@cwebber I would really like to read such an analysis, FWIW.

Concerning the efforts to since the technical challenges, I recently found out that there's also an ongoing effort to merge some of Zot's feature into AP (https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/) and it's interesting to see how different this is from your approach.

Ultimately my hope is that BS looming will help prioritize these challenges, in whichever way they get solved.

@swetland @cwebber

I'm more than mildly annoyed by that so I wrote a long rant about it

A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/2

The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.

wok (wok.oblomov.eu)

Ironically (but unsurprisingly), the only thing that has put the BS claims of decentralization to test in any way has been … the Fediverse bridge.

@jdp23 @rwg @possibledog the only reason why BS doesn't have those issues is that it's actually completely centralized (no, I'm not going to play semantic games on this). So no, I will not waste any time coding for the umpteenth corporate trap
https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/credible-threat-2/

@trwnh that's essentially how “quote boosts” are supposed to work, and was the idea behind ping backs and webmentions

@riley it I don't know Icelandic so to me it looks like the transcription of a yodel

@mia @AmeliaBR weed sharing is a gateway drug to communism. If you share weed, next you'll want to share other things, and suddenly you find yourself discovering that ownership is a social construct invented to divide and conquer us.

@ludicity @coffeegeek I wonder if it would make sense to have a stripped down version of the page with only the information needed by the card on it (open graph and Twitter tags, oembed instructions) to be served to social media crawlers.

@ludicity @coffeegeek it'll depend on how distributed your followers are, on first approximation, since you'll get a hit per server (10K followers on 1 server = 1 hit, 1K followers on 1K servers = 1K hits). Of course if the link gets boosted and reshaped, it'll reach more servers and the number of hits will grow. For static pages it's generally sustainable, dynamic ones will want to cache this heavily.

@trwnh @erincandescent @thisismissem @helge it always comes back to being strict about what you produce and liberal about what you accept

@trwnh I've seen some of the samples later (sorry for forking the thread), and it seems most of that stuff you want to do is actually supported natively by AsciiDoctor, but I think I see your point. I'm not familiar with goldmark, but I'm getting the impression that it's something similar to what Jekyll with their {% %} escapes, except that this happens “during” rendering with a callback to Go or something like that? Yeah, I can see how that's a feature one wouldn't like to go without.

@trwnh wait shouldn't it be the other way around? It's up to Hugo to support asciidoc as a rendering engine? I don't use Hugo but last time I checked the docs while looking for an alternative to Ikiwiki I think I read it did support it? Or am I missing something?

@trwnh (ah, and this is NOT a “you should be using AsciiDoc BTW” post, BTW 8-D)

@trwnh FWIW, personally I'm getting quite tired of Markdown limitations, and have been using AsciiDoc(tor) more whenever I can. Of course It has its own set of limitations, but for example it has this generic “span” markup that allows thematic customization (e.g. one can do [.strike]#x# and define a CSS class for strikethrough —could even be more semantic than HTML's <s>).

@trwnh (it's a bit sad that the answer to that seems to be “just use HTML” then 8-P)

@trwnh I don't see the mirror either, FWIW, I would have used ~x~ for strike-through. It can't be __x__ in AsciiDoc because the double symbols are used to support in-text formatting (**b**old would mark the first letter as strong). But yes, there's only so many symbols so at one point or another fallback is kind of unavoidable

@trwnh in the auld days of lore, *x* was for bold, /x/ for italics and _x_ for underline. Markdown's conflation of *x* and _x_ was a step back. AsciiDoc gets it a bit better by using *x* for strong and _x_ for emphasis. But it uses ~x~ for subscripts to mirror ^x^ for superscripts.

By the way, does anybody know if there are any statistics about how many #Bluesky account are on the company's own PDS and how many come from external PDSes? (I know the answer is “most are .bsky.social” and “many with a different host for the handle still use bsky's PDS”, but I would still like to have some concrete numbers, if there are any. Even better if sourced from somewhere I can link to.)

#askFedi

Finally got enough material to write my follow up on my «Credible threat» article

A credible threat to (and from) commercial social network silos/1

The Fediverse, especially through Mastodon, has been acknowledged by the major players as a threat —to be eliminated.

wok (wok.oblomov.eu)

This time with a stronger focus on #bluesky

Will take some time to finalize, though, especially since I'm not doing the “fragmented preliminary composition” here on the #Fediverse first.

@trwnh it's a bit of a double-edge sword (I wrote about this some time ago here <https://wok.oblomov.eu/riflessioni/mastodon-v-father-dessert/>).

@woozle even just going back to the actual tax rates that were implemented would suffice.