ericjmorey , 1 day ago

Why do you view these as issues to be overcome?

ericjmorey , 15 hours ago

I have presented no take.

Are you doing ok? What’s bothering you?

ericjmorey , 15 hours ago

Seriously. What’s up? You’re responding with a great amount of negativity. You’ve accused me of gaslighting and being moronic with no provocation that would warrant either response.

ericjmorey , 6 days ago

Peering agreements have been around for a long time on the internet, they’re part the backbone of the internet.

Peering agreements for internet traffic, what a stupid concept.

ericjmorey , 6 days ago

The peering agreements are based on network traffic of the customers. Passing through costs to customers is always a thing.

ericjmorey , 8 days ago

Doesn’t help that they have offered no explanation at all.

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

How would this help? What is the problem this addresses?

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

Discoverablility of what?

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

Are you aware of granary.io? It may be helpful for implementing your ideas

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

Bluesky has no documentation for running a relay (indexing node). It doesn’t seem like they intend to have any documentation on it any time soon. But it is possible to set one up yourself. I don’t know anyone that has done so.

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

Anything that you’re not willing and able to keep financially sustained yet rely upon will likely be used against you by someone with more resources. This is why groups like Fosstodon, Beehaw, and Fedihosting Foundation stand out in these spaces. They are both transparent and financially sustainable. But most of that sustainability relies on unpaid volunteer labor.

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

Many people are most interested in profit as their only KPI and mastodon puts up a lot of hurdles for those people.

ericjmorey , 21 days ago

Bluesky is probably going to capture more of that than Mastodon. But threads is similarly struggling to develop it as well and they have very low barrier for new signups for anyone with a Facebook or Instagram account.

ericjmorey , 21 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

Many of the functions provided by a Mastodon service is split into separate services in the AT Protocol. This means there are instances that just handle an end users data, instances that just handle indexing and streaming out the amalgamated end user data being streamed to the “relay”, there are instances that are just filtering the stream from the indexing relay. so basically the various backend parts are modular with the AT Protocol rather than monolithic as is assumed by the ActivityPub protocol where separation is assumed to be only between the frontend and backend of the service.

ericjmorey , 25 days ago

Not yet

ericjmorey , 25 days ago

Are you talking about blusky’s indexer?

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

You can even question if the compiled version running on an instano is the same as the version posted to GitHub. There’s no way to even check what’s running on the server you don’t have access to.

Trust is necessary at some level if your going to participate on any hosted or federated service as you pointed out.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

mbin users can see that right now.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

I agree with just about everything you said, except that it won’t be a technical can of worms to implement the change according to the devs.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

By simply using the default mbin UI and clicking on two menu options for any particular post or comment.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Lemmy.world has no lock in on their “power”. They have the most volunteer labor, money, and infrastructure. That’s makes them stable, so people aren’t worried about their data suddenly going offline (like kbin) and they don’t worry about the service being flaky.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Quality over quantity is what I would prefer. I think LemmyNSFW is a potential determent for other instances.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

I think it’s good.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Seems like a good strategy would be to not have every post and comment shown to you if your goal is to break your habit of spending too much time on your phone or PC.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

see: startrek.website/comment/11417825

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

This reads like someone telling me that the nazi bar is the only place to go because the nazi bar has people there all the time and the other bars are mostly empty.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

That’s just how federation works out in every federated service ever.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Not at all what I wrote.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

I did read it.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Active accounts is not active users. We shouldn’t lie to ourselves. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number of active users is half of the active account number.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Isn’t that just Mastodon and similar services? I prefer the community url scheme more that the hashtag scheme.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Good article. But the trend of the internet it to not use a browser but an app that often emulates a browser.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Scaled is intentionally promoting communities with fewer subscribers. It’s intentionally demoting the most active posts bt demoting any posts from the communities with more subscribers.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Those bots got blocked and banned.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Didn’t know about that one. Just subscribed!

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

I think that’s a mistake, but also the point is that saying users when you mean accounts is lying to yourself. Users here have multiple accounts, I have 7.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

That would be better, but also put more cost on the users who have been spoiled by decades of someone else paying for incremental access to, storage of and processing of data.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

This is my way too. But I default to new and switch to scaled and top-x from time to time.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Initially, yes. They probably relaxed it a bit.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

I’ll read that but before I do, I want to point out that developers generally have the latest, most expensive tech and they generally build for that first.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

No. I think that there are enough users with multiple accounts including bots that it wouldn’t surprise me if the ratio of active users to active accounts is 1:2.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Over 6 months and over a month, I think most users with multiple accounts use their accounts at least once to post, comment, or vote. So it wouldn’t surprise me if active users to active accounts was 1:2

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

there’s tremendous value in repairing and upgrading existing things.

Value created doesn’t translate to value extracted and VCs and managers and marketers and the general public fork over more money in exchange for new shiny than old, reliable, maintained. There are few exceptions.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

No one is ever satisfied with moderation.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

You may not have noticed:

https://discuss.online/pictrs/image/cceca7b9-5c64-45cb-b073-3b7b87d3d956.png

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

When did that get added? That’s great!

Thanks for pointing that out.

But the buttons being too close is still annoying. That’s only one example of buttons being too close too. A moderator can ban someone from a community and accidentally appoint that someone as a moderator. And confirmation messages for uncommon actions is just good UX too.

I think there’s also a weird and inconsistent mix of buttons shown by default and hidden under a dropdown menu. There are many added clicks to do a lot of things for no gain.

ericjmorey , 1 month ago

Thanks, I hate it.