Pulling the background link here to save people some clicks: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/
With a few quotes to highlight the frustrating situation:
That’s because OverDrive, a private corporation, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America. (I looked for exact current numbers, but turns out that would require the time and resources of a professional journalist.1 Best I could do: as of December 2019, OverDrive controlled digital lending for “more than 95% of public libraries in the US and Canada”.2)
Emphasis added.
Right away I saw that in June 2020, OverDrive was sold to global investment firm KKR. [...] The private equity firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, I quickly learned, was either the inventor of, or an early pioneer in, basically all the Shitty Business Practices: leveraged buyouts, corporate raiding, vulture capitalism. They’ve been at it since the 1970s and they’re still going strong. [...] Even in the world of investment capital, where evil is arguably banal, KKR is notoriously vile. They are the World Champions of Grabbing All The Money And Leaving Everyone Else In The Shit.
[...]
And if OverDrive goes belly-up at some point in the future, crushed by KKR’s leveraged debt, it’s going to take down access to the digital catalogs of nearly every public library in North America.
Emphasis added.
In strict technical terms, yeah it's okay, albeit with the shortcomings to be expected of a smaller development team. In terms of population and activity with this format, I think it may be at the top compared to alternatives as well.
There's still others and other software options though for this format that people could try, which honestly may even be technically better, but lacking population/activity means they're in an odd spot.
The first of these you'll read about on here are likely Kbin/Mbin, possibly followed by PieFed or still-in-development Sublinks. Kbin/Mbin is definitely the runner-up in terms of federated Reddit-alternatives, as it was one of the few options available at the time people were leaving Reddit.
PieFed and Sublinks have emerged more recently with different priorities and approaches compared to Lemmy, but with the same desire to offer a federated option for people to deploy.
The last you may read about around here would be of stuff like Discuit, Lobste.rs, Raddle (and any other sites built with Postmill), Tildes, and the like, which are all most like Reddit in terms of their being stand-alone sites, unconnected to any others running the same underlying server software. However each of these, I think, may have lower population than the cumulative population of the Lemmy network of sites.
All that said, cutting to your last question: ultimately it heavily depends on the instance/site you settle into.
Lemmy isn't a monolith, which is both its greatest strength and weakness compared to Reddit. You may be able to find a Lemmy instance/site that heavily blocks out politics and moderates lightly, but the irony of this is that it means it may have to be overly-policed to achieve that, and might appear less active in the process from heavy disconnection/defederation from any instances/sites that permit political posts/discussion.
Right now though, much of Lemmy is heavily political, and it's arguably because of lax moderation to keep political posts/discussions to relevant communities, which is itself probably in part because of lacking moderation tools to enable lighter touches to redirect posts/discussions.
Nevertheless, it's possibly the best option fitting the format available at the moment given the rest, but if Lemmy and federation doesn't suit you you might check out Tildes or Discuit. Although be advised: Tildes remains invite only for now.
Links to all options/alternatives mentioned:
- Kbin, flagship site: Kbin Social
- Mbin. No flagship, check list of instances.
- PieFed, flagship site: PieFed Social
- Sublinks. No flagship, still in-development as drop-in replacement for Lemmy.
- Discuit. Not federated, but open source.
- Lobste.rs. Not federated, but open source. Requires invite.
- Raddle. Not federated, built on open source Postmill.
- Tildes. Not federated, but open source. Requires invite.
One last point, I swear, but if you do stick around and just want to chat about tv shows, movies, and music, I'd recommend visiting:
!moviesandtv@lemm.ee
!movies@lemm.ee
!music@lemmy.world
!casualconversation@lemm.ee
Honestly I think any general/casual discussion community would welcome posts about those subjects as well, which there are a number of across Lemmy sites to check out.
I think you'll be in for a treat when you get to it!
That's unfortunate, yet what a wicked legacy of aircraft to leave behind! The Dragonfly looks really cool and like it'd be a wild ride to fly!
Right? Also here's how little I knew of it going in: I only knew the name of it and thought it might be an edgy show about some yakuza or something that was constantly going all out 😂
It really is pretty good after all! I didn't really know what to expect going in, but this is a show I kinda wish was around when I was younger.
It's pretty good at speaking to introverted kids trying to find their place in the world in those awkward years, I think, without some cheesy, simple, "Surprise, you're the chosen one!" sort of approach. This is all the more impressive given that they do have that protagonist is ridiculously powerful but doesn't know how to channel it character trait going on here.
I can see now why it became so popular, even aside from it following the success of One-Punch Man.
Er...I get this is a play off of the other post, but you could do that in a comment to it if you wanted instead.
As is this may as well be a duplicate post, so I'm locking it.
Thanks for looking this up! Also looking at the article's date...This is from 7 years ago!
Also this link answers OP's question:
"I don't have anybody. My family is in Tennessee and I told them not to tell my son anything that's going on," said Fitzgerald.
Given that this isn't a timely post at all, I don't see much point to keeping this thread open.
But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.
This is the model digital media should take, frankly. Anything less may as well be misleading marketing, as far as I'm concerned.
Hey, so I know some of you may be new or may have never wrapped your head around what any of this federation stuff means regarding Lemmy, so I aim to keep this simple while linking to more detailed posts for those interested in more technical background at the bottom.
The short of it is, your posts and comments to communities hosted here on Lemmy World or elsewhere, or comments to posts from others on Lemmy World from elsewhere, may be taking awhile to be visible to others outside of Lemmy World. In other words, if you've posted to a community on say, Lemmy.nz or Aussie.zone (for the most dramatic examples), you may not have seen any responses until much later because it took that long for them to process & receive them.
This is a known technical issue with the present Lemmy version that is currently being discussed and worked on. As I understand it, this is in large part due to the concentration of activity on Lemmy World, while some other delays are related to geographic factors, both smashing together for one gnarly snag with the Lemmy software.
So what does this mean for you? Well, if you would like more timely communications with a variety of other Lemmy sites' communities, you may consider moving from Lemmy World to another Lemmy site.
Lemmy World is up to date with Lemmy, meaning you can export your settings (including user/community/instance blocks and community subs) and import on other up to date Lemmy sites. This tends to be easiest via the web interface so far as I'm aware.
Alternatively you may remain with an awareness of why you may not have seen many replies/comments to some of your comments/posts on other sites' communities, or suddenly see notifications for replies/comments to "old" comments/posts. People may only now be seeing them some time later.
Lemmy Federation Issue Discussion
Other Related Discussions: Lemmy NZ Update on Lemmy World Federation Issues Why do comments from lemmy.world users not appear until 4 days later? Reddthat Update and Notice on Lemmy World Federation Issues dbzer0 Federation Mishaps Postmortem
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p.s. if I've misunderstood the issues in some way, please correct me in the comments. I've tried to avoid citing additional configuration hiccups besides dbzer0's (e.g. I think Sopuli's recent delays were something like this), such as World's own from around a month ago to keep focus on the underlying Lemmy issue.
You might cross-post to !entomology@mander.xyz as well, see what others there think it may be.
Thanks for this! I think I may have come across it at some point but never bookmarked it for whatever reason, corrected that now!
Surprised nobody's mentioned Weightless ebooks or Smashwords yet. You didn't mention region, so I can't assure these will work for you, but worth checking out regardless to see if they may.
You might look at this intro guide from one of Lemmee's admins, or this one from one of Lemmy World's admins. They give decent overviews, and you can set aside the site-specific stuff where relevant, e.g. Lemmee's image size limits.
I can't recall the exact details, but I've read from some other communities talk of there being some federation slowdowns between lemmy world and other instances, so maybe this is related?
...In fact, this comment in reply to you may serve as an example of the delays, as I responded only a few minutes after yours.
It's the site you're on, so in your case: lemm.ee.
Instance in this situation is usually the same as website.
At a glance, Misskey and associated forks may appear to be Twitter-clones, but dig a little more and you'll find they're a lot more, for better and worse.
The interface is highly customizable, not just with some different colored themes nor a multi-column interface, but that you can stack page elements in columns and set up "antennae" or filters to surface posts including specified keywords and/or hashtags while excluding others via keywords/hashtags as well. There's also what they call "channels" which I think are sort of like groups or dedicated topics apart from hashtags to post to and discuss whatever the channel topic is.
Oh, and because it seems *key wants to have a little of everything, there's Pages, which is basically longform blog posting, and some versions include simple games. There's also options for some other widgets I've not mentioned here. It's genuinely pretty wild compared to the other federated microblogging services with how much flexibility it has and all that it has packed in.
I think the only other federated service I've found that's comparable in flexibility may be Hubzilla, albeit I got the impression it's less user friendly, but still, very customizable and a lot you could do with it.
Image description: A cartoon boy and his zombie friend standing in front of a surf shop in front of a crowd. The zombie friend is covering the boy from the waist down with his detached head because the boy lost his trunks and is embarrassed as the crowd seem to be trying to photograph him.
The boy is shouting, "I don't want to be internet famous!"
Meanwhile a zombie shark is stuck in the top of the surf shop with their head sticking out from where a wave smashed them into it.
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Another silly moment from Zo Zo Zombie that makes for prime meme material.
What you did at the end can be a good approach tbh. Be curious and ask something about the post, or something in it that you're not sure of or familiar with, or if the OP hasn't added any body text or indications in the title and simply posted, what their opinion on it is, or if it's like a show/story/site/product, what's the premise or what's up with it and what they like about it.
Also if you don't want to focus it on the OP, in the absence of other comments, you can say as much like, "Do you (including anyone else reading) know/think [somethingsomething here]?"
Image description: Woman wearing a giant hotdog headpiece while chewing on a banana hotdog looking toward you while saying, "Still weird, but at least it beats working."
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From the silly series Zo Zo Zombie
Image description:
A cartoon sloth in the top panel looks at their to do list that has one item, "just vibe".
In the bottom panel, the sloth is laid back with sunglasses on and a drink beside them, smiling contentedly.
This sloth knows what's up
Realize this is a little late but I don't think that matters too much.
I just started checking out Mob Psycho 100 and it's...Not what I thought it might be, in a good way! The environment art and the creature art is really sharp and fun. Btw, if any other anime people are around, you might check out !anime@ani.social for a community to discuss anime in.
Besides that I watched a couple bad/B-movies a few days ago. One knew what it was and was the sillier for it, called Repligator. It's dated and has some of those rough edges to be aware of (typical sexism, awkward but sort of positive handling of trans stuff), but it's a fun time as scientists trying to teleport people accidentally turn them into women, and after some mishaps, into women that turn into humanoid reptiles after they orgasm.
The other was called Reptilian, which was a Korean attempt at Godzilla, except named Yonggary, and they pronounce it like...Young Gary, so it's almost impossible to take seriously. Also it turns out Yonggary is being controlled by some aliens to try to destroy humanity and take over the Earth, so...If you're into cheesy giant monster movies it's about what you'd expect.
I take it this is okay? 😅
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12495381 at Blaze's mention.
> This is not a comprehensive list by any means, and is why I'm featuring this post and leaving it open to comments. I may update this as people make suggestions, and I encourage others to make their own variations on this list in the comments or in their respective versions of this community. > > Also to clarify some terms here, by active I'm aiming for at least some commenting on recent-ish posts, not merely recent posts, and by the topic names...I'll let the linked communities serve as examples. > > ::: spoiler 🎨 Creative Communities 🎨 > Fabricraft > * !amigurumi@lemmy.world > * !crochet@lemmy.ca > * !knitting@lemmy.world > > Music > * !guitars@lemmy.world > * !drums@lemmy.world > > Photography > * !analog@lemmy.world > > Visual > * !artshare@lemmy.world > * !digitalart@lemmy.world > * !imageai@sh.itjust.works > * !pixelart@lemmy.ml > * !traditional_art@lemmy.world > > Writing > * !twosentencehorror@sh.itjust.works > * !keepwriting@lemmy.world > * !writingprompts@lemmy.world > ::: > > ::: spoiler 🗿 Humanities 🗿 > Art > * !albumartporn@lemmy.world > * !artporn@lemm.ee > * !gameart@sopuli.xyz > * !sapphicart@lemmy.blahaj.zone > * !traditional_art@lemmy.world > > History & Anthropology > * !archaeology@mander.xyz > * !artifact@lemmy.world > * !anthropology@mander.xyz > * !history@lemmy.world > * !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social > > Language/Linguistics > * !Japaneselanguage@sopuli.xyz > * !linguistics@mander.xyz > > Philosophy > * !philosophy@lemmy.world > * !philosophy@lemmy.ml > > Religion & Spirituality > * !buddhism@lemmy.world > * !thesatanictemple@lemmy.world > * !taoism@lemmy.world > ::: > > ::: spoiler 😄 Entertainment 😄 > Reading and Listening > * !books@lemmy.ml > * !books@lemmy.world > * !comicbooks@lemmy.world > * !comics@lemmy.ml > * !comicstrips@lemmy.world > * !fiction@literature.cafe > * !manga@ani.social > * !manga@lemmy.ml > > Multimedia > * !sciencefiction@lemmy.world > > Music > * !alternativenation@lemmy.world > * !gothindustrial@lemmy.world > * !jazz@lemmy.world > * !metal@lemmy.world > * !music@lemmy.world > * !vgmusic@lemmy.world > * !80smusic@lemmy.world > * !90smusic@lemmy.world > > Playing > * !games@lemmy.world > * !games@sh.itjust.works > * !gaming@lemmy.zip > > Watching > * !anime@ani.social > * !movies@lemmy.world > * !moviesandtv@lemm.ee > * !television@lemmy.world > * !trailers@lemmy.blahaj.zone > * !videos@lemmy.world > ::: > > ::: spoiler 🏅 Sports 🏅 > * !baseball@fanaticus.social > * !cfb@fanaticus.social > * !hockey@lemmy.ca > * !nba@lemmy.world > * !nfl@fanaticus.social > ::: > > --- > > Hope this helps any newcomers find some different communities to join and participate in! > > p.s. although it's now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed here.
I tend to agree. I think both of those communities are good for communities starting out or just opening up after adjusting some settings mishaps (e.g. whoops set to NSFW, mods only, or language settings), but they don't really fit for trying to get additional attention after that.
I made a small attempt over in General Discussion with this post encouraging people to share active communities, but nobody's added to it with their own lists of active communities or mentioning a single or couple communities they've been enjoying. 🤷♀️
...It's not too bad after all. Nothing groundbreaking, but okay for what it is.
I think if you liked it and wanted a little more mature approach you have some good options to go to from here, whether that's Samurai Flamenco or Tiger & Bunny. Not that into superheroes, so there's undoubtedly more, but those are a couple others I'd checked out before getting around to MHA.
I dunno how many here have given it a try yet, or simply don't ever intend to but are nevertheless a little curious, so I'm putting down some notes here.
Very basics:
- It's very much a Twitter clone on the surface.
- It may depend on your setup, but in my experience I did not have to provide a phone number to sign up.
**Onboarding details:**
- Onboarding is pretty traditional social media, pick some interests, it pulls some accounts it associates with those and has them set to be followed unless you opt not to.
- It diverges slightly in that it then tells you your default feed will be Following with settings to disable showing replies/reposts/quote posts if you like (defaults are to display all of these).
- Where it gets much different is that it then offers you a selection of custom feeds to make your Main Feeds. For a very rough analogy, these can be a little like communities here or subreddits on Reddit, with more involved under the surface producing them.
- This analogy is made more apparent with "Topical Feeds" that try to relate to your previously selected interests.
- Lastly some basic adult/graphic content settings that let you adjust whether to show them outright, warn about them, or hide them completely (i.e. not display in your feeds at all). Defaults, aside from non-sexual nudity, are set to not display any of this and hide it all.
**Actual use:**
- Besides more granular graphic content filtering and emphasis on custom feeds, it's pretty much like Twitter or Mastodon/Misskey/etc.
- You can kinda "lock" your account to make it less visible to those outside of Bluesky, but that's the closest to limited visibility you'll find at the moment so far as I could tell.
- Unlike say, Twitter and Mastodon et al: you can't block/mute people from their posts, you have to go to their profile to do so. 10.1. Unlike Mastodon/Misskey/etc.: You can't limit the reach of your posts, so they're all maximally public, no option to post only to followers, no option to have replies be unlisted so they don't kinda spam up follower feeds, etc. 10.2. You currently can't upload gifs/short videos, though you can link them. 10.3. No audio posts either from what I gather (an option on Mastodon and I'd imagine Misskey and the like as well).
- Despite missing those details, it does have similar levels of filtering tools to stuff like Mastodon, and more streamlined exchange of blocklists.
- Also while you can't limit the reach of your posts, you can limit who can respond to them.
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Some miscellaneous quirks Something not mentioned as much is that the custom feeds are, at least at the moment, not really user friendly to try to make yourself. These very much have a vibe of something more tech-oriented people may make for others to use, even with the Skyfeed app to ease their creation. If anything the fact something like Skyfeed exists is some evidence of this.
The trick is, the custom feeds are genuinely more flexible than lists of accounts or followed hashtags/terms on Misskey or Mastodon, but at the moment Bluesky's custom feeds seem kind of underutilized. Many of the custom feeds could simply be lists as found elsewhere.
Not sure how much of that is because the only existing platform using the AuthTransfer Protocol is Bluesky, technical challenge, or something else, but that's the state of many of them for now.
Oh, and presently there's no DMs, just as a stray detail to mention. Skimming convos I got the sense it may be to avoid giving people the sense of any private communications on there.
Also despite all these feeds and a more centralized model (dependent presently only on Bluesky's relay), there's still a sentiment from some there of the place being empty and lacking engagement. In the time I was poking about it, one of the "viral" posts in my discover feed was someone there, amusingly much like here and elsewhere on the fediverse, reminding people they have to engage/talk to others to get any engagement.
Some things really don't change where you go online.
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My overall takeaway thus far is that it's pretty much par for the course with microblogging platforms, and not necessarily the best first showing of what the AuthTransfer protocol might really enable. Especially not with its lacking reach/privacy controls, not that any federated social media makes sense to promote as highly private, but still, some controls are better than none.
Heya, I'm really good at inconsistency, so instead of a weekly thread, sporadic thread! Thought I'd toss one over and see what we see.
Tried any new foods, games, music, software? Finally made that mobile DJ setup so you're bangin' out beats as you ride your unicycle?
Finished that model you've been putting off for forever?
Or did you finally get your sleep schedule back on track and now you're too awake and want to wreck it again?
Taking a note from our fellow community Casual Conversation (now on Lemm.ee), I've added a few links to our sidebar under Additional Discussion Focused Communities to a few more specific discussion communities people might be interested in.
In the spirit of federation, these communities are all remote, that is, located off-site from Lemmy World, while remaining connected and accessible to those here on Lemmy World.
The communities added to the sidebar are found below:
💬 Additional Discussion Focused Communities:
- !actual_discussion@lemmy.ca - Note this is for more serious discussions.
- !casualconversation@lemm.ee - The opposite of the above, for more laidback chat!
- !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
- !movies@lemm.ee - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
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Also of note, this wasn't at anyone's request, so if any of the moderators from these communities would prefer removal from this post and the sidebar, they may message me and I'll do so accordingly.
Please remember that if you decide to participate in any of these communities to respect their rules and the rules of their instance, and that Lemmy World rules still apply in remote instance interactions.
p.s. if you're in growing communities you'd like to get more people participating in, feel free to reply to this thread with links to them!
Moderation is a crucial aspect of any social network. However, traditional moderation systems often lack transparency and user control, leaving communities vulnerable to sudden policy changes and potential mismanagement. To build a better social media ecosystem, it is necessary to try new approaches...
> Today, we’re releasing an open labeling system on Bluesky. “Labeling” is a key part of moderation; it is a system for marking content that may need to be hidden, blurred, taken down, or annotated in applications. Labeling is how a lot of centralized moderation works under the hood, but nobody has ever opened it up for anyone to contribute. By building an open source labeling system, our goal is to empower developers, organizations, and users to actively participate in shaping the future of moderation. > > In this post, we’ll dive into the details on how labeling and moderation works in the AT Protocol.
...Which foods? A variety, or would it all be the same perfect food in an unending supply?
Think like a food delivery service but it magically provided the buffet items as needed.
...This post, but what is it??? It's clickbait! Unless you wanna talk about the weekend.
It's brought to us by workers, and...It should be longer! Do you create your own weekends with every spare moment? Besides doomscrurking (ooh, or doomlulling?), what do you get up to in those moments?
I've been reading, and catching up on some movies lately.
This is not a comprehensive list by any means, and is why I'm featuring this post and leaving it open to comments. I may update this as people make suggestions, and I encourage others to make their own variations on this list in the comments or in their respective versions of this community.
Also to clarify some terms here, by active I'm aiming for at least some commenting on recent-ish posts, not merely recent posts, and by the topic names...I'll let the linked communities serve as examples.
🎨 Creative Communities 🎨
Fabricraft
Music
Photography
Visual
- !artshare@lemmy.world
- !digitalart@lemmy.world
- !imageai@sh.itjust.works
- !pixelart@lemmy.ml
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
Writing
🗿 Humanities 🗿
Art
- !albumartporn@lemmy.world
- !artporn@lemm.ee
- !gameart@sopuli.xyz
- !sapphicart@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- !traditional_art@lemmy.world
History & Anthropology
- !archaeology@mander.xyz
- !artifact@lemmy.world
- !anthropology@mander.xyz
- !history@lemmy.world
- !HistoryArtifacts@kbin.social
Language/Linguistics
Philosophy
Religion & Spirituality
😄 Entertainment 😄
Reading and Listening
- !books@lemmy.ml
- !books@lemmy.world
- !comicbooks@lemmy.world
- !comics@lemmy.ml
- !comicstrips@lemmy.world
- !fiction@literature.cafe
- !manga@ani.social
- !manga@lemmy.ml
Multimedia
Music
- !alternativenation@lemmy.world
- !gothindustrial@lemmy.world
- !jazz@lemmy.world
- !metal@lemmy.world
- !music@lemmy.world
- !vgmusic@lemmy.world
- !80smusic@lemmy.world
- !90smusic@lemmy.world
Playing
Watching
🏅 Sports 🏅
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Hope this helps any newcomers find some different communities to join and participate in!
p.s. although it's now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed here.
Chameleons can hold things, octopuses can hold things, they can both blend in with their environments.
They have a lot in common, besides the whole aquatic-terrestrial separation, but that's no reason to think some of them couldn't get along. What do you think?
As Bluesky begins to open up more and more, it's felt more pertinent to try to wrap my head around it. To help in this, I decided to write out my rough understanding of it from its documentation, in the hopes that it may help others and myself with any corrections from misunderstandings.
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As Bluesky themselves note, the architecture is laid out in Personal Data Servers, Relays, & App Views. The intent is that each of these may be deployed and/or developed independently of Bluesky, with some caveats to each.
First & foremost, which is somewhat glossed over, is the notion that ordinary people will have the knowledge or interest in deploying their own Personal Data Servers. This isn't really touched on from what I've seen in their documentation, despite it being touted as such a major benefit of the architecture.
Second, which is recognized in their documentation, is that due to the high volumes of data involved, there are likely to be fewer Relays deployed instead of many. See the following:
> The federation architecture allows anyone to host a Relay, though it’s a fairly resource-demanding service. In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers, and then a long tail of partial-network providers. Small bespoke Relays could also service tightly or well-defined slices of the network, like a specific new application or a small community.
This inarguably undercuts much of the benefit of it as a distributed network given that Relays are what may enable much of the transfer of data across the network.
It is noted that this may be avoided via server-to-server networking, so we'll have to see how that shakes out given it's mentioned almost as an afterthought.
Third, data portability across a distributed network is absolutely an achievement, but it must be scrutinized. Their language concerning PDSs itself indicates they expect them to be as prone to ephemerality as existing fediverse instances, see:
> We assume that a Personal Data Server may fail at any time, either by going offline in its entirety, or by ceasing service for specific users.
Data portability then is reliant on a few crucial details: Clear communication of the need to safely store recovery keys and backups.
Retention of recovery keys in some way (people never lose recovery keys, right?).
Device safety/stability to ensure access to your Authenticated Transfer client's backed up data, and sufficient storage for said backup.
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From that last section note the following about PDSs, "...or by ceasing service for specific users", and then see their documentation on PDS Entryways.
> Bluesky runs many PDSs. Each PDS runs as a completely separate service in the network with its own identity. They federate with the rest of the network in the exact same manner that a non-Bluesky PDS would. > [...] > To enable this, we introduced a PDS Entryway service. This service is used to orchestrate account management across Bluesky PDSs and to provide an interface for interacting with bsky.social accounts.
What's noteworthy here is that in creating Bluesky Social, they've essentially created a model that I foresee others building on the AuthTransfer protocol emulating. Many everyday people won't be spinning up their own PDSs, in the same way that few people spin up their own fediverse instances. Essentially instead of PDS Entryways, what may emerge may be AuthTransfer Entryways/Gateways for whatever variety of apps may eventually be built on it.
Similar to different fediverse platforms, you may then eventually see AuthTransfer platforms that pair together Entryway services with an App View as Bluesky itself is presently doing. Arguably this may make the AuthTransfer network no more decentralized (they go back & forth on describing their approach as decentralized and distributed) than the ActivityPub network is.
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Lastly, regarding custom feeds and composable moderation, there is something on a protocol level here that those using ActivityPub may look to and improve on (and may already be doing so).
In some cruder ways, however, these are already in play on the fediverse. Custom feeds exist here on Lemmy via different communities and instances. More topic-focused instances (on Lemmy as well as other fediverse platforms) in particular can collaboratively produce distinct local and federated/all feeds. To a limited degree similar may be said of "composable moderation" with community moderation and user/instance blocking.
Mastodon even permits the sharing of one's mute/block lists, albeit admittedly somewhat clunkily.
Altogether the AuthTransfer protocol definitely makes some interesting improvements, but not without some awkward tradeoffs that they seem to be trying to talk around instead of speaking more plainly about.
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Addendum, as I wasn't sure if I was about to hit a character limit: The idea of regular people spinning up a Personal Data Server is already pretty laughable, but it's accentuated by the idea that they might also go out of their way to pay for a domain name to sort of establish(?) their identity across the AuthTransfer network. Many will likely simply have names like around here as @name.atentryservice.tld.
Also there's a kind of weird disconnect throughout the documentation from the idea of people perhaps wanting to operate multiple handles/identities for different platforms, or different purposes on the same platforms. A lot of thought seems put into owning/maintaining a singular identity, but not as much to multiple identities.
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Text along the top: “We'll be your valentine” Text along the bottom: “…And use that to become others' valentine too”
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TL;DR: Posting and voting is important, but with Active sort being the default across many instances, commenting is just as if not more important in helping surface various posts.
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Although the instance I'm posting from hasn't updated yet, I've taken a look through other instances of the new sort options, and I think they're nice additions.
However, in doing so, and bouncing between different sorting options, I've noticed something pretty obvious but nonetheless worth recognizing imo. Since the default sort across many instances is Active, commenting feels like it has as much importance, if not maybe more, than voting alone.
You can find a number of posts here & there expressing some frustration at the state of content across Lemmy instances, and to a degree it's not unfounded; yet what's also helping surface much of the content exasperating others, and keeping it at the top, is much of the commenting to each of those posts. At least, under the Active sort setting, as that's basically its intended purpose (that is, to display posts with active conversations, not uh...surface stuff exhausting to some people).
I realize we can get around this individually by changing the default for ourselves (I personally tend to keep mine set to New), but I think it's worth considering from the outside looking in what kinds of posts we're surfacing and keeping at the top with our conversations. Posting a bunch of varied stuff is one thing, but if you see a post that catches your interest, it might be worth not just upvoting and moving on, but adding a comment here and there to try and help others see it.
Well, so long as the Active sort setting remains the standard across instances anyway.
By now I imagine many may take this as a given already, but I thought it worth noting considering some of the frustrated posts, and that I haven't really seen as much talk about the importance of commenting in relation to surfacing content under Active sort. That's part of why I keep my sort set to New and try to chip in comments to different posts without comments in different communities that catch my interest, even if they've already seen several votes.
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TL;DR: Posting and voting is important, but with Active sort being the default across many instances, commenting is just as if not more important in helping surface various posts.
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Lastly at the bottom, the head is now shown wearing a VR headset with earbuds in and text on the bottom left saying, "I feel so immersed in our conversations now"
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