@evan The whole demeaning "It might seem incomprehensible to you, you just don't get it" with an immense sense of superiority. In this case, you're telling me I don't understand what ActivityPub is, and I'm too dumb to understand your question. I take offense to that. Not to you, but that's why I think you could reword what you're trying to say there.
@evan This question is impossible to answer. Benefit of the doubt... of what? If somebody messed up an implementation of ActivityPub, absolutely, they deserve it. We're all trying our best. If somebody built an implementation of ActivityPub to steal our data, advertise to us, harass people, or build spam bots? No absolutely not, we shouldn't let that slide just because they use ActivityPub.
You can’t appoint anybody as anything on The Fediverse. That’s what true decentralization and independence is. I know people incorrectly think Gargron is the president of The Fediverse, but it’s incorrect. Nobody owns The Fediverse, it’s impossible. If you can appoint a single person to oversee it, how can you pretend it’s anything decentralized, independent or open?
If one person is keeping a project alive and is unable to build a long term, sustainable team around the project, relying only on that individual, that project is fragile.
Apropos of nothing, I'd love if I could build a long term, sustainable team around #owncast, if this sparks your interest at all! If I get hit by a bus tonight, Owncast is dead tomorrow.
@roadriverrail It’s a fun toy! And fun to put together! But its usefulness is limited at best for me personally. I’d like to find a use for it though. It’s near impossible to type on, but with two index fingers you can kind of poke around. If you keep your expectations low it’s a novel toy, but I’m not sure it’s worth the price :)
I know nobody is pushing me, but I'm pushing me. I want to build cool shit to solve the challenges streamers have. Every day I'm like "ugh, if I could just give you X! Some day you'll see!".
I'm trying hard to get from under this, and pushing myself harder to get through the smaller updates. I'm also realistic that those things don't stop coming in, but things happen in waves, and I'm sure I'll be able to focus on the big things soon.
A future goal is to allow Owncast servers to follow other Owncast servers. And then that opens the technical door to however “raids” might work, because we now know what streams would be available to be raided to. I have no idea of the specifics of how it would work, but at least the technology behind it I kind of have worked out. The design of it all, and user-side of things is a huge question mark though. I’m not sure what a user flow of an owncast raid would consist of. Though there’s some previous conversation here:
@meljoann@lislegaard@ety@ke7zum I don’t mean to stick my nose into conversations that are organic and don’t involve me, buttt… there are certain things I’m never going to unilaterally decide for everyone. Payments are one of them. I’m not going to say “Everyone needs to use PayPal, deal with it” or something. That’s why there are no payment support in Owncast at all. I’d rather have nothing than to force something. Some want Bitcoin, some want Stripe, some want PayPal, some want Ko-fi, some want OpenCollective, etc.
So if the Owncast community ever came up with a solution that was useful and flexible for everyone, I’d really love to hear it. I want to offer these donation options to streamers. I just don’t know what the answer is. The best answer I came up with was the “external UI” buttons so you can embed payment forms within Owncast itself.
@box464 When the idea of a single instance where every Fediverse project hosted their microblogging identity was hosted, and was run by a single person was brought up, I brought up my concerns. I suggested if this was wanted, instead we run the instance as a coop, and each project have ownership over the server, so something like this couldn't happen. I guess nobody liked that idea.