I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances
Communick offers access to Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix for $29/year
I’d legitimately pay for that.
How much? “Regular auditing of the infrastructure” seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.
What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees.
They can. There are plenty of companies offering Mastodon hosting.
The code is AGPL. They can’t do open core.
But then why do you worry about the ap_id patterns from other software?
So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.
Isn’t that the whole point of webfinger? Moreover, why would you paint yourself into a corner and hardcode the logic for all the different types of services, if ActivityPub uses JSON-LD and therefore provides a straightforward method for document dereferencing?
I’m not trying to be snarky. It’s just that I’m writing ActivityPub server where the id of each object is just an ULID, because to the server there is zero difference between serving the information about an actor or an activity.
Safer in the sense of “less likely to go down or disappear”.
If you are willing to have professional support and also support the underlying projects: Communick offers accounts only for paying-members. $29/year gives you an account on Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix, and we pledge to give 20% of the profits to the fediverse projects that we offer.
instance size is not necessarily a strong signal that the instance is safer.
XMPP is for private messages, not public discussion.
XMPP is just the transport. You can build a public social network on top of XMPP just fine.
WebSub solved the efficiency issue, no?
Yes, but almost no developer is looking at ActivityPub as a protocol to “add a social layer to their websites and applications”. Instead, we are stuck in this “let’s replicate the centralized social networks! With blackjack! And hookers! And ActivityPub!” way of thinking.
There’s a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other.
Yes, the reason is that corporations can not profit from an unsiloed web of data, so they all created their own walled gardens and successfully fooled users into believing that the UI needs to be tightly coupled with the data they host.
having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.
What would be stopping us from having these tabs using the same data from the social graph?
You might be interested in my proposal for a Social Web Browser. I am working on the idea, but the main challenge is that I see a bit of a generation conflict: greybeards who grew up the www prefer general “browsers” which can navigate an abstract graph, while the younger people want to rely on platforms and they prefer use-specific “apps”. You can see this issue right here in this thread: all the people telling you “just use mbin” or arguing in terms of capabilities from server-side software are completely missing the point.
Not being developed anymore, never gained enough traction and afaik its lead developer is working now at bluesky.
Communick is a commercial provider for messaging (Matrix) and ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, PixelFed, GoToSocial, PixelFed) services. To get an account at any of its instances, you need to be a paying customer.
FYI: communick pledges to take 20% of the profits from its hosting services and give to the open source developers of the underlying projects. So, the more people signing up to the $29/year package, the more we can support the developers from Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix.
https://fediverser.io/ is the project. https://alien.top/ and https://fediverser.network/ are the instances running it, but only alien.top is doing (some) mirroring.
This might seem like a clever way to say “sour grapes” to me. Saying that “little content is good because it avoids endless scrolling” is as weird as saying “living in the desert is good because it helps me control my diet”.
To address the point: activity seems very much slowed down, and we have two years since the Reddit “exodus” and very little progress to show. We are yet to convert any significant significant community, most people just accepted the status quo and you can bet that the few active people around here still rely on Reddit to find content and repost here.
Aside from this meta-discussion about Lemmy and the Fediverse, there is basically no native group or community emerging.
You didn’t respond the second part: how much are you willing to pay for this? Anything less than $100k/year and I will guarantee you there is no serious provider who will care about being certified for it, and any who is willing to pay that much money surely will be better off by running their instance on their own.