Just heard about Hive Social. Why would people go to yet another proprietary closed source platform? Have they learned nothing?

@ellabellafull they've learned decentralization is a pain in the ass

@chhopsky Might be a step more to search for what server to join people in other services, but it's the same login sign up web and mobile experience.

@ellabellafull here's a great example. a friend links me to a post on here. it's on mastodon.social. i go to click to Like it, and i can't - it asks me to sign in. i'm confused, i go back to my mastodon.gamedev.place bit and i'm definitely logged in. why hasn't my token followed me? maybe it needs me to remote auth. i try to log in but it definitely wants me to log into a mastodon.social account. it was later explained to me i needed to paste that post address into my instance search

@chhopsky is there a privacy setting turned on? If I open my posts in a browser, without login session, it displays. Hmmm.

Test: https://social.librem.one/@ellabellafull/109381847025887327

Do different instances have different policies that would prevent URLs from working?

@ellabellafull it displays, but i can't interact, because the remote instance doesn't have any way to trace back to my home instance to generate the activity

i'd have to write a chrome plugin to redirect engagement buttons to my home instance, to then send them. which is pretty wack and technically maybe a XSS attack