I’m in, anything with less Tankies and less channers is good.

What’s the best instance to use, I assume I can keep my current user and just view posts via piefed.social

None, if it’s not in a Debian repo I don’t deploy it on my stable server.

It’s not really about docker itself, I just don’t think software has married enough if it’s not packaged properly

I used Debian

I’m no fan of Tankies or the CCP, but I’m really not seeing any more pro-china propaganda than you see elsewhere, mostly excitement as a result of their green tech stuff or HSR (while ignoring why China has a need for HSR)

I am seeing a surprising amount of anti-china paranoia from the UK press right now that frankly seems like it’s engineered by the US given its timing. Like articles about diplomats using burner phones as if that isn’t standard (for all countries).

Outbound firewall and SMAC protections.

If you compromise my server you’ll struggle to phone home without manual intervention, which is good enough to stop botnets.

What do you mean by fediverse data?

What problem are you trying to solve that isn’t solved by BitTorrent and IPFS?

The nice thing about the fediverse is that it’s largely a concept with a few common protocols to make interoperability easier, you can solve pretty much any problem in line with the fediverse, but you do actually need a problem to solve.

I think the issue is putting barriers to legit users even if it prevents some spam will keep us small.

What is the point of “staggered new account permissions”?

At most we should be Autofolding/hiding unpopular comments.

I think there are a few reasons that mean the network effect of music services (YT music, Spotify, etc) are hard to beat:

• Available of commerical music - a service could obviously enable Piracy but this does make things more complicated
• Exposure for smaller bands - there’s a reason that even C3 content tends to be posted to the fediverse using its YouTube upload instead of the native upload
• Larger training data for recommendations - YT/Spotify can compare your entire listening history to every other user they have and use this to generate playlists of songs you might like, this is computationally expensive, relatively complex algorithmically (especially because it can’t be as simple as I doscribed at scale) & benefits from a large userbase.

This is something I’d like to work on when the world isn’t as on fire, I’m less focused on the backend at the moment and think:

• improvement could first be made to frontend apps like spottube (effective a Spotify privacy app), while piracy is easier (you can’t takedown software for enabling piracy as easily as you can services)
• Scrobbing/Playlist integration across multiple services to get more data even from people still locked in to Spotify
• Playlist generation with open algorithms - honestly this is something the fediverse is pretty weak on, I think Lemmy is really the only app I’ve seen grapple with this and it’s still very much functionally closed (while the code is open users can’t tweak their feeds)

None of this really helps artists though, but by breaking the cartel of music services, playlist generation could more easily include sources that do pay artists.

Everyone complaining about matrix are just complaining about front end issues, they are absolutely fixable.

That’s not ironic, people didn’t confuse Reddit for Digg, it wasn’t a even Digg clone nor did it pretend to be one.

I don’t think you can get sued for using a trademark as long as your use doesn’t confuse people into thinking you are the original.