OneRedFox

joined 2 years ago
[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The future is probably going to be:

  • Whitelist federation models with invite-only instances.
  • Anubis and similar software being a base requirement for operation.
  • Getting creative with stuff like picture-based logic puzzles as a type of captcha.
  • A retreat into less publicly visible spaces like chat apps that you can only get access to through networking.
[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, and with the corporate culture that MBAs bring with them, they also tend to make everything as boring and sterile as possible since any degree of fun and personality could be seen as off-putting to a hypothetical person.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hm, hopefully Discord takes awhile to enshittify. Sounds like the current solutions need time to polish up.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I did find out recently that the team behind the Element Matrix client made Element Call and integrated it into their apps recently, but I've never used it personally. Have you used it? How was it?

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They definitely got the Discord aesthetic down. Unfortunately, it seems to be both self-hostable and unfederated, which means that the userbase is going to be split up between a bunch of small and quiet instances with no convenient way to interact with the larger ecosystem. Their FAQ suggests that while it's not in the roadmap currently, they're still open to the idea, so maybe we should let them know that this would be a desirable thing.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oh? When did they change that?

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 27 points 2 months ago (6 children)

And so the hell-loop continues. Matrix seems like the closest successor, but having used it for awhile I would describe the experience as janky-but-workable. Signal's good, but requires a phone number. I hear that Mumble's good, but it's overly focused on VoIP. Hopefully the alternatives polish themselves up before the enshittification gets too bad.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 2 points 3 months ago

I use what's packaged in my distro's repositories, unless I need a specific version, or the software isn't packaged at all.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

Ah yeah, I remember reading that post awhile ago. I was quite surprised to find out how old Friendica is (first release in 2010); if that doesn't demonstrate longevity, then I dunno what does.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 12 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Federated social media has been around for a long time; the oldest one that I know of was identi.ca from the late 2000s. ActivityPub platforms like Mastodon have since breathed a lot of life into the federated ecosystem and I'm excited to see what the future holds for it.

[–] OneRedFox@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

Hot damn! Never thought that I'd see the day.

 

I'm quite fond of this music player, but development has since ceased and I've been looking around for an active fork; does anyone happen to know of one?


For future people searching this, here's an active fork:

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