I don't know what happened but in the last half hour the website has become highly responsive again. Thank you admins for your hard work.
I don't see a problem so long as they do so in good faith - for example publishing full event contents to ActivityPub instead of adding a link back to the Facebook Threads app, which is basically what a lot of news sites do with their RSS feeds to get advertising money.
So long as they do that, it's not really possible to do a rug-pull. There are far more Facebook users than Fediverse users after all, so it's going to be advertising for the Fediverse for as long as this lasts and if users would like to remain part of it they'll have to move to another server. That is, assuming it ends.
To answer the question though, I don't care for microblogging personally and I don't like Meta as a company so I won't use it. I appreciate the scepticism but I feel optimistic.
Look at the top right of my screenshot, you will see some extra icons. I'm sorry, I should have included the URL: https://lemmy.ml/post/1212570?scrollToComments=true
I was logged in under this same account as I was browsing.
I was served this page just now, it appears to be for a moderator or admin as there are some extra tools in the toolbar. After reloading this it went away and I couldn't make it happen again.
Possibly there are some caching settings that need adjusting? Thinking of the admin team on this tough day with tons of traffic thank you for your hard work.
Furthermore friends, please sort by new where possible to help give new posts visibility when you interact with them.
It is definitely slower than usual. It's not just you. The site is clearly under very heavy load.
I think probably a pluggable storage backend is the best move. For example, any cloud hosted instance could use a native document storage format such as dynamodb, which is often quite cheap or free for small use-cases.
Furthermore it was quite computationally expensive. Modern CPUs have special instructions to work with AES and other algorithms, but back then it had to be done with individual instructions and with slow clock speeds.
Because if you can just communicate around a walled garden, what’s the point or value in staying in one?
Because people are happy with that garden and don't think about others. Please remember that your average internet user doesn't really know what an API is, or understand about open standards, they just want to find some content that matches their interests, upvote and share said content with their friends who are also inside that garden.
This average user isn't a bad person, stupid or naiive, they just have other things going on in their lives and the internet is a small part of it. They use it, take what they want from it and move on, and there are so many more of those people than you.
People who switch from iOS to Android report losing friends who were on iMessage and are unwilling to move to something platform agnostic such as Signal or WhatsApp. I wouldn't underestimate the walled garden effect.
As a migrant from Digg to Reddit back in the paleolithic era, I would have said the same of Reddit, the UI really wasn't good compared to Digg. People got used to it in time.
I also remember a time when it wasn't clear if people would want to shop online, and a debate about whether email could really replace letters, or if people would find it too complicated.
People will come to the fediverse if we give them a reason to.
How does that differ to Twitter or Reddit?
Passkeys (depending on implementation) are more resistant to info stealer viruses.
The private key portion can be in your OS’s credential store and can be used to sign the challenge without being revealed to the calling application.
Of course this doesn’t work if you got rooted, but a lot of viruses of this kind try to steal what they can get as a regular user, and you can get a lot, ie AWS credentials, saved browser passwords etc.
In my view it’s cheap defense in depth.