love the image

This is my biggest fear. The hidden weakness of the fediverse is that the largest implementation gets to set the rules of federation

Self imposed gatekeeping. Damn that’s real

https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation-architecture

the at protocol is federated under the hood. they just use data brokers so it’s more centralized, but it’s still decentralized in that you can run your own data broker and communicate with the network. i feel like they get the best of both worlds

ratsite

oof this is too real lol

I’ve seen people talk this way about lemmy on a kbin magazine heh

this is one thing I feel like bluesky got right. it’s decentralized but “feels” like a monolith

Wagner.ml

People over complicate federation. I write federated software so lemme break it down. Federation just means data sharing. When you post something on a federation enabled website it sends a copy of your post to everyone who follows you and tells their service to store your data in their database in addition to their own data. What this means is that you can’t just blow up a server to shut it down because everyone in the game has a copy.

Kbin is a good ui. Lemmy has good data.

What if we called it kaboomy

All kbin microblog posts have to be to a magazine. The “profile” magazine is called “random”

I use the micro blogging feature inside magazines where I’m asking for help that doesn’t require a link to anything. It acts like a standard forum in that mode

I realized why I like kbin more while I was writing a front end for Lemmy. On Lemmy you have very limited control over filtering and sorting e.g
“Top” granularity is only at the day level whereas in kbin you can do hours. Lemmy only has a single “hotness” filter whereas kbin has the same granularity for hotness as it does top.

Race conditions are the worst

I jump straight to step 6

Our mayor literally has a town named after his family

Sitting around waiting for things to compile is one of my least enjoyable life experiences