Fediverse
Federated universe is a decentralized, federated social media network that is interoperable with each other by using ActivityPub protocol.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
3. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
4. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
5. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
6. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Interesting links
- https://fediverse.party/ - list of Fediverse platforms
- https://joinfediverse.wiki/ - Fediverse wiki
- https://fedi.tips/ - tips and guides about Fediverse
If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @brikox@lemmy.zip.
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Yeah, I've got a now-defunct lemmy instance, one that's still up but is running v18.something and hasn't had another active user in over a year, and another that I couldn't use with non-local instances because everything was so delayed I was basically interacting with 3 days ago.
On one hand, it sucks that there's so many issues to experience. On the other hand, it's nice that none of these are absolute dealbreakers, especially now that exporting settings/subs is so easy.
Yeah I don't recall the details but I've heard people say that Lemmy (and presumably PieFed?) is fairly resource intensive, needing some beefy network resources to keep up. Unless someone is just trying to personally pull down a community or ten for their own reading pleasure, but once you start piling on the interactions (clicks, posts, comments, even votes - every single one of those takes up "resources") and thus especially as other users start to share the instance, it gets difficult to keep up.
That said, the delay issue specifically with Lemmy.World might be fixed in a month or so... which ofc is what people have been saying for the past half year too:-P.
For features, I definitely strongly recommend PieFed. For Lemmy, I personally recommend Discuss.Online for someone in the USA (lower ping?), with fantastic uptime and next to never having any technical issues, while for someone outside of the USA I think it's feddit.uk that is the typical recommendation that I've seen offered.
I use PieFed as my daily driver though, covering 99% of my Threadiverse activity:-).