Hats off to the EU for funding both this and the recently announced Fediscovery, along with many other Fediverse developments (a personal favourite being Seppo!).
For those unfamiliar, it’s basically money from the European Commission. The Commission, as part of Horizon Europe, has a project called Next Generation Internet (NGI). NGI funds an independent organizatio,n NLnet, which takes the money from its sponsors and funds a variety of projects. NLnet is also sponsored by other actors (at least Switzerland); you can check each individual project funding on their website.
So if you’re a European tax payer, you’re helping create this common good through your taxes. Thanks! :)
Fediscovery is needed, but the project being led by Mastodon is concerning. Mastodon often refuses to follow ActivityPub standards and bullies people into accepting their flawed FEPs by “reminding everyone” of their size of the user base.
I think they find themselves in a position they didn’t really ask for by being so huge that they’re suddenly defining a lot of things. With that many users depending on your product, change necessarily becomes slower and you have to test things to a whole different level before implementing anything. I kind of see why it can be tricky to make technical changes to their ActivityPub implementation at this point, especially as people are yelling left and right for different and often contradicting features.
Sure, it has some negative consequences, but Mastodon’s success is still only a good thing, and I don’t think there’s any good reason at all to expect bad intent from any of it’s developers.
In other news, I’m getting really tired of all the shit they’re receiving.
Hats off to the EU for funding both this and the recently announced Fediscovery, along with many other Fediverse developments (a personal favourite being Seppo!).
For those unfamiliar, it’s basically money from the European Commission. The Commission, as part of Horizon Europe, has a project called Next Generation Internet (NGI). NGI funds an independent organizatio,n NLnet, which takes the money from its sponsors and funds a variety of projects. NLnet is also sponsored by other actors (at least Switzerland); you can check each individual project funding on their website.
So if you’re a European tax payer, you’re helping create this common good through your taxes. Thanks! :)
Fediscovery is needed, but the project being led by Mastodon is concerning. Mastodon often refuses to follow ActivityPub standards and bullies people into accepting their flawed FEPs by “reminding everyone” of their size of the user base.
I think they find themselves in a position they didn’t really ask for by being so huge that they’re suddenly defining a lot of things. With that many users depending on your product, change necessarily becomes slower and you have to test things to a whole different level before implementing anything. I kind of see why it can be tricky to make technical changes to their ActivityPub implementation at this point, especially as people are yelling left and right for different and often contradicting features.
Sure, it has some negative consequences, but Mastodon’s success is still only a good thing, and I don’t think there’s any good reason at all to expect bad intent from any of it’s developers.
In other news, I’m getting really tired of all the shit they’re receiving.