“The first time I saw Peertube and Mastodon federating I was nearly hopping up and down with excitement. ” — @cwebber in interview made by @deadsuperhero
RP @vickysteeves GitLab open sourced push mirroring and added it core. This is a great win for #decentralization!!! You can now run your own canonical GitLab instance & easily mirror to GitHub for findability.
GitLab open sourced push mirroring and added it core. This is a great win for #decentralization!!! You can now run your own canonical GitLab instance & easily mirror to GitHub for findability.
Positives: For 1:1 chats, it is vastly superior to #Matrix. I believe E2E encrypted by default.
Negatives: Contact list management is still not good, and the promised #federation has not yet appeared. I eventually want to !selfhost my communications infrastructure, or at least anything that isn't #P2P.
Anyone poked at how #ActivityPub#federation between things like #mastodon and things like #peertube works or might work? Is there any point in following between one kind of server and the other kind? Or do I need to different identities?
It's been a while since my last post on the subject, but here are some exciting news about #funkwhale: the #federation is actually usable now, as shown in the video below:
1. We follow another instance 2. We scan it's library 3. We import some tracks from it 4. We play those tracks from our own instance
You can't imagine how happy I am to see this actually working, after weeks working on the protocol/invisible stuff!
last months user statistics of #thefederation any bets on how long the recent #fediverse boomlet may last this time? one time i want to see that history doesn't repeat itself as always after #facebook takes a pratfall. is there a way to keep this new users?
@deadsuperhero The minute someone used email to explain #federation to me, I was sold. The idea that I can't leave somewhere because my friends won't is a terrible reason to stay somewhere. Furthermore, the idea of smaller communities supporting and connecting to each other is so much more rewarding. Like forums of the old days, we connect through a similar passion, say Star Trek on tenforward.social. Then, we learn more about each other and make real friends. This is conversation, not noise.
The #federation model is effectively collaborative #moderation. The behaviour of every individual is too hard to track, but the limits of what a particular server considers permissible is more easily discovered. A user can pick an instance based not only on their own instance's limits, but how their instance handles federation with instances with significantly different limits. Importantly, this model includes transparency and accountability. By contrast, shared blocklists address the scalability problem, but do so entirely without accountability. One of the largest shared blocklists on Twitter systematically blocks trans people, especially trans women. This list came about as a way to address the non-moderation of Twitter, but then, without accountability, became a tool furthering inequality and invisibilising marginalised people. What in scuttlebutt prevents this?
so just logging on and hearing that witches.town is shutting down. did the users of this instance get a say? this is the reason #federation is not enough and we need #distributed systems.