Wait, there’s a right winged side of Lemmy?!

That’s what makes itdecentralized right, as then you help upload the files to new users.

I agree, I think Lemmy simply cargo culted it from Reddit, without giving it a second thought.

Also I often think people easily tend to downvote things just because they disagre, even though it might be constructive content. I have at least caught myself doing that before.

Well you are only trusting that they will deliver your messages right, all their clients are completely open-source and everything is end-to-end encrypted on the client. Even if they wanted, they could not read your messages, and this would also be true even if their servers were 100% closed-source.

Right, it’s a shame that there isn’t a better culture for supporting developers like there are for other things online. Maybe it’s because you rarely see the actual person(s) behind the software, as you do with say influencers or streamers.

Maybe platforms like Open Collective can help making open software more financially viable. I also like the trend of big corporations sponsoring the software they build upon, like for example Blender: https://fund.blender.org/

Babel (a web compiler) also wrote a relevant blog post some month ago Babel is used by millions, so why are we running out of money?

I think you’re right, It’s probably hard to find a business model around federation. Maybe it could work for enterprice on premise setups, similar to how Matrix is used in German healthcare. But I don’t see how that would map to Lemmy in particular.

Would it actually be that bad having a giant commercial-centric instance, ie. something closer to Reddit than Lemmy. I mean imagine if Reddit could federate with Lemmy right now, then you could still choose the instance you want, but subscribe to the mainstream sphere that you also want to follow.

CDNs are such an important pice of the Internet backbone, isn’t there a way to ensure that tracking doesn’t happen or at least minimize it? The same goes for ISPs, it would be quite hard to have the Internet without them.

Thank you for the reply. I’m happy to hear that it sounds like a more or less fixed problem. I guess that Mastodon has proven that these methods do in fact work.

Ban manipulated accounts.

I guess it’s an entire field of study, how to automate spam detection. It will be nice to see how this will be applied to open-source federation in the future. Maybe it’s already used?

Remove the manipulated posts / comments.

I guess this applies to upvotes as well?

I agree that ActivityPub clients would be so nice. Imagine being able to:

• Have multiple accounts across different instances in a single client
• Select “post from account(s)” when writing new posts
• Write posts using the formatter of your choice, using the AP source property. Like emacs org-mode
• Save your feed locally for offline use
• Integrate with your own contacts application to quickly tag friends, like when you send a friend an email
• Organise objects/posts in folders/collections like “read/watch later” and “favorites”

Since it isn’t mentioned at all, maybe it just wasn’t considered in the report.