I’m looking forward optimistically toward a future where either:
- ) mastopub isn’t mentioned with respect to networking at all
- ) people stop conflating masto with #Fediverse - They are not the same.
technically, #Lemmy might be a percentage of some sort in terms of traffic by MAUs with respect to mastotron - but not really; because it’s a percentage of some sort in terms of traffic by MAUs with respect to Fediverse, and more specifically, ActivityPub traffic - NOT masto! Unless of course, one wishes to compare a single platform against another, but then it would usually be framed differently, instead of “as if” masto was the network itself, which it is not - it’s just an aging Fediverse platform slowly, yet incrementally being marginalized as a goto buzzword, due to it’s predatory nature with respect to other, better, older, and more feature complete Fediverse platforms, Including those operating over diaspora*, Zot6, ActivityPub, OStatus, Etc.
Oh, why is it, that Lemmy feels more vibrant, active, lighthearted, and even more powerful than mastotron?
Nevermind… it doesn’t matter. Coz if you think that’s kewl, you should really check this out.
Oh, geez! Is that you? lolz…
Seriously though @rimu , Don’t you think it’s about time for #PyFedi to have it’s own #Fediverse account that we can subscribe to via RSS or folllow? People really like it. People are really impressed. People ARE NOT saying things like this about it:
> I don’t like that the easy install instructions are longer than this blog post. I don’t like that the build failed after ten minutes due to a missing dependency because they couldn’t check for it before starting. I don’t like that restarting the build literally restarted from crate zero and rebuilt everything. I don’t like that the build failed fifteen minutes later trying to compile lemmy-schema because it ran out of memory, so I had to add swap. I don’t like that the build failed again another twenty minutes later trying to link lemmy_server because I didn’t add enough swap. Come on, man.
Attribution: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/azorius-01
So yah, we were discussing PyFedi in the Fediverse-City Matrix room, and clumping together notions such as how your following assertion here has found a relevance that other ‘similar’ so-called link aggregators have eschewed:
> PieFed - a federated forum, similar to Lemmy but written in Python
And indeed, even at merely the first glance, it looks a heckuvalot (sic) more friendly than just link aggregation, the lines begin to blur even further when you take a look at the fast and friendly NodeBB, not too dissimilar, but not as lightweight as PyFedi - Wait! Are we supposed be calling it something else? #PieFed, perhaps? Are you undergoing a rebranding and just haven’t renamed the git repo over at Codeberg yet?
Do please let us know :) Piefed has a lot of other FUN connotations, as both a play on words and also just falling off the tongue a little easier.
Yes back to the question of whether you feel it’s the right time for your PyFedi project to launch its own Fediverse account - preferably, if I might be so bold as to suggest, NOT on a masto instance. After all, and like you said:
> Mastodon feels like a fucking funeral.
Indeed it does. I could recommend a couple of Good Mitra instances, put in a word for you on one of the dev’s reference flagship intances, or Friendica is awesome too - very awesome, and unlike mastopub, it doesn’t, “feel like a fucking funeral”, lolz (as you sooo eloquently stated). It also interoperates seamlessly with and between Diaspora, Bluesky, Hubzilla/Zot, and the entire ActivityPub portions of the Fediverse. The Pleroma and Misskey family of forks have some nice offerings as well. I think a lot of people would find it refreshing if a new and refreshing federated forum/aggregator project with an enjoyable, clean and friendly feel had it’s Fediverse presence somewhere other than a cemetery ;)
I predict a rapid rise in the deployment of #PyFedi instances. just look at the number of #Mbin deployments as/of late, and #Kbin before that - both are still enjoying accelerating adoption rates.
Yup! There’s a lot of excitement and people are talking - thought you might like to know ;) And thank you for creating PieFed!
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Forumware #Link_Aggregation #meme_posting #Shitposting #discussion_sharing You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔
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And there’s also good, well formatted ActivityPub federation with these too:
- nodeBB
- PieFed
#tallship
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