Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallenge Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallenge?atomcommentsDWiki2020-06-17T17:09:49ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallenge.By Pete Zaitcev on /blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallengetag:CSpace:blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallenge:4bce33eed000018fe0d8e616b4472fd45a5beca4Pete Zaitcev<div class="wikitext"><p>Usenet always was garbage and its protocols were underdocumented at best. Don't confuse snazzy RFCs with actual documentation. There was way more Usenet than ihave-sendme. In fact, most of the network was manually configured to form a spanning tree. That part had zero documentation outside of manuals for INN.</p>
<p>Fediverse is not in any way less documented than Usenet.</p>
</div>2020-06-17T17:09:49ZBy Greg A. Woods on /blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallengetag:CSpace:blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallenge:9c5386b81980f5e181a9618370027a43f96058f6Greg A. Woods<div class="wikitext"><p>One of the big problems I see with all these "federated" social network systems is that they're built on incredibly poorly designed and documented protocols; and they are most horribly implemented the worst possible patchwork of really bad tools and languages, thus making it quite a big commitment and huge risk to try to start another instance.</p>
<p>Compare them to, say, Usenet. We have a long ways to go to get back to how good Usenet was in these days of using the damn browser for everything.</p>
</div>2020-06-11T18:13:02ZBy katre on /blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallengetag:CSpace:blog/tech/FediverseDiversityChallenge:fca54155c911dca6ed96cff69c3f764f9c47227ekatre<div class="wikitext"><p>The good news with Mastodon is that it's not hard (and getting easier) to move instances.</p>
<p>I started on mastodon.social myself, and then after a bit decided to go self-hosted (so now I am katre@masto.henchmonkey.org), and the easy UI for shifting accounts made it much simpler than, say, switching to a new Twitter account would have been.</p>
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