Not everything has to be about earning money.

Early youtube was beautiful precisely because it was normal people making videos as a hobby, not trying to earn money.

@ProtonPrivacy@lemmy.world is quite likely the official org

yes but only on android. I forgot the name but just ask over on !AskMbin@thebrainbin.org

I’ve had trouble with it using a vpn and privacy browsers. It often blocks me until I use a default browser.

What you’re looking for is mbin.

Mbin supports both lemmy and mastodon.

Make an account on https://fedia.io/ or something

I’m not against this being an optional feature.

But since I’m a bit strict privacy wise I wouldn’t use it myself.

Oh wow this is cool!

I have one last question. How do you see other servers from one nodebb forum. I can’t find lemmy for example when scrolling through a nodebb instance.

Interesting. So like federated foss xenforo?

What. I see so much !uk_politics@feddit.uk !casualuk@feddit.uk !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk etc.

And I wouldn’t call them fragmented, all on the same instance.

What’s nodebb? I thought it was like a deadish lemmy clone but it seems to be the second most popular software here?

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Yeah. Me choosing to use a vpn and a privacy respecting browser has earnt me a constant captcha

Probably server struggling. Ie. It’s not got enough computational power to keep up. (Could also be network level bottleneck but that would be more visible if you access the websiye as well)

Annoying request. Your list would be twice as good if you bolded the language names to make it easier to navigate.

Don’t forget https://quiblr.com/

which I think is the only one that has a true algorithm.

What, centralisation has the opposite effect. It makes things worse. Imagine lemmy.world shutting down (the biggest instance), lemmy would be fucked.

Decentralisation is to be encouraged. So if an instance shuts down, it’s not the end of the world.

Like how basically all lemm.ee communities were migrated.

That’s pretty smart of the admins, actually. Thankful they thought of that.

I think a lot of open social media accept the RSS format.

Like for example if you add a “.rss” to the end of a bluesky profile url you get the rss feed for it.

So this actually seems quite doable!

I would say its something you dont need top efficiency. Don’t do it in Rust. It’s fine to use python or something.

But this is assuming private messages no?

When 99% of the public traffic is on posts that will federate to most servers, this model becomes irrelevant.

For Activitypub, a weakness is that the server has to host all the visible content to the server. So for example if lemmy got really big, and you wanted to host a tiny server but are subscribed to most lemmy comms, your server ends up hosting and fetching a copy of everything posted in these communities, which can add up to A LOT, in terms of network usage, and computational power. (For example see the debacle where an Australian sever (I think aussie.zone) struggled with this and was weeks behind fetching content from lemmy.world since so much content comes from that instance).

This probably would scale pretty terribly if it got anywhere near the size of reddit.

ATProto gives a scalable solution to this (but comes with tradeoffs). Where you can create your own “instance” PDS (Personal Data Server), without hosting all the posts federated to you, since this is hosted by a “relay” which does most of the heavy lifting computationally. So it ends up with a solution that looks more centralised (since there is less incentive to host relays, so fewer relays), but also much more friendly to people who wanna host their own “PDS” and therefore control their data. This is also very helpful with scalability and solves some of the weird federation quirks activitypub has (ie. you can’t see a lemmy community or mastodon account until someone on your instance subscribes or follows it).