Notices by Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com), page 2

@hywan

To illustrate, this is from two days ago but this sentiment is perennially expressed here.

https://opinuendo.com/@matthew/113488003041738944

@hywan

If your timeline is free from frequent variations of "I don't want the Fediverse to grow", "I left Twitter for a reason, if people come here I will have to find somewhere else to go", "Mastodon is not a place for celebrities/influencers, so keep corporate away from here", then you are luckier than me.

@hywan

For a large part of the population, "Mastodon is decentralized" is a negative aspect.

Also, it's not like the press never talked about Mastodon. It *had* its shot in October 2022 and newcomers were met by the hostile, reactionary crowd that was already here and refused to make this place more normie-friendly.

@feld it's overkill unless you are deep into containerization, but Traefik has been working well for me.

@ssweeny @ernie @bookwyrm Agreed. Starter packs and domains as identity are perfecto. Two things that would be game changing for the Fediverse. Two biggest detractors of Mastodon/Fedi have always been what server to join and then how to discover people and be discovered by others. Having your identity tied to a domain instead of a server could partially help with what server to join, as then server choice only becomes an issue of moderation. Starter packs help with discoverability.

@ssweeny @shellsharks @ernie

Help me make that a reality:
https://raphael.lullis.net/a-plan-for-social-media-less-fedi-more-webby/

@neiman I haven't even figured out *how* to do that. I have run a Storj with 2TB node for years which paid me ~$6/month worth of their tokens, and I have used their Tardigrade service to host some of my stuff. With Filecoin, I didn't even know where to start.

@TrufiAssoc

It would be great to have you participating on @humanscale !

Lieferando made brought back #bitcoin as a payment option now here in Germany. I wonder how the thing works, in terms of accounting.

@feld

Agree on all but the "server hosting story". Ejabberd is relatively painless to deploy.

@manualdousuario

> Como é que se lida com Big Techs

"Multando" em um valor que sabidamente nunca poderá ser pago? All bark, no bite.

@evan how long are you staying in Berlin?

@silverpill but IPNS still relies on DNS, no?

ENS *could* be used, but I don't see how one could practically use it without relying on trusted entities. I used it already to point to email addresses, Twitter and even IPFS files, but how feasible would it really be to update to an IP address whenever my server responding to the corresponding actor ID changes?

@silverpill can you think of a practical example? At first I thought of things like torrent files and magnet links, but I am not sure you can change the content of the URI.

@silverpill perhaps things like ENS itself?

One of the things that bug me about ActivityPub is that actor ids must be dereferenceable. IOW, you can only fully "own" your identity if you have control over the domain name.

So, here is an insane idea: what if we could use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_number_mapping to give one valid domain name for every active phone number, which can then be used by the number owner to create ENS-style records?

This would let everyone to set up, e.g, their AP id based on their phone number.

I have a number of #Lemmy instances meant for discussion groups around specific topics. They are not being as used as I expected/hoped. I would like to set them up in a way that they can be owned by a consortium of different admins so that they are collectively owned. My only requirement: these instances should remain closed for registrations and used only to create communities.

More details: https://raphael.lullis.net/when-information-is-cheap-attention-is-expensive/

@deadsuperhero

I think he is absolutely right to do it. No one likes politicians, but someone *has* to do the politicking, and I'm glad that it's someone with actual Skin In The Game like him.

Much like we need pragmatists, we need purists to keep us in check and remind us *why* we need to be zealous about certain principles, and these principles are not observed by Bluesky or Nostr.

@deadsuperhero

Nostr is the least bad of the two, but it is a victim of the Libertarian mistake: it puts "Freedom" as the highest principle, but does it only for "freedom to" and leaves "freedom from" on the curb.

Bluesky is from the very beginning looking for ways to become a middleman in the flow of information. Even if we believe that the individuals working there have more noble aspirations, as soon as their investors come knocking they will be forced to let go of their ideals.

@mike @johnonolan

The jump in numbers is because @dansup started counting instances that were previously considered problematic and delisted from fedidb