Who’s allowing big tech to use ai exactly ? Do you think anyone on the fediverse has any power over this ?

If you’re not going to have many editors, don’t hesitate to look at https://feather.wiki/ . It’s a single-file wiki with everything embedded, so to modify it you actually do your changes then get the new index.html that you can push back to the hosting place. No server-side process, no scaling issues, SEO-friendly, portable, backupable, etc…

This means your pages would retain the classic wiki change log, so that it can all be generated from a Git repo that’s small enough to keep on a floppy disk.

That already exists: https://ikiwiki.info/ . It is by default a bit more raw than dokuwiki but does the same thing in the end.

fossil is made by actual engineers, maybe we should follow that path

That doesn’t mean the place sucks, that only means I choose which topics/communities I spend time with. I’m not going to blame people for being angry at the system, for making their own education. I’m not expected to be part of these conversations, so I don’t go there. Some days I don’t even open the app andit’s fine

It’s pretty ok, yes. There’s no shortage of platforms, and this one pushes for community control, so its political leaning isn’t surprising, and since I like community control, I fit. You should try to find your community that aligns with you, but with software and communities that favor common working there’s little chance it will not be left leaning

why don’t you bring all your rightwing friends and make it the place you want it to be, this place sucks for you because it works with people actually doing things. You want work done for you, go back to reddit

When capitalism can’t find a new way to grow and is challenged by dominees, it funds fascism as an investment towards to guarantee their dominance

xmpp can do it all, at this point we should just use it evrywhere

Web 2.0 […] proper social applications like Flickr, Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, del.icio.us, MySpace, and Foursquare.

Not a single open source service, community-governed site, …

Someone said it already: web 2.0 is only the web with capitalist entities colonizing the space. Web 2.0 going to shit is absolutely unsurprising. It is impossible for capitalist entities to not try to exploit and make it bad. They took control of web 2.0 by being middlemen, interfaces between providers and consumers, through APIs. An API is nothing spectacular: it’s just one way to interface with a system, with the particularity that the system chooses what can be done, how it to be done, who can do it, etc… perfect for control. What is bluesky doing ? An app, connected to the big firehose that takes lots of resources to run and will only take more as more people will join. Bluesky is everyone doing their stuff on their own but to make it work you have to go through Bluesky’s relay to make sure you don’t miss something. Yes, alternative relays exist, just like alternative online retailers exist; that doesn’t make Amazon disappear. The power of the Default is strong.

Bluesky is putting all the cost (storage, app dev, even moderation) on the outside and keeps an eye on the flow, because that’s where data, hence money, is.

The only way to the old web, the web 1.0 or however it’s called is without capitalists in it, there’s no way around it. What shoul matter is how to make AT sustainable without bluesky (and any capitalist alternative), and should be the primary goal

I have a vps I use for other stuff, and put syncthing on it. My files are replicated between it, my computer and my phone. On the vps I activated the setting to store old versions

For photos I use hetzner’s storage share, a nextcloud offering. Photos are browsable with nextcloud’s “memories” app, really useful.

I don’t really believe in “backups”, ie a full copy of the content in another format that is unusable unless you run it through a special restoring process. If the files are being copied, why not make it useful ? Syncthing makes it so all environments are equally usable, and the versioning prevents mistakes. There is no restore phase: the files are already usable.

I really think we need to move our thinking away from the one-machine-with-copies mindset, and architecture our usages around multiple-machines-by-default. If the goal of backups is resiliency, a syncthing clusters achieves that.

Name them please, I’m desperate for ideas here.

One thing that still makes me hesitate with discourse when suggesting a forum is that discourse has this thing whera post can be turned into a wiki. Everyone can edit it, add/update informations. It’s much better than a wiki “hidden” in another part of the community, here it’s part of the flow of posts, you can comment, etc…

Fedilab is clean but their latest project, holos, is ai-ridden. As nice as fedihood sounds the history does make me hesitant to follow it

garage is a software project made for communal home hosting. Tech literates will talk about its S3 API but that’s the least interesting part: the most interesting is that it has been purposely built to be hosted on (actual) commodity hardware like second-hand nucs, running on flaky home power and internet and linked together through usual isps. Nodes may come up and down but the cluster withstands all of that.

Garage would be a pretty nice project to run a solar-powered mini-cluster. If sufficiently far from each other, you could even run without polluting batteries !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

Go for deltachat or arcanechat, both are compatible. Actually floss, decentralized, secure, self-hostable (but you don’t need to), doesn’t need phone numbers or id or whatevs

Follow all the steps in https://runyourown.social/ , whether you run your own instance or not. The fediverse is fundamentally a reimagination of our social links, so it’s the occasion to do things differently. Get your friends together in a room and create accounts for each other, browse together, show each other what you discover. Create a private community just for your group to exchange stuff in there that on. This is a social “job” and it needs people keeping it alive, that is you in the beginning before the whole fediverse can do it

Yes ! Instead of going in with no clue expecting everyone but a small minority to be nice, this is the part where we grow up, we know that many (most, in some cases) of the interactions will be bad, so 1) we’re not naive and 2) we share information about that.

Activitypub is the technical federation, this is the social federation

There are levels to this. For sure, if we could automatically block instances with open signups and no manual verification, the worst of the worst would be eliminated and we could start with that. In fact I believe the author has a project of creating a larger-scale network of instances more or less like that, called Pangea.

The nice thing is that however strict you want to be, there’s a chance the same tools will be needed anyway, up to you to configure, and this is what Pelago does. No matter what you do with it, it becomes more useful to everyone and I like that. Doing what you’re proposing helps those with stricter rules and vice versa !

I see your point and I think I agree. Maybe I’m willing to let it pass because I happen to agree with the decision (and would also agree with the hypothetical ban of Rails). Ultimately, it comes down to what you said: whatever you use, you should see how to become a full member

I still don’t see the problem with Codeberg’s decision. Of course they will kick projects that they don’t want, just like github will kick projects they don’t want. The issue isn’t what is and isn’t allowed, it’s who allows it, as it always has been.

Of course selfhosting is one way to control it, but in Codeberg there is a process to be part of that governance, which the author didn’t partake in. At which point there is nothing more to discuss, get in the governance first and then you can write a blog post about how the governance is bad, isn’t aligned with you or whatever.

It’s 2026. Who still expects things to be perfect with a third-party without participating ? Be part of the governance, selfhosted or not, always