Questionable Content is a worlds better artist, this “artist” routinely recycles old art into new slop targeted at r/all

One thing I really like about the author’s fedi coverage, he doesn’t kowtow to rank stupidity and avoid mentioning alternatives because of hivemind disapproval.

From a publisher (user) perspective, Nostr’s censorship resistance by design blows the doors off of what ActivityPub can claim in that regard. And I say that as someone who’s been pretty much all-in on ActivityPub fedi since its inception (almost a decade, wow)

Ah okay, this is what I was thinking of.

Sounds like Peertube admins can also proactively choose to mirror videos from other instances too?

Very nice. Would be cool to get some kind of massive user influx and see how well it does under load.

Thanks for doing this.

How does the p2p work? I thought there was a bittorrent-like aspect to it but what you’re describing sounds different.

As far as I know the p2p only potentially applies when >1 global users are watching a video simultaneously.

edit: am I wrong? I thought they had bittorrent-like swarming.

one important aspect: it defrays the cost of hosting popular videos somewhat via a bittorrent-like mechanism. but as I understand it, they have to be popular enough that >1 person on the planet is watching them simultaneously for this to make a difference.

please tell me I can actually upload videos and, like, do anything at all with my channel now

edit: god dammit 🤦🏻

Thanks for calling out that it’s not The Mastodon Network™, no matter how much Gargron wishes ot were so.

Every massive influx from Twitter has brought a deluge of people I want nothing to do with in any way shape or form, and a small sprinkling of cool ones. Fortunately like 4/5ths of the crappy ones leave again, but that other 1/5th is a big number when you’re talking an influx of hundreds of thousands.

Love me some Bouguereau style

the problem lies within the underlying protocol.

The problem lies with Gargron doing what Gargron does, implementing whatever the f he wants for “the Mastodon network” and not giving a crap how it affects the health of the overall fediverse.

Hell, this isn’t even the first time there’s been drama over Mastodon’s advisory post scopes, not by a long shot. I kinda wish I’d saved receipts from the last couple times, some highly experienced devs have chimed in in the past.

Mastodon implemented a new feature in a way that would break (in a really jarring privacy-violating-to-some-extent way) until everyone else copied their implementation exactly.

You ever notice how Gargron refers to the fediverse as “the Mastodon network?”

He’s been doing things this way since 2017 at least. At this point, any longtime observer really has no other choice but to consider the behavior deliberate.

Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.

And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn’t feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work.

Anyone who’s ever touched the Mastodon dev process knows that Gargron is much the same, FWIW, minus getting angry in public. These days I just have to shake my head at all the bright-eyed bushy-tailed noobs updating issues on the Mastodon repo, because those of us who’ve been around since the start know exactly how far that’s gonna go in nearly all cases - and in the cases it does go anywhere, it’ll be because Gargron implemented something similar with zero discussion and no credit where credit is due.

But yeah, follow Dansup long enough and you are guaranteed to see some regrettable behavior on main.

And the main reason Bluesky can have that is because it’s not actually decentralized.

The furry engineer who writes cryptography posts is working on this. Turns out it is not so simple in practice.

https://soatok.blog/category/technology/open-source/fediverse-e2ee-project/

If any dev should be getting roasted, it’s Gargron, for his many bad decisions over the years.

This is in part because he’s in public trainwreck mode fairly often.

I’ve run a couple single-user Pleroma and Akkoma instances for 1 to 3 years each, one of them with a lot of follows in both directions and plenty of multimedia, and it worked fine on hardware 6 generations old on a crappy Comcast plan proxied thru a $4/mo VPS.

Other platform software (Mastodon especially) consumes vastly more compute resources than the Pleroma family. I haven’t tried self-hosting Lemmy yet. YMMV.

Mastodon is also an ultra-heavyweight in terms of compute resources it consumes per daily active user served. This is one reason (among multiple) that I would never run Mastodon as an ActivityPub microblogging instance.