Wow, that’s bad. I would hate working with this so much.

of numbers instead of human-readable names

TBF, they have introduced a ‘verified’ system that lets you use human readable names.

🫩 I just want to sync my music between my computer and phone and I really can’t be arsed with this drama.

Yeah, people are tribal and decentralisation lets people express that in ways centralised platforms don’t. Something, something, tech won’t save us.

Clicking though to community to post and selecting a community from the create post page are same problem rearranged. A user who subbed to [email protected] isn’t going to know the difference between [email protected], [email protected] and [email protected].

Solution 2 in the post, multicommunities. I’m not sure it actually solves the problem though, as you still have to go to the actual community to post and I imagine multicomms add an extra layer of confusion to that.

I have looked into it a bit in the past and a Community Interest Company seems it’d be the best fit, it’s what the Matrix Foundation is registered as, but I just don’t know enough about the area to really say.

Only England and Wales‽ So my glorious Scottish pounds aren’t good enough for this ‘DotZip Ltd’?

(But damn, so professional. I wish I understood any of this stuff enough to get something like this set up for feddit.uk.)

They block the UK, your cheque will bounce!

iusesuse.fyi is available and only ~£6/year. 🤔

This reminds me of some of the goated instance names we’ve lost over the years. RIP iuserarchlinux.fyi, now you’re just a website peddling probable scamware.

You dropped this, queen. 👑

I did some digging through the repo and found they query https://lemmy-status.org/ for this info.

lemmy-meter.info just checks the landing page and the API responses for a community, post and comment, and just logs them over time. These are all things, irrc, Piefed’s API supports so I don’t know why the API needs to be expanded to log server stability? What does Mlem do to show instance stability?

They seem to be back now.

Stagnation is hardly a fair characterisation. I’d never put down your work like this despite having my own issues with Piefed’s development.

Can’t wait for the follow up post decrying PeerTube for only allowing videos, or Bookwrym for only allowing book reviews. Just because it’s ActivityPub doesn’t mean it has to be a Twitter timeline.

Once a major actor in a decentralised network starts to mess with the protocol, there are only two possible output: either that actor lose steam or that actor becomes dominant enough to impose its own vision of the protocol. In fact, there’s a third option: the whole protocol becomes irrelevant because nobody trust it anymore.

You mean like Mastodon? Where’s the angry diatribe about Mastodon not allowing posts to have more than 4 pictures despite other platforms allowing more (Pixelfed allows up to 20 for example)?

Yeah, anyone using it raises enough red flags to make a Chinese military parade blush.

Immediately followed by a rule against ‘miscegenation’. That’s one to add to our list…

They mention SWICG’s data portability spec, I assume they’re referring to LOLA: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola