Instances are websites.

It’s not a bunker per se, it is just that, if you are a review platform, the easiest initial targets would be Goodreads, IMDb, etc. Other types of stuff to review may take a little longer. However, if you can get access to a source of unique IDs, it may be possible to import the information. As it is written in Python there will be knowledgeable folks around who can better advise on this. I’d suggest post about it here: [email protected]. See what other people think about it.

That’s clever, does it work with Lemmy and/or Friendica?

There are a few ways to monetise the Fediverse.

• Donations - to devs and those running the instances. Lemmy gets enough from donations and grants to have a couple of full-time devs but it still doesn’t pay a lot. dansup using Kickstarter is proving interesting. Donations to your instance works well and a lot of places that offer this bring in enough to cover hosting costs but not much more. Open Collective has proved very good in this regard.
• Classified ads - [email protected] does a decent job of bringing buyers and sellers together.
• Subscription newsletters/blogs - Ghost is moving into the same space as Substack but with federation, so should do well.

So you wouldn’t be able to give up the day job by running an instance but you might if you were the lead devs of a popular service or if you had a thriving following on Ghost.

Flohmarkt is nice if a little small atm but of course it is very new.

Philosophically, the classified ad model (a bit like Etsy or eBay without auctions, where you are just an introduction service) seems more in keeping with the Fediverse and has a lot less hassles than trying to replicate Amazon with all it’s storage and shipping.

I’ll check if it would work to implement their api in a normal website/shop.

What I’d like to see is more seamless integration of [email protected] into other Fediverse services.

So someone has a blog for their writing on WordPress or Ghost but can run a sidebar or footer with links to Flohmarkt where people can buy a signed copy or special edition directly. Or you have it working with [email protected] where users can read a review of a film and click through to see if anyone has a copy of the Blu-ray on Flohmarkt.

Equally, [email protected] is a kind of Facebook replacement and Flohmarkt could slot in there as a Marketplace replacement.

In general we probably need more plug-ins in Fediverse services to help integrate things more tightly and Flohmarkt seems the kind of thing that would work well when slotted into a lot of other existing services.

if flohmarkt got “outlawed” for example because lobbyists and such

That would be very difficult to do with a decentralised service.

flea market

[email protected]

Reading the post, I found what I really want right now: a federated review platform.

[email protected] is a general review site. It currently covers media but, if you can get the data in (SKUs?) I can’t see a reason it couldn’t cover other products.

I’m largely still on Reddit to direct people towards the fire exits.

I did have a chat with someone about getting off Facebook and they reckoned they could get the majority of friends and family off Facebook onto Friendica but would struggle to give up Messenger and Marketplace. I pointed them to Matrix and Flohmarkt but also appreciated that it might not be possible to make a clean break but the important thing was to get at least one foot out of the Big Web even if they aren’t fully out yet.

Not really. There are things dedicated to specific modes of transport, [email protected], [email protected], etc but nothing for the whole category.

If you’d like to see something like this, I’d recommend starting [email protected].

Superman should do well.

However, rather than “saving the box office” how about we save cinema first and the box office will follow.

JP7 cost $265M and MI8 cost c. $400M. The latter is one of the most expensive films ever made but they are both deep down the franchise mines trying to make some pretty thin seams pay out (I’d genuinely need to check which of these franchise outings I’ve seen as they all merge into one). MI7 cost $291M and took $571M. Unless the sheer amount of money they threw at MI8 somehow translates into more interest, they’ll be lucky to break even and it may even kill the franchise. JP7 has a better chance as JP6 cost a similar amount and brought in a billion bucks, with the combination of Gareth Edwards and Scarjo possibly helping get the interest up but breaking a billion is still less than making four times the amount back. Cap 4 cost $180M and is currently sitting at $198M with some pretty poor word-of-mouth suggesting it won’t have great longevity and rightly so - it is not a complete film in its own right, just a bridge from the previous chunk of the franchise to the next and on and on until RJD returns as the real Marvel Jesus, so they can at least turn a profit from this phase.

What we really need is cheaper films that can make a bigger return on their money.

Companion (2025), which I saw on Monday and was really good, cost $10M and has already taken $33M. Longlegs cost less than $10M and took $126M with Osgood Perkins’ next film, The Monkey having a similar budget and great buzz, so should do similar numbers. Terrifier 3 cost $2M and made $90M. EEAAO cost $14-15M and made $143M.

Unfortunately, backing winners that can make a double figure return on the investment requires someone at the top to have good taste and the ability to spot a good script. Which turns out to be a bit of a stumbling block, so studios throw piles of money at a franchise in the hope that the momentum of good feelings towards the earlier films will carry them to modest success. As bad as it turned out, the Weinsteins seemed to have a good eye, now A24 and Neon are doing a great job. On the blockbuster front, I have a lot of hope for the Gunniverse - he has a great eye for good material and is clearly unprepared to make DC Studios just a production line banging out franchise fodder to order, but we’ll see what it looks like a decade from now as Marvel started so well.

They didn’t say that wasn’t A Good Thing. Especially as I doubt he is stealing roles from Nic Cage.

And that has potential to be in my top 10 of the year.

Site is down, here is the trailer.

the Age Of Aimless Intersecting Content

Having films serve the franchise, instead of doing the world-building on the side is definitely the problem. Cap 4 feels incomplete because it is - it’s merely a bridge between one piece of content and the next, which in turn will be a bridge to the next one and on and on. It’s done because it’s easier to do than come up with original ideas, especially when the studio demands a conveyor belt of content.

That looks suitably wild.

You’re very welcome. Have a lovely rest of your day.

That’s my take on it too.

Late Web 1.0/early Web 2.0 we had a diverse ecosystem of forums, wikis, blogs (micro and macro), etc. The next logically step would have been to invent a protocol to get them talking to each other. Instead, the Big Web offered everyone convenience as long as they were happy living inside their walled garden, which was fine until it wasn’t.

We’re now just trying to fix the mistake of trusting the Big Web and get back to where we were before it all went wrong.

See also: [email protected].

You don’t have to start big. Come up with a simple idea, figure out how you can make it in an accessible language (like Python or PHP), grab some tutorials and get cracking.

And thank you for being so supportive in their endeavours to make the Small Web kinder. 👍👍