… Or just a smart kid. Me and my friend in school were also early in learning about negative numbers, but our teacher was positive about it and encouraged us to use them in the problems even though the other kids didn’t need to.

Predicted what?

(Piefed will probably replace Lemmy as the go-to eventually)

I think rather we’ll see more software popping up and diversifying the ecosystem. Then you can pick whichever you prefer. Which is the whole point of the fediverse. I’m currently working on my own implementation. Might take a long while before any alpha version as I’m super busy but I try to do at least a bit of work on it every day.

In general I don’t think I can do story games anymore

Wow, that’s the complete wrong take if you ask me! It sounds like your problems with these games are mostly in the gameplay, not the story? Have you ever played Outer Wilds or The Talos Principle? Unique puzzle games with a great story.

The sequel with Neil deGrasse Tyson is also really good.

It’s not social media that did it. It’s monopolistic, unregulated, greedy, giant tech corporations that made the internet shitty.

I actually would really love to hear how “right to be forgotten” applies to an email you’ve sent. I mean you can’t force anyone to delete an email you’ve sent to them, so how does right to be forgotten even apply for emails?

The fediverse would work in the same way, I think.

No. In fact, ActivityPub has no general mechanism for even knowing where content has been distributed to. So when you ask your instance to delete something, it can’t actually know what other instances to ask to delete the mirrored content.

Mastodon tries its best by sending deletion requests to all known instances, in the hope that that will reach all instances that have fetched the content. But in fact, instances that are unknown to your own instance could have the content as well, though this is probably a very rare occurrence.

Bottom line: Don’t write anything on the internet that you don’t want publicly displayed. Anyone can save it and then you can’t force them to delete it. That applies to the entire internet. It also applies to the fediverse.

This also presumes mods are, by default, inherently non-biased, held to a standard, and never have vendettas of their own.

Of course mods are not always like that. But if mods are like that, just go to another community. If mods are bad, just leave. On the fediverse, you “vote” with where you participate.

Yea it’s still only a partial solution. Even those feeds could get very active over time (we can hope 😅). The way Piefed implemented feeds is interesting but seems almost overengineered? Sharing feeds could have been done via a simple query parameter I feel like.

Yes, but that doesn’t scale. If there are thousands of comments being submitted constantly, the All feed would just be a new page every time you refresh for the new comments sort. It would be chaotic.

It should instead be based on a recent rate of comments for instance. Much like normal votes but comments instead and not based on the age of the post.

Sort of, but doesn’t it just sort by the latest comment? I.e. any thread would be bumped to the top by a single comment? I might be wrong. But that makes it kind of less than ideal if true.

The solution is not to build this yourself. If you are sitting and building features yourself for search, stop. Use a dedicated search database instead.

I honestly personally preferred Reddit’s sorting algorithm. Lemmy’s algorithm is a bit too slow to update for my taste. This is kind of part of Lemmy’s design though. My problem with Reddit was never it’s sorting algorithm (honestly that was a big part of its strength!), it was just all the ways they enshittified later on.

Yea, the best solution is:

• Keep votes “semi-public” (visible to mods/admins) to aid in moderation and avoid vote manipulation.
• Make it very clear to users that votes are not private.

As long as users know that votes are not private, it should be okay.

Well, that’s the nature of link aggregators. Lemmy’s and Reddit’s style is a link aggregator, not really what you would consider an old-fashioned forums. It’s a different sort of use case with different pros and cons. A con is that you don’t get these super long lived threads cause they disappear in the stream of new threads. A pro is that… you don’t get these super long lived threads cause they disappear in the stream of new threads. :P

Private message here on Lemmy or just a comment here is fine :)

Thanks for the clarifications and thoughts!

after seeing this, I do not want to get my hopes up… 😂😂😂

That’s fair haha. I definitely understand that. Building open source software, or really any software, is frought with possibility of failure. I don’t claim to be the survivor who will get through it all, that would be incredibly naive of me to claim. I’m just trying, just like others have tried before me :)

optimal management of Activitypub groups

I definitely plan to support groups. Do you mean anything in particular with “optimal” management? I mean what would be “suboptimal” management? Do you just mean an incomplete implementation?

optimal management of the DB: Piefed has made great strides, while this remains the Achilles heel of Friendica

Are you mostly talking about performance here? Or how do you mean?

Definitely agree images are important. I honestly question the value of RSS feeds. It’s not something “normal” users use. It’s very much a techy thing. I don’t know any non-technical person who even knows what RSS is or has ever even heard of it.

a registration system that combines the features of Mastodon and Lemmy

I plan to support applications and/or invitation trees (like lobste.rs uses). But more could be added I suppose. What features are you thinking of?

Definitely agree moderation is important. I want to ensure moderation is well supported with good moderation tools.

if the system allows formatted posts, a formatting bar is necessary (Lemmy is a great model). Then we should figure out whether to use Markdown or a more precise simplified HTML (BBcode is not the best)

I think you need a WYSIWYG editor. That’s what normal people expect.

I’d like to support polls and events. As said before, I want to support all kinds of content ideally.

circle management (like those of Friendica)

What is a circle in Friendica? I’m not familiar.

I’m planning and architecting the system to support filtering and good search functionality. Everything is accessible via the backend API (how else?).

I hope it’s clear that this is a “methodological distrust”, but I’m rooting for you!

Honestly not really clear - what do you mean with “methodological distrust”? What method would be trustworthy? :)

A Fediverse project really needs a team. One-man-show projects are too risky and emotionally draining

I agree, bus factor is a problem. But I feel like projects like this are very hard to start without starting as one person. I mean it’s hard to gather people around something without having anything to show at first. I’m hoping to establish something and then attract people who might be interested to contribute.

Can I ask you to create a Lemmy community or a Friendica group? It would be nice to discuss in one place

I feel it’s too early for that (again, don’t want to shout about it yet). But eventually I would definitely like to do that.