TheFederatedPipe

I'm a fan of the Fediverse, but what are the major issues we faced right now because of the limitations of the #ActivityPub protocol? Recently, decentralize social networks are at their peak, big players are trying to be part of it, and is constantly in the news.

I have been on the Fediverse for quite a few years, and since alternatives were popping up I tried to learn how they work (it's not like I'm an expert, but I have a general idea), with #BlueSky opening up federation and alternatives like #nostr for what I've read, they are strong in what ActivityPub still lacks.

One thing that comes to my mind right now is how your identity is tied to the instance you are, thus making portability harder. In nostr for example, your identity is not tied to any relay, and Bluesky has domain names as username, which is pretty cool, and for what I read from Bluesky blog, it seems like portability works great since all your posts will still be in your profile. In ActivityPub (or at least in mastodon) moving an account actually means only your followers, and your handle has the instance on it, tying your account to the instance. How could this be handled? I mean, if you are self-hosting your own instance, there is no problem, but the mast majority of people do not host their own instance.

Another thing may be, quote posts. I read from one of the mastodon team they are trying to make it to the protocol instead of the "weird" implementation each software does with the URL at the end, which is a good thing since I feel like every software kind of have their own way of doing things instead of trying to make it to the protocol.

Anyway, want to listen what are your proposal to these problems and what other things you think we could learn from these other protocols. If you spot any mistake, feel free to correct me.

It's been a while since I started my privacy journey, but there was something I always wanted to do even before I started to care about my privacy. I always have loved the idea of having a blog to talk about different things that I am interested in, and creating content of value for others, and not gibberish content full of SEO spam, completely generated by AI as these are more frequently seem now, completely making the web worst.

I know the primary source of income on the internet are ads, but now that I am aware about all the tracking that is being made, and all the dark pattern companies make on the internet, has make me second thought the idea of making an income (I know is hard) out of something I would love to do.

Ads on the web are dominated by google, I have been de-googling my life since I started learning about better privacy focused alternatives, and following my thread model, but If I would add ads to my website or a create a youtube channel, I feel everything I have been doing would've been in vane. Currently I block ads because of all the tracking they required, so it feels kind of hypocritical if I started a blog with ads.

Obviously, instead of ads, I could create a support page somewhere, like patreon, ko-fi, and others. But again, I am sure that these platforms in a way or another is doing something I don't feel comfortable with.

Does anyone else feel like because of their care for digital privacy they are missing out and are afraid to do things? I know this is a price you have to pay. Do you have any recommendations or alternatives? or should I still do it, but with more caution? If you make money online with your content, what is you strategy and recommendations to keep your privacy while doing it?

I understand that you cannot obtain absolute privacy, by the way I would not consider myself as paranoiac, and I didn't started by changing everything in one night, it's been two years since I started to care about all of this.