julian

@panos@community.nodebb.org I’m also not able to fetch it directly

https://catodon.rocks/notes/akv4dziup8bz00hy sends HTTP 401 to my local dev instance. Might be because it’s a localhost address.

It loads on from a properly hosted instance though :)

@panos@community.nodebb.org Was not able to resolve the post, but I don’t think it’s your fault, lemmy.world turned on CF bot protection and it’s blocking me :(

Very cool to see fresh new forums popping up! I’ve written a NodeBB-specific federation kickstart guide here that you may be interested in 🙂

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/19228/federation-community-kickstart-guide

@rabiezaater@piefed.social not all instances enable them. I think Piefed can restrict them in some manners (local users only, or something), and in NodeBB you can disable them completely.

It’s not an all-or-nothing proposition, if you think downvotes are not good, run a software (or join an instance) that doesn’t have them enabled.

To my knowledge, Catodon was started by @panos@catodon.rocks, who for the longest time was a Firefish advocate, but was disappointed by the bait and switch pulled by those devs.

With the advent of AI, Panos is taking it upon himself to fork Firefish and build the social media experience he wanted all long.

Can’t really argue with that :smile:

I disagree. I think that you can have both.

I think big tech has proven that it cannot be trusted. Their priorities are simply not in alignment with our own. Legislation seems to be the only lever that can hope to rein them in (market forces are no longer strong enough).

At the same time, smaller networks do not have the resources to comply with government regulations to a T, and so they should be given a longer leash. Governments also do not have the resources to chase down every Tom, Dick, and Harry running a Lemmy server (well, they do, but they shouldn’t.)

Whether reality will play out this way is uncertain.

Well, nice to see this post come up. Hello!