Very nice!

Well I’m not sure how you expect that to work… especially moderation/rules wise.

Yeah it would be cool if we didn’t have to see the instance name but I don’t think it’s too big a deal. Just subscribe to the better one and never worry about it.

It’s all managed through ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/register-domain-name-2017-06-20-en

Are more simple explanation to your question: https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/register-with-icann-sans-middlemen.shtml

Oh I don’t think it’s quite ready for everyday use, it works okay for a bit of scrolling. But the dev is updating it pretty often and wants to get everything working (at least the basics) by the end of the month

You’d be surprised how fast Mlem is coming along.

But for now just open the home page of your instance in Safari, hit “share” then “add to Home Screen” works okay

By moderating it, as I said some is necessary obviously.

I just don’t like the “police” comparison. There are ways to motivate people to keep order without sending armed state goons to kill or imprison you.

I know your comment isn’t really about the metaphorical “village”, but police as we know them today are a far more modern conception than we think. Plenty of societies/villages/whatever did fine without such a force.

I don’t think we need the police comparison…

Some moderation is necessary, but if things get out of hand your instance will just be defederated. So it is more self regulating than you suggest.

Especially since “villages” can completely block an entire other “village”.

Keeps communities that don’t want to be isolated more reasonable without having hardline rules

Eh. You can find a cozy little community on another instance and have it feel like home. Especially if you have a “display name” which will make it hard for anyone to even see you’re from another instance unless they actually check

/c/[email protected]

Messages/Notifications aren’t implemented yet, FYI. But the dev is working hard to get at least all the basics up by July 1

Eh. Eventually one will become the “de facto” place to go, same way /r/technology won out over /r/tech.

Give it some time for people to figure it out. This “fragmentation” problem, IMO, is overblown.

Have you heard of Mlem? It’s in beta, and not really quite ready for everyday usage yet, but it’s inspired by Apollo and the dev is working hard.

https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem

Join the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

That’s what I thought was so cool about Apple Vision. No controllers, UI is navigated by eye tracking…

And more focus on non-gaming tasks that should be much more small space freindly.

To be fair, in some countries they are.

And especially in younger age groups, in certain countries, the vast majority are on iPhone.

I think in the US iPhone is up to 70% of people 18-30… and for teens something crazy like 90%.

I’m not defending Apple’s practices here but you must understand for some, the vast majority of people they know and actually talk to are iPhone users.

The way activitypub works is that each community has a list of every server that has at least one subscriber to that community.

Every time someone does something in that community, the community sends all those servers a message that tells them what just happened.

So instead of a few hundred servers it might have to inform of your one upvote of a post, it would have to basically inform every user (every user’s server)

It would be bad, it’s not designed to do that.

And that only effects outbound federation basically? So a small instance shouldn’t have much issues with this, even if it’s subscribed to a lot of very busy communities?

and they’re not exchanging data, in the sense that if there’s community jimbo on instance rambo, all comments are stored there.

No. The comments are saved by every instance that has at least one user subscribed to [email protected]. If Rambo.com goes down, you wouldn’t be able to make new content but I’m pretty sure everyone else could view what was there.

if there’s multiple jimbos on different instances is there some aggregation type of deal or do I have to subscribe to all the jimbos out there? and if I have something important to say about topic jimbo, I just spam/crosspost my idea to all the jimbos out there?

On Reddit there was /r/tech and /r/technology. One of those became the big, go-to sub.

Same will happen here, just give it a bit of time.

You’ve marked your post NSFW for some reason

Ah I’m really not worried about my “local” instance. I just go to the “all” and "subscribed tabs. Honestly it makes it a lot less confusing and much more cohesive for the end user if they can pretty much ignore the instance and think “oh it’s Reddit but usernames and subreddits look like emails”

Yep, that’s my thoughts. I’m gonna cap my instance at a low number. (Gonna start at 100 and see what usage is like) It’s not much but it’s what I can do without worrying about crazy hosting costs.