mke

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[–] mke@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just for the record, I know little about gotosocial, but I've looked into Misskey a fair bit and I think it's irrelevant here.

FediDB data on active users seems off (a low ~12k MAU), but even if the real number is much greater, most are on the flagship instance (misskey.io) which has multiple CSAM censures on fediseer.

Put another way, it's almost counterproductive to include Misskey in these topics because simply federating with its biggest instance could be a liability for most 1st world western instances.

I doubt the Swiss government would get much out of Misskey.

[–] mke@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

No, I'm trying to reduce the influence of a problematic individual. The lawsuit has, and will have, more coverage.

[–] mke@programming.dev 39 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I didn't want to rain on your parade, but:

  • Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
  • Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.

Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how "Lemmy integration in the browser" could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I'm missing something.

[–] mke@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

I'm sorry, banana, that was sarcasm. I saw nothing I'd call a quality.

[–] mke@programming.dev 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I would suggest not trusting anything Lunduke says, the man went off the deep end and became a harmful conspiracy theorist.

For example, he believes there is a trans advocacy group going around and destroying open source projects from within. That's right, only the Lunduke Journal has the truth, and the truth is that trans kids are killing open source.

[–] mke@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago

Sorta. Only as a discussion starter, if you wanted. I was unsure how to frame my thoughts without being rude, but it seems I ended up being confusing instead. I'll edit my comment to try again, please try to read it in its intended spirit.

[–] mke@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The replies are a prime example of the fediverse microblogging sphere's greatest qualities.

This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.

[–] mke@programming.dev 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, I think that's natural. A large segment of their market is still there. Throwing away years of work when the accounts cost relatively little to maintain would be wasteful. I don't see how their presence there is relevant to this discussion.

[–] mke@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

In theory, I doubt development would continue. For a federated cohost to survive long term, it would also need to be open source, with a developer community that could fork the project and carry the torch. That's a very different cohost we're envisioning, even excluding required UX changes to make it possible.

At that point, one might as well imagine a cohost that explored better ways to make money, or attracted more users, or ran a tighter ship. Both scenarios lead to this discussion never happening.

[–] mke@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

No, thanks for suggesting. I saw a thread by other curious users and checked fediseer. Might be an admin issue, but I didn't see clear evidence.

Don't think it was spam as, unless I'm misunderstanding, that seems unlikely from fosstodon.

[–] mke@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] mke@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I meant that it's not directly associated with you as the owner through your migrated account.

Edited comment (many to some).

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