#feditips There are actually Fediverse groups called guppes hosted at <a.gup.pe>. It's a bit like Facebook groups, but decentralized. If you follow a guppe, for example @philosophy, you get access to the group's posts on your timeline. If you tag a group like @philosophy, you post to the group and your post will show up in the timelines of the group members.
@abolisyonista@philosophy tried it a bit. It seems a bit half baked. Or like someone hacked some things together on an instance using activitypub protocol to make something a bit like groups. Since it’s all dependent on the functionality of a single instance, it’s prone to be brittle and easy to take down, so I would not trust it to be resilient enough to build any organizing on it. Correct me if I’m wrong. #groups#activitypub#aguppe
Mi padre quiere hacerse mastodon de hace tiempo pero la primera vez que lo intento hace meses (creo que en mastodon.social) solo vio cosas en inglés y se agobió.
Si van e hablar de mi país, antes de mencionar el tema de la integración racial y la inclusión de inmigrantes se lavan bien la boca con lavandina, me chupan dos veces la pija, y se hacen unas buenas gárgaras de agua oxigenada.
Mi país no se enriqueció con esclavitud y saqueo colonial como las "democracias" de ustedes.
(I am anticipating a crash/collapse of the fediverse in its current form at a not too distant future; hopefully we'll have more answers ready by then, but this is a multi-year project)
the blocklist/allowlist path for the fediverse is a band-aid. it's a doomed approach to moderation, and it always converges on centralization as it continues to run. I think the doc explains why that is pretty clearly.
in particular, the "Nation-State'ification of the Fediverse" section has turned out to be SUPER ON POINT
but also the discussion of how neo-fascists co-opt decentralization language while having no real interest in dispersing authority, the intro to ocaps, etc
but again, I stopped writing because I found it was hard to explain things to people... and demo'ing is better. In the meanwhile, the doc does do a good job of explaining the problem space that the @spritelyinst is solving.
HOWEVER, this is not to say we are "fixing ActivityPub" in two ways:
- the ideas can eventually be ported back to ActivityPub, the spec. however if the heavily-mastodon-flavored version of ActivityPub (MastoPub?) prevails I'm not sure it can be upended - our main focus is on technical pieces built on OCapN, but activitypub backfill has been long planned. it's in the future though. it's not the critical path.