Self-Hosting: Server: Easy (Leverage email hosting services) → Score: 18/20

Is it really self-hosting if someone else controls the data and software?

I don’t want to be subject to the output of generative AI and yet and I continuously am because AI bros oppose things that would enable my preferences (e.g. requiring AI output to be watermarked or tagged) and shove it in places I visit regularly. So fuck them and their ocean boiling algorithms that will never make art worth seeing, prose worth reading, or music worth hearing.

Yeah, I thought it must be a Reddit repost instance, thanks for pointing to the right one.

i apparently cannot figure out ascii shrugs, nvm

¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ => ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Just so we’re clear, what this crawler does is go through all servers that use ActivityPub known to it, and congregate that data to a list of known services (Lemmy, Mastodon, Piefed etc.). How is does that is by querying a standardised end point to get the instance info (.well-known/nodeinfo which will then point to a different path to get the actual info).

For instance, here’s what it will collect for feddit.uk:

// curl -s https://feddit.uk/nodeinfo/2.1 | jq
{
  "version": "2.1",
  "software": {
    "name": "lemmy",
    "version": "0.19.10-feddit",
    "repository": "https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy",
    "homepage": "https://join-lemmy.org/"
  },
  "protocols": [
    "activitypub"
  ],
  "usage": {
    "users": {
      "total": 4184,
      "activeHalfyear": 718,
      "activeMonth": 485
    },
    "localPosts": 25750,
    "localComments": 122835
  },
  "openRegistrations": true,
  "services": {
    "inbound": [],
    "outbound": []
  },
  "metadata": {}
}

The important stat here is the localPosts, which is all the posts made by local users in any community, local or remote. It does not include posts by users from remote instances made in local communities. You can also see this data on the instance sidebar in lemmy-ui.

lemmy.zip going down will only reduce aggregated stats for total posts by 47,280, as that’s what they report for their localPosts.

But zip has < 50K posts.

You shouldn’t expect anything else from the Torygraph, it’s all nostalgia bait and hate mongering to comfort their snobby readership (and to prop up his links to fossil fuel companies).

The amount of things learned from the comments under memes is probably a bit high, but I’ll send a commit to fix this in a minute.

Who needs an issues tracker when you have a meme tracker, eh?

Does Lemmy look at the mods URL again when it decides to refresh a community (or when it receives an Update / Group)

Yes to both. Updating a community and fetching a new community are identical operations in Lemmy.

It’s because Piefed is returning the wrong Content-Type for moderator collections specifically. You’re returning application/json not application/activity+json.

curl -H 'Accept: application/activity+json' -v https://piefed.social/c/50501/moderators 2>&1 | grep content-type
< content-type: application/json
< x-content-type-options: nosniff

I assume this is why MBin also doesn’t report any moderators for that community https://fedia.io/m/50501@piefed.social.

I thinks it’s fine, it’s not breaking the spirit of the rule.

Going to lock this. I’ll remove future posts that use the ‘tankie triad’ pejorative. Please keep it to meanwhileongrad or tankjerk, it’s needlessly divisive and we have more than enough posts here bemoaning the tankies.

Only 5 communities called ‘Fediverse’? That’s child’s play, here on feddit.uk we have 14 communities called that.

I spent a couple hours trying to create an account on pds.flamingos-cant.xyz that uses a did:web following the instructions here and the account at the end ended up with a did:plc, so IDK how you create a PDS with a did:web but it’s clearly not something they put a lot of effort into supporting.

Oh, so when you make baseless assumptions about people it’s just you rationally arriving at a conclusion from context, but when someone else says your personality sucks based from your diatribe about women and dating, it must be because they’re an irrational, emotional wöman.

You’re literally attacking personality of someone you don’t know in that comment.

So she did, I’ll admit I missed those ones. Still, you have this still up on you account, undeleted, so I’d say YDI:

And I would feel fairly confident that the commenter was a woman because attacking someones personality (that they don’t know at all) is typically done by women. If they don’t like something you said they tend to tell you that you have a crap personality or a tiny dick.

This is the the death threat, btw:

bro I’m literally putting a curse on you rn. you’re going to die soon

Damn, I wonder why misogyny got a longer ban than that. /s

But what about the DIDs, the things used to actually identify accounts within the ATproto ecosystem:

But Bluesky has developed its own DID method, did:plc. Today, did:plc stands for “Public Ledger of Credentials”, however it originally stood for “Placeholder DIDs”, with the hope of replacing them with something else later. The way that did:plc works is that Bluesky hosts a web service from which one can register, retrieve, and rotate keys (and other associated DID document information). However, this ledger is centrally controlled by Bluesky.

It’s literally not possible to have a functional PDS without registering with a Bluesky server and they maintain indefinite control over the ledger. All your data is tied to this DID, it’s how the entire protocol is designed to identify stuff, how decentralised is your data if it’s dependent on Blusky (the company) assigning you an identity?

I don’t believe there’s any agreed-upon name for such a network on ATProto

They use the term ‘Atmosphere’ which is, admittedly, a really good play on words.

Microblog platform out of Japan
https://misskey-hub.net/en/

Has world really not enabled parallel sending yet? That feature was made specifically for them.

Single mod who didn’t want to create a meta posts to ask for more mods.

But the sidebar does say to DM them if you’re interested in modding. Not wanting a meta post is weird though.