mathias

mathias, 12 days ago

@tio Right now I am working with it via the browser extension/add-on Stylish, but when I'm getting to a point of "done" (still a bit to go) I will look at how to best share it. :)

mathias, 1 month ago

Right, I might have been too quick in asking. Had a quick look around for the unlikely event that I would see something that looked out of place. It indeed looked like there was a permissions issue going on in the smarty3 folder, so after having re-assigned ownership of a couple of folders in there the search seems to be working again.

There were a couple of folders in there though that had...odd...names (basically made it look like a mistake), but anyways, it is now sorted I think. At least it doesn't give 404's any longer.

mathias, 11 months ago

@feld aren’t them wasn’t already can’t?

mathias, 11 months ago

@jupiter_rowland

In general I find it noteworthy that pretty much no one is talking about the phenomenal growth Akkoma has had since its launch, which was just over 1 year ago. Comparatively it is really impressive.

It is twice the size a certain other service that "everyone" talks about (and the same amount of MAU's, which admittedly speaks for the even newer service), and which I also wish well, but given the talk about it I would've expected it to be explosive...not half the amount of users of Akkoma.

I just find it noteworthy that there isn't a beep regarding Akkoma (unless it comes from me, and people are bored of me raving about it).

I wonder what would've happened if Akkoma had gotten the same exposure though, given that it has a similar feature set.

#ImNotBitter 😆

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mathias, 11 months ago

@jupiter_rowland

Doesn’t the entire ”blocking” argument fall on the logical hurdle of ”blocking everyone who doesn’t block…” as that literally will be a never-ending and forever incomplete route to go. Shouldn’t white-listing be what they (kolektiva) actually are after? That they only allow a named appointed set of instances.

That will also, obviously, mean that unless they have some VERY dedicated community managers, they will only be whitelisting instances of certain sizes…this is clearly a case where centralization wins over decentralization; as an instance with 30k users require as much admin work as an instance-of-one. All the small instances will likely be shut out, simply due to the admin burden of adding them.

By that point it becomes worthwhile to do a re-take on if a whitelist-only Fediverse is the correct solution for those communities. I obviously don’t mean I personally do not want them here, I am talking about that the community leaders of such a community should perhaps reconsider if using a completely open protocol with absolutely no privacy built-in to it, to be the best safety barrier for privacy and to keep the dragons out.

It is a tricky thing to both be open and ”findable” whilst also locking everyone out by default unless they’ve proven themselves in some way, which is impossible unless manual action is taken in the first place.

I’m mostly thinking out loud, reflecting on the conundrum of both viewpoints, so I mean no offence this or that way.

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mathias, 11 months ago

@the_roamer

Hehe, thanks, I usually take great care to not offend people (and am mostly successful in that…I have irony and sarcasm in my veins so it is at times not without challenges…), and I try to stick to verifiable facts and also give credit where credit is due, but I keep getting blocked by people here and there which I apparently have rubbed up the wrong way, so I’ve learnt I’m not for everyone (which is fine, more of an observation). 🤣

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mathias, 11 months ago

@jupiter_rowland

Yes, well, that is kind of my point, and I’d like to emphasize that I was merely thinking out loud, from the perspective of a tight-knit community that perceives an outside threat: what white-listing does is not only to exclude small instances and entire projects, but literally locking it down to just that instance + eventual friends/instances.

I don’t think Kolektiva (in our example…could be others, and also other community types) believe that ”everyone else” will do the same as them, so at some point a decision has to be made on which trade-off one prefers.

But that brings me back to the question if it then, by that point, even makes sense to run an ActivityPub instance…I mean, if ”federating with the fediverse” (the absolutely main priority of all the fediverse services) is no longer a priority, surely there are better community building tools out there…? For those communities I mean.

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mathias, 11 months ago

@smallpatatas

Uuhh...now I'm getting lost. Should we block them to avoid them blocking us first?

For me, being here (in the Fediverse) and not posting original posts on the BigTech centralized services, which they can kick me off, moderate or cut me off from my content, was the main reason. I host my own instances. For the (very few) posts I do on a centralized service I have already posted it here (in the Fediverse) OR (more often these days) simply post a link to the Fediverse post in question (often with the #JoinTheFediverse tag).

My point is that my goal is still intact, no matter whichever other instance is set up. I still own my content. It can't be taken away from me. As I undisputably post it on a platform I control first it is not theirs, even if my post enriches a post that started off on their platform and they in some way might claim ownership of its content. If they were to decide to block me it goes like with any other block here in the Fediverse = unfortunate but, hey, that is how this place works...and if they do they will definitely not even be able to find a legal loop-hole that allows them to own my content in any way/shape/form.

On the flipside, if a service appears on the Fediverse that my current non-fedi friends thinks "hey, THAT is what I will join!" (despite me having chewed their ears off for months to come here in the first place) and it will mean I get to see their posts here, and to share my posts with them: good for them! Good for me!

In the meantime we (who are already present in the Fediverse) can look at what the new instances are doing, how they are doing it, if they are introducing new challenges/problems, and if those problems means we should adapt something in our existing services here.

Just my £0.02 and highly subjective thoughts.

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mathias, 11 months ago

@gonz

Bubbles are managed by the admin of #Akkoma instances.
As Akkoma instances see themselves as small communities it can still be beneficial for several small communities to band together, even though they are independently run. They can then add "sibling" instances to their bubble, and thereby increase the flow of posts on a bubble timeline. Sort of like a "local" timeline but with a few selected instances by the admin, of instances that are similar or related.

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