Fediverse

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/81784

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/81779

Here’s the trick:

[some community](/c/some_community@server.tld)

So:

[WowThisLemmyExists](/c/wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca)

Gives us this link: WowThisLemmyExists

Which links to that community... but within the instance you’re currently in! So you can actually subscribe to it!

(Many thanks to the Lemmy Project Chat on Matrix!)

"We are delighted to announce the launch of a remarkable new feature that simplifies the process of importing your Instagram content directly into Pixelfed. With the Import from Instagram feature, you can seamlessly transfer your photos, captions, and even hashtags from your Instagram account to Pixelfed, ensuring a smooth transition without losing your cherished memories or creative expressions."

I told somebody I know who knew about Reddit's API changes about Lemmy. He has a master's degree in Computer Science and works as a software engineer. But then, he told me that it's too confusing to get into, even for someone like him. This is great feedback and I hope that these issues will be fixed in the coming months.

When somebody links to a post on some other instance you don't have an account on (or you find it on Google), and you want to comment, it's quite difficult to find the post on your instance. Post IDs seem to be local, so you can't just edit the URL.

Is there any good way to do this? If not, some sort of permalink system could be useful? Maybe it would be nice if you could look up posts by hash or something?

Now that i'm getting used to being in Fedi long term i've started looking beyond Mastodon and Lemmy to the other services. And now i've started to see that some of the services, like Pixelfed, Friendica and others don't seem to have a public timeline. Seems specially absurd for Pixelfed since you WANT your photos to be visible to everybody but haven't found any instance yet that does it (maybe i'm unlucky, dunno). Is there a reason why this happens? Seems counterproductive for people who might or might not want to join the given server, you want to know what you're getting into.

Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory. Is there any "balancers" to utilise these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with a such fast growth?

Want to watch the #threadiverse growing by the hour?

@tao just set up @threadcount, which posts every hour the number of new people signing up to #Kbin and #Lemmy

post submitted to @kbinMeta on Kbin and @fediverse on Lemmy

Want to watch the #threadiverse growing by the hour?

@tao just set up @threadcount, which posts every 40 minutes the number of new people signing up to #Kbin and #Lemmy

[post submitted to @kbinMeta on Kbin and @fediverse on Lemmy]

"Fediverse Foundation was at the Südwind Straßenfest in Vienna"

just came across this picture by @PaulaToThePeople of a #fediverse booth setup last week!
via https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_Foundation @fediverse

I just stumbled about this video on federated alternatives to Reddit.

someone is working on a reddit api compatibility shim so reddit apps could connect to Lemmy without redesigning their apps

https://github.com/derivator/tafkars/tree/main/tafkars-lemmy

"Tafkars stands for "The API formerly known as...", is written in Rust and is pronounced like "tough cars". Tafkars is an API proxy that allows apps to talk to Lemmy through a familiar API from a kinder time. The hope is that this will make it easy for app developers to support Lemmy with only minimal code changes." @fediverse

This is something I wondered about the federated microblogging platforms that I never got a clear answer about. It's less relevant to Lemmy as federation here is broken down by community and not the entire instance, unlike the microblogging sites. If I have a Mastodon instance named myinstance.com and I follow someone or interact with a post on remoteinstance.com, according to the documentation, our instances have "discovered" each other. myinstance.com will fetch all posts from remoteinstance.com from that point onwards and display them in the federated timeline. But does this mean that the users on remoteinstance.com will also fetch posts from myinstance.com if no user on remoteinstance.com has interacted with myinstance.com before?

Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

Using this new Lemmy platform kinda reminds me if using Reddit almost 10years ago. Platform was fairly new to me. I could somewhat explore new content. There were still some kinks that needed work. People talking about digg…, etc.

For all those who have contact with the Fediverse for the first time. A beautiful and light description of what the Fediverse is or wants to be. Take a look. We are facebook, twitter, instagram, rabbit and whatever they are all called, united in one network. We can talk to each other, no matter which project you use.

fediverse.party/en/post/fedive…

The first post I viewed (I'm brand spanking new) had an awful troll comment. It was quickly removed, but it was mentioned they'd made comments on six different post before being banned. What protects the community from an instance that let's anyone join? Hope this was the correct place to post.

Hello! As all of you know there's been a recent migration of new users to places like this (me included). I'm thrilled about learning how to use these site and others alike, but I'm having trouble understading how it works. Is there a dumb down video about how the sites on the fediverse work and interact with each other? like mastodon, pixelfed, lemmy, etc. Sorry if there's an obvious answer, really knew in these. Ty!

(reposted this from r/fediverse)

Should federated social media have a centralized website that users use to access it?

It would be like starting a server for a video game. If I host, say a Minecraft server, my friends won't connect directly to the server, rather we will all use the same software (Minecraft) to connect. In a similar way I could start a Mastodon instance, but we would all go to a single website, something like mastodon.com, and type in the url to my instance to access it.

The benefit of this would be removing a lot of friction that comes with interacting with users across instances. If I, a user of mas.to visit a user profile from someone on mastodon.world, I need to actually navigate to the website mastodon.world to see all of their posts. From here, I lose the ability to like posts, reply, or basically do anything. I need to copy the link back to my home instance to do anything with the content on mastodon.world

This is really confusing to users who haven't even realized they have been navigated to a different website, since the UI is all the same. One of my friends stopped using mastodon because she was confused why she kept being logged out seemingly for no reason. It's also unnecessary friction that stops me from being able to interact properly with the entire fediverse.

If I was accessing mastodon through a centralized website, I could stay logged in while viewing a profile or post from another user, and I still would be able to interact with it. I would never be navigated away to another website and logged out. It would be a much less confusing and frustrating experience and lower the barriers between instances.

There's more than just lemmy.ml - my home on Mastodon SDF.org has a Lemmy instance as well.

I am figuring this out as well but, this link will allow you to find instances near you.

I've been using Lemmy for the last couple days and have quite liked it. I want to hear the community's thoughts on some of the other reddit "competitors".

The only other (obviously non-federated) one I'm familiar with is tildes.net, mostly just because I have had an account on it for the last few years.

for the longest time a lot of images posted to reddit were really posted on imgur (until they started hosting it on their own, too). is there a fediverse'd imgur we should be using to complement lemmy? its docs say it shouldn't be used for large images and videos.

pixelfed seems more like a federated flickr or instagram, not just simple image/album hosting like imgur. thoughts? ty 💙

The Big Social score so far:
- Twitter: burning
- Reddit: detonated a bomb under itself
- Meta: rumored to join #ActivityPub with a new app
- YouTube: videos were always 2nd to "native" ones on the other networks, but they could trivially open an #ActivityPub firehose (and maintain their preroll ads while doing so)
- rest of Google: never found organic success and don't have a bet in the game apart from wanting to index everything

No predictions here, just stating the obvious. @fediverse

A bit paradoxal but it looks that all central platform (twitter, reddit, facebook...) are helping the spread of Fediverse. Recently we saw the impact with Twitter on Mastodon, myself I've discovered Lemmy even if I wasn't a reddit user. And before that Facebook first spread friendica and diaspora. It looks next step will be around Youtube where Google try to lock more and more its user.