The mention of email is
Even so, much like how users of one email service such as Gmail can still send emails to users of another service such as Outlook, users may still view content and interact with users on any other instance in the fediverse
which implicitly says email is not considered part of the fediverse by comparing the two.
The others listed are bluesky, nostra and farcast. I suppose we could count protocols that nobody uses…
Fediverse is ActivityPub. Email is not, though the theory is somewhat similar.
I’ve seen that on a couple video game news sites and am just fuck it, I won’t read the article then.
Right, the shape is fine, but the letters of the plate number would be much larger.
That’s not really what US license plates look like though… the shape, yeah, but not the lettering shape and size (nevermind that it appears to be in Klingon).
You can see cars on the other side going the same direction though.
Someone had a little too much whiskey.
This is probably before your time, but it’s like when Usenet was opened to AOL subscribers. Just a giant flood of stupid people. Thankfully, we can defederate.
Other than that and what I mentioned about server resources, many people are here because we don’t like centralized corporate social media. Being connected to a meta service is against the principles of many on the Fediverse. Meta also might try to influence the protocol or open source projects based on it, and as you said, EE&E.
There’s a chance it could actually be good for mastodon and lemmy since there’s a good bit of publicity about it, and people could realize they don’t have to use meta and threads and could just directly use mastodon.
How could meta do that? The issue is that they’re adding federation to connect Threads to mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin and other systems that use it. Like any other instance though, administrators have the option to defederate, and I expect most will. Many already preemptively have them on their block list. If nothing else, it’s expected that being federated with threads would be very intensive in terms of storage and cpu resources, so it wouldn’t be feasible for most instance operators to be connected to them. Plus, it’s unpopular with most users. Meta does not have any control over the open source project or individual instances.
Great series, but none of this spaghetti is coming out looking fried
I agree, the pasta looks boiled like regular spaghetti.
wtf is a fried spaghetti sandwich? I guess it could work with enough meatballs…
Wow, amazing that Mr. Dressup had a similar show on TV in Canada for nearly 30 years and this is the first time I’ve heard of him.
Yes, I’ve wondered this in the past and that is my experience: they’ll only contact you if a test indicates a problem or they need you to come back. I suppose they figure it’s needless time and expense to call and say “oh, everything is fine”.
I’ve had doctors miss important results though (a positive celiac blood test!), so it’s always good to check with them if you don’t hear anything. You can get most everything from their websites and apps these days though.
Let’s say 2/100 of your country’s primary monetary unit. No reason to be US centric.
If you’re using the website, the list of federated (or not) instances is on the menu at the bottom of each page, “Instances”.
Hmm, well sometime when I looked at that I also saw a list of explicitly blocked instances. Maybe that was on sh.itjust.works.
For the audiences (i.e. content creators who would want websites) I have in mind, it has to be dead simple to set up, like a Twitter or Instagram profile. Anything that involves sftp, ssh or configuring nginx isn’t going to work. Pretty much, automated installers and GUIs.
I think people are increasingly seeing the value in owning their online identity - if you’re nixed by the Etsy algorithm or they or OG delete your account you’re pretty much screwed. Email marketing has stayed steady and is increasing in popularity for that reason as you actually own your customer list.
I tried to find a solution to the issue you bring up years ago when I was an admin on an art discussion forum. The owner wanted to find a way to sustain the site and bring in revenue, and I saw the problem of how people had their digital identities and promotion spread out across 4-5 different websites. My idea at the time was a profile site which would be a central place listing everywhere someone could view or buy your artwork. This was before linktree etc (around 2013) so in retrospect, it was a pretty decent idea. At this point, software has advanced a lot but the problem remains the same, as you describe. I think Lemmy and ActivityPub in general is a viable solution to that. People post on Instagram and Twitter because they provide broad distribution potential. Lack of true ownership is a real drawback, though. Platforms like Shopify are great and very sophisticated, but they’re also turning up the screws (a recent price increase to $40 a month for the basic membership, for example).
The way to get people to use it is of course to build easy to use, powerful software, of course. I suppose this is a decent idea for a project I could work on.
Yeah, I think you’re exactly right. They expect that they won’t be able to understand or act on any sort of computer problem. That’s what I was hoping people would figure out from experience - that they don’t have to be scared to read it, click around and give it a try.
I dealt with similar things when we had a fairly busy website back in the PHP/MySQL days, around 2008-09. My business partner was a great designer but not technical at all, and was a bit uptight about our site. She didn’t report imaginary problems, but if there was any sort of service interruption she’d act like it was the end of the world and stress me out about it even more than i was already stressed. I still wonder whether it would have been better to just run the site by myself.
Your rephrasing changed it qualitatively. Of course it takes no position on whether Lemmy is part of the Fediverse considering it now does not have the word Fediverse in it.