Fediverse. Also I hate that mastodon is seen as the fediverse. I had to explain to someone like they were a 5 years old I was using pleroma and they kept saying that no, I didn't understand, we're on mastodon. He didn't get the concept at all.
@menturi@raccoon There is a bunch of other protocols other than ActivityPub who are also considered part of the fediverse: Diaspora, Zot, Streams, etc.
In fact ActivityPub wasn’t always the main protocol of the fediverse, it used to be OStatus. Mastdon was first build on top of OStatus before switching to ActivityPub.
But nowadays ActivityPub is by far the most used one.
I wish there was a unified document / webpage / video that put all of the info into an easy to understand format. I understand the fediverse now but it was confusing until it clicked. If there was resources that boiled it all into layman's terms, I think there would be higher adoption and the fediverse itself would really take off
Even just a slightly better mobile browser experience would be fairly decent -- navigating back and forth out of threads is really the only issue I've noticed on that
Feddy? Feddit? I think sticking with fediverse works, while Lemmy and Kbin can be referred to by name, or together as AP (ActivityPub) “voting forums” or “link aggregators” as a category.
Hi, please consider editing the post title into something more meaningful, like "Which Fediverse software would you recommend for long-form blog posts or photo hosting?". This will help people who know the answer to notice the question.
Make a metric fuckton of money from people who are using a third-party client specifically to protect themselves from Reddit's increasingly-toxic attempts at monetizing their participation? The only thing I'd expect that to accomplish is to convince them all that it's time to flee to the Fediverse.
And why do it this way? They could have limited API access (and therefore usage of third-party apps) to premium Reddit accounts. I can only assume that what they really want is to get people to install the official Reddit app, presumably to collect more data than is possible through a browser or third-party app. Exactly what they plan to do with those data, I can only speculate, but it can't be good…
Make a metric fuckton of money from people who are using a third-party client specifically to protect themselves from Reddit’s increasingly-toxic attempts at monetizing their participation?
I think they are looking at all of the AI companies who will need massive amounts of data to train AI. Those companies are just getting buckets of money being dumped on them so they don't care how much the API will cost.
The thing is I don't even use Relay for Reddit to avoid the monitization. I use it because it's the best Reddit experience out of all the apps I've tried, especially compared to the official offering.
If they wanted to make money off of me, they could just add a charge to use the API at the user level. I would pay $5/month to Reddit in order to use the API, including through third-party apps. Like, I get it, go have to keep the lights on and I get a lot of value out of the site.
They're just going about it all wrong, and users like me are going to end up not using the site anymore.
The problem though is they don't want you or I to use the API as a third party client - they want everyone using their first party app which is chock full of ads and I assume tracking as well. To them, that data is more valuable.
Otherwise they could charge a reasonable price for the API, like you mentioned whether at the user level or the developer level.
Yeah, I understand the underlying reason for doing this. I just think they're killing the chicken to get the eggs. Rather than make a little less money on me (but still make money) they are going to lose a user completely who regularly comments and posts
Oh I agree for sure, unfortunately this is just one of those lessons that the higher ups will need to learn (they never really do though) through the "sink or swim" method. I know which one I'm hoping for, after how they've treated their developer community...
@zalack@argv_minus_one Agreed. Even if reddit backtracked now I wouldn't go back. They've shown their hand. Also the fediverse rocks I should've come here a long time ago
Seriously, they actually think free app developers have the money to pay for their ludicrous pricing? They're either complete and total idiots or they're lying about the intent.
But Instagram is part of Meta. It's just as bad as Facebook, Whatsapp or any other Meta product when it comes to privacy and it will never be FOSS, so very much unlike Mastodon
Yup, but people are going to try it because "bro the new Instagram thingy", after that we can tell them "bro did you know you can access the same content without being spied?
If there's a thing I've learnt in the past year is that people don't want to talk about privacy and FOSS software, mainly because the word "privacy" has been so overused in the past 10/15 years that most people think it's bullshit which doesn't exist anymore. It's a preconcept but unfortunately that's how people think and if you want them to consider free software juust tell them it's cool before everything else
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