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   Kye Fox :veripanda1: (kye@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:13:01 JST Kye Fox :veripanda1:

   ActivityPub could be the future (2020 vintage) #activitypub https://kyefox.com/2020/04/09/activitypub-could-be-the-future/

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     Kye Fox :veripanda1: (kye@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:13:00 JST Kye Fox :veripanda1:

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     It was unthinkable in 2020 that Tumblr would have #ActivityPub support on its roadmap. The quick shift in narrative, from a rehash of tech journalists going "it's too haaaard", to serious people giving it a try, then ordinary people.

     My view back then was Mastodon probably wouldn't be The Thing. It would get us there, but would struggle to keep up. I'm starting to think Tumblr might be the thing. Automattic hasn't really been an EEE company, so I anticipate them being responsible players here.

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     Kye Fox :veripanda1: (kye@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:13:04 JST Kye Fox :veripanda1:

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     I don't think Mastodon is going to go away, but a federated Tumblr answers a lot of the annoyances I've had with it. It supports all the media types I want to post without complaint, and presents them each in a media-appropriate way.

     If they can get it open source and decentralized, even better. This seems to be their long-term plan based on things I've seen in posts around the intwewebs. Making it WordPress-based is the goal, maybe as a major extension alongside WooCommerce and co.

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     Kye Fox :veripanda1: (kye@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:13:04 JST Kye Fox :veripanda1:

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     Can you imagine

     You log into your Tumblr dashboard

     All your friends on Mastodon making posts, your favorite bloggers on Write.as, your favorite artists and photographers on Pixelfed

     Mingling with the people you follow on Tumblr. And it's all neatly tied together through #ActivityPub.

     This was the original promise of the tumbleblogs Tumblr was inspired by. https://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:17:52 JST pawlicker

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     @Kye So here's something interesting too, Wordpress not only has ActivityPub plugins, but also I've had a similar idea with art sites being decentralized. Personally I prefer the dA style of community and content discovery over Tumblr's social media feed, especially as you could find related art by different/the same artists easily or "groups" where different artists could post stuff with a common theme.
     
     The nice part about making Tumblr-likes or art sites decentralized is it takes care of the inevitable moderation issues with running an art site, as art sites are very prone to have people argue "stop liking what I don't like".
     
     Of course the problem is, how many people are going to do what is done to Mastodon.Social and just block it for being "too big" like what already happens in some corners?
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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 10:39:35 JST pawlicker

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     @Kye I feel the other issue with federation as well with if a site were to take off is the amount of times it uses the blocklist.
     
     The other day I found out about an extremely excessive blocklist that literally blanket blocks all known Pleroma instances because some infamous instances run it. It's stuff like that which splits the fediverse into two sides like it already is right now.
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     pawlicker (pawlicker@pawlicker.ddns.net)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 15:50:00 JST pawlicker

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     @Kye I don't think they're fake users. They're genuinely all real people who got banned from every other social media site online.
     
     And it comes down to the fact that Pleroma will run on literal garbage hardware from an ewaste center dump. Keep in mind, the developers of Pleroma don't condone behavior even "remotely" tied to it, they just don't make it as obvious. The fact they're on good terms with the Akkoma devs as opposed to Rebased sums it up more than words and PR releases can.
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     Kye Fox :veripanda1: (kye@tech.lgbt)'s status on Friday, 25-Nov-2022 15:50:01 JST Kye Fox :veripanda1:

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     @pawlicker Pleroma is in a bit of a pickle

     It's _extremely_ easy to set up, and requires almost no resources. So naturally it's a favorite with people who want to stand up instances full of fake users (or collaborators) to harass people.

     It's not Pleroma's fault that its key benefits make it popular with a certain sort of jerk, but it is, and people have to protect themselves.