I see two reasons why it’s ultimately not possible to recreate conventional social media success via Fediverse.

1. Some services are taylored to the needs of already-famous people who will tend towards bigger platforms to maximize reach and drag followers along (e.g. what Twitter used to be)
2. You can’t make a buck by cranking out content here. The possibility to make a living off your posting draws the most prolific posters to becoming professional creators for big platforms. You can’t really do that on Fedi unless you already have a dedicated donor base.

That said, I don’t think making more fedi things is pointless. But they are probably going to be smaller things, niche or local, particular to the interests of a couple fellas, points of human connection.

I don’t think we can expect commenters to be as nuanced as an academic specializing in genocides.

On the legal front, it is to me morally obvious that that comment was pretty measured and deleting it was fucked. If you claim to do a fucked thing for legal reason, I think it’s fair to demand evidence that you are under legal duress. Is there a history of feddit specifically or german fedi sites.in general being hammered for “antisemitic” comments?

The answer to that would determines how much I am pissed at german authorities for misapplying the law or at feddit admins for being biased and/or cowards.

Whatever the point of “BuyFromEU” is, this aint it.

The Wikipedia is doing fine.

Mumble literally still works. The last 20 years of UI design were a mistake, we must return to tradition!

The PrivaScore Project provides ratings for Keyboard Apps, and there are multiple options in the top tier.

Just plugged the RSS into my app (Feeder) and it worked like charm.

Beautiful stuff, mate! Feels otherworldly.

Wow, the first project to have found a use case for cryptocurrency!

Just kidding. This is trash. I don’t care about fancy privacy features if the backend is tied to the Ethereum scam machine. Use Signal or Matrix.

Okay, Wero does not have a web application at the moment. Valid criticism.

I think it’s great that you use privacy-enabling tech, and developing these is valuable in my eyes. But nothing about your setup screams “mass adoption” to me. I’ll spare everyone the mobile OS adoption charts, and browser adoption isn’t looking better.

You just can’t put out an on-par mobile service nowadays without an app in Play and Apple’s store. I don’t like it, but it is what it is.

This is a non-argument, even though it made it onto Wikipedia. A mass-adopted Taler-based payment system would also require mobile support, which would be gatekept by Google/Apple.

Breaking oligopolist control over the mobile ecosystem is a separate battle and applies to both Wero & Taler.

That’s not to say that Wero couldn’t do more in this regard, e.g. publish to F-Droid.

loopback interfaces to nowhere

It’s never too late to git merge --abort!

Awesome!

I keep getting analognowhere posts, where the image won’t load. Also seems to affect the sdf.org web client, so it’s not just local. Last happened for “What’s in a name” and “of wasps and beavers”. Wonder what does that.

Also: any chance this will go on RedBubble as a canvas print?

I was pretty sure systemd doesn’t have to be configured like that. Anyway, on my company managed Linux systemd tries to access some network service on startup and shutdown. Unless I’m plugged into on site LAN, I get to wait a full network timeout (presumably with retries) every time.

At least it’s not Windows.