@reiver It should not depend just on private efforts. There are also public work on archiving. (Such as, in France, the work by the BnF which is chartered to archive the french Web.)
@@reiver The #Fediverse doesn't have a unified #UX. And it will never have one. Because it will never have a unified #UI.
The projects are just too different. They aren't all just #Mastodon plus a few extra features on top. They aren't all just microblogging or, in the case of #Pixelfed, microblogging with pictures. #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse.
#Friendica, #Hubzilla and #Streams are so much different from Mastodon that a unified #FediverseUX wouldn't work for them. (streams) even more than Friendica, and Hubzilla even more than (streams).
Speaking of Hubzilla: On the one hand, it's default theme, the only official theme that's currently supported, is browser hell. It capitulates before Hubzilla's massive feature wealth.
But it takes me three self-explanatory clicks to follow anyone on any instance of any project that's connected to Hubzilla, be it on my Hubzilla hub, be it on another Hubzilla hub, be it on Mastodon, be it somewhere else in the Fediverse, be it on #Diaspora* or elsewhere. Granted, it may take me more because there's a configuration window for each connection popping up, but it takes me always the same two clicks to get there and a third to confirm it.
Still, I wouldn't wish for Mastodon to adopt this UI, also because it wouldn't even work on something as simple and frugal as Mastodon.
"Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger"
@db0@reiver I think that must be a browser plugin or some other client-side funny business going on, because on my end I’m seeing the original instance links.
"When I started looking into this subject, I predicted a person’s physical attractiveness would only have minor advantages. I was wrong. […] I was so wrong."
I think younger software developers don't appreciate how big of a deal #PHP was back in the day — and how important it was for the early mainstream Web.
The early mainstream Web — late 1990s and 2000s — was largely built on PHP — well —
PHP + MySQL + Apache + Linux
What eventually got called "L.A.M.P.".
("L.A.M.P." = Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP.)
A lot of the explosion of creativity & culture & invention that happened during the early mainstream Web owes thanks to PHP.