People have really weird usernames sometimes

True, but there are other benefits too. Bots can’t crawl through your likes for example. Maybe you want a feature on lemmy or mastodon or whatever with anonymous polling? (ik masto has polls but for sake of argument) Maybe you’re implementing anonymous polling into an app for a trade union that needs total anonymity even from admins? It’s not totally unusual!

IMO it makes sense to do this at a platform level just because there’s a unified implementation of obfuscation across all the fediverse for any platforms that want to use, rather than a bunch of unique solutions that would be duplicated effort.

I get this is obviously intended behaviour on part of actpub but I’d love for there to be a pseudo-anonymous voting system too. Maybe an option to hash user credentials when added to likes to ensure that they’re unique whilst obfuscating the original user.

I see the benefits, but I also see the risks. A lot of the social stuff right now is up to the altruism and expertise of instance admins, which cannot always be guaranteed. Not to mention the risks that one user’s abuse (eg. scams, contraband sales) could shut down the entire venture.

I think there needs to be a federated protocol to handle payments that also has some protections for buyers and sellers alike, but without the explicit backing of banks it simply cannot exist within the world of fiat currencies.

Obviously, you could build this with cryptocurrencies, but that limits your users and of course many people will never touch crypto with a ten foot pole

that website feels like uncovering a piece of ancient alien weaponry

Bluesky doesnt have an algorithm for its discover feed (the default), or at least it didn’t used to have one, but provides an API for building your own feeds which lets you do whatever you like.

Bluesky’s big growth was from the fact it was, like PF, easy to use and easy to navigate, and all the content was on one namespace.

Lemmy is an outlier imo. You can interact and repost and find content on different instances easily. Mastodon made following feeds from different instances nearly impossible which turned me off it permanently even if I believe in its value over Bluesky.

migrating my entire dying website to wordpress so I can use a protocol that is not only open source (negating the entire need to migrate to wordpress) but will immediately defederate with anything even vaguely corporate is surely something

expect the entire domain to be hijacked by a supplements Ponzi scheme by the weekend.

I think they might have softened the TOS for that?

go back to Reddit nerd