https://archive.ph/y0nY3

Summary:

The whole post seems strange to me, what do you all think?

Additional context: https://fedihosting.foundation/lw-team/

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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    2 months ago

    Sounds like Discuit should add apub integration. At this day and age it honestly baffles me that people like the devs of raddle and discuit go all like “No we don’t want to talk to anyone else. You have to join our walled garden!”

    • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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      2 months ago

      There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don’t see the appeal.

      One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots

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        There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don’t see the appeal.

        Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

        One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots

        Lol, at an age where people are preconditioned to assume this means a subscription lock-in and the rest don’t even own one, I wonder how many people took them up on that offer.

        I also love the naivety of thinking $3 once will stop spammers. As if that wouldn’t be a perfectly cheap amount to pay to spam all their users if they had a lot of them. Twitter has $8 a pop and it’s innundated with spam

        • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOP
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          Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

          Well put. It’s a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms…

          • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
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            Software devs and their “I can build this better from scratch in one weekend” mentality, mate…