Eugen RochkoGood morning friends, this server is once again suffering under a heavy load of traffic and I am once again working on making it work better. Please be patient 
It took 10 hours but the timelines finally caught up. @Claire and I identified a few performance issues that only become evident once there's a ton of activity.
I can't believe @janboehm actually signed up in the meantime. Hi! I like your music! Sorry the website was slow today. 
This kind of success is as exciting as it is terrifying. Nobody prepares you for this. Every moment I am second guessing if I’m doing everything I can with the given situation.
Katrien Vermeulen@Gargron Thank you for this 🙏 beautiful platform, please don't sell it to the highest bidding billionaires...
sj_zero@miauw @Gargron It literally can't be sold.
The fediverse isn't one website. It's thousands of websites with millions of users, operating on dozens of separate software projects, all having the ActivityPub federation protocol in common.
You can no more purchase such a thing than you can purchase "The Internet". It just isn't a thing that's for sale.
We've had different parts of the fediverse decide to "go private" and stop being part of the broader whole (and websites based on open source software that nonetheless disable activitypub support and federation from day 1), and it just means people have to move to different instances that still properly federate.
That being said, it's a two sided sword: on one hand, no one person controls it so it can't be sold. On the other, no one person controls it so if you're expecting unified moderation (and the possibility of influencing that moderation) beyond the instance you're presently on, you're out of luck. Each instance is a unique website run by its own admins, so moderation decisions are limited to either content on the specific website, or the import of content from other websites (and possibly the export of content to the same other websites).
The fediverse isn't one website. It's thousands of websites with millions of users, operating on dozens of separate software projects, all having the ActivityPub federation protocol in common.
You can no more purchase such a thing than you can purchase "The Internet". It just isn't a thing that's for sale.
We've had different parts of the fediverse decide to "go private" and stop being part of the broader whole (and websites based on open source software that nonetheless disable activitypub support and federation from day 1), and it just means people have to move to different instances that still properly federate.
That being said, it's a two sided sword: on one hand, no one person controls it so it can't be sold. On the other, no one person controls it so if you're expecting unified moderation (and the possibility of influencing that moderation) beyond the instance you're presently on, you're out of luck. Each instance is a unique website run by its own admins, so moderation decisions are limited to either content on the specific website, or the import of content from other websites (and possibly the export of content to the same other websites).
@miauw @Gargron No matter what, you've always got the "atomic option": Self-hosting. Then the only person who can sell out is you.
I spend more time on websites I own and operate than any other thanks to Activitypub. My feed features users from 130 other instances, and my interactions with them are identical to as if I were on the same platform asthem.
I spend more time on websites I own and operate than any other thanks to Activitypub. My feed features users from 130 other instances, and my interactions with them are identical to as if I were on the same platform asthem.