Every time I browse lemmyverse.net, I see one of the top instances in terms of registered users is enterprise.lemmy.ml. Right now it has 54.2k users, putting it behind lemmy.world and ahead of lemmy.ml. However, if I go there, there’s almost no content, even on All (which implies it’s not federated). Is it a test instance...
.world is a newer gTLD whereas .ml is a more well known country code TLD. whatever auto linking code the lemmy UI uses likely just isn’t up to date with all these comparatively recent TLDs
one of the misskey forks. imo “vanilla” misskey is lacking a fair bit of essential stuff (post editing being a giant one)
the most interesting ones to watch for now are iceshrimp (misskey v12 hardfork based on an early version of firefish, mainly focused on backend tech work compared to new features) and sharkey (misskey ”v13” softfork, aimed at qol changes and other feature work while keeping up to date with misskey itself)
akkoma is alright if you need something light on resources but I personally can’t get used to it’s interface
and mastodon is just… too bland in comparison to both
I personally find the development to be more “sensible”. firefish bungled up their flagship with a (imo) failed transition to scylladb and hasn’t been doing much of importance since then (they changed the boost icon to a rocket though!)
compared to that, iceshrimp rewrote their mastodon api compatibility layer to the point where it may be the most compliant one among misskey forks, uncovered several perf bottlenecks (one really big one related to word mutes since fedia migrated over), fixed the http signature security vuln ahead of firefish (and provided the patch to them, which they didn’t put in a stable release for something like two days even after merging)
quite a lot of firefish instances seem to be migrating over to sharkey for similar performance and stability reasons, but if you like the firefish UI/UX compared to the “classic” misskey one (or want a smoother migration path from firefish that doesn’t involve a major version bump) then iceshrimp is the one to check out imo
fedidb.org/software/iceshrimp is a thing, and there are several general purpose instances such as fedia.social and iceshrimp.social (which isn’t anything official despite the name)
not having an (open) flagship is, to the best of my knowledge, an intentional choice as moderating it would take time away from development
They aren’t forced to do anything. Manifest v3 is just a part of the WebExtensions API (which is not a standard and is really just “whatever Chrome does except we find/replace’d the word chrome to browser”) which both Safari and Firefox chose to implement in order to make porting of Chrome extensions easier.
Before that, Firefox had a much more powerful extension system that allowed extensions quite a lot of access to browser internals, but that turned out to be a maintenance nightmare so they walled those APIs off (not a coincidence that Firefox started getting massive performance improvements after that, and extensions stopped breaking every other release) and decided to go the WebExtensions route. I have no clue what Safari was up to but I think they implemented it after.
If they don’t implement Manifest v3, extensions that want to work across multiple browsers need to support both the older Manifest v2 and the later Manifest v3, which would be a burden not many extension authors would want to bother with, which would make them just say “yeah we’re not supporting anything outside Chrome”. Firefox avoids this problem by extending the v3 API to allow for the functionality necessary for powerful ad blocking Google removed in v3 (webRequestBlocking) while also implementing the new thing (declarativeNetRequest) side by side, so extensions that want to take advantage of the powerful features on Firefox can do so, while Chrome extensions that are fine with the less powerful alternative can still be ported over relatively easily.
Firefox does have it’s fair share of extensions on top of the WebExtension API already (sidebar support for one), so adding one more isn’t too big of a deal.
Some games will probably actually rely on Steam, like for achievements or something. For those…If there are a substantial number of Mac games that won’t work in a 64-bit environment, I am wondering if it is possible to make a “steamlib proxy” – basically, have a 32-Mac VM, run the game in a VM, but have Steam running in a 64-bit host environment, and just relay calls to a process launched under the host environment that uses the host steamlib to talk to Steam. Valve presumably isn’t gonna set that up as a supported environment, but I wonder if that might be a viable open-source project.
I think Proton has something of that nature, so games running inside Wine talk to the native Linux Steam binary.
I’m just saying the “steamlib proxy” concept you mentioned is not only possible but has at least one implementation. The fact that Wine isn’t true isolation doesn’t really change anything (maybe other than the exact details of the underlying IPC channel, which could use some kind of optimized shared memory magic) unless I’m misunderstanding something.
I’m writing this post on behalf of my friend, a non-technical user who had the chance to use Matrix for about a week. I’d like to share his experience with you and ask what you think about it....
over the years of using matrix i’ve become convinced that the people behind it simply have different priorities than people who actually want to use it. they’re mainly interested in the tech parts as opposed to making communication tools.
if you look at the “hype” behind matrix, it’s all about “the protocol”. federation, p2p “host a homeserver on each client”, encryption, bridging, complex state resolution algorithms, peppered with some vague marketing crap about owning your own data. nerd shit or, in the best case scenario, pipe dreams of a magic future that could come with all this flexible tech we’re building
notice how there’s nothing about actual communities. little to any discussion on moderation tooling, or ease of use. it’s all tech. they only care about the tech. the communities? uh well they’ll happen somehow
“matrix chat” is just a tech demo of the matrix protocol the same way github.com/matrix-org/thirdroom or that fucked up twitter clone they were building at one point is.
this turned into a bit of a rant but the people working on matrix need to have a deep inner look and explicitly work out if they want to work on “cool tech” or work on tools for building communities. also stop working on so many useless side projects and focus on making one thing that works.
It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something....
You also can’t reuse a domain between software installations (some exceptions apply when migrating between software of the same “family tree”, e.g. migrating from a mastodon instance to glitch, or migrating between misskey forks) due to how federation works. Hell, reinstalling the same exact software can break federation if you wiped your database in the meanwhile.
Some software offer a “split domain” option where the software itself is installed in a subdomain like mastodon.example.com but with user handles on a separate domain (usually the root domain, like @example.com) but I am not too sure on the reusability of that, and it’s not an easy thing to implement (Lemmy won’t deal with that correctly and will always use the full domain for anyone on a split domain instance). There are also a handful of software (like Takahe) which let you “bring your own domain” so to speak.
ActivityPub does not govern how user handles work. All AP actors are defined by their IDs (which in Lemmy’s case happens to be the URL their profile is hosted in, which is a mistake as you cannot change your username without breaking federation, but at least Lemmy isn’t alone, both Mastodon and I think *oma family of software do the same thing)
AFAIK the @username convention is Webfinger’s doing, and (to the best of my very incomplete knowledge) the convention of “preferredUsername @ the hostname of the object ID” is a hack Mastodon pulled that got adopted as a de-facto standard (as is quite a lot of other things in AP).
I’m learning web development. I’m on databases at the moment, postgresql in particular. I thought it might be fun to try to help with a fediverse project or two, but I’m only knowledgeable about node.js, and npm, do any fediverse projects use that? I also may be diving too deep too early with this. Appreciate any feedback...
misskey and it’s forks (firefish, iceshrimp, sharkey, and the approx. million others) use a node/ts backend with a vue/ts frontend. peertube also uses node to the best of my knowledge.
that said:
misskey itself is developed almost entirely in japanese so you probably won’t be able to help out too much.
firefish in my experience is doing a LOT of questionable design decisions (hello scylladb migration!) so i’m not sure if it’s in a good shape right now
iceshrimp is forked off from firefish and seems to be aiming to fix things up as opposed to introduce new features (their matrix chat has been really interesting to lurk in especially when it comes to database performance talk)
on the other hand, sharkey follows the latest versions of misskey and has been adding a fair amount of useful features on top of it (post imports that actually work without sending notifications to everyone, message editing which misskey itself found too hard to do, etc.)
activitypub isn’t something you can abstract into a library in a clean way in my experience. the best attempt here seems to be go-fed. most projects i know of implement it in their own way, specialized to the kind of platform they’re planning to build.
I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services....
one thing I like from kbin is that because it does this natively I can follow a kbin magazine from an empty unused account and create a misskey antenna pointed at the hashtags in question (with replies hidden) which allows me to subscribe to kbin communities without getting spammed with boosts of replies, so I may end up making use of this depending on how widely it gets adopted
that said I’m still not convinced that increasing lemmys reach outside the threadiverse makes sense just yet while its federation is so buggy, case in point: brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9md8phwlkzlj0xe9 (edits on posts are repeatedly re-boosted, which likely wasn’t noticed as mastodon only ever allows one boost from an actor)
(or the fact that link posts don’t federate to misskey and forks at all, but that’s due to a bug in misskey)
i can see why you may not want this but have you potentially considered rehosting/attaching any images from image posts in the bot’s replies? as lemmy doesn’t federate those properly just yet (github.com/…/ecd8e3b11b5292bad73d48c2fbf11db00bc4… will fix it for posts originating in lemmy AFAIK) it’d make the bot quite a lot more useful and things like memes do tend to get boosted a lot more widely than links, though i can definitely see why it may feel a bit like freebooting (so, it could perhaps be a per-community option for non-OC-heavy communities?)
What if we kissed under the Rule? (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
rule (lemmy.cafe)
Flatpak can look daunting... (feddit.de)
Disclaimer...
Integrating f-droid to lemmy
hope this post wont sink by the threads posts : D...
Manager: This task only takes 30 minutes. Why did it take you the whole day? (programming.dev)
I use memes as a coping mechanism (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I repurposed the template...
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What is enterprise.lemmy.ml?
Every time I browse lemmyverse.net, I see one of the top instances in terms of registered users is enterprise.lemmy.ml. Right now it has 54.2k users, putting it behind lemmy.world and ahead of lemmy.ml. However, if I go there, there’s almost no content, even on All (which implies it’s not federated). Is it a test instance...
Pleroma vs Mastodon vs Misskey
Which do you think is the better microblogging platform? Why?
new hbomberguy video (www.youtube.com)
yeah I know you, you’re a bunch of queer fucks just like me...
Chrome’s next weapon in the War on Ad Blockers: Slower extension updates (arstechnica.com)
lenovo sus rule (sopuli.xyz)
It’s a real thing, this isn’t an edit: www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/
Steam dropping mac 32 bit support (help.steampowered.com)
The User Experience in Matrix will mostly fall short. Unless we do something.
I’m writing this post on behalf of my friend, a non-technical user who had the chance to use Matrix for about a week. I’d like to share his experience with you and ask what you think about it....
rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Why do a lot of fediverse instances put their software (i.e. Lemmy/Mastodon) in their name somehow?
It kind of makes me think of how odd it would have been if many of the old forums named themselves like bookclub.phpbulletin.com, metalheads.vbulletin.net, or something....
I’d like to help, do any fediverse apps use node on their backend?
I’m learning web development. I’m on databases at the moment, postgresql in particular. I thought it might be fun to try to help with a fediverse project or two, but I’m only knowledgeable about node.js, and npm, do any fediverse projects use that? I also may be diving too deep too early with this. Appreciate any feedback...
Introducing the Lemmy Tagginator (github.com)
I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services....