Uhh totally unrelated but… how hard is it to get fedi platforms working over the alt internets, like tor/i2p/ipfs/etc? I’m sure somebody somewhere must be working on that, right?

Whoa this is awesome. There are soooo many obscure seeds I’d like to get, but that aren’t buyable! Definitely joining.

In addition to Loops, there was also Vidzy and Goldfish, but I don’t think they still exist?

I love WAFRN so much 😭

You can from Mastodon! Not sure from Pixelfed but it seems probable? With mastodon it’s something like… you just @ mention the community, and have one separate line at the top to become the post title? I think?

It does have groups! And they’re even interoperable with Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin groups. The experience is definitely very Facebook like, and there are themes that make it even more so.

On the other hand, every instance I’ve ever been on has run into serious lag issues and/or collapsed entirely… Hoping that’s not universal or else gets fixed soon.

While i definitely agree, none of this is a deal breaker for me. What is a deal breaker is this: I am on my third Friendica account now because the first 2 instances both started struggling and then collapsed. The one I’m on now is suddenly running very slow, just like the first 2 before the end. It seems to me like maybe they’re kinda hard to run?

I’m always soooo excited for native fediverse apps, because PWAs are annoying in a bunch of ways. But then it actually happens, and I remember that none of the cool themes will be in there 😅

This is still AWESOME though!! I think that’s what was holding a lotttttt of people off, waiting for an app

WHOAAA!!! that’s actually a HUGE deal and it hadn’t even occurred to me how much I was missing it.

It wouod be amazing to see Ibis take off and pick up more developers

Oh wow, I never thought to do it that way, but it makes so much sense! Thanks for the tip

!notebooks@lemmy.cafe
Ooh neat!

I don’t have that… 🙃

Running a web server on my residential connection is against my ISP’S terms of service.

I’ve always wanted to do this, but I can’t afford a VPS. And everytime I look into self-hosting on hardware at home, I just get the impression that it’s nearly impossible… My ISP forbids it, and even if I can evade their notice, people say having a public facing setup at home is bound to get you attacked eventually

Closest we’ve got right now is Flohmarkt, right? If they haven’t already been working on some kinda trust system, they’re probably taking code contributions. I saw somewhere else somebody suggested Loops integration for it, so they could have something like the tiktok shop. I mean capitalism is garbage, but unfortunately we do currently gotta buy stuff occasionally, and it would be nice if that experience sucked less.

Ooh that’s a great idea! Would this also be a good place to seek additional mods for not-quite-abandoned communities? I’ve been realllyyyy slacking on mine, life just gets in the way lol

Oh cool!! Yeah I definitely tried it on a few silly ones just because lol. Now somebody’s just gotta try Sharkey, Misskey, MBin, uh… GoToSocial. Probably a bunch more that I don’t know about. ActivityPub is so neat!

This doesn’t realllllyyyy answer your main question, but you got me curious how WriteFreely blog posts look from other platforms, and which ones can see them. So, I tried a few with this post of mine. Obviously some of these wouldn’t make any sense, and also for some of them I may have just never figured out how to properly format the URL/search the way it wanted. But, here’s what I got on every platform where I have an account:

• Mastodon (“https://todon.eu/@the-rose-garden@text.tchncs.de/113624027917705904”): If you’re logged in, it shows the title, any pictures, and a link to the full text. If you’re logged out, it shows you a redirect option to the originating blog. Had to remove this link because PieFed hates it for some reason.
• Friendica: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with a “read more” accordion.
• WAFRN: Shows the whole post roughly as it should look, albeit with all the pictures at the bottom.
• BookWyrm: Logged in, it can see the blog but can’t retrieve the post. Logged out, it automatically redirects to the blog.
• NeoDB (“https://neodb.social/users/@the-rose-garden@text.tchncs.de/”): Logged in, it can see the blog but not the post. Logged out, it asks you to log in. Had to remove this link because PieFed hates it for some reason.
• Lemmy: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
• PieFed: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
• Pixelfed: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
• Mobilizon: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
• Ibis: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.
• Peertube: Can’t seem to access the post or blog at all.

Having used BookWyrm and NeoDB, it’s definitely very comparable to GoodReads vs IMDB, at least in terms of interface/user experience/aesthetics/etc. BookWyrm being specifically for books, it has a ton of fields that wouldn’t be applicable to anything else, i.e. “publisher”, " ISBN". It can pull data automatically from some outside book databases. NeoDB seems able to do that same thing, except for any kind of media. Not sure where all they’re pulling the data from. They also seem to have fields for just about anything, from tracklist to director to author.