Yes ! Instead of going in with no clue expecting everyone but a small minority to be nice, this is the part where we grow up, we know that many (most, in some cases) of the interactions will be bad, so 1) we’re not naive and 2) we share information about that.

Activitypub is the technical federation, this is the social federation

There are levels to this. For sure, if we could automatically block instances with open signups and no manual verification, the worst of the worst would be eliminated and we could start with that. In fact I believe the author has a project of creating a larger-scale network of instances more or less like that, called Pangea.

The nice thing is that however strict you want to be, there’s a chance the same tools will be needed anyway, up to you to configure, and this is what Pelago does. No matter what you do with it, it becomes more useful to everyone and I like that. Doing what you’re proposing helps those with stricter rules and vice versa !

Still haven’t found a better combo than Markor + Syncthing. I briefly tried doing notes directly inside Deltachat, with a specific profile just for notes, as messages to self: it works but isn’t extractable.

If you’re happy going the Deltachat road I would humbly suggest a webxdc version of featherwiki, a fantastic wiki made for personal use:

https://git.sr.ht/~rakoo/featherwiki-webxdc

I hate AI with a passion so never use it in any form, and I try to use only tools that don’t, but things might slip as you know

Ah oui la privatisation qui optimise le service, on connaît

L’intention de servir ne suffit pas, il faut concrètement servir, et il n’y a rien qui pousse matériellement à le faire. Les usage’rs sont rarement membres de la gouvernance, les personnes techniques sont rarement intéressées par la sociologie en tant que science pour analyser les situations et proposer des pistes d’action, etc… Contrairement à ce que dit ce mauvais dicton ce n’est pas l’intention qui compte, ce sont les actes

I see your point and I think I agree. Maybe I’m willing to let it pass because I happen to agree with the decision (and would also agree with the hypothetical ban of Rails). Ultimately, it comes down to what you said: whatever you use, you should see how to become a full member

I still don’t see the problem with Codeberg’s decision. Of course they will kick projects that they don’t want, just like github will kick projects they don’t want. The issue isn’t what is and isn’t allowed, it’s who allows it, as it always has been.

Of course selfhosting is one way to control it, but in Codeberg there is a process to be part of that governance, which the author didn’t partake in. At which point there is nothing more to discuss, get in the governance first and then you can write a blog post about how the governance is bad, isn’t aligned with you or whatever.

It’s 2026. Who still expects things to be perfect with a third-party without participating ? Be part of the governance, selfhosted or not, always

This is really nice, but I don’t understand what the willow part really brings, unfortunately

rsync and rclone are two different projects

Peace of mind

I don’t have to go through artificial slowness, walls of ads, cookie/“please sign-in” gateways. My data remains mine. The thing does what it does, it just works. Using commercial stuff is actively aggressive towards me and requires my constant vigilance to get through; the fediverse just works for me

The hosting part is, indeed, a technical part but a tool like copyparty can help here:

https://github.com/9001/copyparty/blob/hovudstraum/README.md#markdown-viewer

It runs everywhere, is just a single file you double-click to open and browse from your browser. Makdown files are automatically rendered. You can upload a bunch of files directly, or just send them by mail and put them in a directory served by copyparty

That’s basically what gopher is: a capsule of hierarchically ordered documents, easily browsable thanks to a normalized interface

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)

The web is one of its spiritual successor and is plenty usable to share text files. Most if not all software can generate indexes of content in a directory. wget and friends can be used to retrieve the whole archive. If you generate html files you can then style them independently of the content.

Most of the usage of platform is individual-based and it’s a problem. Collective-based interaction, like in the threadiverse, leads to a better sense of community, better organizing, better software that really helps us, etc…

I would like to see more wiki-like usage, where we congregate around topics/subjects/interests and collectively build something with rules we decide ourselves

ya un truc assez intéressant avec la clim en France, qui culturellement est vu comme une hérésie alors que le chauffage c’est totalement accepté. Ma théorie: le chauffage est l’accompagnant de constructions massives, et donc le résultat d’une planification dans laquelle on est né•es sans remettre en question, alors que la clim est un choix individuel payant: forcément c’est pas automatique

In a roundabout way the author says that the structure of the platform informs the structure of the discourse, the opinions, the information that is surfaced and the one that is invizibilized. It’s important to remember that a decentralized network doesn’t mean neutrality, there will be something put in front. It’s not the same as what a capitalist wants, and that’s good

I would love to see an [AI] tag, so I can easily hide it. Coupled with temporary bans in case of missing disclosure it would really sanitize the community

Then failure to disclose can be condemned, for instance by temporary bans

From the same author, this thesis explained in detail, along with some thoughts on what leftists in general can do about it:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-army-of-altruists

And with garage hosted on multiple places you can even have an S3 endpoint, with redudancy, without the cloud !

https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

If not hosting anything is ok for you, deltachat allows you to share locations to people in a chat. It’s fully e2ee. You can use it with existing relays, but if you want you can host one that will be useful to everyone: https://chatmail.at/