patrick
Admin of the Bestiverse
This was a potential explanation as to why Bezos did that https://lemmy.haley.io/post/1058450
This article is so weird. “We outperformed our competitors because Intel improved the performance of the AWS owned cryptography library we use.”
So like…what did you guys do? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that you did nothing, but your career would go better if you put it in the article that is specifically for bragging about your accomplishment.
Are you willing to bet the stability of an entire language’s dependency ecosystem on that? Just so that we can write “crates.io” instead of “crates.rust-lang.org”?
That’s really the question. I do agree that there’s almost no chance it goes away as too many places and too much money depends on it.
Forgot to mention .sh, which is also a ccTLD for a tiny island nation, and also shouldn’t be used for hosting anything that is difficult to move.
On the feature side, according to Mastodons recent 4.3 release post development is only 4 full time employees and a budget of under $500k annually. That is basically nothing in the realm of social media companies.
Improving Mastodons features requires money and resources, but Mastodons users are unwilling to pay for instances and unwillingly to fund development. Hell, the .world folks host a bunch of instances for collectively hundreds of thousands of users and they take in about $1k a month in donations. I’m surprised that even covers hosting costs.
So…it’s no wonder that it isn’t going to be as polished as other social media in ways that would reduce the attrition.
That’s cool. Personally I just integrated it into my normal chat client by connecting Aichat, which supports a ton of backends including Ollama and hosted options, with Matrix.
Blog post with more info https://jackson.dev/post/chaz/
PieFed has implemented Topics, which are groups of communities maintained by the instance admin. I think they plan to make topics per user at some point.