you can’t review what’s running on the actual server, what did your local admin add to it.

You could level that accusation at any software running on a remote server, including the Fediverse

Keep in mind that OP’s project is already based on a different protocol than the Fediverse for their own reasons. Trying to create and maintain a bridge between different protocols might be more work than to just make modifications to posts in the current system.

Other factors are end user experience and branding. Keep in mind that the average Facebook/NextDoor user isn’t tech-savvy, and could also be put off by the weird software names commonly found in the Fediverse

It’s likely worthwhile for OP to look into flohmarkt, but integration might not be the optimal method

With Hexbear, it wasn’t just traffic. It was straight up harassment. They were constantly calling our users Nazis, bigots, imperialists, etc. for no reason

It’s lighthouses in low earth orbit.

I definitely wouldn’t call geostationary orbit “low”

Another idea you could potentially add down the line: what about functionality similar to Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace? Those tend to work by helping you focus on your local area as opposed to EBay.

Granted, Craigslist is largely fine imo, I’m just proposing a way to help you kill off Facebook

Reading through your link, it seems like the main difference in your framework is that there’s auto-propogation of federation built in. Please correct me if I missed anything

Unrelated point: before you throw too much time and effort into building up federation, I want to bring something in the Matrix vs. XMPP debate: caching.

Apparently in Matrix, if a user on server A joins a chatroom on server B, then all of the content on the chatroom need to then be copied and synced to server A. There’s 2 primary problems with this: it’s a lot of duplication overhead that can limit scaling of the network and there’s legal consequences for server A caching potentially illegal content. There’s also a privacy concern as this means more parties that can see various interactions.

XMPP gets around these problems by having the user on server A just directly connect with server B, without server A caching anything.

I haven’t dug into too many of the differences myself, but wanted to bring it up in case it helped

Though I will not be using ActivityPub

If you don’t mind my asking, what drove the decision to not base it on ActivityPub? On the surface that seems to be an easier starting point that building evetything out from scratch

I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

Eh, if it’s an open-source application where you can review the code to confirm that the software isn’t tracking you, then it’s not an issue. Especially if you’re running Graphene OS, Rethink DNS, or Exodus to either sandbox or monitor your traffic

I thought that was the only protocol that currently allows for federation. Are there others? Or other ways?

The Matrix and XMPP protocols both support federation, though those are mainly for chat platforms

It’s open-source and self-hostable, so it’s for any group

Tbh, not a huge fan of the pick. I had various Motorola Droid phones for years before switching to Samsung. All of the Droids were horribly underpowered after 2 years and the batteries only had 1/2 of their original capacity by that point. Then I got a Samsung S10e and it lasted 5+ years.

I seriously hope Motorola has gotten rid of their planned obsolescence policy in the past few years. It’s nice that there’s going to be a second vendor option for GrapheneOS soon, but I wish it was a better vendor

or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.

C# in Excel can’t even properly pull values from a table correctly. No way I’m going to waste 2-3 trying to make it concatenate non-alphanumeric characters into cells.

At work, there isn’t anyone I have to send tables to that is colorblind. And if that changes, they can make a request. Until then, I’m sticking with red/green

Just saw the plagiarism email post and teah… this is starting to seem fake

The Nazi instance that got blocked literally had something adjacent to “nazi” in their url. Fairly clear decision if you ask me. This was a few months ago so I don’t recall the actual server name without digging it up.

Then there was the Hexbear fiasco, where they decided to federate with us (apparently they have it set up for admins to opt-in to federation instead of opt-out). They ended up swarming all of our communities for 4-5 days with nonstop harassment. Then their admins decided to re-defederate before we could vote on whether to block them. Literally a “you can’t fire me, I quit!” scenario.

yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor

Eh, you’d be surprised at how far some people will go to criticize women in STEM fields. It’s not everyone, and I doubt it’s even a majority, but there’s enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.

Or maybe the OOP is a mathematical Lisa Frank. Idk

I do it all the time at work as an engineer. Red/bold for bad numbers, green/bold for good numbers. Maybe orange/bold for mixed bag

the one monster collector

Dude, you don’t have to disparage other games to promote another. And there’s plenty of other games that do get monster design right. Go look at Coromon or Palworld.

And while LumenTale looks good, I’m not fully sold on the creature design. A lot of it looks overly detailed, like the newer Pokémon games, like everything has swirls and/or spikes.

There’s something to the phrase “less is more”. An overall simpler design with 1-2 defining features does a much better job at making a particular creature design stand out, even amonst a large roster. If everything has tons of details and flair, they all start blurring together.

Personally, I think creature aethetics that are closer to Gen 3 or 4 Pokémon strike the best balance. And some people would argue with me on that point and claim that Gen 2 or even Gen 1 designs are the best. And you know what? That’s fine. People can like what they like because it’s subjective.

And no, that last part isn’t contradicting my first part. I’m giving reasons as to why someone might not like the newer style. For some it’s not a factor, for others it’s a big deal.

I migrated during Reddit’s API debacle. I picked sh.itjust.works for several reasons:

• No email required to sign up (at the time)
• Hosted the only NonCredibleDefense community on Lemmy (at the time)
• Had almost no defederated instances (at the time)
• Consistent uptime (was 99% at the time and still not far off)
• Hosted in Canada but accepting of US citizens
• Powered by 98% renewable energy
• TheDude abides

While some things have changed like defederating from more servers, it’s left up to a vote by users of the server and the vote doesn’t get proposed unless there’s a good reason (such as a server being Nazi-friendly or constantly harassing/trolling users)

Cheeto McPedo is probably going to send in ground troops eventually and learn why the US didn’t want to try invading Iran before

Does watching Twitch through GrayJay get around this?