Fediverse

Former r/linuxmasterrace members: Feel free to join the newly created /c/linuxmasterrace@feddit.de community.

Let's make the full transition to the decentralized Fediverse!

So far for me the process is very convoluted:

1. I go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and find the community.
2. Then I need to copy it's name.
3. Then I need to go to my particular instance (lemm.ee)
4. Then I type manually in my browser address bar lemm.ee/c/
5. Then I go back to https://browse.feddit.de/ and copy the address of the original instance of the community.
6. Then I go back and add the original instance address to already typed thing in step 4 like this lemm.ee/c/@
7. Then I can finally subscribe!

Oh my God! Please, tell me there's a better way of doing this!

EDIT: There is a better way! Solution is to ... use the search function in your instances home page and select community (if it exists already) and search. This way I don't need to go to browse.feddit.de anymore. And links will take me straight the the communities "reflection" in my own instance, where I can subscribe.

Guide: One way you can take advantage of federation is by opening a different instance, like ds9.lemmy.ml, and browsing it. If you see an interesting community, post or user that you want to interact with, just copy its URL and paste it into the search of your own instance. Your instance will connect to the other one (assuming the allowlist/blocklist allows it), and directly display the remote content to you, so that you can follow a community or comment on a post. Here are some examples of working searches:

- [!main@lemmy.ml](/c/main@lemmy.ml) (Community)
- @nutomic@lemmy.ml (User)
- https://lemmy.ml/c/programming (Community)  
- https://lemmy.ml/u/nutomic (User)
- https://lemmy.ml/post/123 (Post)
- https://lemmy.ml/comment/321 (Comment)

You can see the list of linked instances by following the "Instances" link at the bottom of any Lemmy page.

Preparing Lemmy for a migration influx of Reddit users after June 30th requires some planning and consideration. Here are some steps I think we should do in orther to make things a bit more smoothly this time.

1. Scalability and Performance: Assess the current infrastructure and ensure it can handle increased traffic. Consider scaling up servers, optimizing code, and implementing caching mechanisms. Monitor the system for potential bottlenecks or performance issues, and address them proactively.

2. Community Engagement:

   Create a welcoming and inclusive environment for new users. Clearly communicate the community guidelines, code of conduct, and expectations to ensure a positive experience. Assign dedicated moderators to handle increased user activity, enforce rules, and facilitate discussions.

3. User Onboarding:

   Simplify the registration and account creation process. Offer multiple login options (e.g., email, social media accounts) to accommodate different user preferences. Provide clear instructions and resources to help new users navigate the platform, including a comprehensive FAQ, user guides, and tutorials.

4. Data Migration:

   Develop a data migration plan to transfer relevant communities, discussions, and user accounts from Reddit to Lemmy. Coordinate with Reddit's API and ensure compliance with their terms of service and data usage policies.

5. Communication Channels:

   Set up dedicated communication channels to address user questions, feedback, and concerns during the migration process. Consider creating a dedicated forum or subreddit where users can discuss the migration, provide suggestions, and receive updates from the administrators.

6. Feature Enhancement: (important)

   Identify key features or functionalities that Reddit users value and ensure they are available or can be easily replicated on Lemmy. Actively seek feedback from the community and prioritize feature development based on user needs and preferences.

7. Promotion:

   Develop a marketing strategy to raise awareness about Lemmy and its unique value proposition for Reddit users. Leverage social media platforms, online communities, and relevant subreddits to reach out to potential users and invite them to join Lemmy.

8. Continuous Improvement:

   Regularly evaluate the performance and user experience on Lemmy, and make iterative improvements based on user feedback and analytics data. Stay up to date with the evolving needs of the migrated user base and adapt the platform accordingly.

Looking forward to see the new users and creating a thriving and exciting community together with you all.

a few days ago, i was skeptical about the duplication of several communities with the same name in lemmy/kbin. But i understood it's in fact a darwin process : only the best communities will survive. I think it's even a bonus feature versus reddit

I wanted to try the fediverse for a long time but always found it too complex/confusing and with the whole reddit situation I finally took the opportunity of actually giving it a try and personally, Im enjoying the change. Lemmy is small but it will grow, but I keep seeing ppl complaining about the learning curve and that is too complicated. In my opinion want the main "issue" is the freedom of CHOICE. We have been used to having limited choice and with the fediverse there is so much of it, choice in instances but also in services since, since from what I understood, ActivityPub allows you to see Lemmy from a mastodon client and viceversa.

From the instances, the learning curve is when signing up, when joining communities and overall browsing. People got used to centralized services so when you recommend Lemmy they expect a single website. But the reality of Lemmy is that being on fediverse its decentralized with multiple instances to choose from. However, on reddit (or other platforms) every account is technically equal but since instance can choose to limit stuff like downvote or creation of communities, depending on where you create your account you might get a different feature set.

Then comes the fact if communities you want to join are in a different instance you need to account for that with the @instance-name. This also means that if you are used to only browse while not being logged-in, on reddit is simple since its reddit.com/r/subredditname, on Lemmy this becomes lemmy-instance.tld/c/comunity-name@community-instance , which adds a layer of complexity. Eventually people will learn where their communities reside, but for now is yet another thing one needs to know.

Also another major thing is that in reddit each sub was unique. Here multiple times I found the same community on different instances. Which is good for the whole decentralized aspect but can be very confusing when trying to join.

I'm new at the federation but one thing that would be cool to see is that communities over different instances were the same. For example, if tech@instance1 and tech@instance2 were the same community, there would be less confusion when trying to join since the "space" was the same. I think it would improve reachability (local feed) and so that if one goes down the community is still there, but mainly understandability since one would not need to figure out which is the community that you actually wanted to join.

Finally, I want to thank all the developers and and creators that allow such place to exist and continuously try to make it better.

Lemmy.world may be quickly becoming the relative centre of the #threadiverse

Growing fast, communities gaining more traction than counterparts on lemmy.ml and probably has the momentum of being new ground for everyone.

See, eg @ruud scaling the server up to the same specs as mastodon.world: https://lemmy.world/post/75556

There’s probably a good amount of scope for experienced mastodon admins to run parallel #lemmy/#kbin servers. #Hachyderm are thinking about it AFAIK.

@fediverse @fediversenews

I made this instance along with a copy of the subreddit I created almost 10 years ago as a place for people to share psychedelic art that they like. Hopefully there isn't some rule about sharing instances on other instances. Also not sure exactly if its possible to share a link to a community from another instance on this instance

So, we do have a lemmy community for photography, but it has like a 3 pictures a day limit. So if I wanted to share pictures from recent photo trips, is that something I oght to make a itap like lemmy, or should I just post to Mastodon or sign up for Pixelfed. What's the lemmy / fediverse cultural desire here?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1230440

Been having issues with folks logging out...then unable to decrypt after signing in again. Even tho they use their passkey, prior messages will not decrypt as they were not logged in anywhere.

So trying to understand some use-cases:

• If someone is only logged-in on their phone, go somewhere without a signal (e.g., plane, hiking), and then get signal again...will they be able to decrypt messages sent while they were offline (but never chose to sign-out)?
• If NO....will they be able to decrypt prior messages they had been able to decrypt (i.e., just not the ones sent while offline)?
• If they lose their phone (again, only source of logging in)...will they be able to backfill messages when setting up a new device with their passkey?

Sorry for the perhaps basic E2EE questions....getting traction with my family using Matrix, but worried about some spouse-acceptance concerns.

Can anyone recommend a good article or video explaining how ActivityPub works on a technical level? I understand the concept, but I'm interested how the protocol actually works (I am studying CS for context).

The #threadiverse growth, so far, is exhibiting some nice instance parity.

See: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Top three #lemmy instances (lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org) are all basically the same size.
With #kbin 's kbin.social and fedia.io (run by infosec.exchange) in the same range.

I experienced it today looking for #NBA communities for the #nbaplayoffs , and it seems the biggest community right now (after literally 1day) is on lemmy.world not lemmy.ml

@fediverse @fediversenews

Lemmy doesn't seem to allow uploading them natively, and it's hard to create a Mustangs Crashing or Idiots in Cars channel without an easy way to attach video.

On https://the-federation.info/platform/73 I've noticed a total users dip on 2022-11-04, did some instance closed?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1230183

Just gave my satyrical take on The Splinterverse. Grassroots movements adopt an implicit "Divided we will be conquered" approach, where big corporate newcomers can easily disrupt with Big Marketing™ followed by an Eternal September by their user influx to the Fediverse. The Muskening™ already gave a taste of that.

Currently new channels are abuzz with the Reddit shenanigans, and there's potential for another influx. People are inventing names like "threadiverse" for forum-like federated apps. There's a broader vibe where people come to the realization that enshittification on proprietary walled garden platforms is inevitable, and that the old web is re-emerging with blogs and webrings. And the heterogenous Social Web with countless alternative federated/decentralized apps where there isn't a single gatekeeper. That opportunity certainly exists (as Meta likely know all too wel also).

The common name that has stuck is "Fediverse", or affectionally spoken the "fedi". Many say it is a bad name, and maybe it is. It is a name you get used to, though, and it is not easy at all to introduce a new name in a grassroots movement.

But that is NOT what I find important at all ..

The Fediverse has slowly matured during many years. That slow growth has shaped an all-important aspect: A vibrant culture. This is what all growth-hacking enterpreneurial minds easily overlook. There have been a shit ton of social media launched.. and failed. The big ones we have have their solid position with FOMO and network effects. Those who say social media is easy have survivorship bias.

"It is the culture that matters, stupid!"

I love all the quirky aspects of the Fediverse. The diversity and inclusion. The weird angles. And also, weirdly enough.. the friction. Friction to get on the Fediverse has also served as a filter. We now have 'competitor' decentralized social networks with Nostr and Bluesky. "Nostr is developing way faster.. come to us!" --> This is a purely technical viewpoint. Wait till you see what culture that creates. Technical buzzwords like "encryption", "censorship-resistance", "micropayment", etc. that seem like features may see all the wrong types being attracted to those networks.

What I feel is the biggest thing that is missing on the Fediverse is a shared vision, a common notion of where we are headed, where the potential of the Fediverse is, what we might achieve collectively.

It is "App focus". App app app app app ... Apps are siloes!

Related to "marketing against Meta" it was asked "Where is the Mastodon branding agency?" --> They branded an app, not an ecosystem / online environment. And them being successful means we have this big confusion now, where people "Join the Mastodon". We should get rid of app focus.

The vision that appeals to me, and I am advocating for quite a while is that of a Peopleverse to emerge.

• Fediverse (technical) --> Peopleverse (social)

The Peopleverse is NOT a name.. it is an abstract idea, a vision of how things might be. The Peopleverse is where people find value online. Where they interact with others in a way that is enriching to their lives. It is where online and offline worlds are seamlessly intertwined.

Considered like that means that this Peopleverse will also have implications for the technical perspective, when looking at the Fediverse technology landscape and ecosystem. It highlights the amount of socio-technological support that is needed. It highlights a technology vision that encompasses the Fediverse's full potential.

So most of the actual discussion is going on in the discourse meta forum, but I figured I would cross pollinate this here for everyone interested.

I personally love the idea of these forums moving towards Fediverse and really tieing these communities together, something non-federated sites simply can't do easily.

What are you all's thoughts on it?

"Hey, are you on Mastodon?"

"I joined The Mastadon network if that's what ya mean."

"Wait an instance. You are both using the Fediverse protocol."

"Ha. Well.. I joined the Threadiverse and like that way better."

"Is Lemmyverse connected to that?"

"Dunno. Let's ask at ActivityPub."

"Yay, beer 🍻 It is Friday."

"ActivityPub isn't a real pub, it is a community of sorts."

"Hi there.. dialing in from the #Pixieverse 👋 Can you see me?"

#Fediverse #ActivityPub #Threadiverse #Mastadon #TheMastodon #Lemmyverse #Pixieverse #Vidiverse #Web69

Preamble- I'm new to the fediverse, and I want some help. I'm trying to regain some of my privacy and data sovereignty, and I have recently gotten into self-hosting. I haven't been on social media for over a decade, except for Reddit, and that was mostly as a passive lurker. I just started getting more active on there this past year, and now they've turned me away with their shenanigans. I'm trying to get into federated communications to still have access to useful information while protecting my identity and data.

Goals- I'm thinking that I want to set up my own Lemmy instance, as well as my own xmpp server (like prosody), and switch over to jmp.chat. I also have my own domain.

Concerns- I want to spin up my own services so that I own my data and have greater control over my connections, and possibly have a hub that friends and family can use. However, I also don't want to expose my domain (Why not? I don't know. I'm completely new at this and until I learn more, I'm playing it cautious)

Questions- So, if I spin up my own Lemmy instance, doesn't that expose my domain,since my username will be username@my-domain.com? Is this the same for an xmpp server? One main reason to spin up my own xmpp server is to own my account for xmpp communications. However, can I tie that to my jmp.chat account, or would they need to be separate.

I kind of feel like a boat without an oar at the moment, and I'm not even sure if I'm asking sensical questions, but hopefully there's enough light in my ramblings to give you all a sense of my goals. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit— for those wondering why I don't want to expose my domain: As an example, many people will post their personal information on social media. They think ‘why not? What harm can it do when I talk about my favorite teacher, or the street I grew up on, or my first date? What harm can that do?’ (Not realizing these are common answers to security questions) or ‘Why not talk about my big vacation coming up?’ (Not realizing they’re letting thieves know when their house is going to be vacant) People reveal information about themselves all the time online without a second thought because they can’t personally see the danger. I can’t personally see a problem with using my domain in this way, but I would prefer to check with those more experienced than me before I learn the hard way that I made a bad choice. I do appreciate you all taking your time to contribute your thoughts.

What other problems that the Fediverse unexpectedly solves for Reddit? I mean, besides obvious ad-free, no-tracking, ...

Ok I have a strange request for you (Tor hidden services)

@fediverse @fediversenews

Can you recommend me some Tor Hidden Service fediverse instances? Preferably this would include federation over Tor as well.

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Twitter = Mastodon Reddit = Lemmy YouTube = peertube Instagram = Pixelfed

other?

Hi everybody,

We Distribute (wedistribute.org) is a ongoing passion project of mine. It's the first news publication of its kind: a journal about free, open, decentralized technologies, that just so happens to also be a federated blog. People from all over the fediverse can like, subscribe, boost, and reply, and their interactions carry over onto the site itself.

This project has existed in one incarnation or another for nearly a decade. It's been dormant for the last year or so due to personal health issues, data loss, and the dissolution of the parent organization overseeing it, FENEAS.org.

After putting a lot of legwork in, I've managed to rebuild it, recovering about 98% of all of the articles written over the years. It's due for official launch in a few weeks, but I want to start off on the right foot this time. The network is growing at an unprecedented rate, and there's a lot of ground to cover.

We Distribute has historically been a one-man operation, but I can't do that anymore. It's a volunteer project, that does not serve ads or paywalls of any kind. I'm looking for writers who are passionate about the fediverse, and interested in an opportunity to be the first to break news to a network consisting of thousands of servers and potentially millions of people.

We cover news, feature updates, opinion pieces, bits of history, culture beats, and interviews with the people who are making this thing happen.

If you're interested in being a part of this project, please DM me here, or at my main: @deadsuperhero@social.treehouse.systems

Incorrect wording on Lemmy is misleading people. You can not search for subs on Mastodon using !names starting with an exclamation point.

@fediverse @LemmyDev