tyfi @ tyfi @wirebase.org

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This is the huge problem with Masrodon imo. Twitter has all kinds of crazy algorithms, often bad and leaning towards hate/fear. Mastodon seems to be on the far other end with very little to drive engagement.

This is why a Reddit-type use (Lemmy) is perfect. The algorithm is mostly human driven with upvotes/downvotes.

Do they have a write up on their setup?

This is a really interesting observation. Curious if the devs are aware that this breaks simple scalability efforts

Is there a way to host with high availability? Or is that a kubernetes feature?

Craigslist’s competitive advantage has diminished to the point where people that I know don’t even use it anymore. Not a great example.

They went over a decade with basically zero innovation. Facebook Marketplace and OfferUp happily waltzed in and took a huge amount of market share.

I do agree with your main point however, that Lemmy/ActivityPub needs clearly communicated strategic vision to avoid being overtaken by corporate interests etc.

It’s not too crowded in Hardcore!

wirebase.org

Nothing prohibits using the same email account on different servers. The servers don’t “talk” to each other in that way

I wanted a server that had fast posting and browsing

Then I learned that some of the larger servers aren't federating with each other, which made me happy I went this route

https://wirebase.org, FYI

Same. Still barely scratching the surface

You can create accounts at multiple servers. You don’t need to “leave”

wefwef.app is absolutely incredible once you add it to Home Screen. Feels 90% as good as Apollo.

I'm running a few services (publicly accessible media server, a matrix server, etc.). I'm also running some internal services which I VPN for.

For VPN use cases, I've considered using Tailscale a bunch of times, and still think about giving it a shot. I've always shied away due to the lack of self-hosted-ness, and because the throughput isn't great. I know that the throughput issue isn't really an issue since my requirements are low - but still.

For the public services -- could Cloudflare help with the dynamic IP issue?

Actually, right after posting this, I got it to work. It looks like ddclient queries checkip.dyndns.org for IP, and by default using SSL/443. HTTPS isn't working on checkip.dyndns.org at the moment, so queries were failing. I disabled SSL and it started to work.

I'm using Google Domains. Good suggestion on the API approach though, I'll consider that for next time it breaks on me.

I didn’t totally get it. So, people are using AI to generate fake books, but how are the fake books getting into the top 100?

Nice, thanks for clarifying

Nostr seems more like Twitter? Or are you saying that it could be adapted for Reddit-like usage (similar to Mastodon->Lemmy)

Mine got blown up a day or two ago before I had enabled Captch. About 100 accounts were created before I started getting rate-limited (or similar) by Google.

Better admin tools are definitely needed to handle the scale. We need a pane of glass to see signups and other user details. Hopefully it’s in the works.

Finally!

Mid-bear-cycle. It'll be back in a year or two.