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My theory is some people are used to how things worked on Twitter and their algorithm.
If you re-Tweeted a post it bumped up its noticeability. But the secret was if you un-Tweeted, you could dramatically harm its rating and chance to get noticed. The system would assume something was wrong and reconsider your placement.
The Fediverse, has no such algorithm, and things do not work that way (thankfully). But I do notice this happens more frequently when I post my dislike for Donald Trump and it got me thinking. 🤔
Looking into this Summer of Protocols thing that @evan and @tomcoates got accepted for to work on adding encryption to #ActivityPub, and realized its a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. I am not opposed to crypto slush money flowing into more useful projects like the #fediverse but thought it was interesting that I hadn't seen anyone mention this fact yet.
When I joined the #fediverse via my own Mastodon instance back in 2018 (and with an identi.ca, status.net, pump.io history going far back), I never thought of it as a Twitter, Facebook etc alternative. I saw it as a new planet. A fresh approach to build a real social network. I still look at it that way. I want to explore new possibilities. Try new things. Escape the gravity well of the "old", centralised networks. Find a better orbit. That is why I block threads.net on my instance. #justsayin
Maybe you now understand why I don't really care about the growth rate of the Fediverse. Or how it could overtake BigCentralisedThing and what changes MUST be made to achieve that. I don't want the fediverse to be a better Twitter or Facebook etc. I want the fediverse to be a wonderful experience for those that value it and iterate over it to be an internet of people, not an internet of algorithms and monetisation, is all. Let's build from that position, if you agree.
The fediverse makes me feel better about my online presence. I define my experience here. And as I run my own instance, I also make bigger decisions like which instance gets suspended. Which users get an instance-wide block for the (currently) two users on my instance. (just to be clear, my instance is reserved for family only, I don't accept new users. I do hope you all set up many more small instances because decentralisation :)
@faizalr not really. I think I've tried it once but is had not really matured back then. I should revisit this project. Are there any sexy Android clients out there yet?
I've used Sync with Reddit. They announces to make it compatible to Fediverse alternatives, I guess.. But I'm not sure how the story went on.
The whole idea of BlueSky supporting nomadic identities but the rest of the ActivityPub (plus other stuff) Fediverse being unable to do so is such an oversold idea.
A new service using ActivityPub behind the scenes (and not the AT Protocol) can absolutely support nomadic identities, even if the service doesn't treat a whole website as the actor.
It will still use did:plc, same as AT Protocol (BlueSky), but once done so, an application that understands how to work with did:plc can dereference an actor based on the DID.
That said, an existing service will simply not be compatible with this idea, without changing how it operates.
@Plastic Paragraph @Sal Rahman Nomadic identity, as invented by @Mike Macgirvin 🖥️ in 2011 and first implemented in the Zot protocol from 2011 and the Friendica fork Red in 2012 and used by Hubzilla and the streams repository today, goes even further.
Its basic functionality is to keep at least one clone of your identity on another server.
On most Fediverse projects, e.g. Mastodon, your identity is in your account and thus bound to one specific server.
Hubzilla and (streams) put "identity containers" into your account, so-called channels. Your identity is not directly put into your account, but into one of these channels. The channel separates your identity, your connections, your posts, your settings, your files etc. etc. from your login credentials.
This makes two things possible. One, you can have multiple, completely separate identities (channels) on one and the same account, accessible through one and the same login.
Two, and here does nomadic identity come into play: A channel can be cloned to another server.
Such a clone is not a dumb copy like when you move from one Mastodon server to another Mastodon server. It's a real-time, bidirectional, live, hot backup. And it's fully identical to the main instance of your channel, down to the identity, at least as perceived by server applications that know nomadic identity. Anything that happens on the main instance is mirrored to all clones, and anything that happens on a clone is mirrored to the main instance and the other clones.
For example: The main instance of my channel is on hub.netzgemeinde.eu. Thus, my identity is jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu.
I've got one clone on hub.hubzilla.de. Hubzilla and (streams) understand nomadic identity. They know that this clone is the same jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu. Even if I should send something from my clone which I've actually done once when Netzgemeinde was acting up, Hubzilla and (streams) connections still perceive it as coming from jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu.
The big advantage of this is resilience against server shutdowns. This is actually the very reason why Mike invented nomadic identity in the first place: He saw Mistpark/Friendica nodes disappearing into thin air upon short notice or spontaneously. He saw users lose everything from one day or hour or minute to the next and always have to start over from zero. And he knew that the only solution for this problem would be if a user's identity resided on multiple servers simultaneously.
Nomadic identity makes channels even resilient against the shutdown of the server that contains the main instance. You can always declare any clone the main instance. If you still have a main instance, it's demoted to clone. All of your connections on Hubzilla and (streams) are automatically changed accordingly. The only difference in practice between the main instance and a clone is that the main instance is the one that defines the identity.
A byproduct of nomadic identity is that it provides the best way to move an identity from one server to another. It first creates a clone. Then it declares the clone the new main instance, turning the old instance into a clone. Then it deletes the old instance. If the account on the old server doesn't hold any more channels, the whole account is deleted.
So not only can you move with actually absolutely everything, a Mastodon user's wet dream that will probably never come true, but you can do so with relative ease and quite safely, and most of all, you don't leave a dead identity/account behind.
Okay woah, this is on a whole new level. Been trying Friendica and Hubzilla, but seems a bit over the pay grade in terms of complexity. And oddly enough, not too many intro/how to videos of them on youtube either...
Will have to do some further reading, as these two don't seem to be as user friendly as the normal Fediverse apps. And those were already a mind-shift when coming from traditional social media.
#activitypub The Podcast Index ActivityPub bridge now properly handles Mastodon "authorized fetch". If you had trouble following a podcast from an authorized fetch enabled instance, please cancel that follow and try again.
This may also resolve other sporadic follow issues from Sharkey/Misskey instances. Testing from people on those platforms would be welcome.
Today I'm back in the city of Los Santos playing GTA Online. I'll be nefariously grinding for in game loot and trying desperately to avoid oncoming traffic.
If you're trying to watch and things look choppy or you are having issues watching, please let me know. I seem to be having some issues on my side and I'm not sure if viewers are having issues watching.
How are we all doing today and what do we each have on our agendas for the day today?
Work stuff as always here. Thankfully things are slowing down after the major Nova release last week so that's good. Couple of meetings today from 12pm - 3pm EST.
After that, might give Gray Zone Warfare a try as the wife and I have been debating on picking it up.
@cliffwade Morning sir. Just work over here as one does. Have the #AppleEvent today as any Apple enthusiast does when the Apple Gods have them. Later we have my youngest daughter’s last orchestra concert of the year and then schoolwork/TV to round out the evening.