your company is hiring and you want to help bring people that are like-minded

This is a mistake. When building any kind of team, you want diversity of experience, backgrounds, viewpoints etc. A mono-culture is extremely prone to group-think and is unlikely to generate ideas as quickly or elegantly as a team comprising many different types of people.

The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider “culture-fit” when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).

You should hire people based on their ability to perform the job, and nothing else.

Looks like a nice idea but jesus tap-dancing christ that name is horrible. I can’t imagine ever trying to convince any of my friends to participate.

Selection bias.

All of the people who are happy with the fediverse just stay here and participate without writing a navel-gazing “review.”

*your

It’s pretty easy to check and see that this isn’t how it works. I checked both my instance and yours and both of them host the images that have been posted to communities on other instances, so clearly images are transferred (or cached) between instances.

(Federated) email didn’t survive. It got completely subsumed by the major providers who now have control over everything email related. It’s now impossible to run your own email server since none of the major providers will deliver your email without your mail server having first built a reputation.

The fediverse analogy would be if 99.9999% of users were on Threads and you couldn’t interact with any of those users from any of the small independent fediverse servers. Frankly, that’s exactly what it looks like is happening.

Are you using the Import/Export Settings buttons in the settings page?

If you can reproducibly crash an instance then you should definitely file this as an urgent security issue in the lemmy repo so it can be fixed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

Are you one of the three proposers mentioned in the git repository?

closest current one I can find is

⛥

or

⬠

I think for now Forgejo is a drop-in replacement. However since they are a hard-fork, at some point in the future they will diverge enough to be mutually incompatible, so the clock is ticking on migrating.

No, “we” don’t.

This is not a federated bandcamp, it’s a platform for bands to do marketing across mutliple various social networks from one web portal.

NPC?

Edit: You edited your comment without replying to me which makes me look like an idiot. Thanks.

This is great! Some feedback on UI:

• The first thing I did was click ⇩ on a post and it prompted me to log-in. This is confusing because I thought I could train the recommender without having to log-in. It took me a minute to find the “Like/Dislike” buttons because they require an extra click to open the post menu. Maybe make the Like/Dislike a bit more prominent and accessible, and find a way to differentiate between the controls for training the recommender and the upvote/downvote actions on the post itself. Or even better, make them the same thing so there’s only one pair of controls and if you’re not logged-in then upvoting just boosts the recommendation but doesn’t actually send the upvote action to the post.
• Please use actual links (<a href=""></a>) for post navigation so that I can tell my browser to open a link in a new tab. Usually I middle-click to do this (in Firefox) but since the post title and content only respond to javascript events, I can’t middle click to open in a new tab. Clicking the post opens it in the same window.
• Add text content of posts, or at least a button to expand the text content. Right now text posts are just the post title and I have to click through to read the content.
• Add alt-text (tooltips) to your buttons. I know what the standard share/bookmark icons look like but it helps to have tooltips to be sure.
• Add a link to open the original post (on the origin server). Every fediverse UI has this. If you have it too, I couldn’t find it.
• Allow me to see (and drag) the scrollbar of the main content frame.
• Add a refresh button (maybe at the top of the feed) so that I can generate more recommended content without having to actually reload the page in the browser.
• When clicking a community name, I get the community page but I can’t press the back button to go back to the feed.
• If I “dislike” a post, I don’t expect to see it again after a refresh, or ever.

Also, it’s a bit late to change it now, but the name is very 2009-internet-startup.

If you’re not storing on a filesystem that calculates and checks erasure codes then you can always generate PAR2 files yourself.

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Postel’s Law is relevant here. Conservative in what you send (simplify the schema of the data on the wire) and liberal in what you receive (put the complexity for interpreting that data in the client).

i’m sick of this “the fediverse isn’t for the masses” sentiment.

The previous commenter didn’t say anything to indicate that is their opinion. They said:

many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.

Which one of

• corporate owned

• centralized

• ad-infested

• user-hostile

• privacy-invasive

is synonymous with “the fediverse is not for the masses,” in your opinion?

I enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s book, “Walkaway” which is about a group of people who decide to opt-out of the corporate-controlled mainstream society. There are aspects to the Fediverse which make me think of the kinds of technology that these people use in the book.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkaway_(Doctorow_novel)

It’s a great book, give it a read.

What was your XMPP client connecting to? Was it a well-known public endpoint (that they could be whitelisting) or was it a private server? If the latter then that indicates that they are allowing arbitrary IP connections which in theory means that you should be able to proxy any traffic you want. I doubt they are doing DPI, since TLS makes this very difficult these days when you don’t control the certificate stores on the clients.

I’d imagine they’re relying on some combination of DNS whitelisting and port blocking which should be trivial to circumvent if you know ahead of time what traffic they allow through.