VC = venture capitalism.

That’s a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.

The Great Sellout to Meta.

Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a “sellout”.

Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

I’m not going to pretend I grasp the technological details of either Weird or the Leaf protocol, but the basic concept of superpowering the personal website as identity provider is very attractive — and the passion of your writing is infectious 🙂 I hope to someday reach a lightbulb moment with your work and just implement it on my own site.

i thought nostr was just where all the trolls are going because they can truly be anonymous shitheads.

Also because blockchain, I believe? It’s basically a cryptobro grapevine.

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

I guess you have to take it for what it is. I see Matrix primarily as an IM network, and for that it works fine. I only use it for private communications with trusted friends, no random pedos can drop into our conversations.

In the past I’ve subscribed to a couple of interest-based rooms (music and movie genres), but other than that I don’t find Matrix’ forum or social features very compelling. Too much potential for anonymous randos lulz bombing any public room for my taste.

Well, Mastodon and Lemmy both use ActivityPub, and they’re not entirely compatible. On the other hand, the diaspora*, Ostatus and Zot protocols are more or less compatible with ActivityPub, and are considered parts of the Fediverse.

Edit: My bad, according to this diagram it’s much more fragmented than I understood it!

Source

Marketing, sure, but the onboarding from Instagram was a massive factor for Threads growth.

another for matrix I forget

If you or anybody else reading should remember the project, I’d be interested in hearing more.

Edit: If it’s this one you’re forgiven for not committing the name to memory…

True. All I’m saying is, it’s not a given that a WPified Tumblr will use it as a default.

I guess this means Tumblr is coming to the fediverse?

There has been some signs and rumours to that effect since Mastodon started taking off; I believe Automatttic specifically advertised for ActivityPub developers to work on Tumblr?

But Tumblr moving on to a Wordpress base only opens for the option of federation, if that is even accessible in the Wordpress installation that will drive Tumblr — as I understand it. Or has the WP-ActivityPub plugin been rolled into core WP without me noticing?

You’re already free to support developers and instance owners financially if they’ve set up either Patreon, OpenCollective or LiberaPay 🤷 That’s money going where it’s needed.

If I understand SubClub correctly, it’s monetisation on a user level, which in the past has only really given us influencers. I rather enjoy not having that kind of bullshit on the fediverse.

Who the hell ever looked at the internet and figured, “The fediverse is really interesting, but it needs more annoying influencers who can be bought by corporations to peddle their wares”?

No thanks, please pack this up where it will not be found again.

So maybe an inelegantly hacked together startpage that shows all your feeds in one for the morning coffee?

Exactly. And if needs be, get the existing symbol included in Unicode. It might already be in FontAwesome.

Whoever decided that a logo should be standardised as Unicode? That is the worst criterion for picking a symbol that has and will have hundreds of other uses than inline text. If it’s so important — work to have the current, pentacle fediverse symbol included in Unicode.

Registering a domain to introduce your dumb idea with a lot of empty bravado leaves you with … an annual bill and a dumb idea. The pentacle symbol is so much more recognisable.

And now I definitely want to see whoever downvoted your post outed as cowards 👍👍