A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
feddit.uk - I won’t comment as I’m biased.
I suppose the fun starts trying to slot other instances in there.
So reply with an instance and thrash out it’s place on the graph.
That would be an ecumenical matter.
Stunt Biologist sounds the coolest.
My auntie used to collect them too, in case they’d come in handy. Also lampshades. Helping her move in with my cousin because of the Alzheimer’s was fun, but it was getting three big, heavy Singer sewing machines down the loft ladder that was the challenge.
Teddy, who wants to be a marine biologist or a stunt man when he grows up
For a lad with that much get-up-and-go, he should consider combining the two.
I’ve never trusted those automatic toilets but that’s next level.
My Dad lost the majority of his grandfathers and great-grandfathers to grim workplace accidents and the impact on the families effected is a real hammer blow that can be felt generations later. I hope they get the answers they need.
I was just talking about the funding. A number of users do pay for the servers, because of the relatively low cost of running an instance a small percentage of them cover all the bills.
On ownership, that’s the way of the beast on what usually start out as hobby instances. I’m sure as things mature and grow a lot of us will move to establish nonprofits.
Worth noting that, for feddit.uk, I run the server and GA runs the domains, so we’d both have to agree to a sell-out. Also we didn’t start the instance, just took it over when the original Admin went AWOL, so we’ve successfully transferred the assets before and, if Lemmy lasts long enough, we’ll do it again as we get too decrepit to keep things going.
The funding is key to this as it is all done through Open Collective, so it isn’t in an Admin’s bank account and so changing Admins is straightforward on that front.
So AT, but not necessarily to Bluesky itself per se (or rather, not “just” to it), as opposed to ActivityPub?
Yeah, there are apps launching that filter BS for images (Instagram) or videos (TikTok) but they are quick and easy to deploy - BS could build those filters in itself.
The killer services will be standalone ones running on the AT Protocol. They’ll get a tonne of buzz and will see similar numbers of users switching to them from the Big Web but, without safeguards, they will be indistinguishable from the older Big Web services and have the potential to enshittify.
I think if people writing open source software e.g. underpinning Mastodon would simply listen to potential users, then people would actually join it.
The problem is, BS has millions of VC capital (including from blockchain bros) and, at some point, they’ll want paying. If the Fediverse had a fraction of that a lot of wrinkles would be ironed out.
Perhaps dansup’s successful Kickstarter and the rocketing success of his Pixelfed show we can push projects on to bigger things. However, we’ll always lag behind.
You cut, you eat the plate.
Florida Man vs Slenderman would be more interesting.
First mention of Flohmarkt in a meme! The Fediverse needs more commercial offerings like that. Unfortunately, it does seem like it needs a critical mass of users to work but it has a regional focus, so it might work best bolted onto a regional instance with a built-in audience. I’m just unsure if it’d work on a countrywide basis or if it’d need to be on a city or county level and we don’t yet have the numbers in the Fediverse for that.
Come on man, how many of us pay for the servers
Depends on your instance. feddit.uk is 100% funded by donations, as are most medium to large instances that accept them.
That’s what I was referring to.
You’d expect a community named fedibridge to be about https://fed.brid.gy/.
Another confusingly named community.
That may require a browser plugin but if all links between Lemmy instances were rewritten to point to the version on your own instance, that would solve the problem of suddenly finding yourself off the reservation.
Thanks for that. It’s a good point. There’s no reason we couldn’t run something like Photon as the default, which would be a smoother user experience. Might see what I can do about that.
It’ll possibly be something built on the AT protocol. There’s likely a lot of people beavering away behind closed Doors to make “that but on AT”. TikTok and Instagram are the big targets but forums/Reddit have to be in someone’s sights.
Of course, I see all of them as a half-way house to the Fediverse. The cost of running relays is sufficiently high there may only ever be one or two for any service and down that road enshittification lies. If that happens, then we’ll see a lot more people jump ship again.
!voyagerapp@lemmy.world is a popular recommendation.
You do realise I was making a mucky play-on-words, not a legal analysis?
Fair point.