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Unfortunately the people’s front of Mastodon defederated from the Mastodon People’s front.
Platformism ftw
Person is doing worthwhile things but has way too much confidence in the fediverse. Welcome to Lemmy though, if the author makes it here.
The author has had many articles here.
I see. @_elena@mastodon.social congrats.
This is the way. We can all do our part to build and evangelize the fediverse.
And don’t say things like it’s too complicated or nobody will listen to us. That’s objectively not true.
There are 20 million fediverse users. Stay positive and keep moving forward!
We also have to stop thinking that everything has to grow fast, and lose hope just because it’s not. Change take a really long time. Sometimes decades. Silicon Valley are obsessed with fast growth because it’s all driven by the promise of easy money. No need to adopt their mindset. Look how fast their products turn to shit.
Absolutely agree. Saying we don’t have the user base or growth of commercial sites is a straw man argument. That’s not the goal. Building solid communities of real people is.
The revolution will not be televised.
Just cause…
I’m trying to get into fediverse/ activity pub development and i’m trying to find like a “hello world” level tutorial. Does anyone have any thoughts or know an example?
For me, trying to read the actual protocol or even tutorials that try to explain the protocol in a more approachable manner, didn’t help at all. It’s no understatement that ActivityPub itself is a mess.
But reading the Fedify documentation and describing “activities” with the library helped a lot more!
Even if you don’t plan on writing Js/Ts, I recommend the Fedify tutorial.
Lemmy’s Docs are pretty good.
The article became better as it went along. At the end I really wanted to increase my own FLOSS skills.
I think what the Fediverse mainly needs is more people with IT skills and money and infrastructure to host this stuff. Mastodon still doesn’t appeal to mainstream users, Lemmy is still having federation issues and missing central features. It will all still take years. Another thing is the problem of hosting all of this stuff, if it should scale.
I also used to write articles like this here, and I’m not completely against them if they don’t actually call for any ridiculous actions against big tech in a “revolution” (not a big butlerian jihad fan; make code not memes). At the end I guess I feel to be on the same page as her: I want to increase my own coding skills to effectively contribute something to the Fediverse (meaning without getting burned out in the process).
Let’s hope more people will join. If I start seeing my government officials e.g. on Mastodon, I’ll probably just assume we won.
