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  • GitHub - minio/minio: "This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 25, 2026. It is now read-only."

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  • No, it's made for entities managing data for thousands/millions of people. “overengineering" implies a specific scope, it's not the one you think about

  • Can federating be modified so it's not dependent domain names?

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  • atproto has no problem scaling. It's Bluesky, a platform that wants to see all the network, that has issues scaling

  • GitHub - minio/minio: "This repository was archived by the owner on Apr 25, 2026. It is now read-only."

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  • S3 is not made for you. It's made for entities that need to store millions of objects, with thousands of different rules, reading/writing from hundreds of machines without coordination, and with consistent, low latency. Now that some software use that as a storage layer, having an implementation for you is useful

  • Engineered wood provides solar power even after the sun goes down

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  • Considering how much of energy is used for heating, this might still be interesting. But probably not for electricity generation

  • My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server

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  • if a craptp is useful it's not crap anymore heh

  • What’s the Facebook clone in the fediverse?

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  • Note that the people who made friendica also made hubzilla and (streams), and the latter is more or less the successor: ActivityPub only instead of other, project-specific protocols, continued development, ...

  • With Reddit flirting with requiring Age verification, the next Rexit might be around the corner, are we ready?

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  • Not a chance unfortunately, bluesky doesn't work without an all-seeing-eye that brings people the content they want. At best there will be some satellites running on atproto, fully decentralized, but the core will still be bluesky and it will still be completely centralized

  • Question about adding a platform to the Fediverse (ActivityPub help)

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  • I can only comment on tooling: fedify is very good, easy to get in and powerful enough for any usecase

    https://fedify.dev/

  • Local AI Companion for Radarr: Uses Ollama to Understand Your Taste (Vibe, Atmosphere, Mood), Auto-Complete Sagas, Explore Filmographies, and Add Movies Seamlessly

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  • ai;dr

  • Gryt-Chat: Like Discord but Self Hosted

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  • ai;dr

  • What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens?

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  • You can use deltachat with a totp app: it's simple, it's synchronized, there's no need to selfhost anything, ...

    https://codeberg.org/rtn/totp

    You can get it directly from deltachat

  • My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution

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  • I really like FeatherWiki as a lighter alternative to TiddlyWiki, it has fewer features but all the important ones are there.

    I also need to mention thât the fossil scm has an integrated wiki, stores everything in a sqlite database (it's made by the same people) and is also very lightweight

  • How could online identity work without permanent usernames or unrecoverable accounts?

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  • That's a very important question we need to address !

    It makes sense for platforms to block reuse of identifiers: they identify something, if the thing changes it should get a new identity.

    Identities are fundamentally that: how to recognize that something is not something else. Note that it really is something: the same person can have multiple identities, and an identity can be shared by multiple persons.

    The main issue is that we have been immersed inside a State-based system for so long we forget it exists. The first thing that comes to mind when we talk about identities is our state-delivered identity: name, surname, address, driving license number, etc... there's a central all-powerful authority deciding what identity is given to whom, and they are unique and active as long as the State decides. In practice this has made identities a public-facing concern because the State is in charge of everything.

    Centralized platforms, of course, reproduce the model. Both the State and capitalist platforms (or capitalist anything) act under the paradigm of total domination, there's no surprise here: the platform owns your identity, your data, your you. When we reproduce the same thinking in open/decentralized platforms we inherit the mentality although everything points to not actually wanting it: we don't want a platform to have control over our identity/identities unless we have control over the platform, yet in practice we do. We link an identity with a name, so of course names must be unique

    We need to go back to the roots: what is an identity ? A way to differentiate two things to someone. Who can guarantee the identities we have ? Our connections. "Mom" is an identity in my contacts app; this identity is obvously not the same identity as "Mom" in your contacts app, although the name is the same. That's because this identity is not the same to me that it is to you. The entity "using" the identity is fundamental. That's something we forget when using centralized platforms: the entity "using" my identity isn't my contacts, it's the platform. To the platform, everyone must be unique, so must have a different name in their "contacts app". That is not a model that cares about us but about itself.

    What model cares about us ? A model that puts the focus back not on the individuals being represented, but on the relationship. An identity can never be defined by biometrics or hardware keys or whatever technic that technosolutionnist rave about. Technosolutionnists by definition do not care about sociology, so they shouldn't be listened to for sociology issues. An identity will always be defined by who recognizes you as such.

    What does it mean in practice ? Basically, we need to build communities of people taking care of each other. My access to the group chat shouldn't be defined by a technical solution to access the app; if I lose access to the technical solution, the community still knows my identity as the same, so it must be able to re-integrate me without a hurdle, whatever the technical means.

    What this means is that identities shouldn't be public-facing. They should be something inside a community only, defined by it with the means it decides.

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • It costs $34 a month for an experiment. It doesn't cost anywhere near that for a node that is running, used by thousands/millions of people, ingesting millions of pdses. Don't be misled by a nice experiment. You need servers, backups, people to run that. See what real world deployment looks like: a little bit under 100k a year for the only independent full stack.

    There's no need to self host as there's already public third party instances you can switch to.

    Yes it's possible. It's just not the default. That's the issue

    it's not something the fediverse is immune to either.

    true, although no one said the contrary

    This is just incorrect. RSS is probably one of the least centralised protocols right now, it's not even federated, which makes me question why the author even included it as an example

    The argument isn't whether something exists, it's what people use: rss is amazing but it's far from being mainstream. The default path to following isn't rss, which is the point (and the problem).

    It's not an argument against federation. It's an argument to look beyond the niceness of a tech.

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • No, the main argument is that the main relay is, and for the foreseeable future will be operated by bluesky. This means that bluesky can decide what is and isn't visible, but that's not my biggest issue: to me the bigger problem is that bluesky sees everything that everyone says or thinks about anything.

    Yes, it is possible to change. As TFA says:

    But every counter-argument to the concerns above rests on the same foundation: technically, users can leave. Technically, you can self-host. Technically, you can run your own relay. The capability exists at every layer. But people don't do these things. They never have with any protocol. Not email, not RSS, not XMPP. The default wins. Always.

    It doesn't matter that a few can be free: the vast majority goes where the lowest friction is because they have their life to live, and the lowest friction leads to the centralized bluesky

  • Be Wary of Bluesky

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  • I'm sorry, but it's like you haven't read the post:

    But every counter-argument to the concerns above rests on the same foundation: technically, users can leave. Technically, you can self-host. Technically, you can run your own relay. The capability exists at every layer. But people don't do these things. They never have with any protocol. Not email, not RSS, not XMPP. The default wins. Always.

    It is always technically possible to do differently. It's computers after all: anything can be coded. And most people won't because they have their life to live. What matters is the default, and all the incentives point to the default being shittier as time goes on.

    The most crucial point is the relay. Yes, appviews can work without, but then you miss everything that is happening which is probably the number one reason people go to bluesky rather than the fedi. Relays are a fundamental part of what makes bluesky attractive and they require large capital to run and maintain, so it all points to bluesky still running the main one that most will connect to

  • Lemmy/Piefed instance as Blog forum?

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  • That's a good idea but you don't need a full instance, only a community in which you are the sole admin. Start with that, do backups, and evolve from that if you feel too cramped

  • Dbzer0 votes to defederate from feddit.org

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  • The one where the bourgeoisie doesn't rule anymore

  • Dbzer0 votes to defederate from feddit.org

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  • That's the thing: tankies kill anarchists after the revolution has started. Liberals (more precisely reformists, social-democrats, middle-ground centrists) prevent the revolution from even happening.

    At least with tankies there is a chance at true freedom. Which should be a thing to consider for social-democrats

  • New Communities @lemmy.world
    rako @tarte.nuage-libre.fr

    C'est de la mIArde

    tarte.nuage-libre.fr /c/cest_de_la_miarde
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    rako @tarte.nuage-libre.fr

    Do we need more users ?