But we are animals who can recognize and control whatever urges we have. We don’t need to act on them. It might feel cathartic to be able to compile some huge list of BS made-up by a troll, but more likely than not the troll simply will not care. At best it’s your time and energy being wasted with someone that does not deserve it, at worst is just a place that will amplify the toxicity that is already too prevalent here.

Anyway, I was never a fan of drama communities and I really wish we toned down on the Fediverse “meta-discussion”. For an outsider, this type of community seems like an excellent source of material to justify why the Fediverse is not a friendly place.

Oh no, there are idiots in the internet! Let’s engage and let them live rent-free in our heads!

FYI, I don’t think we are supposed to sympathize with https://xkcd.com/386

I for one still don’t understand the point of browsing by /all, and I understand even less why some people who are not following a community feel the need to go around pontificating and downvoting anything they don’t like, as if they were training some algorithm.

And the funny thing: it’s super easy (barely an inconvenience!) to make Lemmy work in a way that communities ignore/reject any activities that were created by non-followers.

What’s in the Y axis?

You are right. I thought it was just a different take on the flipboard client, but more focused on the different feeds.

I don’t understand how one could possibly think that requiring a Google account would make it easier to onboard new users…

Simple. “Log in with Google” is a lot less friction than getting people to sign up to a new service. Even more so for a mobile-focused application like Surf/Flipboard.

doesn’t exist elsewhere.

Isn’t it “just” a feed reader with a pre-curated list of feeds? Doing that is not complicated. The hard part is doing it in a way that it is easy for non-techies.

If your goal is to get the masses to try something new, making it as easy as possible to onboard them makes absolute sense. That includes letting them sign up using something that 98.123456789% of the people use.

And if you already are out of Big Tech hell hole, then you likely already know how to find and manage and curate your own feeds.

Just a static website?

• https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/
• https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

If you are asking where to host a bunch of static pages:

• Github/Gitlab pages if you don’t want to pay anything and don’t care about using stuff from Big Tech
• https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ if you don’t want to give any business to Big Tech.

ok. Can I get an invite to the repo, then? :) I’m https://codeberg.org/raphael.

unless someone is truly interested in working with me on this project (…) there’s really no use in sharing it.

Yeah, but doesn’t it go both ways? How can people find out if their vision is aligned with yours unless you show what you have?

I mean, I share the feeling of not wanting to make any big announcement when it’s not usable, but at least putting out a link to the repo and some roadmap would help others to see if they would be interested in helping you.

Any particular reason to keep it private?

You don’t need a “platform”, you need a Fediverse indexer + search engine.

I don’t use it for any production site, but it works really well for development, though. I can run multiple docker services on my local machine, add a cloudflared service for each of them and forget about port conflicts, etc. To do that without cloudflared, I’d have to setup a traefik proxy and mess with my home router.

It’s Dan’s whole M.O: he gets excited about some new project, goes on a rushed coding rampage, releases some alpha-quality code, then loses interest and starts the chase for the next shiny toy.

the project is unfinished

Understatement of the year. Dan has posted “loops next week” for more than an year already…

I am not sure I follow. How would a troll cause trouble to an instance by lurking on a site?

usually to prevent spam and other crazy shit

but a registration shouldn’t be needed if you just want to browse and scroll.

wut?

It’s not a Federated platform like LinkedIn, but I am working on CareerCupid , a “OkCupid for jobs” website where people can answer questions about their values and goals, and then find out people that are the most compatible to work with. The website does work with ActivityPub though, you can follow @thecupid@cupid.careers and you can see the new polls and job listings published on the website.

There is no such thing as a “vote” in ActivityPub/ActivityStreams. This idea of “up/down votes” is just an abstraction of a message saying “Actor A liked B”, where B is an Post/Comment (and a post/comment itself just being an abstraction of ActivityStreams objects).

That is to say: there is no way to selectively hide the content a message. If you want federation to work and you want people outside your own server to see your posts, then the server needs to broadcast the messages to anyone listening.

Tools like lemvotes are just exposing this information. There is no point in trying to censor the tool, because this information is available publicly, and any motivated person will be able to track this information.

If you are concerned about what people think of your “likes” and “dislikes”, then do not use a public social media service and only communicate with provably secure communication tools.