Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.
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Hmmm @[email protected] is it possible for whatever reason your posts no. 6 and no. 10 in this topic, were not originally available for me to read yesterday/ but I am reading them today, one was a reply to me (but saw no notification) other than that maybe I scrolled past too fast and missed them
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@eeeee Ha ha maybe you answered my last post as I was writing it!
Plus there is another maybe even better word i.e. federated > disseminated / propagated
I believe propagate/propagation is even more accurate way to describe the adventures of efforts in the fediverse!
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One thing that hasnt really been tested yet, is volumes, and the data that needs to be shared if say contribitors are on different networks.
On your physics theme then the data share is potentially exponential as more people join the conversation.
Imagine a thread with 100 different origin posts and the updates required to keep everyone in sync -
@eeeee When you wrote Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.:
a thread with 100 different origin posts
Do you mean each post originating first post action and commitment occurred on a different platform while the entire thread of 100 post is potentially equally visible on each of those different platforms all at the same time?
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@julian as I contributed to this thread also from my mastodon account, should that account (in principle) be getting notified of additional comments on here?
Its currently not, which does negate the observation that data transfer would increase as more people join a topic. However the exponential propagation previously mentioned does not seem to be working - its only on nodebb that this thread is expanding now?Edit: ^might be a Mastondon issue, as the Discourse version is expanding. Its just my mastodon version that isnt.
Edit2; Test to see if edits are updated yet
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@eeeee Mastodon doesn't notify you unless you are explicitly mentioned.
In NodeBB when you reply, you subscribe to the topic (unless you opt out or "unwatch" it), but that doesn't happen in Mastodon.
NodeBB could propagate additional replies to Mastodon and other softwares, it doesn't right now.
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Test1, mentioning a user at a different nodebb server @[email protected]
Test2 @[email protected]
Edit: connecting between nodebb instances doesnt seem to be working, which is more concerning.
I tried it both ways, mentions from and to there@julian just to help me test, are usernames case sensitive? I have some capital letters in a username on another nobebb site, do I need to ensure they are in the correct case?
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On isurg the install is a week old, so maybe there have been updates since. As mentioned before without a numbering system its hard to know when out of date.
Whats the planned time for releasing v4 in main? I think now, the sooner thats done the better. It wont affect those who dont want to activate it -
O omega referenced this topic on
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I think the only problem here is you assume people should be able to "grok" it.
I don't think that's a problem. I think people should be able to understand that the Internet is a communications platform. Growing up on IRC isn't a requirement to intuiting this; the point there was that I people understood it there and then.
People should be able to understand it here and now, too. They've just been trained otherwise.
