I think #4opens is the path, in this we do have to say NO to the "police". How this works is based on "trust" and firm foundations, and yes our #activertypub only has a skeleton foundation, a good one but needs much more support, the event is for laying this support into the ground as foundations to build on.
Resource use is an issue with the #mastodon codebase, it's not a #block on using it but is an issue to think about using a different #activertypub codebase instead.
With Mastodon going down the #ngo path and wedded to feudalism as "governance" we also face these common issues for tech projects.
Is #Mastodon really viable for the small to medium-sized operator?
We assert, "NO!"
We did something simple. With a Mastodon tab open we hit Ctrl+Shift+E to get the Network Tab. With an inactive thread open in Mastodon, we went to another website to read an article.
An hour passes and what we discovered shocked us. Mastodon somehow justified sending us 55MB of data. The #NetworkTab said 55MB over 1500 requests (53MB transferred).
@dsfgs resource use is an issue with the mastodon codebase, it's not a #block on using but is an issue to think about using a different #activertypub codebase
With Mastodon going down the #ngo path and wedded to feudalism as "governance" common issues for most tech projects.
#Mastodon and the wider #fedivers are native #openweb project based on the #4opens people who try to "hardern" and "secure" this are completely missing where the value is at.
They are spreading #FUD and endangering real activists acting this way.
#activertypub It's clear l that we have messed up this #openweb reboot, this is a normal outcome. Ideas please to do better this time and in future #openweb reboots please.
#ActivityPub was an "accidental" #openweb reboot, it exists because the #dotcons turned up at the #wc3 meeting did not find anything useful for themselves so left the “weirdos” to get on with building a #4opens aproch. The “weirdos” manage to hold things together long enough to get the #activertypub standard through the open but burocratic process and pushed it out to the world.
I believe those that built #activitypub and that have projects and or major influence within the #Fediverse should absolutely come together to provide education, information, stability and uniformity. Especially, as there’s this incredible growth is happening. It would clear up any misinformation. People by nature like things clearly defined. I believe with #Barcelona coming soon, Mozilla’s #Mastodon instance and those migrating from #Reddit now is an opportune time.
The #FEP is a good grassroots initiative, that is "névé" and troubling as it lacks "meaning" and is running as a "hobby" project with little if any social buy in.
NOTE: no amount of technical thinking/tinkering will add "meaning" as this is a social, not a technical problem.
Fucking Christ the @protocol is the most obtuse crock of shit I've ever looked at. It is complex solely for the sake of being complex and still suffers from all of the same problems as Mastodon.
Your server goes down? Sorry, all of your followers are lost. Account portability is no better than Mastodon. 'DIDs' serve literally no purpose. And none of the API code that Bluesky uses in their own app validates ANY of the crypto they're doing on the server. NONE OF IT.
Yep, people are lifting the lid and finding smoke and mirrors - I hope we are not wasting our focus and time on Fear, uncertainty, and doubt with this.
On a positive note, the “protocol wars” - has pushed creativity in the #activertypub world and siphoned off some of the worst #fahernistas to the other networks. Let’s keep planting #openweb spaces to become more of what we need, #4opens in the era of #climatechaos
https://fiatjaf.com/ab1127fb.html Yep, people are lifting the lid and finding smoke and mirrors - I hope we are not wasting our focus and time on Fear, uncertainty, and doubt - Wikipedia with this.
On a positive note, the “protocol wars” - has pushed creativity in the #activertypub world and siphoned off some of the worst #fahernistas to the other networks. Let’s keep planting #openweb spaces to become more of what we need, #4opens in the era of #climatechaos
In other news, in a long pitched battle between the Postgres permission system and the uneducated horde a the gate, the now not as uneducated horde -- me -- can report to have won the contested territory. I wonder though whether I can hold it, given how things have been going.
The "protocol wars" on the #openweb such as #bluesky, #Nostr, and #activertypub. That building bridges between these protocols can be a good solution, as it is a permissionless way to connect different protocols without needing to get the codebase to change their project. The protocols are all #4opens and #openweb native, which is a positive development. However, the cultures of these protocols are different and can create messiness in the discussions.
The "culture" and assumptions behind these projects differ. #bluesky comes from Twitter, which has a history of surveillance capitalism, while #Nostr comes from the #Encryptionists and #bitcoin communities. #activertypub, on the other hand, is rooted in the #4opens traditions and the #openweb.