Yeah, the irony is not lost on me!

Early on in the life of software I think a faster pace of development makes sense, when the software is less complex and there are fewer affected users. I think most Piefed users accept that they are very much using software that is still in active development.

Mastodon, on the other hand, is used by people who consider it to already be mature. A large number of people and organizations depend on it. Personally I trust it with the only actively maintained social media account I have in my real name. Moving too fast and making mistakes could have pretty fatal consequences there.

There are features I would like to see implemented as well - I think proper quote posts will be nothing but a huge improvement - but I appreciate that the developers are taking their sweet time making sure to get it right. And if Piefed reaches a million active users I expect its developer(s) to do the same.

I’ve been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.

I have two active accounts there.

If I recall correctly it just doesn’t scale well, and starts performing poorly as the user count goes up.

Personally I prefer Mastodon. In the end there’s only three dimensions: Security, performance, and personal preference.

I’m happy with how Mastodon is being run. Move fast and break things kan kiss my ass. Move slowly and don’t suck.

But at the receiving end you’ll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.

It’s a tricky thing to get right.

Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.

At least he seems to be enjoying it, embracing the creative process and developing whatever he’s interested in. Seems like a pretty healthy approach.

I’m pretty sure Dansup is at least 40 senior developers in a trench coat. It makes no sense how many quality projects this guy manages to develop and maintain.

Off the top of my head:

• PixlFed
• FediDB
• PubKit
• Loops
• Sup

Fair point, would be an incredibly easy vector for abuse in any other way. Good thing I’m not a software engineer.

Curious - would boosts from users on non-blocked servers bypass the block here? In other words, does traffic for boosts go via the original instance, or is it direct between the boosting and the receiving servers?

Obviously they won’t give too much of a shit and they’re not going to send any mail, they’ll just block the server like they would anyway. They are, however, going to be annoyed to be treated as insignificant nobodies. So all in all not a bad idea.

Courts, traditionally.

Let’s see how the lawsuits work out.

I think this is a great idea, and something that should probably be incorporated in a wide variety of ActivityPub integrations.

I know at least Funkwhale already includes license information - maybe it could be integrated in a way that is compatible with how it’s solved there?

The advent of AI has illustrated quite clearly that nobody cares, but that doesn’t make it less legally binding at least in theory.

If you post content clearly marked as CC BY-NC, you can at least be damn sure any use by commercial actors would be illegal.

Not to forget those of us not on lemmy! ;)

In the end what this all produces is freedom of choice - we are no longer constrained to using whatever service has users, but we can use whatever service we want to be using. The users/content will be there independently.

The EU is pushing antitrust against tech monopolies for all it’s worth. For anyone with half an eye on the EU it’s glaringly obvious why Meta is doing this, and all the conspiracy theorists stumbling over each other on the Fediverse just look like clowns.

It’s not about EEE, it’s not about flooding the Fediverse with trolls (?) or about taking over the market share of Mastodon (??). It’s about making a genuine-looking claim that they are not monopolist. Same reason they are working on the Signal protocol for WhatsApp.

It’s not exactly rocket science. It’s just successful regulation.

The deck is way different though - I enjoy french tarot, I still have no idea how the fortune telling deck could be used for card games.

He has the power to create his own instance with his own rules; he has the power to leave for an instance run by like-minded people.

And other people have the power to block that instance should it poison their internet experience. :)

And if I as a user want to join a service that does not feature nazi content at all, I should have that option as well.

I don’t want to have to handle this shit on my own: I want admins and mods to do it for me. If I’m not happy with their work I’ll leave for another instance. But if I have to block the Nazis myself I would consider that a huge problem and probably wouldn’t use the service at all.

Or, hopefully, some ended up on federated platforms. Like yourself - I’m happy you’re here!