You shouldn't wait because it's going to happen. I moved all of my projects off of Github and Gitlab, and now self-hosting my own gitea instance. It's been great and never looked back!

I never really understood how cross posting works here. You mind telling us the benefits? Does it consolidate all of the discussions in each cross post into one big long thread? 🤔

It will be fixed. It's gov. So baby steps. The EU is working hard and it's going to be a while before we get everything we want.

Hey OP, I'm doing some research. You mind sharing that link in the description of your screenshot?

Yeah but note by "public" they really mean "if the post doesn't require you to login". They recently implemented a feature that lets users choose for their posts to be "public" but still require a login to see it.

I feel the same way about RSS feeds. It's a technology meant to keep up with updates on nearly anything across the internet. Even social media sites. It's been available for ages. But no one is pushing for sites to provide them. 🤷‍♂️

you could easily keep your identity across multiple forums and see the content from all your communities on one page

RSS feeds have provided this experience for years. The problem is that a lot of sites stopped serving RSS feeds for their content. But sites like rss.app and openrss can be used to get RSS feeds for sites that don't have them.

This is 👍. For those wondering, RFCs have been around for years in software engineering--since the beginning of the internet, practically.

As a software engineer myself, I can confidently say they're a great way to build complex software in a more democratic way.

They require a certain level of agreement and consensus, which makes them take a while to ratify. But you almost always end up with better software in the end.

What do you think of this?

Think it's a terrible idea. For some reason people dont get that many of us are on the fediverse because we want to get as far away from anything that even remotely resembles, copies, piggybacks off of, or otherwise has anything to do with corporate-owned, centralized, ad-infested, user-hostile, privacy-invasive, social media platforms.

I like RoR but "Ruby on Rails" and "modern" in the same sentence seems kind of funny.

But then again, "modern" is subjective in itself and most of the websites I see these days (even built and maintained by large companies) seem pretty ancient.

No semantic HTML, still using divs everywhere, no accessibility, all these useless third-party dependencies and lockins vs the new APIs being introduced natively in the browser every day, ajax, jquery instead of using the web platform, hell-- most web developers don't even know what a dialog element is.

So we're gonna keep defederating instances every time a user of an instance acts crazy? Until every instance deferates from each other? This is getting absurd... and feels more and more like... high school.

In case others are unclear, looks like the OP is talking about this proposal by Google. The post isn't clear about where to find Mozilla's position on it, so here it is.

Despite Mozilla's opposition, there are actually a lot of issues people have opened that oppose the proposal. But what's particularly interesting is that issues are being locked and restricted to only repo members, like this one that talks about how the proposal is an attack on the open web (which I agree with, btw).