I guess I missed the drama around kbin? Good to clear up (at least in part) what lay behind your fork.

We also have an app for Android

Get that sucker on F-droid! 🎉

That’s pretty cool, especially given we’ve all used the “federated, like email” example to describe the fediverse.

I’m curious about identity: does this require an account on an ActivityPub enabled server, or is there a possibility of tricking AP instances into parsing an email address as a profile URL?

Would definitely be interested in seeing something like this explained. It would be weirdly cool if newsletters and mailing lists entered federation space (Star Trek pun very much intended).

I think I found a parallel in Bluesky’s Personal Data Server concept — here’s a nice writeup. I still don’t know most of the ActivityPod providers from Adam, so atm I can’t tell whether I actually have control of my data using their services, or if they do 🤷

Thanks for the digest. The PDS concept tangentially helped me (maybe?) better understand the ideas behind Solid ActivityPods as personal data stores for ActivityPub.

Bluesky feels like there is still too much data silo mentality behind the project, and the federation part seems more like a symbolic gesture than something that is meant to actually allow users their data freedoms? Call me cynical.

Oh no wait, am I too late for the drunk version? 🙂

It’ll still be 30Gb though…

Nice strawman argument, was that what I said? Nope.

Also, “advertising the bankruptcy of your opinions”? Go easy on the thesaurus, kid.

Sure, but when the first claim comes from a sensationalist youtuber, its claim to veracity sort of loses weight.

Syncthing or rsync?

No, YouTube has a serious idiot commenter problem.

Maybe there is more development going on in individual projects? ActivityPods which combines ActivityPub accounts with Solid Pods for identity management — and AFAICT it was last updated two days ago.

I have to say I’m still not clear on exactly what and how Berners-Lee & co intend us to use Solid. Presumably the pod providers are more reliable than Google or Meta, but they’re still unknown third parties to me? Should we self host our pods? That’s only a power outage away from becoming a real nightmare.

Hate to break your illusion that Selfhosted is specifically targeted. I’ve not made notes of the spam accounts I’ve reported/blocked but there were several in OpenSource and others, too.

Pretty much, right? Ugh, algorithms!

users will be able to participate in the global conversation, instead of the one dictated by the community they join

So… I guess the big brains that gave us Twitter reasoned that people randomly join communities where they don’t agree with the rules? This argument makes zero sense.

Newpipe is really superior in any way. I can honestly say I haven’t visited YouTube.com in years, and definitely not used their app.

And that’s just the human condition 🙂

Yeah, don’t offer open signups, kids.

I had a brief moment of “Oh, they’re being mean to Sean Tilley. I hope our favourite depressed journalist doesn’t get more depressed by this!”

Then I saw the byline.

I hope that’s not the entire answer but it has to add some numbers to the jump.

Desperately searching for /c/techyparentsupportgroup@instance.tld as we speak