People aren't against companies, people are against Meta. In the wider fediverse, anyway.
A while back there was talk of Tumblr potentially joining the fediverse, and it was met with neutral to positive reactions. No idea what happened there, maybe they're still working on it, but I do not expect a "fedipact against tumblr" to gain as much steam (if any) when they decide to announce they're ready to flip the ActivityPub switch.
(no idea if my other comment got sent out, this may be a duplicate)
This seems extremely elitist, even if just for the fact that you do not know what other knowledge (and experiences and viewpoints and...) those people who'd be interested in those communities would bring.
If you want a site comprised entirely of - what it seems to me - techbros who talk about how large their homelab Kubernetes clusters are, you should do that by curating your experience with the general platform, not by excluding anyone else, which is what you're doing here even if you don't realize it.
I personally want people from all walks of life to set up shop in the fediverse (as long as they're not jerks). Even if I'll never see or interact with 99% of what they create, maybe that last 1% will solve an obscure problem I encounter, or recommend me something (whether it be a product or recipe or location or...) that will change my life for the better.
Tildes was always invite only. Granted it is (or was at the time, maybe they slowed down with the influx) really easy to get your hands on one by just asking on r/tildes (or email).
Hell, the site being readable by the general public is a relatively recent introduction compared to it's history.
Your private messages are never private unless you're on a platform that specializes in private messages (Signal. Matrix, WhatsApp (if they are to be believed), XMPP via OMEMO...)
Flatpak will sandbox most app data under $HOME/.var/app/. Of course it doesn't tell you this because you're supposed to already know this, stupid. (issue locked) (works as intended), but that's where you should dig if you need that old save (or want the security of Flatpak while playing Minecraft).
I wonder if there are any file browsers that special case that directory and show an "app data" view. That sounds like a feature request someone must've opened by now.
Tumblr - both as the userbase and as the company - has been pretty "cool" compared to Facebook/Instagram (which isn't a high bar, really). I think most people are indifferent to favorable on letting them in here if they decide on doing that.
I think they're "getting their feet wet" with federation with an official WordPress plugin (Tumblr is now owned by the company that develops WordPress) first, before deploying it on Tumblr.
I do not agree with the people wanting to control other servers by trying to force defederating from threads. Independent admins running their own server is what the Fediverse is built upon.
As long as authorized fetch is implemented (and correctly), intermediaries can't "leak" messages out anyways. If Threads wanted to read the contents of a boost, they would have to ask your server for that, and your server can tell them to screw off.
Does kbin or Lemmy implement authorized fetch? If they don't they should start working on it. And consider enabling it by default. I know versions of Lemmy >= 0.18 can talk to GTS (which enforces AF) so there is partial support for it. And nobody runs 0.17 because of how inefficient it is, so that won't be too big of a backwards incompatibility issue. No idea how it works on kbin land here, but it should be implemented ASAP if only so that any future enforcement won't break backwards compatibility.
You could represent booru tags as hashtags, and PixelFed already shows how image sharing can be done.
All that's left is someone to do the hard work of patching together a booru UI for ActivityPub. Hell, considering the use case it could be a frontend for an already existing backend-only AP software like GoToSocial. That would make the implementation drastically simpler as you wouldn't need to deal with any of the AP parts at all.
that would be censorship, something the fediverse aims to avoid. We all shit on meta/twitter/other large corps for censoring content, but when instance owner's do it, its fine? De-federating for ideological reasons like this goes against the principles of federation.
The thing about the Fediverse is that you have the choice to pick an instance. We shit on "big tech" when they do something, because there isn't anything else to do. I personally want to be on an instance that will defed the fuck out of threads (and anyone else who will bring over people who will delight themselves on harassing me and my friends) should they federate, and if you don't want that you're welcome to go to an instance that won't, and we can still talk to each other.
ps: As far as I'm aware, Fediverse never "aimed to avoid censorship" nor had any "principles on federation". In fact, there are large parts of Mastodon (well, mostly Pleroma/Akkoma/Soapbox) filled to the brim with the worst kinda people you can imagine, yet they're all defederated into their own little sandbox. Nobody can decide who can use and build upon ActivityPub but we sure as shit can decide to not federate with a company so shit at moderation that everyone opposing federation with them seems to be a minority in one way or another.
I have no idea if there was a native setting to disable it or if it was RES's doing but I completely forgot chat even existed.
The solution to this is Authorized Fetch. It trades a little bit of efficiency (individual AP messages being re-shareable by intermediaries) for proper authorization (every server must fetch the messages directly from the source, with the correct authorization). Mastodon implements it behind an env variable, and implementations like GoToSocial force it. No idea how kbin or Lemmy work but they should look into it.
I don't think swappiness has worked that way for a while now.
https://chrisdown.name/2018/01/02/in-defence-of-swap.html