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I’m a male, 23 yo software developer. Admin of lemy.lol instance.

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A new internet is forming (& Meta wants to control it) (yewtu.be)

A federated internet is forming. It’s built on open protocols like ActivityPub & connects services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Tumblr, Wordpress and more into a connected network known as the fediverse. And everyone from tech enthusiasts to Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey seem to want in.

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Literally this. Right now you can’t create your own mail server because big corpos like Google, Microsoft is going to make you end up in spam folder.

Now, apply this to fediverse.

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You can technically create but you can never be sure that your mails will received.

They don’t usurp the service but make it uncomfortable/unstable to you.

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It is about power. If they have more than 50% of the users, then all other instances should comply with their changes and obey them. If they don’t, then they’ll be blocked by more than half of the users. No instance owner will take this risk.

I’m trying to explain you that you don’t really need to own something to own it. If you have enough power, you have it already.

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But I guess due to this problem, this post can’t reach to them :/

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Rust? eww 🤮. Someone should rewrite it in Java(!)

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Seeing my PR here made me feel good. 3 months and ~60 commits for only one lil field was too much 😅

It’s very nice and reassuring that all the commits are audited subtly though.

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Thanks 🙏 Even knowing it would be implemented in future is enough :)

I wish I knew Swift so I could help a bit but unfortunately it is kinda bloated to me.

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I’ve never used XMPP. Can someone compare it with Matrix?

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I’ve used Matrix for months and agree with most points. I would like to try XMPP but it is clear that it does not have the best onboarding experience.

The problem I’ve observed with XMPP as an outsider is the lack of a standard. Each server or client has its own supported features and I’m not sure which one to choose.

Which client would you recommend?

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Thank you for the suggestions. I just created an account on jabber.hot-chilli.net and downloaded Gajim. It looks really cool!

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You need to search them to make them available to your instance. You can also use lemmony or lemmy community seeder to automate it if you care enough.

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It wasn’t but now it does I guess. I just searched a community didn’t existed locally on my instance and I got same result as you. No votes, no comments. I think this is enough to open an issue in the Lemmy repo.

Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)

Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps...

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There’s a library for JS: join-lemmy.org/api/index.html

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Congrats my friend! 😊

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Well, that’s probably requires a back-end server and a database.

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Another reason to not use ccTLDs.

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Nope. The ones you’re mentioned are gTLD (generic top-level domain) but most of the other domains are generic TLD too. See here for the list: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom…

Just don’t use country-code TLDs because they can removed by those countries. For example fmhy.ml and now queer.af.

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Yeah that’s true. We just need to research who owns the TLD before long-term site and everything is ok.

Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Threads’ roadmap for integrations with the fediverse, aka the network of decentralized apps that includes Twitter/X rival Mastodon and others, has been revealed. A new blog post by Tom Coates, the co-founder of an older decentralized app called Planetary, details the events of a December meeting at Meta’s offices where the...

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Giving them your own data legally and that they illegally fetch your data is not same.

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So why the New York Times sued OpenAI? There are multiple cases regarding this. Why do online and public platforms feel entitled to sue AI companies (according to you)?

If OpenAI and NYT were 2 news sites in the fediverse and had the ability to share their news with each other; I’m sure NYT couldn’t file such a lawsuit.

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That’s the difference I’m trying to explain. If you give them, you have no right. If they do it themselves, then you can at least sue.

It’s like I stop locking my door because there’s a chance burglars could break into my house and steal things at any time.

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