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Misskey: Alternative Fediverse software that also uses ActivityPub

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I like sharing this article concerning people who may be thinking about creating a new viral social media service. The lesson would be to tap into an existing social graph with the use of interoperable standardized protocols:

https://www.michellelim.org/writing/into-the-fediverse/

What I'd really like to see though is a decent CMS with this sort of paradigm in mind. RSS is nice but AP takes that to a completely new level of interactivity. CNN, BBC, NYTimes, these are all orgs that should be offering ActivityPub installations on their own domain names (although, not for public sign-up though. We can restrict who actually publishes content via internal directories today) and pumping content into the ecosystem.

gov/public sector and institutions can be doing this too.

Seems like there's only been one tiny appearance so far:

Misskey, a decentralized microblogging platform with ActivityPub support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17946447 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)

As someone who has also been running a Misskey server for a little while, I've observed that whilst the resouce usage is a little higher than other federation softwares such as Pleroma, the stability is amazing, even on the development branch.

There are some features missing however that I've grown accustomed to. Functionality that I quite often find myself using on a Pleroma based installation such as leaving internal comments on reports, easily being able to mark posts and media as sensitive and different levels of instance specific blocks (media removal, hidden from public timelines, follow only) are either hidden or not implemented as of yet within Misskey but the development of this software currently seems to be adding in all of the community recommended features that we feel are missing.

Whilst I'm not 100% happy with Misskey in it's current state, I think it's only a matter of time before all of the most popular missing features have been implemented and it become a viable replacement for other more mature fediverse softwares.

can we bring back RSS already? it wasn't broken.

Mastodon, Pleroma, and Misskey (via plugin) all support RSS feeds.

(Disclaimer: I guess this is off-topic, as the server is running Pleroma, not Misskey, but I did find the reference in a Misskey screenshot.)

I think this is kinda messed up: http://shitmyself.com/image/dats_wack.png

it's a base64 encoded JWT blob

One thing worth noting is that Misskey blocking is currently broken/doesn't function like Mastodon or Twitter. I've seen a lot of fediverse users complaining about getting notifications and replies from users they've blocked, so hopefully that gets addressed.

the lead developer has (to my knowledge) been under sustained financial distress for some time. It'd be nice to see more funding in this ecosystem (however, the money seems to be flowing into the crypto space unfortunately).

I know that blocks are supposed to be federated, but surely getting notifications from people they've blocked is the fault of the server of the blocker, no? It can't keep track of local blocks?

It must keep track of the local blocks because it's the authoritative source for them. You can't rely on someone else's server to enforce your blocks for you because then the whole idea of blocking becomes useless once there are any malicious actors at all.

Exactly, that's why I'm confused by their comment. Does Mastodon really offload that to the server of the blockee?

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