riskable

I don’t think Google cares if the Fediverse succeeds or not. All they care about is that it can be indexed and people will be able to show Google ads on their instances.

Google doesn’t have a Reddit equivalent or even any other social network competitor (anymore; they killed them all). They explicitly chose to exit that entire concept of products.

The only reason XMPP mattered to Google at the time was they were trying to compete with Apple for messaging on mobile devices. XMPP meant that Android devices using Google Hangouts/Chat/Gmail could chat with users on other platforms/services while Apple’s chat app could only do SMS.

I guess what I’m saying is that Google is mostly irrelevant from the perspective of the Fediverse other than the fact that it can index and maybe give priority to discussions of certain products/topics like it does with Reddit currently.

STOP WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU’RE DOING and fill out the form:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/16136257875348-Data-Caps-Experience-Form

Tell the FCC how much data caps suck and how–if anything–it should be illegal for companies like Comcast to exempt their own services from the data caps. If their IPTV-based “cable” service is streaming 4k video 24/7 that should be included in a customer’s data usage otherwise it’s an abuse of a monopoly over the user’s connection!

Even if they didn’t ban caps outright the caps would disappear overnight if companies were forced to include their own services in customers total data usage figures (because 4k streaming TV services would eat up 99% of the average user’s cap in like three days LOL).

What a cattastrophe!

Juggling is fun and makes you really great at throwing things (but only mildly better at catching them hehe) 👍

Ahaha, someone who knows

Adding over-engineered hardware into the mix isn’t out of the question 😁

I’ve never used anything Oracle out of principle

As someone who’s been forced to use Oracle products many times in the past I nod to your standards and tip my hat for your sound judgement 👍

Can you do us all a favor and blog about your experience setting this up and running it somewhere? I’ll follow you 👍

I was thinking about making my own Federated kbin-like server (writing the code from scratch) as an academic exercise. I’m a full stack developer and it’s the perfect thing to hone my non-embedded (full std) Rust skills and freshen my JavaScript skills.

I have several side projects going on at the moment (that I’ve been working on constantly for almost three years straight) and I need a mental break from that. I’d love to learn what’s a pain in the ass VS what’s good from a semi-layman’s perspective so I can make something better.

I may be just a pie-in-the-sky optimist but I think the duplicate communities thing will die down eventually. Natural selection will do it’s thing and we’ll all eventually settle in specific communities on specific instances.

Based on the nature of life itself all living things become specialized over time. This includes creatures, jobs, products, communities, etc. So what’s likely to happen is some communities will die out or be abandoned while others will thrive and yet others will simply become more specialized.

Hypothetical example: /m/gifs on Kbin might become the place to find perfect loops and high quality/serious stuff while /m/gifs on some other instance might become the place for animated silliness.