BlueSky, an algo site.

What Fedi needs in order to become easy, is an app that hooks into the browser and recognizes that a page is connected to ActivityPub so you can (optionally) interact with it from your own account via the app. Like what we had for RSS readers and rel alternate links back in the bronze age.

Because while true metal hearts know how to jump hoops like accepts headers JSON parsing blah blah blah pasting URLs into the search bar and so on, many people don’t even know what an URL is.

Yeah, yeah, this problem is exacerbated on Akkoma since it doesn’t support redirects (for arguably good reason) so it’s harder to interact with some sites like Peer Tube:

Vänta, vah?! Vad är det som Elk gör säger du?!

Hur funkar det!? Det jag absolut inte vill att den ska göra är att uppmana folk att posta en massa asterisker och sånt som syns som asterisker för alla andra men som formaterade i Elk. Om det nu är så den gör så är det inte okej.

För att vara specifik så skickas själva formateringen runt i HTML så det är enkla taggar som <strong> och <em> som stöds för att visa. Även om vi använder Markdown i det som klienten skickar till vår egen instans.

Här är tråden som svarar på din första fråga (sammanfattning: det verkar inte vara planerat eller på gång).

An ActivityPub server with an NNTP interface.

Yes, please! This seems great.

Winter.

with really poor discovery isn’t a long term proposition.

Sometimes I feel like I got into ActivityPub too early because something like this.

mighta been more my jam in 2020 than what I went with at the time (what’s now called Akkoma). But at this point switching to this doesn’t make a lot of sense for me. I’ll keep the idea in my back pocket.

Men för att svara på din specifika fråga så finns dom här.

Issue for the aforementioned.

Not sure if an Akkoma MRF could help moderate posts bridged from Bluesky.

Interesting! Might be something I’d wanna migrate parts of Idiomdrottning.org over to. Down the line. Need to prioritize spoons.

@bacardi55@social.bacardi55.io on not putting web mentions and comments on the blog.

This site doesn’t allow to add or display any user generated content (UGC). One could argue that I can’t because this is a static site, but it could be easy to add comments via discuss or an opensource alternative like Isso or Chirpy.

An interesting post from last summer that I didn’t see until now.

The most common—but usually not the only—response, cited as a primary or secondary reason in about 75 replies—had to do with feeling unwelcome, being scolded, and getting lectured.

Interesting tidbit from PieFed’s dev:

The thing with the more twitter-style ActivityPub projects is they send activities to individual users inboxes a lot, whereas with the threadverse it’s all shared inboxes. So there’s a fundamental difference in the way they use the protocol which makes scaling those projects much more difficult.

PieFed is lemmy/kbin clone written in Python with Flask:

Ah, there already is a pretty good FEP for those proxy issues I’ve been having nightmares about for a few weeks 💁🏻‍♀️

Over at cohost, Random832 writes about Fedi:

Because ultimately moderation is an N/M problem where N is the number of users on the entire network and M is the number of moderators on your instance.

That’s true. One more reason to not use “The Whole Known Network” but instead bubble up with some trusted, well-moderated, allow-listed instances. (And one more reason why I’m kinda scared of AT proto, which doesn’t do moderation well.)

Cohost gets around this since there, while N is still the number of users on the entirety of cohost, M gets to be the moderators on the entirety of cohost. Mods don’t need to duplicate work the way they need to on Fedi.

(I can’t reply there since only silo members can, which I’m not.)