Tomat0

@Tomat0@lemmy.ml

Theorist of the Fediverse. I run a chatroom focused on helping to build the foundations for the Fediverse to grow. Links are at the bottom of this doc.

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Tomat0,

man its not even good sci-fi

We Should Compete With Wikia, Not Wikipedia

Currently, Ibis is branding itself as a decentralized competitor to Wikipedia, and honing in on questions about Wikipedia’s moderation. The most common rationale for the federation I’ve seen is that on contentious topics you’ll be able to have different articles with different perspectives on controversial topics....

Tomat0,

I do think the question of targeting though has an impact on what we design features in mind with and also what kind of usecases we pitch to people, which in turn will shape the sort of content and communities that show up. So there’s value in figuring out this question.

Tomat0,

Not invite-only, but invite as an option to bypass the usual manual approval process. Captchas from my experience aren't effective, as PeerTube hCaptchas have been bypassed.

Tomat0,

Devs stated it's not a priority but if someone else were to do the work and make a PR, they would not be opposed to including it.

Tomat0,

This is different from a forum in that you're explicitly working with a select group of others in a small team to complete a concrete task within a given time window.

Or to put it in simpler terms: for the Summer Season we are looking for developers to both vote on and then work towards completing a two-month long project. This could be fixing a bug or adding a feature to an existing Fediverse project or creating something new.

The benefits to the participant are:

  • They're collaborating directly with others who also have an interest in doing whatever is most effective towards growing out the Fediverse. There's a lot of the people in the community who want to help out and see the Fediverse grow, but don't know where to begin. This is meant to be a place where people can pool their efforts and ideas.
  • Since we're breaking stuff into two-month sprints, it also is intended to serve as a relatively short-term commitment which can give development experience and give people within the community a chance to know each other.
  • Since we're putting what to work on to a vote, this is also an opportunity to put your ideas and input for what is most needed out there, and if you're convincing enough, get others to work on it alongside you.

The benefits to the Fediverse (and free-software as a whole) are:

  • Developers are no longer working separately on their own stuff, which is an issue which caused fragmentation. Instead, we're focused on coordinating people's efforts to fixing stuff where it's most needed.
  • It helps offload work from central developers or non-profits, which could hopefully serve as a "federated" model of software development long-term if it succeeds.

Let me know if you have further questions.

Statement on Politics of Lemmy.ml

Recently there have been some discussions about the political stances of the Lemmy developers and site admins. To clear up some misconceptions: Lemmy is run by a team of people with different ideologies, including anti-capitalist, communist, anarchist, and others. While @dessalines and I are communists, we take decisions...

Tomat0,

Isn't instance-blocking alone sufficient for being able to prevent the environment from being overrun? I understand the hesitancy to platform reactionaries, but as it stands the network effect is easily the biggest hurdle the Fediverse is going to face. Right-libertarians and actual reactionaries might be a net negative on the main instance, but as far as the software itself goes, numbers are numbers, and could end up making a world of difference.

Let them form their own circlejerks away from everyone else and have slur-blocking be on a per-instance basis, after all that's why the federated design works so well.

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