.
Sure. I was coming from a different perspective. We have all these competing protocols, I’ve used Matrix, XMPP, eMail, several dialects of AP and there’s a bunch more out there, and a plethora of different and/or overlapping use-cases. My definition of a “win” would be to connect people. In a meaningful way and to contribute to their lives. Make it easy to participate and all these things. I don’t really care that much about the exact protocol, that’s just a tool to achieve some goal.
I think it’s way more important what we build with these things. My ideal platform would do away with the unhealthy social media dynamics we’ve inherited. It’d be full of people discussing hobby projects, share their travel stories and what’s important to them. Have answers to weird computer problems… Politics would be more than a shouting match. It’d empower people to be constructive while talking to each other. I think the protocol is important to lay out the groundworks for that, but ultimately it is not in itself the standard by which we measure our success.
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yea, the Threadiverse probably gets a relatively high number of requests since the upvotes/downvotes are also requests
but everything seems to be working fine over here
I don’t know if I would say it’s working fine. If you don’t clear your cache regularly the main page takes like a full minute to load.
Hopefully it’s fixable but this is a level of performance most internet users would not tolerate.
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I don’t know if I would say it’s working fine. If you don’t clear your cache regularly the main page takes like a full minute to load.
Hopefully it’s fixable but this is a level of performance most internet users would not tolerate.
if a client side action (clearing cache) affects the issue, then it’s not related to the ActivityPub protocol
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So what is Miss Key? Is it like Tumblr? What’s the culture like?
It is a microblogging plateform of the fediverse. They are as of today two major microblogging software on the fediverse : mastodon and misskey along with its many fork (forkkey or *key) : firefish(previously calkey) iceshrimp, foundkey.
There is of course other microblogging software but mastodon and the *key family seem to me to be the most active.
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Google Translate:
First of all, the ActivityPub system is not suited to something like Misskey, which flows at lightning speed.
It was originally designed to connect blogs, small-scale SNSs, and wikis.
How can it handle the TL hell where tens of thousands of requests fly in per second?
It’s based on the idea that it would be nice if various small services could send each other updates, so it’s quite costly.
I feel disappointed.
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So what is Miss Key? Is it like Tumblr? What’s the culture like?
Here’s a collection of words I might use to describe their culture: Japanese, anime, quirky, open-minded, fun, goofball, Absturztaube.
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if a client side action (clearing cache) affects the issue, then it’s not related to the ActivityPub protocol
Maybe not. I just don’t think saying threadiverse works fine is completely true. We have lots of issues here and there.
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Here’s a collection of words I might use to describe their culture: Japanese, anime, quirky, open-minded, fun, goofball, Absturztaube.
Amazing! Thank you that is actually very helpful!
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It is a microblogging plateform of the fediverse. They are as of today two major microblogging software on the fediverse : mastodon and misskey along with its many fork (forkkey or *key) : firefish(previously calkey) iceshrimp, foundkey.
There is of course other microblogging software but mastodon and the *key family seem to me to be the most active.
Thanks! Is it similar to tumblr or mastodon or is it not like either of them in terms of format?
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Thanks! Is it similar to tumblr or mastodon or is it not like either of them in terms of format?
I’ve used Calkey and Sharkey and they quite similar to Mastodon but with a prettier UI. I don’t know Tumblr so I can’t say.
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Google Translate:
First of all, the ActivityPub system is not suited to something like Misskey, which flows at lightning speed.
It was originally designed to connect blogs, small-scale SNSs, and wikis.
How can it handle the TL hell where tens of thousands of requests fly in per second?
It’s based on the idea that it would be nice if various small services could send each other updates, so it’s quite costly.
I’m disappointed by their decision. However there is lot fork compatible with the fediverse. I know some dev team that are interested federation of missked with lemmy and piefed. Mainly because of jlai.lu
You can follow this project there : https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/Iceshrimp.NET
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I’m disappointed by their decision. However there is lot fork compatible with the fediverse. I know some dev team that are interested federation of missked with lemmy and piefed. Mainly because of jlai.lu
You can follow this project there : https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/Iceshrimp.NET
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.
