Wouldn’t get used by corps probably?

Yes as it is almost the same category as mastodon

I do agree that the hard left seems to enjoy using “liberal” as an insult, knowing that what most Americans interpret as “liberal” is different than the academic definition they use. It needlessly diverts the conversation and makes them think they’re superior.

Saying “shitlib” is even worse. Basically an adhom attack, not acceptable when the other party is being civil and respectful.

On #2 and #3, I don’t think that is relevant to the original accusation. Of course they will uphold their own views. But #1 is very valid. Though I wish to see examples of it because I have not.

Do you have examples? I am not doubting, since I’ve seen loads of people saying it. But I’ve never come across it myself.

Lemmy is kinda close to forums and groups. But I do agree I prefer that format over the Reddit-like format.

I wish algorithms were opt-in, transparent, and allowed choice (whether by choosing an algorithm over another, or customizing parameters).

If this were the case, I’d have no issue with algos.

Can you give examples please?

The biggest weakness of using activityPub is it is harder to control compared to rolling out your own incompatible variant.

Feed Algorithms aren’t inherently wrong imo. The problem with typical feed algorithms is two things:

• no user choice or control: the user cannot opt out of the algorithm, and cannot customize the algorithm
• lack of transparency: there’s little to no visibility how exactly the algorithm operates.

This certainly helps, but I think is not enough. If I go to the “All” feed, I get everything indiscriminately. I wish there was some in between mechanism. I don’t claim to have the answer.

This doesn’t address searchability also.

Searchability is bad.

Growing a new community is hard. I wish people used lemmyverse more often.

Having a fully customizable feed algorithm would be a killer feature.

Maybe would be easy to fork it

By free software you mean the FSF or OSI definition. Many people won’t care, and some of us actively are against corporate leech on free software, which this license helps with.

I’m happy to read reviews on goodreads and bookwyrm, but write reviews only on bookwyrm.

Does the fediverse need to maintain its “soul”? As long as it preserves user choice and corporate resistance, the rest isn’t required and can be maintained in those specific instances.

Venture capital backed project. That’s enough for me to avoid when non-corporate options exist. Tired of for-profit corporations ruin open source.

There’s tangible reasons to avoid it, but the VC thing is enough for me.

Like what? What did it solve that activitypub refused to?

The PDS, in many ways, fulfills a simple role: it hosts your account and gives you the ability to log in, it holds the signing keys for your data, and it keeps your data online and highly available. Unlike a Mastodon instance, it does not need to function as a full-fledged social media service. We wanted to make atproto data hosting—like web hosting—into a fairly simple commoditized service. The PDS’s role has been limited in scope to achieve this goal. By limiting the scope, the role of a PDS in maintaining an open and fluid data network has become all the more powerful.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-federation

And:

In the Bluesky app, we hardcode our in-house moderation to provide a strong foundation that upholds our community guidelines. We will continue to uphold our existing policies in the Bluesky app, even as this new architecture is made available. With the introduction of labelers, users will be able to subscribe to additional moderation services on top of the existing foundation of our in-house moderation.

https://docs.bsky.app/blog/blueskys-moderation-architecture

You’ll see a lot more on their site. But the point is, this is more about a “distributed infrastructure” than federated control. So much still has to go through their central servers. Hosting your own server has little benefits. Moderation is still very centralized, even after their planned features for moderation.

They’ve already made it clear what they mean by federation, and it has none of the benefits of real federation like in lemmy or mastodon.

You’re right, I should look into the 4050 range.