Not really, Chrome has an overwhelming dominance on desktop despite not being preinstalled on any desktop operating system.

ABI stability?

I don’t see why it’d have to be limited to Piefed instances and we can do certain heuristics to test if an instance is good for a user’s location (Piefed’s instance chooser does this).

I’ll defer to you given I don’t do outreach while you do. Honestly an ideal would just be a simple website that chooses a random instance from a list of known good instances and takes them through the sign up process.

Not really, a slick design can’t really get away from the fact this is presenting a new user with too much information that they don’t have the system knowledge to understand. This will still lead to choice paralysis and ultimately the user not signing up for any instance.

I’d even say that Piefed putting it on the instance level registration page is actually a really bad idea.

Instance choosers in general are an anti-pattern.

I feel lied to here though. Where’s the rat picture, Hannah?

Interestingly, the person who added these to Bluesky say they’re a bad idea: https://blue.mackuba.eu/skythread/?author=hailey.at&post=3m2mldbsmys2t

Probably not. One of the main complaints of Mastodon I’ve seen on bsky is that it’s “Twitter but run by Reddit mods” so I doubt they’d be interested in here.

Of course, a hallmark of a decentralized network is that there is no central authority that could actually do that. Implicitly, this demand is a rejection of the very concept of decentralization.

What, you can absolutely ban people on a decentralised network. You may not be able to expunge someone from a part of the network they control themselves, but you can expunge them from the part you control. Bluesky has this power and has used it in the past.

Masto interprets a Note set as as:sensitive without a summary to mean ‘blur any media attached, but don’t collapse the text content’. I believe the same is true for non-Notes, but obviously without the summary = CW logic.

So a summary included in a non-Note is not CW’d by Mastodon currently.

I know, I was just saying that it prevents a non-Note from being CW’d, as the summery is used as the post’s content.

If it has a summary, I will use that as the content

But isn’t that how Mastodon handles content warnings? Baffling that they’d do it like that frankly given that it prevents long-form content (when masto actually starts supporting that) from being CW’d.

How they see it: https://sfba.social/@[email protected]/115267196743748430

Do note that Mastodon forces a redirect to the original instance for non-local posts, here’s a direct link to the comment: https://sfba.social/@karlauerbach/115267230182946226

It seems that threadiverse posts are being seen by more mastodon users now, which is great, but maybe the formatting could use some improvements?

There’s actually some related (yet-to-be-merged) changes to this on the Mastodon side, add support for links in Attachments (this is how Lemmy and the like federate links).

I don’t think anything’s changed, just two users finding a post in a hashtag (Lemmy adds the community name as a hastag for posts). I’ve seen some masto users complain about this in the past on the #lemmy tag.

It’s a shame about fedilore. I like the idea of a community dedicated to documenting events in the fediverse, too bad the actual community trended towards petty thredi drama as opposed to the more fun stuff like the shutdown of queer.af.

The fact that this is the first time I’ve seen these abbreviations and yet I know exactly what they mean is really a sign I need to touch grass…

Right now blacksky.community is an app that uses Bluesky’s AppView, which in turn uses Bluesky’s Relay. They’re working on their own AppView (which will have the equivalent of local-only posts) and that will use their Relay.

Interesting, from what I understand of ATProto, this would be hard to do on protocol, it’ll be fascinating to see how they do it. Maybe something off protocol like the recent bookmark feature Bluesky got.

I didn’t mean to undercut your point though, they often talk about PDSs as analogous to web pages, so your “different search engines” analogy is very accurate, it’s just not quite there yet.

I’d love to take credit for this, but the ATProto docs themselves make this comparison which is where I’m getting this from.

if I recall correctly either in (((streams))) or Forte (or maybe both) MIke implemented the nomadic identity over ActivityPub as well

This sent me down a bit a of a rabbit hole. It seems (streams) used an updated version of Zot, Zot/11 but was renamed to just Nomad. I can’t find anything about this, the (streams) repo only contains the spec for Zot/6, so I’m not sure about it’s APub compatibility. Apparently, Nomad had been discontinued in Forte in favour of pure APub, anyway.

If you’re thinking about this kind of stuff for Lemmy, it’s also worth looking at https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-ef61-portable-objects/3738

Oh, I know about Silverpill’s work, it’s really interesting! I even mentioned it recently. I’m glad we have someone smart like them working on this stuff.

I do think some kind of separation of user data from servers, like what AT Proto does, is actually quite desirable. I just don’t like that PDSes can have their data harvested by whoever, I think data sharing with a server should be opt-in.

Oh, I thought blacksky.comnunity used Blacksky’s relay. If it uses Bluesky’s then yeah, disregard what I said.

That’s not a perfect analogy though because Blacksky makes different moderation decisions than Bluesky.

I’d hope so given how abysmal Bluesky’s moderation is. The discovery feed is filled with transphobia, but you can’t say Charlie Kirk should rest in piss.

Again though it’s not a perfect analogy because the AT Protocol architecture lets you migrate all your data between PDSs seamlessly, and so far only a few niche ActivityPub implementations support that (Hubzilla et al with nomadic identity, ActivityPods using Solid Pods).

I don’t believe Hubzilla’s nomatic identity works with APub though, irrc it uses something called Zot.

I’ve been thinking about how to add nomatic identity to Lemmy quite a bit and it’s something I’d like to work on after 1.0 is out, but it’s hard a problem for sure.

A better analogy would probably saying it’s like Bing/Google. They’re independent of each other but broadly what’s on one is on the other.