Fediverse @lemmy.ml poVoq @slrpnk.net 5mo ago

Seppo: Personal Social Web

#Seppo empowers you to publish short texts (and images yet to come) and to network in the Social Web. By renting commodity web space and dropping a single file. Without being subject to terms and conditions. Without having to fret about small print or tech lore. And without the need for an IT-consultant. But rather having a life.

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Seppo is old, slightly insulting Australian slang for an American
- Whelp, researching a product name ahead of a release really helps to prevent those connotations :D
- Seppo is also a common name among old men in Finland.
  
  https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi/en/forename-search?name=Seppo
- UK too, particularly common in the forces.(For those unaware it is rhyming slang - seppo = septic tank = yank). Somtimes just "septics" too.
- Would that be about equivalent to calling British people Poms?
  
  It comes from rhyming slang "septic tank = yank".
  
  Sort of, although Pom is at least a century older as Seppo was coined during world war 2. It comes from the rhyming slang Yank to Septic Tank to Seppo.
  
  It came from the swagger of the US service men in Aus during the war and the implication that many of them are full of shit.
  
  Not quite. Yank would be a closer comparison to Pom.
  
  Seppo is closer to "Pommy bastard" in terms of severity. It can be used in a good natured way, but it's slightly derogatory.
  
  It’s a bit harsher than “Pom” and is rarely used in a positive way, unlike Pom which can be an insult or a term of endearment. I don’t think I’ve ever heard Seppo used in a positive way, now that I think of it.
- Interesting
I think single account ActivityPub implementations are addressing a weakness of the Fediverse: one's identity (handle, username) is tied to an instance they have no control over. If that instance shuts down users lose everything. With a single account instance, you take that control back. And since it doesn't need to scale the architecture can be much simpler and can be deployed to much cheaper infrastructure.

The demo was not straightforward, though. And I didn't quite get how a user can follow Mastodon users, for example.
So, not super sure what this is or how this works. Is the idea that you run the cgi, it sets up static files, and it responds to AP requests like follows, mentions, boosts and such? I realise lots of people don't like long docs but I didn't really understand the use case very well.
- I think you're right. In CGI, web server spawns a process for each incoming request to the CGI app, so the author provide static files for visitors to reduce the overhead.
  
  Edit: here is the repository: https://codeberg.org/seppo/seppo and written in OCaml, so the single file CGI app is a compiled binary.
this is supposed to be simple? i spent a bit digging around this 'platform'. very odd, seemed very ambiguous to... everything.

"rent" internet space?
- They mean these typical shared php webspace you can get very cheaply for hosting Wordpress etc.
  
  whats the benefit of this over wordpress?
Looks promising.

I'm setting it up now, was close to give up when it continuously refused to work after setting up an account. Turns out the passwords randomly generated by Firefox is a bit too hardcore for it, I changed to something with fewer special characters and now all is good. :)

Edit: It worked for setting up the interface and my profile, but I still cannot sign in from within it. Seems like a promising project though.

Edit edit: Moved it from a subdomain to a normal folder, now I can sign in, but it still acts a little broken, and doesn't federate. Oh well, I'll see if I'll tinker more later.
Looks interesting, I find it quite clear.

Just couldn't find the creds for the demo instance, but could still see what it would look like. Thanks for sharing!

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