@dansup I would argue that having the option for 3rd party clients or alternative clients is a key element to any open platform. While closed platforms can innovate faster in certain aspects this is the key which allows innovation in an open system. Give 3rd party clients the option to play along. Maybe offer some „certification“ so clients can say „I’m a real good citizen“.
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This is why I see the BlueSky lifetime as a grace period for fedi to get its act together.@thisismissem @renchap I can totally relate. I avoided grant applications so far but have to do public procurement processes regularly and it’s a pain. As far as I understand there are Orga that have full time staff just for grant applications and that should not be that case
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This is why I see the BlueSky lifetime as a grace period for fedi to get its act together.@renchap No argument about that. You (Mastodon) are doing what is possible with the resources you have no doubt. It's also clear that Bluesky has way more resources plus the US ecosystem. I personally view the fact that Mastodon (and other Fediverse projects) does not have more resources as a clear failure of EU policy. They are always talking about autonomy but when they can do something about that it's just not done enough.
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@janl Have they I thought that was only Tumblr and @pfefferle was working on this for WP.@pfefferle @janl ActivityPub integration development
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This is why I see the BlueSky lifetime as a grace period for fedi to get its act together.@renchap @janl @loops I know you are and looking very much forward to the results (see https://social.mrtoto.net/@mrtoto/113481096839149350 )
And the problems are indeed hard, no question about it. Also that the resources are limited (probably the main problem compared to places like bluesky). My point was more frustration about the speed of progress. The fact that Mastodon does not seem to be more attractive to the new wave of refugees (neither from
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@janl Have they I thought that was only Tumblr and @pfefferle was working on this for WP.@janl Have they I thought that was only Tumblr and @pfefferle was working on this for WP.
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This is why I see the BlueSky lifetime as a grace period for fedi to get its act together.@janl Well, yes. Functionally it's there. But e.g. why am I not asked as part of the onboarding process if I want to opt in for example.I mean is there even an onboarding?
Also there needs to be some kind of broker to search across the fediverse, not only instance local.
The only place I see these things being done is @dansup (who never seems to sleep!) with @loops. That looks like steps in the right direction which gives me a bit of hope
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This is why I see the BlueSky lifetime as a grace period for fedi to get its act together.@janl @molily Yes 100% The fact that Mastodon did get neither quote posts nor search not to speak of anything innovative done since the Twitter acquisition is really something. There is of course also the fact that money is missing. @MastodonEngineering just needs money to hire a few people to get more than the absolute basics done.
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The promise of frontend frameworks was that a local snapshot of the app's data model would be faster to operate on than a server round-trip.This is a measurable question, and for nearly every class of app, the reality is that you should keep your data ...@slightlyoff @tante no one has that anyways. It’s different domains which require different logic.