That’s afaik part of the upcoming 1.0 release only.

I think it was by just adding [something] to the title, but I guess with Piefed (and afaik soon also Lemmy) having proper support for that, it will change soon.

Too real for me 😥

Perfectly fine, I was there not too long ago. Belgium has an alarmingly high suicide rate though. That is probably something that needs to be looked at and is a way more pressing topic than a largely imagined increase in downtown crime rate.

Why less appealing? There is no increase in crime or anything else that makes that less appealing (other than that a lot of small shops closed during the pandemic or are being priced out by real-estate speculators), you really need to stop believing the lies these social media influencers feed you.

You are being fed BS. There are no crime statistics that show this once you actually look at the data in an unbiased way, but there are a lot of people which present the data in ways that are easy to misunderstand (on purpose).

Let’s hope there will be a VR version.

Edit: Seems like it is planned:

Will G-REBELS Support VR?

If you look at the final screen of the G-Rebels trailer, you’ll spot the logo of our partner studio “Nord XR”. They’re specialized in all things VR since 2017.

We’re evaluating how to realize VR support best. G-Rebels was designed from day one with VR in mind, but it’s too early to officially confirm anything just yet.

It is very likely counting family members still living with their parents as owning their home.

This is also partially why the number in Germany is low, as young people are much more likely to move out and live in a rental apartment or similar.

It probably has less to do with Qatar and more with US arms producers wanting to sell fighter jets and drones to Qatar.

1 . As you could have guessed from the community this was posted in, a software that is part of the fediverse. It has various modules for different functionality. 2. Because they made a long blogpost that explains the new features that you hopefully read before commenting?

MAU is a very incomplete measure of active users as by far the most users lurk and post very little.

In total numbers Mastodon has about 10m users and only 30% of those are on mastodon.social, the rest is distributed on the 9k other instances. That’s pretty close to the scenario you stated.

So lets say there are 100 instances. My instance needs to issue api requests to each instance to sync with the network. They in turn need to issues 100 requests to me to sync (and eachother). What about when there are 100k instances? Its exponential.

This falsely assumes that everything gets federated to everyone, which isn’t the case for ActivityPub. You only get what you actually subscribe to with it.

Mastodon already has those numbers you mention and there are no performance issues in the overall network.

Modern webservers don’t have a problem serving thousands of requests as long as they are spaced out a bit timewise. And since each AP instance only sees and interacts with a small part of the overall network it should not become an issue to expand the network horizontally. It is anyways probably better to think of interconected archipelagos and not of a singular network in the case of ActivityPub.

ActivityPub is designed to scale well for millions of users with a low number of subscribers each (Dunbars number and so on). It is not designed as a mass media publishing tool where a few have tens of thousands or even millions of followers.

I consider this a feature, but feel free to disagree.

This depends on what you think the purpose of ActivityPub is and subsequently the type of scale. ActivityPub is designed for horizontal scale in a “social network”. If you have lots of participating entities with a more or less similar number of interconnected subscriptions ActivityPub scales extremely well, unlike ATProto, which needs to more or less ingest the entire network in its firehose.

But you are right that ATProto is better designed for “social media”, meaning that most subscriptions are one sided affairs with highly visible “influencers” being the main point around which the network operates. Obviously this is what most commercial networks are more interested in as it allows profitable advertisement and other forms of social influence.

I see these two types as entirely different forms of social interaction, and couldn’t care less about the latter. So I am not worried at all about scaling issues of ActivityPub, as it scales extremely well in the “social network” type of interaction.

Hmm, afaik other than some generated small thumbnails no remotely sourced images are stored on your server when you turn off the proxy. At least in theory, but the entire Pictrs integration in Lemmy is such a mess with random unexpected behavior that at this point I am hesitant to claim that no remote images ever get stored (there seem to be alternative code paths for specific image hosts like Imgur and crap like that).

The main issue with hosting your own fediverse instance is that federation doesn’t happen by itself and you need to quite actively search for accounts to subscribe to so that the servers start talking to each other.

I am not sure OP is asking about hosting a Lemmy instance though. They mention non-Lemmy fediverse software.

However I think you misunderstood how proxying works:

Note that this has been drastically reduced with the image proxying, where if someone on say, .world posts CSAM it’s proxied through my server but not hosted by my server. So, liability is still a thing, but as long as the admins of .world take action then i’m protected with them. If proxying is disabled then the CSAM would live on my server too - and that means I’m legally required to report it.

It is actually pretty much the oposite of what you describe. The image proxy in Lemmy is a user privacy feature, but it comes with the downside that the server does indeed download and temporarily stores all media that are requested through it.

You could try that, yes.