To be fair to Johannes, I think he ultimately made the right decision. The main problem lie in communication, and timeliness.

Servers are hosted and operated by different admins.

Hey, thanks for sharing this! Yes, we could absolutely use help with writing articles and managing our social media accounts. There’s a lot we try to cover, but we’re a very small team.

I was working on a Friendica theme conversion a while back, with the goal of making the theme elements compatible with old-school Myspace layout generators. Unfortunately, Friendica doesn’t support a user wall anymore, so I’d maybe have to rewrite the whole thing for Hubzilla?

Sorry, our provider had an outage around that time. We should be good now!

To my knowledge, the project isn’t dead…but, it has been moving at a horribly slow pace for a very long time.

Funkwhale is a pretty cool project, but it’s one of those things where the ActivityPub implementation really was bolted on well after the core experience was defined and developed. It was meant to be a Grooveshark clone, while a lot of people were hoping to use it in a more social way, like SoundCloud.

Should be working now. Occasionally, the server gets a little janky due to post federation and caching, but it should be settled at this point.

It’s a slow rollout. Dansup is doing his best to put a good foot forward, there’s a lot of moving parts, and it’s fairly more complicated than some of his prior work. I’m super stoked for it, and can’t wait to put together a detailed review.

So excited about this! It looks and feels great.

Yeah, I’ll try to look into this for clarity. It really depends on what they mean here - I think they’re referring to curated server following between admins, which is what PeerTube does.

When I tested out the messaging system, I was able to federate back and forth with Mastodon. Maybe it works fine at a user level, it’s just the search entries that don’t get federated automatically?

The shocking part was less about Maven’s methods or lack of ethics, and more along the lines of “How the fuck did they do that?!”

Oh wow, how did I miss this?!

Congratulations! I’ve been around for roughly the same amount of time, and it’s wild to see how much things have changed.

I still miss old Identi.ca, though.

Most of the backlash pertains to the board members appointed to the new nonprofit. One of the members is a lawyer that has defended crypto and AI companies, another is ex-Twitter angel investor Biz Stone.

Mastodon’s community usually has some kind of vague beef about one thing or another when it comes to Eugen and the decisions he makes for the project, whether it’s a new feature or a design change or that he didn’t do something that other projects wanted to do.

Nextcloud is a fork of Owncloud. IMO, as a product Nextcloud is superior in every way.

Sentry also did this by embracing the Business Source License. Technically, you can still get an MIT-licensed version, but it has to be more than two years old.

As a former employee that worked there during the days that Sentry really promoted itself being Open Source, it was disappointing to see. VC Funding and a growth obsession basically poisoned the well.

Hell yeah, I’m all about this. Article gets rendered so poorly on Mastodon, and the behavior is inconsistent from one platform to the next.

Yes, we have an article in the works about it. 😁

Video version available on PeerTube here: https://spectra.video/w/cgUdgFb1ZpcTEK8UydLu59

They probably thought they’d reach a greater number of people. They’re probably right.