It wasn’t me who used a cringe party metaphor first 🤷‍♂️

Make sure you use a MariaDB or MySQL database. Despite what the (very incomplete) docu says, Postgres support is broken.

One thing about Cory’s books is that there is always some extremely cringe party section with some rather forced romance part screaming “how do you do fellow kids?” even to me, a middle aged guy himself.

The above is also cringe, even though the argument has some (limited) merit. Look, Cory… just admit some rich friend of yours talked you into signing up for this on the last silicon vally party you attended. We all make mistakes like that some time 🤷‍♂️

Pixelfed only shows messages with images attached.

The Pixelfed developer has been teasing Lemmy compatible groups for some years now. Apparently the code already exists, but for some reason it never gets merged.

At one point last year it looked like it would finally be released soon and I even set up a Pixelfed instance on my server to test it, but then somehow they decided working on Loops and Sup. was more important.

I got so annoyed by this lack of focus on basic functionality in general and a few other things regarding it that I deleted the instance again and do not plan to bother with anything this dev puts out again. Best of luck to them though, but I have better things to do with my time…

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed-rn/issues/79

Apparently the official app has a few dependencies that themselves depend on Google Play services, hence being blocked for F-droid inclusion.

I was talking about Podman Pods. Sorry for not being clear.

Yeah, inside of Pods you can just use the container name and thus avoid hard-coding any IPs.

Oh, yeah. I am happy my effort to convince them worked out.

I has stronger Tower Defense elements, but it seems to be a lot of fun especially also in multiplayer.

ActivityPub is not very well suited for real-time communication, but there are some attempts like Sup.

I think the best is to integrate an existing Fedivserse instance with XMPP. We do that on our slrpnk.net instance where every member automatically has a XMPP account reachable under the same address as on the Fediverse. We also host a Movim client that does chat as well as 1:1 A/V calls (group calls are coming soon).

Not sure why you would need a seperate platform for such kind of videos though. You can use Mastodon etc. perfectly fine for this kind of stuff.

But I think that is not why the majority use TikTok. Tiktok is more like those TV channels that show an endless number of funny bloopers and cooking shows, and those need semi-professional makers and curators that want to be paid for their work.

I am not a Tiktok user, but everytime someone shares a video with me it is clearly made by someone that did it because they want to build a following and monetize their channel. I mean, why else spend a lot of effort to make such short form videos?

No, like I wrote in my edit: I recommend reading up on the ATproto design. It’s not necessarily bad if your goal is to create a single global town-square (i.e. Twitter like) microblogging website, but given this design goal, it will always be dominated by a single entity controlling the app view, and that is likely to be Bluesky itself.

$4m is not nearly enough to wrestle control away from Bluesky, and even if that would succeed you would have not fundamentally changed the situation but just replaced one single controlling entity with another.

Well, obviously the $4m wouldn’t have to be spend on ActivityPub protocol development, meaning it could be spend way more effectively to on specific gaps in the network and software.

But even that aside, ATproto is a funnel towards Bluesky the company. It’s fundamentally designed to have a winner takes all situation, so yes maybe these $4m could be effectively used to improve it, but the only one that will ultimatly benefit from that is Bluesky.

Edit: I guess I am just repeating myself. But I recommend reading up on the ATproto design. It’s not necessarily bad if your goal is to create a single global town-square (i.e. Twitter like) microblogging website, but given this design goal, it will always be dominated by a single entity controlling the app view, and that is likely to be Bluesky itself.

It’s better for Bluesky (the for-profit company) to keep control of the network, otherwise it is a lot worse than ActivityPub.

The $4m would be better invested in the Fediverse. ATproto is designed with a winner takes all philosophy and Bluesky has the headstart and more funds, so this is a wasted effort most likely.

Lemmy does not support personal microblogging. If you want to have both in the same interface you need to sign up on a Mbin or Friendica instance.

On TikTok? I doubt that. Do you have any examples?