It’s “all” in the sense that it’s everything the instance knows about, in contrast to “this server” which is only content from users that are registered on this specific instance. Same concept as the “all” and “local” feeds on lemmy. I agree that a better name might reduce the confusion but I can’t think of a good one.
Servers not having the same content in their “all” feeds is not a bug, it’s by design. The design philosophy for Mastodon (and I’d say the fediverse as a whole) is to let the users curate their own feeds instead of showing them everything or algorithmically guessing what they might be interested in. Servers will only receive posts from accounts that at least one of this server’s accounts is subscribed to. Having every post federate to every server even if nobody there is interested in those posts would be a waste of resources.
Yes, that makes discovery of new content significantly harder but that’s the tradeoff for being able to host your own small instance without the need for a super powerful server. I can run my instance that serves just a couple of users on a 10-year-old server that runs a dozen other things at the same time. We see the stuff we’re interested in and don’t have to spend disk space, processing power and network bandwidth on content none of us will ever read and neither do we have to spend those resources on sending our posts to other instances where nobody will read them.
タイッツー is definitely taittsuu. Twitter doesn’t seem to use a katakana spelling. Your proposal of “tsuittaa” would be ツイッター. Same katakana but different order. There would be no reason to read Japanese from right to left. Might be an intentional pun though.
Edit: it’s https://taittsuu.com
Honestly, this whole thing is a mess… first a countdown, then a website with basically no information and that’s only the start.
More than 24 hours after signing up, I finally got an email with just about zero information:
Hi @dfyx,
We’re thrilled to welcome you to Loops.video!
We’re in the process of onboarding all our new users, and we can’t wait for you to experience the magic of short looping video.
Keep an eye out for another email from us later tonight or tomorrow (depending on when you signed up). It will have all the details you need to get started, including how to create your first Loop.
Welcome to the Loops community!
Regards, The Loops Team
And from some random comment that dansup made on pixelfed I found out that this beta is only for Android. Apparently, iOS will come later and there is no info on a browser-based version. That info should have been on the website. Also, what about selfhosting? This is the fediverse after all…
Kind of. All it shows for me is a registration form. When I submit it, they promise me to send an email with further instructions. So far, I didn’t get anything. Honestly, they wouldn’t have needed a countdown for that.
Seems to be a framework to build your own custom fediverse stuff.
As far as I know, ActivityPub only applies to server to server communication. Still, many applications that implement ActivityPub (for example Mastodon) do use push notifications for their clients.
One more difference is that RSS is polling based, meaning that subscribers have to actively ask every hour or so if thre is new content.
On the other hand, ActivityPub knows who is subscribed and can actively distribute new content to other servers who can in turn send push messages to their users, letting you know about new content within seconds.
Can confirm that it doesn’t load on iOS but loads fine on desktop.
I just made it 62.
This may be in Google Maps pretty soon: https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/google-maps-introduces-new-fog-of-war-feature/
I think you misunderstood my point. That’s on me though, I could have phrased it better. Props to @Zak@lemmy.world, their comment did a better job at explaining what I meant.
Definitely not a strict rule and I wouldn’t want to force anyone to do it the way I do (maybe I should have marked my comment as a joke) but as far as I understand, downvotes were originally meant for spam or low-quality/low-effort comments. Stuff that just doesn’t add anything to the duscussion and isn’t worth reading. Fortunately, that doesn’t happen very often on Lemmy.
Downvoting comments that you disagree with just to bury them, especially without even leaving a comment that explains why you disagree, just feels petty.
Overall, I’d rather upvote a well-written comment even if I disagree with its contents and downvote ten “yeah, same” comments that agree with me but add nothing to the discussion.
On second thought, maybe I do want an “us vs. them” with “them” being people who use downvotes as an “I disagree” button.
Disclaimer: this was meant as a joke.
Anything that doesn’t devolve into “us vs. them”, doesn’t matter who “us” and “them” is.
The fediverse was designed to let every instance or even every user decide for themselves who they want to interact with. There is no need to persuade others to use the fediverse the same way you do. A few months ago I wrote a blog post about why my personal single-user instance wouldn’t defederate from corporate-run instances as long as they play by the rules, with the clear intent to defederate if they do things that harm the way I interact with the fediverse. People got outright vile, called me names and tried to convince me that any tiny interaction with anyone they don’t like would inevitably lead to the death of the free fediverse.
Personally I would rather have federated social media based on an open protocol where every user can decide what’s the best way to interact with content than being forced into proprietary platforms just to get updates from my favorite video game studio, streamer or artist. It may well be that there are people on the fediverse who exclusively want to interact with vegan FOSS communist hippies and that’s fine. But I’m not one of those people and I don’t see why they should decide how I run my instance or get mad at me about something that doesn’t affect them at all.
Let’s all be as tolerant as we claim we are and treat people (and instances) based on their deeds and not based on how similar they are to ourselves.
Some national governments in Europe run their own instances. For example Germany runs https://social.bund.de/ and the Netherlands run https://social.overheid.nl. The EU itself has https://social.network.europa.eu/.
All of them have accounts for government organizations and elected officials.
This sounds a lot like what Stack Overflow does. And you know what people think about that community. It’s elitist and hostile towards newcomers and anyone who doesn’t know the convoluted rules for how to build their reputation.
If I want to interact with a community to ask a question or comment on something I found interesting but can’t because of rules that were made explicitly to keep newcomers from posting, I won’t stay and gain reputation. I leave.
Plus people apparently don’t know what „algorithm“ means. Sorting by average rating is an algorithm. Filtering by genre is an algorithm. Anything that takes an input (a database of books), performs a discrete set of steps and produces an output (an ordered list of books) is an algorithm. Even if it’s not performed by a computer but yourself standing in front of your bookshelf.
Then block them?
That’s the reason why I like C#, ASP.Net Core and EF Core so much. A simple CRUD app can be written in under 10 minutes and easily deployed in any form from a self-contained binary to a docker container to whatever eldritch horror lurks behind Azure or k8s. Personally, I run docker swarm mode for my stuff because it makes automated deployment super easy, kind of like a leaner k8s but if I wanted, I could just drop a binary on any windows, linux or macOS machine without needing to install any major dependency apart from my database.
Edit: of course, ASP.Net Core has its downsides too. Especially when it comes to auth stuff. I wish I could have something as simple as devise + cancancan in old versions of Rails.