Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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Joined 9 months ago
Cake day: January 4th, 2024
  • Rimu@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)English
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    5 hours ago

    I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:

    fostering genuine connection
    protecting privacy and enforcing consent
    championing accessibility

    I think she’s obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There’s certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they’re constructed I don’t feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.

    It’s hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that’s a value tho - diversity.

    There’s a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it’s best, this is a “people before economy” value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.

    The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?

  • Rimu@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•A general fediverse client app, supporting multiple content types? (mastodon, lemmy, peertube, etc)English
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    29 days ago

    If you really need it to be a proper mobile app then it’s unlikely you’ll find one - this would be quite a lot of work as every platform has implemented it’s own API for talking with client apps, rather than using ActivityPub. The app would need to talk to several different APIs.

    You’re better off choosing a platform that can talk with as many different types of other platforms as possible. And when I say ‘talk with’ there will be gradients of talking with differing amounts of problems. For example PieFed is great with Lemmy, good with PeerTube and Ok with Mastodon. Then use the client app for your chosen platform.

    Choosing the platform will be a process of just trying them all. Check out friendica, they cast a wide net.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•The Future is Federated: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)English
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    1 month ago

    Elena put their finger on an especially weak spot for Lemmy and PieFed, where Mastodon integration is somewhat of an afterthought. There is some integration but it doesn’t really work the way they expected it to.

    The ideal of “everything talks to everything” still remains elusive.

    These days I’m less sure it’s even a good goal to have - content on different platforms doesn’t always ‘fit’ in others. Mastodon posts lack a title so look awkward on Lemmy, Wordpress blog posts are often long, causing some Mastodon mobile apps to make their users scroll for days, Peertube videos often have a bunch of “here’s how you can give me money” links in the body which look spammy out of context, etc.

    Some platforms are a more natural fit for each other than others.