If it looks like something that could happen again, rather than a one-off fluke, USA would have to change their whole naval doctrine. The strategic arms balance of all countries would need to be reassessed.

Community members pointed out that the indexable flag is enabled by default on many instances, which means that a significant number of accounts with the flag set never made a deliberate choice to be indexed. The flag that’s supposed to signal “this person consents to being searchable” frequently signals “this person’s server admin didn’t change the default”, and on a protocol-level, there is no difference between these two options.

Maybe Mastodon could get the user to set this during onboarding. Then no one can say they didn’t choose.

In the footer there is ‘About’. That page lists the admins. You can click on their name to view their profile and from there send a PM.

• Lemmy matrix space / rooms

• Matrix chatroom for PieFed
• Zulip forum / chatroom for PieFed

• Mbin matrix room

The Ford Edsel car is widely used as a case study in business schools as an example of a massive fuck up. But Ford sold way more of those cars (118k) than the Cybertruck (maybe 60k?) and USA had half as many people then (and lower car ownership rates).

Oops I mistread my source. Have updated my comment.

He also cofounded Nostr.

That’s the beauty (and horror) of PHP!

Fun for small stuff, good for learning. Unpretentious. Dead simple to deploy.

Generally I think duplication isn’t great because it means people subscribe to all of them and cross-post in all of them. A lot of client apps don’t deal with this well, yet.

I mean just have a community for cats on instance 1 and a community for dogs on instance 2.

In your original post you demonstrated an ability to collect a nice pile of links to support your argument. Use that skill to build the opposite argument and see what happens. If your original argument was a good one it should stand up. I’ve given you a starting point but I’m not going to try to change the mind of an angry person, that’s just stupid.

I could have linked to them individually but I am not your research assistant and owe you nothing.

The claim was that there is no evidence. To disprove that all I had to do was find one piece of evidence. I found several with 5 seconds of work. Why are you not putting in that amount of effort? Is it because you are too angry to consider alternative points of view?

This article is better than most like this in that it at least acknowledges the existence of the threadiverse and even explores some of it’s community-related features. Hurrah! But really it equates ActivityPub with just Mastodon, which leads to the conclusion it does. I believe that if they compared Lemmy/PF’s ActivtyPub with ATProto the conclusion might have been quite different.

(Community lives in the heads of the people involved and their feelings of connection to and support for one another. But ok, let’s run with the assumption it’s a technology / protocol thing…)

Nope!

Fill your boots, mate - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=social+media+developmental+effects&btnG=&oq=social+media+developmental

I was not prepared, however, to find absolutely no evidence.

Hold up, hold up.

Here are plenty of studies - https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=attention+span+social+media&btnG=

It’s complicated.

You could federate with millions of instances if the people using them are not doing very much. But a handful of instances could theoretically overwhelm the whole network if they had malicious bots spamming like crazy.

The instance that hosts a community is responsible for sending copies of everything to all following instances, so most of the load is on those instances that host lots of popular communities. All other instances just need to be powerful enough to keep up with what they receive, which is 100x less work.

So even more important than spreading users out among instances, is spreading communities out among instances. Communities cause most of the load.

It doesn’t matter, Threads has crippled their ActivityPub implementation so badly that I’ve never once seen a post from a threads user. Meta gave up on the idea, effectively.

No, it’s legit. Elena has been tooting and peertubing about the fedi and her self hosting journey for over a year.

You could probably do something similar with your instance, like https://piefed.ca/communities?search=%s. Any big instance is going to have 99% of communities already added.