[HN Gopher] Fediverse.Party - Explore Federated Networks
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Fediverse.Party - Explore Federated Networks
Author : eitland
Score : 69 points
Date : 2021-05-01 20:20 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| riffic wrote:
| I keep saying this particular ecosystem is healthy and vibrant.
| atweiden wrote:
| It's notable how prevalent AGPLv3 licensing is all throughout the
| Fediverse. This, and the fact user accounts are decoupled from
| the federated frontends present a radically different incentive
| structure for providers compared to the traditional model of
| social media.
|
| You can feel the impact this has when browsing PeerTube: eclectic
| videos -- a good sign of a burgeoning ecosystem -- but with video
| buffering rates seemingly decades behind YT.
|
| I'm actually a huge fan of the fediverse. But if PeerTube in
| particular wants to hit it big, there are some serious
| scalability issues which need to be addressed, despite fediverse
| development being largely antithetical to profit.
| mattl wrote:
| Mastodon was very nearly not AGPL. I asked them to fix it very
| early on. Issue 1 or 2 on the GitHub tracker.
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| Edit: 49. https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/49
| riffic wrote:
| for someone who doesn't know better, what is the benefit to
| AGPL and what license were they using originally?
|
| found the issue btw:
| https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/49
| pessimizer wrote:
| This is something I've never heard about, but are there any
| projects who license AGPL but offer paid relicensing to GPLv2?
| With customers paying for permission to keep private their
| modifications to a hosted service?
| yosito wrote:
| This is a nice list of federated networks. Sadly, many of them
| look like ghost towns. A lot of them have home pages with
| marketing content but that don't show any easy way to get to
| network content. Others have content and links to founders
| profiles that haven't been updated in years. It's really hard to
| get excited about many of these when even the people building it
| don't seem to use it.
| riffic wrote:
| > even the people building it don't seem to use it
|
| This is a (unintentional, perhaps) statement of FUD based on
| your perception, and not based on reality.
|
| I came across a pretty good quote the other day in relation to
| the ActivityPub space which struck a chord: "A resource
| arrangement that works in practice can work in theory" -
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Ostrom's_law
| yosito wrote:
| > not based on reality
|
| Show me a federated network that people are actually using in
| reality.
| [deleted]
| rapnie wrote:
| Matrix, mastodon, pleroma, peertube, pixelfed, scuttlebutt,
| ...
|
| (these all have their builders as active users AFAIK)
| riffic wrote:
| I was going to be rude and say that the burden of proof
| wasn't upon me, but well, you beat me to the punch.
|
| Let me add another one or two. How about SMTP and BGP?
| ryukafalz wrote:
| Not only their builders; I'm an active user of Matrix and
| Mastodon and both are far far more popular than just
| those interested in the tech.
| cyberlab wrote:
| > Sadly, many of them look like ghost towns
|
| That is why I think we are still in early days of the
| (fediverse-powered) web. All this fringe tech will blossom
| eventually and we can live the 'decentralists dream' we all
| seem to be pushing for. Give it time. Yes, effort is still
| needed, and we all need to do our part to make it work, but
| simply being patient too, waiting for all this tech to bloom
| will be worth it.
| dwighttk wrote:
| ...year of Linux on the desktop
| fsflover wrote:
| Another link to explore the federation: https://the-
| federation.info/.
| mynameismonkey wrote:
| Here's a map of services I built for those looking the connect
| locally: http://u.osmfr.org/m/550053/
| [deleted]
| rapnie wrote:
| Note also the wiki for the site, where more apps are tracked from
| early development until they are ready to be added to the
| directory.
|
| https://git.feneas.org/feneas/fediverse/-/wikis/home
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