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Cake day: April 29th, 2023
  • Ninguém@lemmy.ptOPtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•What is this? A trend?
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    2 days ago

    I’m afraid you might be right!

    What’s your theory?

    My nightmare goes like this:

    • Some form of spam and plain wrongdoing will emerge with the rise of awareness about this fediverse thing.
    • To cut a long story short: then some form of control will have to be put in place - like spam filters, blacklists, server whitelists and the like - and the hole thing goes the way of the email and the usenet, making it almost impossible to keep a server as an independent hobbyist.
    • Some cleaver provider will offer a free $ervice and enforces the control techniques mentioned above reinforcing its use and closing the circle.

    My hope:

    • This thing will “never fly” and consequently only really committed and interesting people will linger. Great!
    • A second best hypothesis is becoming the second best forever - the best place to be, like linux.
    • The fediverse community gets really large and popular and has so many servers and services that it becomes impossible to capture by a single giant player.
    • People will “see it coming” and vote intelligently with their feet refusing the big players and choosing freedom instead. Hahahaha!..
  • Ninguém@lemmy.ptOPtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•What is this? A trend?
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    3 days ago

    That’s my feeling as well, but… really? Randal Schwartz is hoping for me to follow him back?! The guy is a legend, I’m no one (literally - Ninguém means “no one” in portuguese).

    As @floo@retrolemmy.com said, I can’t see a way for it to be nefarious except if it is some new kind of spam. But Randal wouldn’t exactly fit in “new people joining the platform without really understanding exactly how following people and following hashtags on mastodon is different than how it worked on Twitter or Instagram.”

    Bah! I’ll just leave them there until they get tired of my boring conversations. 😁

  • Ninguém@lemmy.ptOPtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Fediverse server (only)
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    20 days ago

    O saw that post fly by in the distance some time ago (it’s from Fri, 22 November 2024), but only skimmed through it because it was to long for that moment. It still is, so I’ve added it to my “read it later when you dare” app.

    On one hand, maybe Christine Lemmer-Webber agrees with me in the sense that ATProto might end up being somewhat decentralized. The DID problem could perhaps be circumvented. On the other hand, here’s a quote from the text that I did like:

    When you build architecture that in theory anyone can participate in, but the barrier to entry is so high so that only those with the highest number of resources can participate, then you’ve still built a walled garden. – Morgan Lemmer-Webber, (summarizing things succinctly in our household over breakfast)

    The quote might argue against my assumption that just having the possibility of owning a (fediverse) server might entice enough people to participate in the ecosystem… just like email, I guess.

    Again: didn’t read the full article. Only tldred it and presumed the rest.

  • Ninguém@lemmy.ptOPtoFediverse@lemmy.ml•Fediverse server (only)
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    20 days ago

    That said, I foresee that all of those that now host a shinny mastodon or lemmy instance would not be as many - plain command line, no visuals, boring server stuff is a lot less sexy. But those could just link their instances to a server (they could host themselves as well, of course).

    Maybe this is already happening and I fail to recognize it?.. How do you host a lemmy instance, for instance? Aren’t there “services” supporting your instance?.. I honestly don’t know.