Honest question: Why?
You missed the StackExchange and AI story this week ?
PieFed’s sure had some great updates this month.
Can you share more details ? (The web link goes in some endless loop here and the Mastodon post does not show anything about PieFed).
Thank you. iceshrimp looks good.
Don’t like the Web UI? We test our Mastodon-compatible API against the following clients:
- Elk, Phanpy, Enafore, Masto-FE-standalone (Web)
- Mona, Toot!, Ice Cubes, Tusker, Feditext, Mastodon (iOS)
- Tusky, Moshidon, Megalodon, Mastodon (Android)
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Yes, agreed. But read the other post and this comment : https://lemmy.ml/comment/10590333 I fear that big tech giant products usage is too strong and only increasing. More and more Google and Microsoft data centers and offices are build in Europe lately. More jobs, less nature, more pollution, less digital sovereignty, more dependency on big tech :(
So I think we will be setting up a fediverse instance for this (Still trying to decide between Pixelfed, Mastodon and Firefish), but,
An alternative for Mastodon or Firefish is GoToSocial Till the end of the year they have two developers working on it full-time.
before that, we need to solve a simpler issue: a Calendar of Events.
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I’d be careful with Nextcloud. It can look very nice from the outside but beware of the hype. If you go read forums posts you will likely see several complaints about how slow it is for some and how buggy some parts of Nextcloud are (Take for example the “suspicious login” app).
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Mobilizon looks nice though I’ve unfortunately not have had the chance to self-host and try it myself.
Yes. I think (seen in other news) it is a shame to repeatedly see governments, companies and others say things like “We have no choice than to move to the cloud, because their offer and services are irreplaceable” where the cloud is GAFAM. Meanwhile new data centers for Microsoft and Google are build in Europe, which maybe offers new jobs to some, but increases dependency on GAFAM. I found this article a sad story. A voice “successful” pilot but probably “never again” cause “money”. But I guess the lobbying is strong in that area too, besides the easy of use of “just using YouTube”. Last week I read an interview with a farmer mentioning that he and other farmers talked to high ranked EU politicians which encouraged them to keep protesting for a more sustainable agriculture but “they could not do anything for them”. The farmer concluded that the lobbying by companies is very strong :(
The EU is still on Mastodon. https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112280054595900671 with 18 active users currently. I am not too keen on their content but I do see it as progress. When big names move from Tw(X)tter and other corporate silos, or at least use the alternatives like Mastodon alongside FB and so on, it can be an example for other organisations, companies and citizens to follow and use the Fediverse as well and I consider that a win. The article was about EU Voice and EU video, the latter was with PeerTube. On the one hand I think it is a pity that they gave up, on the other hand the popularity and use of Google YouTube is enormous. It is not a monopoly but for countless people it is an addiction difficult to stay away from.
How big is the ActivityPub network?
Because it’s decentralised, we don’t have an exact total. Based on data we have about the largest ActivityPub platforms, particularly Meta/Threads, it’ll be between 170-200million users by the summer of 2024. Ghost will be adding tens-of-millions more to that total.
Are you working together with anyone else on this?
Yes! Our friends at Buttondown are also building ActivityPub support right now, and we’ve received kind offers of help from teams at Mastodon & the ActivityPub spec authors.
Nice that Buttondown is also into it.
robots.txt may help : https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website or blocking by IP addresses.