Got an idea for something? Try building it, see how far you get. Like I had an idea while browsing Twitter last year sometime, that it’d be neat to have a threaded conversation view… So I made a site that used their API to fetch and build the conversation. It didn’t look good, but it was at least somewhat functional, and I learned a bunch.

Then Musk threw their API in the trash, but you know, you can’t control the vagaries of the world…

I’m actually seeing a fair number of people linking or mentioning Lemmy, there may be traction…

I’ll admit to a little shitposting in the AMA thread to be fair, but mostly to promote Fediverse alternatives where people are asking where they can go.

Might be a silly question, but: does ActivityPub support setting up a subinstance that gets its data from somewhere else? Traditionally you’d probably do that with a pgsql machine and multiple frontends, but having thought about it while typing this out, putting that load on the ActivityPub protocol would mean loading up the master to much the same extent as just having the traffic hit the master directly…

Many thanks, dropped 10mBTC.