fediverse

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2164989...

Title, basically. Back on Reddit, there was a way to add a user as a friend. It made it easer to identify people (Apollo would highlight friends differently), as well as to see what they’re up to across all communities. There was even a feed for all posts by all friends, which was really useful.

Is there any way to download Fedilab for free outside of the F-Droid repository? I know they have the code on Codeberg but I could not find an APK file on there

For hours today, yesterday, and intermittently since I’ve been on here (a month or so) lemmy stops loading using jerboa, liftoff, and a web browser....

Not the best news in this report. We need to find ways to do more.

According to lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats...

cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/2012318...

5 tips for beginners to help them to start coding

I know this has crossed the minds of more than a few people here over the past several days....

Alternative to lemmy by tedu of OpenBSD fame. It uses ActivityPub and is actually compatible with lemmy. Here is an example instance:...

As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk's favorite letter "X," its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.

So fediDB does show the combined numbers for lemmy/kbin....

I’m often seeing links to posts on Mastodon and, when I click on them, they open in a Mastodon instance different from mine (I mean from the one where I have my account). This means that I cannot reply, boost, etc, that post....

I’ve subscribed to quite a few communities there, and now they seem to be offline. Does anyone know how to reach the admin?

For the most part it’s borderline child porn or stable diffusion spam. There should be an option to opt out of content from specific instances on account level.

The thing I like most about the fediverse, unlike reddit, is that people are genuinely posting things they care about or like, rather than posting to be a karma whore. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve posted in reddit and it instantly gets stolen and used in another sub simply to get easy karma. It’s refreshing to not...

Despite the rules they claim to enforce on their instance, when I see a racist, bigoted, or obnoxiously offensive take here it’s pretty much exclusively a user from there....

This is a FAQ but is there a summary like this:...

I am on Firefox for Android

Hi all,...