Post @post@qoto.org

1: not technically #inflation but everyone calls it like that so you got the idea.

#Russia is the one supposed to be sanctioned but it's US #banks that are failing and US suffering inflation¹ and #layoffs in the tech industry.

[1]: not technically #inflation but everyone calls it like that so you got the idea.

@ZLabe

Dude I said ask to Italian people, I am literally wearing a sweater now, April 24th, in South Italy when normally I'd swim in the sea in this period.

If your intention was to make AWG supporters look like sociopaths who have lost touch with reality, you have succeeded perfectly.

@ZLabe

If you ask anyone in Italy they will tell you 2023 had the coldest March in a decade while this image show temperature above average for March 2023 in Italy... how is such a difference between data and common experience even possible?

@catominor @nhan @ednico

Protocols for decentralized networks are an academic field on their own because they pose many additional challenges compared to centralized ones including scaling issues.

For context ActivityPub is the result of years of development by the authors of previous Fediverse protocols like OStatus and pump.io. And now AP is a W3C standard (the consortium that standardize the Web).

I hope Mastodon and the others figure out a client-side solution like some third party Mastodon clients are doing (but I suspect they are using Mastodon client-server API so it's a Mastodon-specific solution, not an AP/Fediverse one).

@catominor @nhan @ednico

It's not intended, it's a issue with ActivityPub protocol. Decentralization is hard, a better protocol is Matrix.org that is indeed way more complex.

The only thingh you can do now to mitigate the issue is following more people on different instances so that yours is made aware of their existence (that's the condition to show other people's comments).

Or you can move to a larger instance.

The issue became more evident recently with the mass migration from Twitter and the many new little instances that are still not well connected.

@TfTHacker

It's a new platform for you: the Fediverse exists since 2008 and Mastodon since 2016.

For reference Facebook was launched in 2004, YouTube in 2005, Twitter in 2006 and Instagram in 2010.

@tangentnotes @alexl

Welcome to the Fediverse!

As someone using only Linux distros for 10+ years as their desktop OS I can confirm the only way to distribute third party apps is #Flatpak because:

- It started as "xdg-apps" i.e. a Freedesktop project. Freedesktop is the set of standards that make Linux what it is (the desktop OS, as opposed to Linux kernel).

- It is promoted by major distros like Fedora and OpenSUSE and it is the default way to install apps on their respective immutable versions (Fedora Silverblue and OpenSUSE MicroOS).

- It is the only way to install apps on EndlessOS and Steam Deck.

- AppImage is basically like running a binary, it is not an app platform i.e. no sandbox, no integration with the system, it has access to all user data, hardware resources etc. On Android or iOS something like this is impossible. It is a format for development and users can't just trust a program running as AppImage.

- Packages like DEBs/RPMs are used to build operating systems and by installing an application using them you are de facto modifying your system to include the application as opposed to plug the application in a sandboxed app platform.

Many applications built mainly for Windows and MacOS use AppImage to also target Linux with minimal effort and while some users like it, running a binary found on Internet is just insane from security point of view.

Many Electron apps uses AppImage because Electron provide AppImage builds by default.

Instead Flatpak implies setting up a repo but the same people behind Flatpak started FlatHub store and it is available out of the box on many distros. Someone just need to submit a manifest that builds an application and it will care of monitoring and building new releases, making them available to Linux users automatically.

The original developer of an app can claim ownership of it on FlatHub and get the verified badge:

https://flathub.org/

Please let us Linux users have our proper and secure app platform like Android and iOS.

@harald

Hubzilla? After the reshare other Fediverse instances like Mastodon can interact too?

@PlaneSailingGames @thomasfuchs

Fyi people other than early Fediverse nerds like me started noticing recently because some "celebrities" arrived from Twitter with their "fanbase" and received tons of comments saying the same thing and complained... and the fact that new instances were introduced at the same time and they were not well-connected made it even more evident...

@thomasfuchs @b_cavello @occhiolist@hachyderm.io

I am reporting this since Mastodon adopted ActivityPub.

@matrix is way better but people believe it's just for instant messaging. In reality it can be used for anything and it provides unique awesome features for anything implemented on top of it.

It is way more complex to implement but this is what libraries are for and if AP had to address those issues it would end up being something like Matrix anyway.

So please let's discuss how to move from AP to Matrix as it happened with OStatus->AP some years ago.

@PlaneSailingGames @thomasfuchs

Someone already asked this and someone else explained it, that is, you may miss replies from servers not known to yours, as it seems to be the case for you too!