I just made an account with nothing more than a throwaway email address. So a phone number is not required.

The blog post didn’t make that clear, but I see that it’s repeated in other blog posts and on the Discord server.

It will be interesting to see what Friendica devs come up with!

I’ve just started looking at the AT protocol. What sort of WTF things are in there?

Looks like you might be wrong

The more I’m reading into the docs, the more convinced I am that the AT protocol is better than ActivityPub.

I wonder if there cound be a link aggregator and forum style implementation of the AT protocol, the same way that Lemmy did with the ActivityPub protocol.

I wonder what sort of bridging can be implemented between AT Protocol and ActivityPub implementations.

I get the skepticism. I’m not all that optimistic about Bluesky myself, but they clearly already made an original thing and other “techbros” have made original things many times.

The good news is this is all openly designed and implimented so it could be used for something potentially better.

I haven’t dug into the details, but there seem to be a lot of blog posts and extensive documentation to figure it out.

It’s unclear if that’s temporary (But I can’t imagine them manually adding self-hosted accounts forever).

Maybe @rimu@piefed.social can chime in here. I don’t host an piefed instance.

I do know that it is in beta and hasn’t addressed its moderation goals yet.

TIL about Lotide

Without a doubt in my mind, yes. You would have that effect on the OP. But not just OP, everyone else reading as well.

PHP has been having a resurgence in popularity because it works.

You self host lemmy.world?

You don’t think there’s anything on your end that can be improved? You don’t think you can do better?

Why can you never make your point without being combative and off-putting? I’ve seen you do this many times. I communicate with very helpful and enthusiastic people who have blocked you or warn others from engaging with you because of your abrasive comments.

And you don’t have to play pay to win with the algorithm to get your stuff to actually show up on feeds of the people already fucking following you.

Unfortunately, many people and organizations want to be able to pay for visibility. Which is antithetical to most fediverse services.

To the best of my knowledge, PDM can use Conda as a backend. So go ahead and use them both if you want.