When I want to have back and forth between people on a regular basis, I choose chat apps. Mastodon feels like it’s trying to be a poorly designed chat app.

I do worry that they’ll run out of money before they can do the work to let the ecosystem become sustainable by itself.

I’m mildly concerned about this as well.

You don’t need to access information via the relay. You can have a client get information directly from PDSes or Appviews that don’t get their information from the relay.

Just about anything related to moderation tools.
Dealing with the All feed properly.
Users being able to configure default sorting on posts.
etc.

Lemmy needs to mature on a technical basis. The Lemmy service itself is still lacking significantly. But it it progressing.

Outside of technical limitations, focus on communities. A few good ones are better than many mediocre ones.

I hope they start supporting people who want to run an indexer. Right now they just point to their source code and say, “if you can get this largely undocumented complex service running on your own, you can run a indexer, but don’t ask us for any help”.

I’m not entirely confident that it will happen before their only funding source decides to cut off the cash flow.

https://feddit.org/post/2600584

Interesting comments there. Thanks for the pointer!

This is great! Thanks!

there are distinct cultures between different instances and it is a strength of the Fediverse that instances are not just faceless pieces of infrastructure, i.e. pipes to content, but rather thriving communities with real people behind them.

Yeah, that deserves emphasis.

That instances are the interconnected nodes that make up the network.

I would even just use the word “parts” instead of “nodes”.

A bot shilling for Musk or a person shilling for Musk because they bought the hype are basically the same thing.

It’s the scale that changes. One bot can be replicated much easier than a human shill.

ZK-proofs

This is a solution in the same way that PGP-keys are a solution. There’s a big gulf between the theory and implementation.

That certainly doesn’t seem sustainable at all. You need to take care of yourself and I think you’re making a good decision.

Accounts in which authentication has been provided seems like a better measure.

Seems like a severe undercounting

How does that site count active accounts?

Discord and Reddit also had uniquely improved their UIs over the existing options.

Peering agreements have been around for a long time on the internet, they’re part the backbone of the internet.

Peering agreements for internet traffic, what a stupid concept.