its funny to me just how much of the external discourse about the fediverse revolves around people being completely unable to comprehend the concept of hosting something with no profit motive
so much of the commentary on "the viability of the fediverse" is written by people just so deep into capitalist brainrot they've completely lost touch of the idea that one might host something for a community, or just do something for people for the hell of it
people need to remember, the feeling that you're helping a community or that you've done good can also be an incentive, money is not the only incentive to do things as much as capitalist brainrot tries to tell you it is
so much of the commentary on "the viability of the fediverse" is written by people just so deep into capitalist brainrot they've completely lost touch of the idea that one might host something for a community, or just do something for people for the hell of it
people need to remember, the feeling that you're helping a community or that you've done good can also be an incentive, money is not the only incentive to do things as much as capitalist brainrot tries to tell you it is
grin
•I see viability problem not in hosting but in the non-existing "community".
Still, unless everyone get bored it will go on, even if only used by the amount of people equals to current gnutella users.
LisPi
•An #I2P-only implementation would possibly be usable, but like most protocols not designed around pluggable transports as a first-class concern, it'd require significant deviation from the standard protocol.
grin
•It was gone IMO because it became segmented and slow.
Fedi is different though: it should be a common communication platform instead of segregated opinion bubbles, and I believe this is its demise as well. Broken by design.
LisPi
•I'm inclined to agree to a point, it would be preferable to have something far closer to a #P2P setup. Unfortunately connectivity issues (end-to-end on my CGNAT? No! - average ISP) & privacy (network analysis & dragnet) on the clearnet make that a bit inconvenient.
At the #ActivityPub level, single-user instances aren't meaningfully different from multi-user.
grin
•Oh you believe so? Try to follow the "public stream" on a single-user server! 😟
LisPi
•On #Mastodon proper I've never actually used it much, I was more interested in the global federated feed the instance showed. That became less & less useful as the network has grown and it now streams by too quickly to really read anything.
grin
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•LisPi
•It can't really imagine better customization of prioritization that doesn't obfuscate details.
grin
•And create an adaptive (throughout time) scoring requires, well, just the same as facebook uses. (Except they adaptively handle interactions.)
LisPi
•My ideal use-case involves pulling all new Activities in my inbox to my local machine once in a while & reading through that. Full #AsynchronousCommunication approach.
With most presumably have short automatic expiration unless I mark them for keeping.
ParetoOptimalDev
•@lispi314 @delta
:win3_cdrom: TropicalPitcherPlant :psyduck:
•Akkoma
cdrom.tokyoLisPi
•It does at least address the incomplete/mostly-missing #C2S #ActivityPub implementation that #Mastodon suffers from...
:win3_cdrom: TropicalPitcherPlant :psyduck:
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