you can’t review what’s running on the actual server, what did your local admin add to it.

You could level that accusation at any software running on a remote server, including the Fediverse

Keep in mind that OP’s project is already based a different protocol than the Fediverse for their own reasons. Trying to create and maintain a bridge between different protocols might be more work than to just make modifications to posts in the current system.

Other factors are end user experience and branding. Keep in mind that the average Facebook/NextDoor user isn’t tech-savvy, and could also be put off by the weird software names commonly found in the Fediverse

It’s likely worthwhile for OP to look into flohmarkt, but integration might not be the optimal method

Another idea you could potentially add down the line: what about functionality similar to Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace? Those tend to work by helping you focus on your local area as opposed to EBay.

Granted, Craigslist is largely fine imo, I’m just proposing a way to help you kill off Facebook

Reading through your link, it seems like the main difference in your framework is that there’s auto-propogation of federation built in. Please correct me if I missed anything

Unrelated point: before you throw too much time and effort into building up federation, I want to bring something in the Matrix vs. XMPP debate: caching.

Apparently in Matrix, if a user on server A joins a chatroom on server B, then all of the content on the chatroom need to then be copied and synced to server A. There’s 2 primary problems with this: it’s a lot of duplication overhead that can limit scaling of the network and there’s legal consequences for server A caching potentially illegal content. There’s also a privacy concern as this means more parties that can see various interactions.

XMPP gets around these problems by having the user on server A just directly connect with server B, without server A caching anything.

I haven’t dug into too many of the differences myself, but wanted to bring it up in case it helped

Though I will not be using ActivityPub

If you don’t mind my asking, what drove the decision to not base it on ActivityPub. On the surface that seems to be an easier starting point that building evetything out from scratch

I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

Eh, if it’s an open-source application where you can review the code to confirm that the software isn’t tracking you, then it’s not an issue. Especially if you’re running Graphene OS, Rethink DNS, or Exodus to either sandbox or monitor your traffic

I thought that was the only protocol that currently allows for federation. Are there others? Or other ways?

The Matrix and XMPP both support federation, though those are mainly for chat platforms

It’s open-source and self-hostable, so it’s for any group

The Nazi instance that got blocked literally had something adjacent to “nazi” in their url. Fairly clear decision if you ask me. This was a few months ago so I don’t recall the actual server name without digging it up.

Then there was the Hexbear fiasco, where they decided to federate with us (apparently they have it set up for admins to opt-in to federation instead of opt-out). They ended up swarming all of our communities for 4-5 days with nonstop harassment. Then their admins decided to re-defederate before we could vote on whether to block them. Literally a “you can’t fire me, I quit!” scenario.

I migrated during Reddit’s API debacle. I picked sh.itjust.works for several reasons:

• No email required to sign up (at the time)
• Hosted the only NonCredibleDefense community on Lemmy (at the time)
• Had almost no defederated instances (at the time)
• Consistent uptime (was 99% at the time and still not far off)
• Hosted in Canada but accepting of US citizens
• Powered by 98% renewable energy
• TheDude abides

While some things have changed like defederating from more servers, it’s left up to a vote by users of the server and the vote doesn’t get proposed unless there’s a good reason (such as a server being Nazi-friendly or constantly harassing/trolling users)

Does watching Twitch through GrayJay get around this?

What’s the one on the left? I haven’t seen it before

Can you be any more of an insufferable douchebag? Any time you bother to chime in you rival even paid Russian trolls

I’m kinda surprised that the Zizians didn’t get more news coverage to be honest. You’d think they’d be obsessed with a tech-based death cult where half the leadership are trans

Eveny single website running should do this, and refuse to display for Californians

Why can’t this franchise just fucking die already

Not only that, Arceus is terribly empty

I’ve slept using latex pillows my entire life, can’t go without them.

I once forgot my pillow at home on a 1 week trip, and I had terrible sleep the entire time

You could have just chosen to not say dumb shit if you didn’t want people to downvote you. But here we are.

Quick FYI: it’s Elder Scrolls VI, you added an extra ‘I’ by accident