Cy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 07:10:06 JST
CyYeah, there's just no other way to go about it. People can't follow each other, because they could have multiple profiles. If they did, then I wouldn't be able to tell which of their profiles to send posts to. I follow my friend "Susie" for instance, then I post a message; do I send it to susie@instance1, susie@instance2, susie@instance3? It depends on which of those profiles followed me, whether or not I know they're all alt accounts for the same person. If susie@instance1 profile followed me, then it'd be refused if it got sent to susie@instance3.
Troublesome though, because what if this Susie followed me on all her profiles? Then I'd be sending my posts to her three times over. I guess that's fine, it just seems wasteful, and hard to display. And what if Susie reposted a message to all three accounts that I followed? She'd have to change the post author because the Fediverse requires you stay locked in the walled garden of one instance or another (thanks Gargron), so I'd get three identical messages from three Susies, differing only in which profile was the author.
My client could in theory dedup it, if I did somehow know that they were all alt accounts for Susie. Heck if I know how any of us would learn whose accounts are what person though. I really think having alt accounts is important, in case something happens to your instance, but since we don't use public key trust anchors, it's just really messy to deal with more than one account.
@Gargron TY for all your hard work. I believe it is paying off. I left #twitter in 2017 but went cold turkey. Tried #bluesky earlier this year but after a week I deactivated because it felt the same as twitter and I left twitter because of how bad it made me feel. A few weeks ago I decided to try mastodon and it hits different. I'm not steeling myself before opening the app. I'm still getting a feel for it but I'm I haven't left yet and don't intend to any time soon. Long live the #fediverse
I'm making exceptional progress and am wrapping up a few things before I prepare to launch this exciting new service!
ICYMI: I'm building an open source/self-hostable Starter Kit service that will allow fediverse users to safely build kits and share/use them with ease.
We may not be the biggest by numbers yet, but Mastodon (and the fediverse) has proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. The #fediverse is the future.
Oh happy day! Not only is it Friday, one of the nicest days of the week, it’s also Vivaldi Social’s birthday. :tony_happy: 🎉 We’ve now been on Mastodon for two wholesome years.
We choose to do things that make your experience on the web better and we wholeheartedly believe that Vivaldi Social does just that. We want to provide a platform where people can join in on the smart, funny, and empathetic conversations taking place all over the Fediverse.
The only thing we wish for our two-year birthday is for more people to experience the power of the Fediverse, so make sure you tell a friend about Vivaldi Social today!
It seems that once again we have the critical mass we saw in a surge in the Fall of 2022 to create a viable distributed social network. Welcome to everyone who is #new and thank you to those who have returned! You are helping to build the #fediverse and we will build it together! #x#twitter#birdsite#exodus
It seems that once again we have the critical mass we saw in a surge in the Fall of 2022 to create a viable distributed social network. Welcome to everyone who is #new and thank you to those who have returned! You are helping to build the #fediverse abd we will build it together! #x#twitter#birdsite#exodus
Yes, the whole onboarding and #UX story for non-technical people leaves a lot to be desired. Yet I think the friction that exists is not bad per se. It takes time for the #FOSS ecosystem to mature and be able to handle "the scale of the masses" while also able to still support the socio-cultural aspects of the #Fediverse we hold dear. Culture grows slowly, and is only facilitated by having proper technological support.
I think it's going to be more important than ever that #Mastodon and the #fediverse are not centrally operated out of the US like almost every other social media platform out there.
Someone joined our Discord to post that @vidzy was a better alternative to Loops.
It's not a competition on the fediverse, because no matter where you are, everyone wins.
I love supporting fellow #fediverse projects, and look forward to working with the Vidzy team on federation and potentially a universal API so clients will be interoperable with both Loops and Vidzy.
You should follow them, they need more visibility ❤️
It is a tiny bot showcasing a split-domain WebFinger setup, where the handle domain is different from the ActivityPub server domain. This is supported by Mastodon and some other ActivityPub implementations, but not all of them.