matthieu_xyz

@fediverse @Perfide @MoogleMaestro
The staff of automatic have confirmed multiple times on Twitter and Mastodon that they're working on this for both Tumblr and wordpress. And many people offered their help, including the co-inventor of ActivityPub.

This IS happening. I don't know when, but it's coming.

@fediverse @PabloDiscobar @vaguerant
This is not how federation works. You only get the content from the people you follow. If you run a single user instance and you follow 5 people you only get the content from 5 people. If they're all in the same server it can even be grouped as a single request to the shared inbox.

Meta can have 100M, 1B, 5B users it change nothing for rest of us. Unless one of the local users really want to follow a million of accounts.

@matthieu_xyz @fediverse @vaguerant @PabloDiscobar
If I use mastodon. I don't need to signup or install anything. I can just get the content for free. They get minimal info about me (less metadata than in an email even!!) and I gave them no authorization to datamine anything! I'm also free from their terrible algorithm. It's like all good content in my inbox at no cost.

(And OP is right. Posting from mastodon is a pain in the ass)

@fediverse
@vaguerant
@PabloDiscobar
If I install Threads I need to signup. To signup I need to sign their ToS and give up all my rights. Then I need to install an app that will spy on my phone and send them a ton of info about me. And private info, not just the content of what I post. And they can resell and datamine that info because I gave them the right to do it.

@kbinMeta
@10A
Considering the issue about tankies on some lemmy instances, I think we understand how much left is too far left. And what you describe as "woke" isn’t it.

@fediverse
@rozno @SuperSpruce
Choosing a server is often the hardest step. That’s why you should send the signup page of your fav instance to your friends and not the official lemmy page.

@MicroWave
There is a huge bot issue right now (started 3 days ago). All the numbers are worthless.

It’s a known issue, all admins should add captcha to the subscription page, delete the bots and re-compute the actual number of users. Unless we do that, we won’t have a correct number.

We can still look at the Monthly Active Users. Bots don’t post (yet)

@Bilbo_Hobbit @Citronnier @gumchain
Les gens aiment citer gmail (~15% du réseau email) qui rend la vie un peu difficile aux boite auto-hébergés, mais on est encore loin du monopole et la disparition du mail. Et XMPP qui a quasi-disparu, mais pas forcément à cause de Google talk, mais aussi parce que le format est vieux, n’a pas évolué et que d’autres alternatives on plus la cote (matrix).

@Bilbo_Hobbit @Citronnier @gumchain
Ça, j’y crois beaucoup moins. De 1, je vois pas en quoi ça les intéresse de miner des données sur 1.4M d’utilisateurs quand ils ont 2Md sur insta et 300M potentiels utilisateurs sur Twitter.

Et de 2, le EEE ça marche souvent pas. Microsoft (qui a inventé le concept avant de complètement l’abandonner) l’a testé avec IE, Word et même Java et globalement c’est que des échecs.

@gumchain @Bilbo_Hobbit
Pour moi l’intérêt principal, c’est d’esquiver les loi anti-monopoles et de se préparer à l’EU Digital Markets Act qui impose "l’interopérabilité" aux géants du numérique. On parle surtout des chats instantannés, mais ça pourrait aussi concerner les réseaux sociaux.

L’autre intérêt c’est que les réseaux sociaux ont une date d’expiration. Facebook se fait ringardiser par insta qui se fait ringardiser par tiktok, donc c’est normal d’expérimenter de nouvelles choses

@thegiddystitcher @RedirectedPotato
Another con: You become an admin/moderator and have to keep up to date with the latest bad servers to defederate from and you’ll have to deal with all kind of bad posts yourself instead of relying on a moderation team.

@MicroWave
Yes, when your server is getting swarmed in spam, you first fediblock (or at least limit, when limit is supported like on mastodon).

Then you ask the admin of the instance what’s going on. You can also help them clean up the bots.

Then you can federate again once you’re 100% sure the bots are gone.

When the number of bots is high compared to the number of users, that’s even more reasons to block fast