The Youtube algorithm that pushes videos (and thus advertisement income) is very opague and there is a kind of mystic cargo cult by many creaters on Youtube trying to game it (but they usually end up being manipulated by Google instead). Suggestions to move outside of this cult is often met with a lot of hostility as they don’t want to endanger their imagined connection with the algorithmic gods.

Having experience with running both, I would recommend GoToSocial instead 😅

Akkoma isn’t too heavy, but the setup is a bit convoluted and there is almost no support what so ever if you run into problems.

Hubzilla has interesting features, but use as an AP fediverse instance is an afterthought at best. It kinda works, but if that is the part you are most interested in, I would not use Hubzilla for it.

Somewhat off-topic: you are now using the iGPU of the 5600g to do video transcoding instead of the nvidia one?

I don’t think that’s a serious problem as people that have so little interest that they leave because of that, would stop using it anyway sooner rather than later.

Of course the migration needs to be at least as easy as on Mastodon. Lemmy is still far from that.

I think this could work if it was a kind of demo instance that after some weeks or so would show increasingly annoying popups to switch to another instance.

The official Mastodon app kinda follows that idea with mastodon.social, just that the annoyance isn’t intentional but a result of their bad moderation and thus spam problem.

The old Instagram before they added the video stuff. Pretty much a 1:1 clone of that I was told (I was never on Instagram so 🤷).

You are very optimistic about the user retention 😅

@spaduf@slrpnk.net as such mentions don’t work in posts but only comments.

There is plenty of “content”, it just doesn’t get shoved in your face automatically. I personally can’t keep up with my non-Lemmy ActivityPub feed and the presenter is absolutely correct about time-zone issues in that regard. The Phanpy catch-up feature that presents your feed more like an email inbox sorted by user account helps with that though.

That said, once you get over FOMO it is really fine and I don’t mind getting bored of it at all.

Because of AI bots ignoring robots.txt (especially when you don’t explicitly mention their user-agent and rather use a * wildcard) more and more people are implementing exactly that and I wouldn’t be surprised if that is what triggered the need to implement robots.txt support for FediDB.

The typical ratio is 1:9:90, meaning only 10% are actively posting or commenting. The Lemmy numbers fit to that surprisingly well, although you would think a few more lurkers would at least vote sometimes (which Lemmy reports as active in the monthly stats). My guess is that the lurkers don’t even bother to sign in.

There is no such thing as a blind relay. There will always be meta-data accumulation at such points in the network.

It is possible to try to minimize the meta-data accumulation and obfuscate it further and there are certainly some interesting theorectical concepts for that in systems like SimpleX, Nostr etc. but in the end most of these are just giving a false sense of security.

In addition many of these systems engage in what I call “trust-washing”, i.e. them proudly proclaming: “there is no need to trust us, bro!” When in reality there are multiple points of failure in their pretend to be trustless system that they just chose to ignore or try to distract you from.

And when it comes to the real-world, tried and battle tested system like Tor are where I would put my safety, not some brand new crypto-bro dondogle that is funded by venture capital investors (like SimpleX).

Ugh, the comments here…

I think these are some good ideas, but e2ee in a browser that depends on server supplied javascript will never be really safe.

I think you would be better off making a nice XMPP integration so that people can use existing native apps with good e2ee for their private messages.

Otherwise the ideas are sensible and worth a shot, looking forward to what you come up with in Piefed 😊

I think this is a fallacy, and anyone that is old enough to remember the popular days of Bittorrent will have stories to tell.

Yes, in theory p2p models can be more secure if you really know what you are doing.

But in reality the users’ end devices are often the weakest link and most people have bad opsec. A server operator has often a much better idea what they are doing and systems like Tor or xmpp that allow servers to protect their users by not sharing all the metadata with every participant are safer for the majority of users.

That’s a self-fulfilling prophesy that the people that want to turn such projects into profit seeking entities like to tell themselves.

There are many long running projects that directly contradict it though. Not everything needs full time employees.

Yeah, just a modern forum. NodeBB or Discourse, maybe Flarum. The first two even have some experimental federation support and for Flarum it is planned at least.

It never is “all” though. It is all communities subscribed by any member of your instance right now. On smaller instances it is noticably different from larger ones.

This is already implemented and coming with Lemmy 0.20.0 afaik. Not precisely with this goal in mind, but more general to give instance admins more customizability over vote federation.

I kinda agree that it might be interesting to lean into the idea to have the all feed further curated by what instance members are interested in. It already is to some extend, but the bigger the instance the more it gets dilluted out right now.

I am not aware of one with direct AP integration, but I think Opengist has an RSS feed that you could use with a bot to automate posts on a Mastodon etc. account fairly easily.

GoToSocial allows you to have a customized profile page and use custom emojis and such.