I’d probably choose somewhere outside of France. Hetzner probably a better bet.

I find that people on the internet are largely incapable of level-headed discussions.

Start a discussion, debate, or ponder about whether water is wet

Do we really need more petty debates? 😅

Mostly cultural, with a strong focus from NOSTR appearing to be crypto scams.

Mastodon is part of fedi, yes.

No tangible difference.

I’m gonna call it: apathy

Articles are incentivized to elaborate beyond what is even remotely necessary, link back to no one but themselves themselves, repeatedly, and to serve ads and extract personal information for sale while they’re doing it.

So you’ll have to excuse some of us looking for the tl;dr

Talking and actually sticking with those ideals are totally different things

Right, but we weren’t talking about sticking to the ideals, we were talking about the ideals themselves.

You don’t hear them talk about free speech constantly? You don’t see conservative platforms popping up every week? Truth Social anyone?

Free platforms like the Fediverse would actually suit conservative ideals of freedom quite well.

Federation is a 2 way street! No federation means his users all get to live out their days in a big circlejerk.

Trump actually does host his own Mastodon server. It’s called “Truth”. Unfortunately it doesn’t federate 🤣

But yeah, pretty rough to see Obama and Biden still posting to Xitter.

Paging @paige@fedihost.co

Sure did, thanks: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1nif9qu/linux_phones_are_more_important_now_than_ever/

I signed it with an upvote. You’re welcome.

WAWAWEWA

I was wondering why I was receiving a bunch of late replies…

Blogs are already “social” by nature (comments)

Most Blogs require you to create an account and login to your specific blog. I ain’t doin that. But if it appears in my feed on my account that I control, I might throw in my $0.02, which will improve engagement on your blog.

In practice, ActivityPub’s distributive nature replicates content across a multitude of servers (every server where someone follows the blog), which, while not catastrophic here, is at least inefficient.

I mean, that’s kinda the point though, also. Any federated product will do the same.

Given that — and the fact that few people follow and almost nobody interacts via ActivityPub — I’ve been considering removing Manual from the fediverse for several months.

I mean, that’s fair, but also, what is it costing you to keep it? You’re greatly improving visibility of your blog.

I mention Webmention, email, and XMPP

None of those are part of RSS. Webmention does not appear to be federated. Email? How do you figure that works? XMPP is for private messages, not public discussion.

what is ActivityPub solving that the combination of these existing services do not?

The simple fact that it is not a “combination of services”, it is a single service.