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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

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Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration)

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by woelkchen@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
 
 

!fediverse@lemmy.world is not a place to file your grievances with "free speech", disrupting users, moderation, etc.

If you have problems with users: File complaints to the mods or just block them.

If you have problems with mods: File complaints with admins of the instance or just migrate to an alternative community.

If you have problems with an entire instance: Just leave it.

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This community was essentially unmoderated for a while and I've been recently approached to take over moderation duties here. What I don't intend to do is to change any existing rules here but to enforce what has piled up in the moderation queue.

The discussion under the recent post about spam accounts turned into a flamewar regarding US domestic politics which has literally nothing to do with the Fediverse.

With dozens of comments, I don't have the bandwidth to sift through them individually and I've locked the thread. The PSA about spam accounts still stands which is why I didn't remove the post. The accounts involved with that flamewar get a pass for this time. Consider this a warning. Further trolling about US political parties will result in bans.

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I absolutely love wiki walking through random obscure fan wikis, but I hate how most are on Fandom.

I think a federated wiki solution makes sense. I could see it as an evolution of the interwiki concept.

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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/538685

No more duplicate posts

One of the things that the recent addition of the Feeds feature highlighted was how many cross-posts / duplicate posts there are. When you display posts from linux@lemmy.world, linux@programming.dev, linux@lemmy.ml, etc all the cross-posts make it get repetitive, really fast. The same thing happens on the home feed too although it's a bit less obvious because there's a wider range of subjects involved.

Except now, it doesn't, because PieFed de-duplicates your feed! And your home page, and your topics. Attached to this post is a screenshot showing how it works out - an article posted to 7 different places is only shown once despite me having joined most of those communities.

We're still figuring out whether it's a good idea to merge all the comments from all the cross-posts into one page and how to do that in a way that respects the different culture/rules in the communities that the posts were made in. It's a tricky UX and social question.

I've held off on adding a cross-post function to PieFed until now but it'll be added soon.

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Configuring A PeerTube Instance (videos.abnormalbeings.space)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) by AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Incredible to think about that we got it right the first time (with email) and still had to spend the last 20 years complaining about centralized social networks.

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app.wafrn.net is the original instance.

Wafrn is a tumblr-like fediverse software. Its extremely underrated, and it has bluesky support.

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I was looking for some collection of posts earlier about Proton Mail and the whole controversy with the CEO, and I opened a post the lemmy instance that was suggested was lemmy.zip but the community and the poster were from lemmy.world so that made me ask myself a bunch of questions. Reference link

Note: I used duckduckgo

Here are some questions I have:

  • How does the search engine decide which instance to link you to as you could in theory show every instance for the same post?
  • Could you get a result where all the results are the same post just different instances?
  • Do you think that could deter new people finding out about lemmy through search results?
  • How can an instance make themselves more visible in the search results (for exposure)?
  • I did not get any results from lemmy clients such as vger.app the only results were direct instances, will this always be the case?

I remember learning about search engines a while back but I don't know how relevant that information is any more. Having crawlers and the more a website is linked in other websites the higher up in the search result will be and the whole robot.txt thing.

I know if I wanted to search for something specific in lemmy I could just use its own search function, but what about people who ask general questions and that happens to be answered in a lemmy post. I wanted to know how exposed we are/ will be to people who don't yet know about lemmy.

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I keep getting follows on mastodon lately that’s just spam. It’s women’s accounts that have suggestive photos and usually links to OnlyFans. I even got one on two different accounts overnight.

Is anyone else seeing this?

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What are we going to do about it?

Sorry for the Google Translate Link. An easy alternative is much appreciated.

Edit: thanks to @Xamrica@lemmy.dbzer0.com for this translation alternative: https://translate.kagi.com/translate/https://www.xataka.com/servicios/foros-internet-estan-desapareciendo-porque-ahora-todo-reddit-discord-eso-preocupante

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Mastodon dms are just posts with limited visibility, and a mention to the person recieving it. They don't seem to be compatible with lemmy.

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For anyone who wants an invitation to join mastodon.online, let me know! Like mastodon.social, it is one of the two official communities run by the Mastodon non-profit. The difference is that mastodon.online is invite-only.

Joining an invite-only server helps keep out spammers who target mastodon.social and lets someone be part of a more exclusive community. This can help someone have a better-quality mastodon experience, overall.

Of course, to keep out scammers, the invitation isn't open to just anyone who asks, they will have to have a posting history of some sort.

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Given the different way they apps are structured I don't even know if it's a sensible question, but is there a way to subscribe to something on a Madison server?

The server as a community, or a tag as a community? Does mastodon have some other concept that I could subscribe to?

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I'm asking myself if exist something inside the fediverse where you can list your profiles and other people can Send you a message throw your most used app/profile without needing an sccount on that service, unify conversations throw different platforms and notify you if one person you follow in A service has a new profile in B service.

Something like a federated meeting point compatible with all ActivityPub developments. Does it exist?

Thanks!

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I feel like everyone suggests following hashtags, but depending on the hashtag, I find the content that's being posted quite overwhelming when it comes to the amount of toots, and that it's hard to get an overview. Anyone that relates?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27182706

At the time of writing Summit for Lemmy should be completely open source.

After a lot of contemplation I've decided to open source the app. There are still some changes that probably need to happen before it can be considered "FOSS" but this is a huge step I think.

As I'm voiced my opinions on this previously, the main repository for Summit will not be to the public for PRs. If you encounter bugs or have any feature requests please continue to send them through the proper channels (ideally to this community).

Enjoy~~

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Ok, this might be a dumb question, but is it really technically possible in any way - even a convoluted one, like manually downloading HTML pages from Facebook? - to mass import posts from one's Facebook into Mastodon or Friendica instead of painstakingly copying them one by one? I've got a 10+ year archive to port and it's a daunting task to go through them...

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Some notes on Sharkey-Lemmy interoperation

Sharkey-Lemmy Interoperation Notes

These are some as-I-went observations and notes, so not to be taken as comprehensive. For the most part I think it's pretty similar to Mastodon-Lemmy interactions, but others can chip in with anything different or that I may not have encountered.

Thought it'd be a good use of Sharkey's page feature to share like this. Pass it along if you find it helpful, or copy and improve and share your own variation!

@fediverse@lemmy.world

#Fediverse #Feditips #Fediblog

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please help me, i want to post my art and some coding stuff i think some people might find interesting, but i don't want to flood or make it look like i'm spamming posts on a lemmy group!! and you can't post things on your profile. what other websites are there?? that are also fediverse? please. if not fediverse, then what other websites come to mind? thank you

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