Perhaps you're right, but this is what I'm most comfortable with.
The vision (which is also still WIP) right now is a platform that combines the features of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Something that can interface with all existing fediverse services and handle all kinds of media (posts, discussions, microblogs, pictures, videos, anything, you name it). Ideally it should also be a place where you can bring your friends list and maybe even have a personal (non-anonymous) user. Imagine something that can replace Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all in one fell swoop. That's the general idea.
Now, that's just the idea but a lot of it depends on execution. If you're truly interested, I'd love to talk more on Matrix to see if there's some shared alignment. Obviously I have a certain vision for the project so there needs to be some shared understanding of the direction. Technology-wise, the backend is Rust and the (very WIP) frontend is TypeScript/SvelteKit. But non-technical contribution can be valuable too.
Actually I think most search engine bots publish a list of verified IP addresses where they crawl from, so you could check the IP of a search bot against that to know.
It does - but I'm honestly also still refining that vision as I work on it and I want to have a coherent story and something to show before I show anything to the world. Just what I'm most comfortable with :)
I'd rather ensure that I have something a bit more concrete to show before I "announce" it. First impressions matter a lot. And also, there's just not a whole lot to show right now and it is not in any kind of usable state so unless someone is truly interested in working with me on this project (with a somewhat similar idea of a vision of where it's gonna go and all that...), there's really no use in sharing it.
I feel the state of the project is still too early to be public (especially the frontend, there's really almost nothing there yet), but I can invite you to the repo if you have a user on Codeberg? I'd love to talk if you have a Matrix user.
I'm working on a new fediverse software but I'm mostly a backend dev. But I have been learning Svelte/Kit to try and write a frontend. Just putting it out there in case you feel inspired to work on something entirely new :)
People have a psychological bias to humanize anything that communicates with them and companies are trying to latch onto that mechanism because they benefit when people get an emotional attachment to websites. So I think Google and many others are trying to make people think of websites as things with agencies, rather than machines controlled by people. And yea I think they are partly successful.
Not dissimilar to how LLM AI is marketed nowadays.
My mom asked me the other day whether a virus warning was a scam or not. It was a webpage in her browser. She did not understand that it was not her computer system warning her, but just the website itself. People can't even tell the difference between their operating system and their apps.
I think you vastly overestimate the technical proficiency of the average user. The average user does not understand technology and computers at all. The average user can barely send an email.
(Piefed will probably replace Lemmy as the go-to eventually)
I think rather we'll see more software popping up and diversifying the ecosystem. Then you can pick whichever you prefer. Which is the whole point of the fediverse. I'm currently working on my own implementation. Might take a long while before any alpha version as I'm super busy but I try to do at least a bit of work on it every day.
In general I don’t think I can do story games anymore
Wow, that's the complete wrong take if you ask me! It sounds like your problems with these games are mostly in the gameplay, not the story? Have you ever played Outer Wilds or The Talos Principle? Unique puzzle games with a great story.
I think I read somewhere that part of the motivation is that they won't need a runtime to be installed to use it, but Go could fill that role as well of course.
But I think you said it yourself:
I know this is blasphemy, but why not Go? Why Rust? I love writing Rust CLIs
I guess they also prefer Rust to Go. I'd choose Rust over go for a CLI any day. Why do you say Rust wouldn't be good in an "industrial setting"? I use Rust professionally and I don't see any problems in that setting.
Perhaps you're right, but this is what I'm most comfortable with.
The vision (which is also still WIP) right now is a platform that combines the features of Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Something that can interface with all existing fediverse services and handle all kinds of media (posts, discussions, microblogs, pictures, videos, anything, you name it). Ideally it should also be a place where you can bring your friends list and maybe even have a personal (non-anonymous) user. Imagine something that can replace Facebook, Twitter and Reddit all in one fell swoop. That's the general idea.
Now, that's just the idea but a lot of it depends on execution. If you're truly interested, I'd love to talk more on Matrix to see if there's some shared alignment. Obviously I have a certain vision for the project so there needs to be some shared understanding of the direction. Technology-wise, the backend is Rust and the (very WIP) frontend is TypeScript/SvelteKit. But non-technical contribution can be valuable too.