Fediverse

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/212952

I noticed I wasn't able to find my community on your communities search, because no one on your instance has searched it yet. I'd appreciate if someone could give my instance a search just to federate it on your instance :) And of course, sub if you're interested in cinematography, movies, behind the scenes, etc.

!cinematography@lemmy.world

If you happen to be a 1st Assistant Camera in the film industry, I've also made a community for us focus pullers (but all camera department are welcome)

!focuspuller@lemmy.world

Thanks for reading :)

So r/startrek opened their subreddit back up.

https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/14aifzm/rstartrek_reddit_and_the_future/

But they’re still committed to their #Lemmy instance too. Interesting experiment, running dual communities on both sides.

@fediverse @fediversenews

Examples:

• Mastodon could use the up down reddit style boost/like buttons
• Just giving stylistic differences to services is less important (but end users love it) as it is easier to implement …
• Certain aspects are a nightmare of complexity for end users, for example taking followers to new instances should be automatic, then give users the option to unsubscribe, downvote etc
• User simplicity is the strength of the centralised twitter, reddit etc … until the content pushing/commercial payback of bubble bursting overvaluations …

Apple is currently featuring two Safari Extensions for Mastodon in the App Store

Homecoming (https://underpassapp.com/homecoming) by @lapcatsoftware
Mastodon Air (https://mastodonair.com) by @magnus

[posted in @fediverse)

[FEDIVERSE: 15 years of federated social media] a new book by Rita Barrachina

@titi announced the book here: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fedilibro-fontokodo-fedibook-source-code/3267 and also mentioned that its fully opensource and if anyone is interested in translating it into a languge other then Catalan the source is listed above.

[also posting this to the @fediverse community on Lemmy]

EDIT: I know many people have a knee-jerk aversion to anything crypto, but this is not a scheme to make money. I would be happy to see this done with fiat as well, but IMO this is much easier to do with smart contracts.

I am very excited about the possibility of the Fediverse, and the potential for many experiments in instance governance. A problem that all instances must content with is trolling and spam. It seems very difficult to impose a cost on these bad actors without harming honest users as well. Either instances have minimal signup friction and are vulnerable to being overwhelmed with bad actors & defederated (see the recent defederation decision from Beehaw), or they present frustrating barriers such as manual approval or waitlists for folks who just want to have fun

A possible solution comes from the blockchain space, which has been dealing with anonymous bad actors since its inception. Many blockchains and blockchain apps require users to stake some asset in order to gain certain privileges (basically a deposit). If the user is determined to be a bad actor, they lose some or all of their stake.

An instance could be integrated with a smart contract to manage membership could be very effective at dissuading trolls and spammers. A user could stake a small amount of money (say $10) in order to create an account on the instance. This could be done very quickly and would require no manual approval from admins. If the admins determine they are acting poorly, they could ban the user and slash their funds. If an honest user decides they don't want to stay on the instance, they could delete their account and recover their deposit.

(EDIT: An important part of this is that the funds are destroyed when slashed, not given to the admins or mods. This prevents a profit incentive to ban)

I've got a prototype smart contract for this. Would be interested in working with someone on this if there's anyone with experience with the instance management

Or something like that idk I'm not an expert

With the current reddit migration happening I've remembered when Tumblr promised they were gonna add support for ActivityPub "ASAP".

(source: https://nitter.net/photomatt/status/1594587024245260289)

Does someone happen to know if there's any news on that? I'm wondering if this was just said in an attempt to stay relevant and lure in Twitter users or if they're actually putting effort into fulfilling their promise.

Additionally, what is your opinion on having closed source platforms on the Fediverse? Would you block them?

While I don't expect there's going to be any meaningful impact on Reddit once the dust settles, I do think this will bring a lot of new users to the Fediverse.

Reddit losing a few hundred thousand users is a drop in a bucket given their user base, but it is a significant boost for us.

Hi! I have a 2 cores/2 GB VPS with very light use, right now.

I wonder if these hardware specs would be enough to run a little Lemmy instance (for few users). Would 20 GB of storage be too little for this?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Should we band together and install the similar web extension in order to boost the fediverse and get it up there by July?

anonymity and privacy seem to come at odds with a social platform's ability to moderate content and control spam.

If users have sufficient privacy and anonymity, then they can simply use another identity to come back, or use multiple identities.

Are there ways around this? It seems that any method of ensuring that a banned user is kept off the platform would necessitate the platform knowing information about the user and their identity

I recently made a mastodon account after deleting mine about six months ago. Joining Lemmy has made me curious about what I left behind.

Do you enable require follow requests?

I used to be pretty permissive, but the people I admired had that turned on. I turned it on for my new account the moment I thought to ask this question.

Are there upside or downsides to this? Please share any thoughts I want to know if it even matters.

Like many others, I've been using Lemmy since the reddit blackout started. A few things I think would help onboard folks more easily or contribute to long term success of the platform(s) are:

• an actual introduction to federated sites and what it means, including what happens if your home instances get blocked by ones you've subbed to (if this exists drop a link!)
• a better scheme for allowlisting instances. I noticed the one I registered in got removed from beehaw, and as someone who considered starting my own it's not clear if that style of instance management is doomed to fail
• more / better apps! I wonder how similar the api is to reddit and if existing apps could be ported over

Any major pain points or improvements y'all can think of to continue encouraging adoption?

Is it me, or is it rather slow? If I sort by active I get content that is 1-2 days old. If I sort by hot most stuff are 17-20h old.

There is interesting content on here, it’s just hard to find. And you end up having to sort by new, which is totally different experience!

Other than that I really feel like Lemmy could become something awesome.

The past few days, I have been heavily experimenting with Nostr as another alternative to centralized services. And, I am honestly impressed by just how good it is. The protocol is quite simple and works very fast.

However, the almost constant bugging of the integration with idontcarecoins is a little annoying. Easy to ignore, but still always there.

What do you think about Nostr? Have you tried it?

Does anyone know why the-federation.info is down?

With news of the scab reddit apps preparing to charge $2-3 per month to stay alive, now's a good time to remind everyone that you can actually save money by only donating $1-2 per month to your favorite home server instead! That's $12 per year of savings. You can't afford to not donate in this economy.

The fediverse doesn't have the luxury of mining data or selling ads - it relies on donations. Luckily, without a CEO to feed, the cost of running an instance is quite cheap on a per person basis. I think we should normalize and socially encourage setting up at least a $1-2 monthly donation to your home server for as long as you're using the site.

So nun habe ich mal von #Lemmy in #Friendica verbunden. Wird dort gleich in Foren eingegliedert (was ja Sinn macht). Mal sehen wenn dort jemand einen Beitrag erstellt, ob ich das dann auch in der #MonaApp sehe … falls ich überhaupt was zu sehen bekomme :-)

Hello, Lemmyverse. I'm posting from kbin and crossing my fingers it'll federate properly.

I'm quite enjoying using this platform as a Reddit replacement so far. But I just wanted to make this post about how federation is presented to the end user. As someone who is tech-inclined, I understand how it works - you can join either local instance communities or ones hosted via another instance by finding it's URL - but it's not something you can exactly easily figure out. You have to research and learn how to do it a bit.

I feel like having to use external websites like Browse Feddit just to find stuff to explore is going to be a major stumbling block for the growth of Lemmy. It's definitely not an accessible way to find communities. I'm personally able to find content I want so far, but the mere attempt to explain the Fediverse works seems to make people roll their eyes or immediately ignore Lemmy out of confusion.

I'm not sure what the solution is. But I just wanted to start a thread on that topic to open up a discussion about that. I think Lemmy has a pretty promising foundation as a social media platform in general otherwise. I'm all ears to any suggestions on how we could make the cross-instance communication that makes the Fediverse so unique easier to understand and explore.

New #lemmy instance and community explorer (seems to be clearly better than the one of feddit.de):

https://lemmyverse.net/

@fediverse @fediversenews

The core phrase of the blog post: "no one has done an especially good job explaining why the fediverse is better than centralized solutions".

Feels to me that it's all growing pains, we WOULD benefit for a federated auth system instead of an account on every service, and we need lots of bug fixing, i just wish all these social media shitstorms had happened a couple years later and not at this point...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/45194

Hey, I'm not certain how the connection works precisely. Does it appear when someone searches for #fuckcars on Mastodon if I include #fuckcars in the title or content of a post at the Lemmy?

Lemmy is growing day by day thanks to /u/spez.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats