UI and UX is important

It is important, but worrying about UX instead of shipping is the easiest way to avoid shipping. If you don’t agree, just check Craigslist, ebay and many other profitable companies with complete outdated frontends.

I very much doubt the AI use is confined to the frontend.

We can only be sure if/when they open the backend code.

why the frontend fine to vibe code while other stuff is not?

Many reasons:

• frontend code has a lot less variability than backend
• users already expect some common UI/UX, and AI has been trained on these so much that it rarely gets the basics wrong.
• UI code is not part of the core business
• buggy frontends may be bad to users, but they are a lot less likely to cause catastrophic errors in the whole system.
• lots of developers do not care about frontend and think that it’s s just about “making it pretty”, so they are happy to delegate this work to a clanker.

the core is closed for anti-abuse reasons

That’s a terrible, horrible, no-good, really bad excuse for not releasing the code. Better be upfront and admit that you don’t want to share the code.

Media loads from the source.

This might actually be a problem. If your instance gets popular, you might end up overloading a remote server. Add a proper caching proxy, or even better look into content-addressable systems to allow multiple servers to share the load.

The elitism is in thinking that using AI for some parts of the application (the frontend) nullifies the whole project.

Why does your comment smell of elitism?

Yeah, it would be better if the code was FOSS. But at least it was released, the author seems to know the important parts of AP integration and is asking for constructive feedback. This is one million times better than developers who keep their purely organic, 100% fair trade software projects in a virtual shelf for fear of being criticized.

There are Matrix channels for moderators to coordinate and share this info, next time it would be better to use those channels instead of possibly baiting spammers into posting here as well.

Don’t overthink and just publish it.

the content won’t get pulled. If no new content is getting pulled, no one will interact with the community.

This is a feature, not a bug.

You are trying to solve the issue of discovery by replicating the whole fediverse to your instance local database.

That’s a separate conversation to be had, but a network that is only meant for authenticated users can certainly offer better protections than a protocol where everything is openly published and distributed to the whole public internet.

I think someone didn’t do the research neded. (sic)

You certainly didn’t.

• Plenty of artists are worried about AI being trained on their data. No fediverse “platform” protects from it.
• Plenty of artists want to have a way to monetize their work. No fediverse “platform” does it. The one that did try to do it (sub.club) shut down for insufficient interest

“Good moderation” takes effort and time, which most people running their own blogs might not be interested in dealing with. Unless you are offering yourself to do “good moderation” for people in exchange of access to their comment section, adding a paywall as a barrier is a perfectly valid approach.

Kind of ironic allowing only paid users to comment on a blog talking about the Fediverse.

It is a great way to avoid spam bots.

The best way to see whether it would work is by checking how the actor from flipboard is presented. Go to https://browser.pub/@how-to-watch-cbssports@flipboard.com and tou will see that it does not have the attributes that Lemmy expects.

There is no need to change activitypub for that. Relays already do exactly what you are asking.

We could have a long conversation potential models for funding this, but I believe that until today the current audience prefers to reject economic reality and still believes that all work should be volunteer-based. Of course I disagree, but the only strong argument that I can make so far is that Communick has been running for almost 8 years and has outlived the overwhelming majority of “community-funded” instances out there.

It’s clearly a bug. Consider this a signal that I still hand-roll my CSS instead of just using clankers to vibe-code around.

Where is this hosted?

Germany

By whom?

Servers are from Hetzner. My company (MushroomLabs, LLC) is registered in the USA because I used to live there before moving to Germany. I’ve checked into creating a proper GmbH but revenue so far is so modest that it has not justified the effort.

How can we trust them if they don’t give us means to vet them?

For the services that are end-to-end encrypted, there is no need to trust me. For the social media services, by definition your data is public and sent to other servers.

A tabular matrix of E2E encrypted systems they provide would be more transparent.

This table would have only two entries: Matrix and XMPP.

Like Steve explained. The messaging protocols are e2ee, the Social Web/Fediverse services are all public by its own nature. There is no such thing as Private Social Network.

I will look into changing the wording on the front-page to make this more clear.

You are holding it wrong… (and clearly I haven’t tested this enough on mobile) :p

Put it tn portrait mode, the overflow issue will go away…

Yes, I have to agree that the documentation area of the site has been lacking. Let me know what information you think should be there and I will try to update it.

Rebased is just a fork of Pleroma. It is meant to work as a microblogging application and last I checked it didn’t do anything too different from Mastodon.