No I mean, I don’t “trust” a groceries store. I only use them to trade for groceries, and only use cash when doing so.

Just because I use someone doesn’t mean I trust them. Even more: just becaue I trust Alice, that doesn’t mean I trust Bob by transitivity.

Example 1: So you buy at toms groceries, you trust them.

[citation needed]

A fair point that I admittedly don’t know how to solve. The closest I’ve got to a “functional” idea is to focus on splitting the two (I think? maybe three) things that an “upvote” is interpreted as, and supplementing with also the opposite / counter message:

• “I like what this post is about” (basically a like / heart / kudos)
• “I found this information useful / verified / checked” (a more proper upvote)
• (optionally) “I want this information to be more easily found”

Pretty much everything else can be a comment, as you say, but the purpose and reception of a message should also be as streamlined to communicate as possible.

and non-violent

And that would be good… why?

Oh get off their high horse. I know of no instance that is like Ecosia where your activity gets to, dunno, plant a tree or something. If you say online spaces somehow physically fight fascism, show me how many homeless people is your instance physically sheltering or helping immigrate to a better country, and we’ll talk.

Like, I love this kind of web space as much as the next person; but I don’t fancy myself in the emperor’s clothes.

This is one of the reasons why I’d love to see a more expanded method of reacting to content rather than simply upvoting or dowvoting; something like, say, user-side thread or post tagging, with things like “verified”, “clickbait”, and mood reacts like “happy” vs “sad”, and usefulness reacts like “solved, thanks” vs “closed as duplicate”, etc. We need more and better axes.

(Axises? Axeses? Asses?)

Like, of course; tho any sort of “accounting” should IMO start from the base that the intent of this entire thing is to publicly share public information.

, which is of course faulty logic

…which is why design systems so that when using them we can account for the human element, right? Come on! We have centuries-spanning systems even industries built on that! Engineering, avionics, Yelp reviews…

Not them but yes but it’s not a feature of the system, it’s a failure of the humans.

Yes please do.

I don’t really buy it tbh. People nowadays take pride in using stuff without understanding it. From Cookie Clicker, to even something as dangerous as car driving. In theory, they should be salivating at the Fediverse.

Hey at least you’ll never run out of ich_iel!

Oh please. Principles are like asses: everyone’s got one, and everyone thinks it’s other peoples’s that stink.

Many things are worth nil on principle. It’s the execution that matters.

And IPv6 won’t be that much harder, it’s only… uh… 32 hex digits

I’m still salty that IPv6 is not 6 octets. Six. It’s right there in the name. IPv4 is 4 octets!

posts/second average user activity …

posts/second

posts per second

…what, are you looking for instances for bots?

Everyone gets signed up to that initially and those who want to transfer to another instance afterwards can.

That’s the second big problem hidden in this model: account migration doesn’t currently work (nor do I know of an ETA for feature release).

Not to mention the first problem: this heavily promotes centralization which is what caused this whole mess in the first place.

I don’t get how people get hung on choosing a server when people have been chosing a starter Pokémon since 1998 without any major issues. And you get just about the “same” amount of practical info.

Really, what tiktok does to a generation…

In a good internet, you shouldn’t have to pay someone else for your own identity.

It’s (un)amusing how the Fediverse of all things still depends on a system of identity that relies on forcing trust on a third party that can take that identity from you at any point and without recourse (within that system). Or, you know, you can “forget to drink your internet identity verification can for the commercial god”, which is just as (un)funny.

My kneejerk reaction coming from the '90s is that if I wanted the same branding for everything, I’d just use Apple or Gnome. At the same time, constructing brand image on top of a third-party base that is in development and can change over time can be difficult, or just “not worth the $RESOURCE”. So I’m currently in the position that something like “universal Mastodon view with brand accents” would be the most fitting thing for the Fediverse.