Guess where all that COVID stimulus money ended up.

Yes, you’re right. I didn’t fully think through all the implications.

Federation, it’s magic.

But yeah, this means Lemmy comments would never be boosted or highlighted because it wouldn’t be federating the new data. Bit of a problem!

So every comment would have a quote? lol

If clients want the get into an adversarial relationship with the project they’re piggybacking off, they will lose.

JavaScript. Attach a click handler event to the article link, save a cookie with the post id in it.

The proposed solution assumes a linear relationship between number of votes and number of comments. But depending on the post there might not be much to say. Especially with bad content.

I have ways

Upvotes without reading do suck but comments without reading are worse. I’ve been considering adding a highlight/boost on comments where the author has clicked the link.

Also we could weight the votes so votes after reading have 2x the effect.

Avoid dependence on app stores so if an app is removed from Play Store it doesn’t matter as much.

Increase privacy - closed groups.

It needs to be possible to move an instance to another domain if an old one is blocked/revoked.

Very interesting idea, thanks.

All this rests on the implied assertion that ATProto is part of the open social web.

I don’t know the answer to that and I don’t really care to find out.

This isn’t exactly what you asked for but:

When you paste the url into the url field, PieFed does a search for you to see if the url has been posted already. If you don’t see a warning, proceed.

Yep good point. A group is just another type of actor, after all.

I like how the did field is in addition to the existing actor field, providing a way to gradually transition the protocol to the new way.

IMO nomadic identity is more important in Mastodon, etc where the fundamental connections of the network are person-to-person - the emphasis is on following other people and having them follow you and that is what determines what content you see. Also being free to leave (and go somewhere else) is a killer feature that centralized social networks cannot offer and nomadic identity really leans into that strength.

In contrast, in the threadiverse you can’t follow other people - you join communities. Also when a post is viewed the author is just another piece of meta data, the focus is really on the content. With Mastodon they make a much bigger deal about who is saying the thing, display their avatar much bigger, etc. On Mastodon they’re YOUR posts that are strongly tied to you. But here, the posts you make are kiinda more like contributions to a shared wiki (community).

So in PieFed/Lemmy if you need to drop your account on an instance and create a new account on another it’s really much less of a loss and not really disruptive at all. You can just import your settings from the old account and continue to post in all the same communities you did before. The need for a nomadic identity just isn’t as strong.

Moving communities to another instance, tho, now that would be great. It’s on my very long list.

Smells like LLM to me.

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Nomadic_identity

As far as I can tell Hubzilla seems to do it by having alts on different instances and then having a way to associate them with each other, so every instance knows that all the alts they’re the same user. It’s a bit clunky but it avoids as many fundamental changes to ActivityPub because most things under the hood are the same as without nomadic identity and the UI just treats several actors as the same user.

Wow this is amazing!

A lot of those are fixed in v1.2 (unreleased) :)