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Thank you! Finally managed to quit vim!
These posts are really useful to get a grasp of ActivityPub (if you have a programming background): https://rknight.me/building-an-activitypub-server/ https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/how-to-implement-a-basic-activitypub-server/
And of course the official spec (although its less useful): https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
And a followup question: wouldn’t it be more efficient for big instances to use WebSockets to federate? Making a HTTP request for every action your users take seems unnecessarily wasteful.
Amazing blog post! Been reading the ActivityPub spec and found it rather lacking. It’s only when you add WebFinger and signed messages that things start to make sense.
+1 Or perhaps lottery numbers? I’m not picky
Good point. They wouldn’t be able to see what posts you’re looking at and how long. However, they would still see all the posts you interact with (upvote, comment) and build a profile based on that data. Surely that must be enough to serve somewhat relevant ads?
Valid point. My proposed free-tier would make them no money. However, by charging a reasonable amount of money for the API, they could make way more than they are right now. Christian noted that Reddit makes about $0.12 per user per month. If they would charge say $0.99 for an average user, they’d have to run no ads and make 8 times more money per user than using their own app.
I think Reddit’s CEO is making a fool out of himself by how he’s managing this situation. I think however that the solution is very simple and straightforward.
Let’s start: I can understand that Reddit has costs to operate the platform. I also get that they don’t want big companies to abuse the API to train ML models and profit of it. Fair game!
But why not offer a generous free tier for regular users? Say, every user gets 500 free API calls per day. Regular users stay within the free tier, while big companies can’t do anything meaningful with only 500 calls per day (so they end up paying money).
Seems pretty straightforward to me. Everyone happy! Many other companies offer generous free-tiers for exactly this reason. Am I missing something?
Same here (love Pages and Workers). Just wish their support for top level country domains (particularly .be for me).
4 ICE, 4 TC, 4 MGU-H, 4 MGU-K, 2 ES, 2 CE and 8 EX
That’s a good point. The same content exists on multiple instances. I think Lemmy should set a canonical URL the HTML <head>. The canonical URL of each post should point to the instance where a post originates from.
Seems like that is not implemented in Lemmy. Also checked Mastodon, and doesn’t have a canonical tag either.
I’ve started using it a couple of weeks ago. For now, I’m having it capture emails with invoices and moving the PDFs to a folder in my Google Drive.
Check the updated post. It’s running on a dedicated server hosted by Hetzner. Specs are high-end: “AMD EPYC 7502P 32 Cores “Rome” CPU and 128GB RAM.”
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