hendrik

I like the idea. Better yet: Don’t put it on top, but make it part of the platform itself. I think moderation is an integral part of a platform and should be baked in.

And another idea: Some other platforms have moderation be some kind of feed. We could expose moderation decisions as some kind of feed people can subscribe to. That way I could say: I trust team XY to do the moderation for me. And someone else could subscribe to a different “court” or team of moderators who are more or less strict. I kinda like that idea as well. But it’s also guaranteed to be (ab)used for the usual political, online ideology/identity war. Not sure if that’s a bad thing or a good thing.

If you combine both concepts, you’d get a solution which isn’t “central”. And it offers customizability to the users, and/or individual instance admins.

Gitea is fine. If you like a hosted option you can use codeberg.org . But even GitHub is better than nothing. If you’re using some development environment, try to connect it to your Git repository, that’ll do it for you and all you need is to press 2 buttons.

And think of it as an investment. Sure, you gotta put in the one or two hours to (re)learn the basics. But at some point it’ll save your ass and save you half a day of unnecessary work.

Try Mbin or PieFed, they got you covered. I think especially MBin is great to be part of both of these continents of the Fediverse world. PieFed is still missing some bits as of now.

I had some time to think about this. And from what I gather, the missing encryption is probably one of the major showstoppers here.

For one people expect chat to come with some minimum standards. I mean proper e2ee and several other features have been part of practically every other chat solution out there, for quite some time now. And we need it to supply that amount of confidence to enable people to talk to their family, friends, colleagues… We’d need it to eat our own dogfood and discuss internal stuff within mod teams, etc…

And semi-public unencrypted chat messages are kind of a liability to admins as well. We expect people to do nefarious stuff once they think they’re in some sort of closed group. And that stuff can’t federate uncontrollably and we also can’t have it sit on our servers. And that means either encryption as well (so the admins don’t have to deal with it). Or a massive amount of effort and potential legal issues.

Yeah, that’d be awesome. And a lot of work to get it right, communicate with people etc. If I remember correctly, there’s been efforts for years to get group chats standardized with proper end-to-end-encryption etc… And I’m not aware of any final result.

Edit: I probably didn’t remember correctly… Wasn’t group chats in itself pretty straightforward. But issue is people want some encryption to make it properly useful… And we never finalized any draft on how to handle all the keys and the complexity that comes with e2ee?

Nice, thanks. Though I’m afraid what I/we need, is a FEP for group chats and end-to-end-encryption. (And some kind of reference implementation.)

https://activitypub.space/ run a NodeBB, maybe you can ask to test against them?

Unfortunately, the interesting parts like group chats are not standardized, so not compatible to other Fediverse platforms.

And I’m generally a bit wary of AI written projects. It’s just hard to contribute and get a community going. And a lot of those kinds of projects show some crazy initial growth. And then they might get abandoned once the developer decides to start a new hobby or stop paying for the necessary tokens. Not sure if this is the case here, though.

It’d be nice to have something like this. Ideally an interoperable version.

Uhm, have you seen the amount of Spam, Phishing, Hacking, no replies we get on E-Mail?!? How is that working properly? It even cancels my attachments etc. And admins have to put in a massive amount of effort, constantly to make it work. Instant messenging isn’t great either. Neither is Facebook, X, TikTok and all the other central for-profit social media platforms?!! None of it works on an acceptable level.

Yes, there’s some contradiction built in. The more freedom we give to users, the more that freedom can be abused by nefarious people. I don’t think there’s a good technical solution to this. At least not if we want it to be a public space.

Looks a bit like it’s vibe-coded, or AI assisted, or written by someone who isn’t aware of how to comment computer code?! The project is 2 years old, though, so maybe not just vibe-coded.

Other than that, I’m all for zero-knowledge proofs and open-source, user-empowering identity management solutions. Make it open-source, distributed, resilient, customizable and privacy-first. And once you’re at it, try to make it do a few other things as well. Like captchas, email encryption, nomadic identity…

Yeah, probably for the same reason few people sew their own t-shirts, knit their pullovers and repair the plumbing and electrical work in their house by themselves.

Sure. I have Home Assistant with STT and TTS. And I use KoboldCPP to experiment with smaller LLMs. Nothing fancy, it’ll run on my old laptop, albeit very slow.

And if you do, make sure to read them thoroughly. Most of these rules apply to for-profit hosting only. Or they’re vague and they can’t enforce them. And most contracts don’t have rules anyway. They’re mostly concerned with you not attracting DCMA complaints or a virus hosting some spam email server.

Timely updates do a lot of the heavy-lifting.

And I hope you picked a better admin dashboard this time or that’s properly locked behind some tunnel. I myself try not to run admin dashboards. SSH with keys is more convenient and secure anyway.

I learned I pretty much never need old data for my hobby selfhosting stuff. So I do 4 weeks. I’ll notice if something breaks within 4 weeks and fix it. I occasionally do manual backups, for example when migrating stuff and keep them for longer. And I got some old stuff like in xkcd 1360.

I suppose I could do more, but I also want the privacy policy of my online services to say: x weeks and all the logs and unnecessary data is gone.

The US have their own KIDS act it’s currently in the Senate.

Me getting too busy to maintain my own server 😅

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