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

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@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.

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@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

@ellabellafull we understand that instances are separate and how federation works but there's grey around the edges of the expected interactions. it's insane to me that the *expected* behavior to be able to interact with a post involves going home, searching for it, then going again. i understand why those things cant happen but this is an expectation-breaking behavior

anyway. decentralization: complicated, difficult. if it were easy to do well, someone would have by now

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

Test: social.librem.one/@ellabellafu

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

@ellabellafull so if i copy paste that URL into a new tab, and i try to Like it, it pops up a new window asking me for my home address. on mastodon.social this didnt happen, it just asked me to log in or create an account

@chhopsky when I get that on other people's posts, I only have to provide my @name@server and it works if my login session is active. I don't have to relog.

Maybe Librem.one added some quality of life there.

@chhopsky do you know if innovations/changes to the main code branch happens a lot on instances?

@ellabellafull no idea. but if i understand sysadmins and optional patching, i imagine the fediverse is fairly diverse in its software versions

i also don't want to 'why dont the devs just' because if there was an easy fix for this im sure someone would have done it already

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