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Which is not federated, otherwise I would recommend it immediately

Is that the guy with a friend?

So, schlepping it off on other instance owners, so they host it, which as you say is not easy or cheap.

It’s just markdown, to wild. I have a few kinks in mine

Why not just use an actual federated blogging service like write freely?

Long term friends we see here

Ah yet another person who thinks they’re owed free services to post whatever the hell they want whenever they want.

Us instance admins are people, average joes, hosting small servers for fun. Most of us have no interest in hosting whatever hate speech you want to spew under the guise of “free speech”. As someone else already called out, you’re more than welcome to start your own server. You just have to register it under your name, but hey you believe in free speech, so that’s not a problem I assume. You mentioned that you’re not interested in being technical, well have no fear! There are providers that do it in just a couple clicks! Super easy!

Just register your name to your instance, and say whatever the hell you like. Of course I will then probably exercise my own rights to defederate from your server.

You have the right to say whatever you like. You are not owed free server space or free hosting of said speech. We are not compelled to host your hate speech. Free speech is not an “illusion” on Lemmy (or the fediverse as a whole) - you just have to be willing to take on the risk and drawbacks yourself, there’s no big safe company who’s just going to quietly block you. Your words, Your server, Your responsibility.

Not bad, it’s growing on me. I like how obvious the express trains are

If AI would be a thing for things like translations, I would not want it to be messages or replies, I would want it to be part of the UI and labeled as AI content. Otherwise it’s noise and slop in my opinion.

Define famous. Taylor Swift would be on here. Ashton Kutcher is right for Iowa because that’s all they could talk about there

Hashtags aren’t discoverable though, server A still needs to subscribe to at least one user from server B before hash tags will start

Very very unfortunately, Pixelfed doesn’t have a way to just start exploring feeds without knowing exactly who to look at. This has been a very longstanding problem with the platform that the engineer has pretty much outright refused to do. Pixelfed-Glitch is attempting to add in better discovery options, but for now it’s a non-starter for me. I turned off my pixelfed server because of the lack of discovery.

I mean, I completely agree but last time I said that people flamed me over it. If it was still 2013 then I’d look more into it, but today it’s such a monolithic architecture

A great example is his handling of Laravel, scaling, and Docker. It’s pretty clear that he doesn’t have a huge understanding of Docker - or at least hasn’t managed docker images at scale. A huge thing there that I ran into constantly is that the Pixelfed containers both are 1) Stateful and worse than that 2) depend on each other’s volumes. These are both anti patterns specifically called out in the docker best practices. It ultimately means that the Pixelfed containers must share the same host as it’s workers. He put a lot of time and effort into building scripts that would simplify the setup for a docker compose file, but never thought horizontally - scaling these containers out on a cluster or separating workers off away from the web-api nodes at all.

I spent 3 weeks trying to de-tangle that all and got nowhere. I’ve been watching the guys over at Pixelfed Glitch ( a fork of pixelfed ), and from what I see they’re trying to do the same thing. I wish them godspeed. Until then, I can’t recommend Pixelfed as it just can’t horizontally scale. Sure you can throw a more expensive machine at the problem, but that’s not a fix.

As for the last, I don’t have any examples - and I think that’s because no one else has gone on a press junket like he has. The owners of Mastodon started a foundation a while back, I think that’s the most official news I’ve heard out of them. I think that’s what bothered me - for the vast majority of people that was their first chance to hear about the open web. Instead of saying “We have a thing called the fediverse. I’ll spare you the details but you can choose Pixelfed, Mastodon, even Wordpress or many others, and they all work together”. Instead all I heard anywhere was Pixelfed. Feel free to call BS there, maybe he did somewhere and I just missed it.

I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you’re both wrong. Here me out.

As other commenters have said, there should never be any expectation of privacy on the fediverse. DMs here and private items are not actually private, they’re quite literally blasted out to anyone who listens. I feel like I have to say that a lot. I actually like how Lemmy handles it, it warns you that it’s unencrypted and that it recommends Matrix (and you can put your matrix handle on your profile).

However. I’m also disillusioned by Dansup. He made a great project with Pixelfed. It got off the ground and has a great following. However, I’ve read through the code, I’ve tried to spin it up, hell even tried to help contribute - but it’s a spaghetti’d mess of unmaintainable code. What irks me is rather than dive in and fix the code, help those who honestly want to spin up his projects, he starts a completely separate project (off the same spaghetti’d base that barely scales), and goes on a whole PR junket talking about it. Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.

And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn’t feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work. Pixelfed is a great experience - but it’s one of many all working together, and the developers are a huge chunk, but you have the infrastructure, us admins hosting, those out there vocalizing it, those trying to start communities, it’s an ecosystem, and I just felt like he ignored the fediverse and instead pushed Pixelfed.

Thanks for your insights in gdpr. Jwts though I know can be invalidated, but it’s a few extra steps, and I’m not surprised when companies don’t go the extra mile. It’s usually such a niche case where someone logs in, has a jwt, and the server needs to invalidate it, but it happens.

Using temporary emails is great for this, especially with places that you know you don’t care about, then just break the link. Granted for very nefarious things there will probably still be a link back to you via the provider.

Hate to tell you but 95% of companies do this. It’s common practice. You’re “deleted” account? There’s a column called “DeletedDate” and it’s marked to whenever you hit delete. Their query then just says “Select Account where DeletedDate is null” and yours just doesn’t return until that date is cleared.

Is it asshole design? No. And it’s not for privacy reasons. it’s because the vast majority of people who hit delete will call the next day and yell and scream saying “But I didn’t know it would delete everything”. That’s why Meta keeps it, and Youtube, and Google, and everyone.

Not to mention legal reasons. If someone uses your platform for illegal purposes and the feds come knocking you bet your ass you need that data or your company is liable. That is different in the EU I grant you, but that’s the exception, not the common practice. Over there they can point to GDPR and say “That’s why we don’t have it”. Anywhere else you’re pretty screwed.

So. Not asshole design. The session staying open is bad security though. Everything else is just knowing your userbase and knowing that people will be pissed and need something. If you want privacy stop giving your data to companies in the first place.

Oh well that’s good!

Tbh I’ve just given up with him as an engineer. He goes and does side projects while his core base waits for updates, even while earning actual funding to improve said projects. For that much you could actually hire an engineer or two to build out Pixelfed more if you didn’t want to anymore.