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It is self-hosted because you can host it yourself.
Well, all software on GitHub, more or less, satisfies this definition, so I don't think it's what was meant.
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The tech also doesn't help. It's a "typical" Rails application: large, convoluted, lot's of moving parts, and services, and generally slow as molasses (solved by throwing more hardware at it). As experienced Rails dev(ops), I managed to run and help run an instance, but it's not something done on a friday afternoon, let alone scale up. What we really need in this landscape is dead simple services. I'm thinking about…
> The fediverse needs this as well: just plop a binary on your VPS or homeserver and you're running. Such lean and simple servers are being worked on, but Mastodon itself is a huge, slow and hairy beast. Even if you get the tech stack solved to an easily deployable package: The problem is you still need to invest immense amounts of time on moderation. Some of that responsibility is enforced legally (e.g. CSAM, warez,…
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Well, all software on GitHub, more or less, satisfies this definition, so I don't think it's what was meant.
Not "all software on GitHub" because most of that is proprietary. To run it yourself it generally needs to be [free software]( https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/ ).
The dominant licenses on GitHub are Apache and MIT. Neither of those licenses designate proprietary software. Both allow me (as an individual) to run software myself.
In fact, the licenses which satisfy "free software" criteria -- GPL etc. -- are more or less impossible to use in any context where legal jurisprudence would apply. That means any context where a lawyer could possibly get involved.
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No, it's not about that. This developer created a fake website claiming to represent the whole Fediverse, à la https://joinmastodon.org/ . His version recommends the following instances, in order, with the message "Browse a small sample of Fediverse servers that are welcoming to newcomers below.": • Literal Neo-Nazi site. Defederated by nearly all of Fedi because they are literal, card-carrying Nazis . • Transphobia-…
made an account simply to say that when you say things like "The bottom two are legitimately part of the Fediverse – albeit the shady alleyways of the Fediverse" its really obvious how poorly you think of these other groups, such that even if they're still people using the same software for this, that because of their views they aren't "legitimate". i dont really get that, but i figure i'd say that when you lead off…
Nah, shady alleyways are great. I'm friendly acquaintances with quite a few people there, and it's legitimately the right place for them. They're just not places I'd send somebody new to the Fediverse to, for the same reason I wouldn't direct a tourist through the backstreets. Sorry if the analogy wasn't clear.
But the others? They aren't legitimate members of the community. They're not making the protocols; they're not interested in the ideals or in collaboration; and they want to hurt the people who are.
> when you lead off with They're Literal Neo Nazis
I don't know how else to describe them. What do you call somebody who puts Nazi armbands, pictures of Adolf Hitler, and the word 'Nazi' in their bio, and regularly talks about how much they want to commit genocide? People who are so aligned with Nazism that they even call themselves Nazis are not welcome. It's not just "views". They want to murder us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
> many of them are [Nazis], same with fse or spc or any other given.
Nope, couldn't find any Nazis on SPC. There are xenophobes and self-described fascists on FSE, but I haven't seen any card-carrying Nazis – and I've already said what I have to say about that instance, anyway. If somebody there starts causing problems for the rest of Fedi, they soon discover they can't take what they dish out.
There are disagreements about basically everything else, but the Fediverse does not tolerate actual Nazis.
> stop posting about how some guy who has no access to your life
To my knowledge, this is the second thing I've written about him that wasn't to him. (The first was my previous comment in this thread.) I don't have any particular reason to rant about him – but that doesn't mean I'm going to avoid discussing him when it's relevant.
He's not a stranger to me. While he was still tolerated in them, we ran in the same circles. I trusted him enough to approve his follow request.¹ The last conversation I remember us having – before I made some followers-only posts about myself that, apparently, put me on his 'undesirables' list – was me being excited to play his upcoming video game.²
It's not a case of him being kicked out of our spaces; he removed himself from them with his antagonistic and bullying behaviour. (He even tried to force people to use his protocols by deliberately breaking compatibility; that's not how the Fediverse works.) And now he's pretending he speaks for the whole Fediverse – something none of us do – when his software isn't even compatible with Diaspora*. And he's telling people that a group of Nazis is the Fediverse's idea of "welcoming to newcomers".
If he stopped being such a prick, I'd welcome him back. Because I liked him.
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¹: He uses Pleroma, so everything short of DMs would've shown up on his Home timeline. Unlike Mastodon's Home timeline algorithm, this would've included unlisted replies to other people's unlisted threads, and my parts of 'followers-only' conversations even where he wasn't following the other participants. So, quite a lot of access to my life, actually.
²: The video game appears abandoned, now; it's unfinished, and hasn't been worked on for over two years. Must've dropped off his list of priorities.