/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021
Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website
is decentralized
It’s not.
I assume someone else can just create a server and join the network of BlueSky?
They can’t.
in reality at the moment its controlled by only one big company.
…yep.
My hope is that they will one day cooperate with Fediverse.
ActivityPub existed before BlueSky did and they chose to make their own, incompatible thing. So I don’t have high hopes for this.
That doesn’t mean much unfortunately.
How does it work self hosting? Is it querying other search engines or just maintaining a database on your server?
This could easily be done with AI. For a week or so, that is.
Not at all, Pixelfed is very polished and gets regular updates.
I found a Vivaldi blog post on this topic from 2022: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/
Will the Vivaldi Ad Blocker be affected by the Manifest V3 changes?
I made some architectural choices early on that I believe should keep it functional, regardless of the Manifest V3 changes. Of course, there is always a possibility that the underlying Chromium architecture will change now or in the future, forcing us to do some extra work to keep this working. > Hopefully, a more in-depth description of the architecture and some of the facts surrounding the Manifest V3 changes should help to show why I believe that our implementation is safe for the time being.
Did you know that Mozilla is literally worse than Google and Meta? It’s true! Line 4,362 of the old “Firefox Send” source code contains a unicode character that in a very specific part of papua new guinea is used as a mark of shame against trans people. Also I am not paid by Google!
Yeah exactly, and it’s it’s all scheduled and automated it’s trivial (on your end) to include Fedi accounts.
Yeah, chromium based means adblockers cannot work as effectively.
I agree! Don’t run your mouth in public then complain when someone asks you how do you know the thing you’re running your mouth about is true. If in 2034 someone who has never seen snow wants more evidence than some idiot on the Internet’s feelings on the topic then asking is totally justified.
I think it’s totally reasonable to ask for a source about a historical claim if something hasn’t been true for over a decade?
I do not think the future of the fediverse lies in general purpose instances but that said, IMO Beehaw is the gold standard of a general purpose instance.
Post scheduling is huge! Lots of good stuff in here.
This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can’t have. Very cool.
Absolutely and I will be the first to offer praise. Honestly, I think the fact that FOSS devs trend weird and neurotic is not because of anything special with Open Source but because the non-neurotic ones are pulling down 300K salaries at Google. If big tech wasn’t absorbing all of their employees mental capacity many of them would be doing FOSS for fun.
I see, I wasn’t comparing an article to a video, I was comparing a video to a text summary of the same video.
This is what I don’t understand, why would anyone choose to host when there is zero advantage? I sort of feel is by design so they can claim “decentralized” while still having full control over the data.