All this rests on the implied assertion that ATProto is part of the open social web.

I don’t know the answer to that and I don’t really care to find out.

Please explain how spraying paint into a military jet engine is terrorism.

Without good documentation it’s impossible to do anything.

Frameworks and libraries (and their docs) are more important than language features, because who wants to reinvent the wheel?

Community is more important than anything. No point building something if you can’t find help or collaborators or people who make frameworks & libs.

Yep good point. A group is just another type of actor, after all.

I like how the did field is in addition to the existing actor field, providing a way to gradually transition the protocol to the new way.

IMO nomadic identity is more important in Mastodon, etc where the fundamental connections of the network are person-to-person - the emphasis is on following other people and having them follow you and that is what determines what content you see. Also being free to leave (and go somewhere else) is a killer feature that centralized social networks cannot offer and nomadic identity really leans into that strength.

In contrast, in the threadiverse you can’t follow other people - you join communities. Also when a post is viewed the author is just another piece of meta data, the focus is really on the content. With Mastodon they make a much bigger deal about who is saying the thing, display their avatar much bigger, etc. On Mastodon they’re YOUR posts that are strongly tied to you. But here, the posts you make are kiinda more like contributions to a shared wiki (community).

So in PieFed/Lemmy if you need to drop your account on an instance and create a new account on another it’s really much less of a loss and not really disruptive at all. You can just import your settings from the old account and continue to post in all the same communities you did before. The need for a nomadic identity just isn’t as strong.

Moving communities to another instance, tho, now that would be great. It’s on my very long list.

Smells like LLM to me.

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity

As far as I can tell Hubzilla seems to do it by having alts on different instances and then having a way to associate them with each other, so every instance knows that all the alts they’re the same user. It’s a bit clunky but it avoids as many fundamental changes to ActivityPub because most things under the hood are the same as without nomadic identity and the UI just treats several actors as the same user.

A lot of those are fixed in v1.2 (unreleased) :)

Yep I’m looking into options… https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1235

This seems like as good a time as any to plug !pies@piefed.social for everything pie-related.

I might just do that…

Yup, or self host a S3-compatible server. Much easier to set up and maintain than peertube, I bet.

You could upload the files to a S3 bucket, which would give them a url on the web. Then just make a PieFed post which links to each MP4 file.

Piefed will detect that it’s a video post and embed it in the page with player controls. If you use a community just for your videos then the RSS feed of that community will effectively be a podcast.

S3 buckets are pretty cheap but 30 tb is still going to cost you. Transcode to a smaller file before upload, ideally.

They’re primarily in Germany but there is some US presence too. From the join Mastodon site:

Mastodon, Inc. (EIN 92-3333630) is a 501©(3) non-profit entity in the United States that supports the growth and operational capabilities of Mastodon, including being able to receive tax-deductible U.S. donations and in-kind support.

Oops

Also I’m about 25% of the way through adding events to PieFed, which federate with Mobilizon. So communities will have events inside.

Yeah it’s just for mods at present. But I like where you’re going with the building-community-knowledge angle and can definitely see why opening up the access and integrating it better with posts would be a nice change!

I think https://liberapay.com/ does that?

Stripe has an amazing amount of currencies for payouts and accepts all kinds of payment methods, really really comprehensive. Pretty low fees too. Simple API and great great docs. They’re all good.

That’s really nicely done, good work!