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  • rglullisAtoFediverse@lemmy.worldUnifying the Fediverse
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    3 天前

    There are a lot of architecture astronauts that will keep talking about “we should develop a grand-unifying system”, but most of them are all talk and little result.

    When push comes to shove, the developers that actually ship are the ones that look at problem they want to solve and work on that.





  • Wouldn’t you agree that hardcoding one specific community to provide a feature to “try it and see it causes any problems” is yolo’ing?

    I’ll code something to spread communities to other instances using an API but that seems like a lot more work.

    In my view, the “proper” solution to this (and that would fit right into ActivityPub) would be simply to let the actor that represents the server to post “as:Create” for any new communities that are created and then let the other software follow these if they are interested.

    It certainly would be a lot more work and it would still require others to write code on their end to look for this information, but seems like the only implementation that would seem like just another ad-hoc hack.




  • It’s funny to see these contrasting approaches between PieFed and Lemmy development.

    Rimu just treats this is a hobby and goes ahead yolo’ing a bunch of these features that abuse the underlying protocol and could bring serious systemic risks if other admins start deploying it, but because the current userbase is small then there is little scrutiny and they all think it’s good to go.

    The Lemmy devs are trying for years to get enough support to make a living of their work and therefore a lot more “professional” about what they do, so they would never introduce a feature that could cause Lemmy to be a “bad participant” in the network. But by not taking a more “customer-focused” approach to product development, it takes a long time to bring any functionality that makes it attractive.

    PieFed is definitely taking a “Worse is Better” approach and I don’t know what to make of it. It seems to be poised to make it most popular software among the current fediverse users, but at the same time it makes so idiosyncratic decisions that it makes it hard to believe it will be usable if more people started joining in.











  • you never said it.

    The whole conversation started with me talking about Communick offering a subscription service. Communick is my business. I thought that was clear. My bad if it wasn’t.

    “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable”

    That’s not a good approach, because Y changes depending on the price point and X changes on what these Y customers would expect from the service.

    The only variable that can be fixed here is “how much you are willing to pay”, so this is why I am asking it.



  • I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab

    No, I will look at kebab shops in your area and see how much they are charging, and I will check if their operation is actually profitable (instead of being a front for someone who needs to launder money) and I will see if they have enough customers paying the asking price. If the math checks out and if I see an opportunity for the market, then I’d go invest time and resources to open a shop there.

    There is no such thing for “hosting providers that have been audited and can certify that the data is secured and properly managed”. And given you are the first person saying “I’d pay for that”, why do you think is somehow offensive to be asked “How much?”

    Someone sees a potential opportunity (…) does the research,

    Yeah, part of the research is exactly going to potential customers and asking how much are you willing to pay for this?.

    Seriously, I do not get what is so weird about asking it.


  • I’m not going to go out there and do extensive business research

    I didn’t ask you to do any research. You said “I’d legitimately would pay for it.” and I asked one simple question: how much?

    The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.

    This attitude right here is why the Fediverse is bound to stay small and amateurish. Everyone is just focused on keeping their own little pipe dreams and wishing that someone else to take on the sacrifice to do these gigantic efforts without expecting any reward.