Wow, that’s bad. I would hate working with this so much.

of numbers instead of human-readable names

TBF, they have introduced a ‘verified’ system that lets you use human readable names.

Yeah, people are tribal and decentralisation lets people express that in ways centralised platforms don’t. Something, something, tech won’t save us.

Clicking though to community to post and selecting a community from the create post page are same problem rearranged. A user who subbed to ~technology@piefed.social isn’t going to know the difference between !technology@lemmy.world, !technology@lemmy.zip and !technology@piefed.social.

Solution 2 in the post, multicommunities. I’m not sure it actually solves the problem though, as you still have to go to the actual community to post and I imagine multicomms add an extra layer of confusion to that.

You dropped this, queen. 👑

Can’t wait for the follow up post decrying PeerTube for only allowing videos, or Bookwrym for only allowing book reviews. Just because it’s ActivityPub doesn’t mean it has to be a Twitter timeline.

Once a major actor in a decentralised network starts to mess with the protocol, there are only two possible output: either that actor lose steam or that actor becomes dominant enough to impose its own vision of the protocol. In fact, there’s a third option: the whole protocol becomes irrelevant because nobody trust it anymore.

You mean like Mastodon? Where’s the angry diatribe about Mastodon not allowing posts to have more than 4 pictures despite other platforms allowing more (Pixelfed allows up to 20 for example)?

They mention SWICG’s data portability spec, I assume they’re referring to LOLA: https://swicg.github.io/activitypub-data-portability/lola

Just lemmy.org.uk for me.

Hexbear is basically only blocks lemmy.world

Hexbear runs an allowlist, they only federate with instances they select.

The secure chat option is something called Matrix, which is a separate service that doesn’t integrate like Reddit’s chat. Lemmy just supports being able to set a Matrix account as the place to reach a user.

It not having the people to be a place for you is perfectly acceptable reason to not be interested, but dismissing near 40K people as nothing is just wrong. That’s the population of a decent sized town.

We’re the ones trying to make a product for them

I really hate this language. I’m trying to build a community, not make something to be profited off.

Obviously it’d only be a subset of HTML. No website that uses user-submitted HTML (Tumblr, AO3, Royal Road, etc) actually allows the full suite of tags.

Cool!

Image markdown style formatting to allow more advanced control of how images are rendered. e.g. 

You might as just let users write the <img> tags directly at this point, at least then you won’t add noise to third party apps’ accessibility stacks.

(I honestly wouldn’t be opposed to letting users write HTML directly, it was one of Tumblr’s best features imo)

This seems way less insane than the ‘let’s model online age verification on pubs’ laws we’ve seen in places like the UK and France.

I don’t see why it’d have to be limited to Piefed instances and we can do certain heuristics to test if an instance is good for a user’s location (Piefed’s instance chooser does this).

I’ll defer to you given I don’t do outreach while you do. Honestly an ideal would just be a simple website that chooses a random instance from a list of known good instances and takes them through the sign up process.

You can pry wget from my cold, dead hands.

Not really, a slick design can’t really get away from the fact this is presenting a new user with too much information that they don’t have the system knowledge to understand. This will still lead to choice paralysis and ultimately the user not signing up for any instance.

I’d even say that Piefed putting it on the instance level registration page is actually a really bad idea.

Instance choosers in general are an anti-pattern.