"Lemmy and Kbin also represent a different way of interacting with the fediverse. Microblogging on Mastodon, photo sharing on Pixelfed and tracking books on Bookwyrm are all centred around people. You follow individuals you find interesting, and read the content they share. The threadiverse instead is framed around topics and communities...Overall, the sudden and rapid rise of Lemmy and Kbin is changing the structure and culture of the fediverse."
@CynAq I took at as: forums have been around for a while on the Fedi but in a far, far lower key. After the #RedditMigration 2.7 million active users of these now exist. And it is a somewhat new "culture" and structure of users on the Fedi than the past predominant ones who focuesd around text, photo and video microblogging.
This is important reading. What Google did to the open XMPP messaging protocol -- adopting and then poisoning it -- is an object lesson as the fediverse ponders Facebook/Meta entry.
I'm still leery of pre-emptively blocking Meta here, but we need to be absolutely clear on what's at risk -- and ready to instantly respond if they try to take over.
@activitypubtestsuite - question for the group: even if we were not to use it’s codebase, is there value in getting the old ActivityPub.rocks test suite live again? Just to see the old test in action?
I just clicked on a lemmy link (accessed via 3rd party client) to a pixelfed video which was a reupload of a tiktok which was a screenclip of a video podcast
Oh man, I forgot the rush of endorphins that comes from fixing a really longstanding bug.
#FedBOX, the generic #ActivityPub service, had a heisenbug for about 6 months where integration tests for federated dispatch would randomly (and rarely when debugging) failed. I tried a couple of times to reproduce it, but it wasn't that big of a deal and it mostly went fine, so I didn't want to dedicate too much time to it.
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@mariusor Marius: wanted to put this into your field of view…a number of us working on an ActivityPub test suite… would love your perspective on what would be useful there. The Frendica group can be followed here @activitypubtestsuite
Right now, early days, it is through that mastodon-compatible group above. 👆 …. Follow it and any messages mentioning it reflect to you and over 110 developers on it.
First goal: resuscitation of OLD test.ActivityPub.rocks suite… second goal, rebuild one in sustainable code, up to date to latest needs….
Of all the criticisms out there about Mastodon, some deserved, some not, the most valid of them is the lack of search. It’s such a crappy decision and worse experience, with daily impact, I sometimes feel foolish defending the entire platform. That I have to still search the hellsite for news, after nearly a year here is inexcusable. And please don’t waste my time telling me about #hashtags. I’m aware. They were designed to be used within searches, not replace them.
If it’s search only used public posts, then I see nothing worth blocking over, especially as many other Fediverse solutions will be offering full text search also. Not sure why any full text search maybe with an opt out per user account isn’t a net positive.
I piss off people who pander to #Meta and believe every server on the Fediverse should federate with #P92 (a.k.a., #Threads) since, you know, notmeta.social won’t be doing that.
And I piss off the HOA of the Fediverse by suggesting we should have lobby servers that help Meta users migrate off of Meta.
But it’s fine if some people get upset. Not everyone will be happy in this situation.