We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same...
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !android.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !android.
I’ve searched for hours for NSFW gay-specific Lemmy communities (don’t judge me), so I decided to create something similar to r/gaysubreddits to help others out....
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !nsfwgaycommunities
Which would be way funnier if Meta's terms of service didn't purposefully include third party users in their collection:
Information From Third Party Services and Users:
We collect information about the Third Party Services and Third Party Users who interact with Threads. If you interact with Threads through a Third Party Service (such as by following Threads users, interacting with Threads content, or by allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content), we collect information about your third-party account and profile (such as your username, profile picture, IP address, and the name of the Third Party Service on which you are registered), your content (such as when you allow Threads users to follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in your posts), and your interactions (such as when you follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in Threads posts).
i.e., if I remain as literate as I think I am, it seems to me that the only ways for users on the fediverse to avoid giving over everything and the kitchen sink to the clutches of the dubiously human overlord are to:
1. Defederate any and all Threads instances forever, no take backs.
lemmyverse: search lemmy communities from the command-line. Thanks to the data HTTP API from lemmyverse.net! This is not really as polished as I like but, hey, in the interest of having a lively Lemmy I thought I’d share anyway :)...
So the UK should become part of the EU again. BUT the EU need to take away some veto rights, namely from France, Italy and even Germany.
For instance, France has been cockblocking a trade agreement with South America, citing “environmental concerns”. Fact is it would introduce competition against some of Frances industries - effectively screwing European growth.
Maybe Schengen countries should step in to mediate the situation.
Hi I am finding it extremely frustrating that the provided docker compose does not work. and documentation is non existent for docker pixelfed installation. Does the internal/external networking ever work? What file/folder permissions I have to set? Please help....
so in socker compose external tetwork is a network created outside of that compose file, for example on setup I have traefik running in a container which defines the traefik network, in another compose file you can reference that network by name and mark it as external to connect containers to it
I’ve not set up a pixelfed instance before so I can’t help with the folder perms but I’d think they would work themselves out
I’d like to self-host Lemmy or kbin and mastodon. I know I could use different subdomain for each, but I’d much rather keep it short. Something tells me, however, that other instances might not be happy about it....
There should be an instance of just Freds that’s called the Frediverse. You have to send them ID to prove your name is actually Fred and only Freds are allowed on the instance. I’d follow those communities as a non-Fred.
This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It's amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade....
A fork would be a duplicated custom copy of the software that can have its own changes or improvements added and is usually maintained by a different person/group than the original. When a new update of the original is released, the maintainer of the fork can bring those changes into their custom fork.
Instances are (mostly identical) copies of the same fork. They’ll have custom names and different logos, but the software that’s running them is all version 0.18 of the same fork. They may install updates at different speeds ie v0.19 is released, some instances will update immediately, some may take a week, but eventually they’ll all be updated to v0.19.
Yeah the current challenge with searching is if no one has subscribed to a magazine or user on another instance, you have to search the exact name@domain to get it to show up. Ideally Kbin instances would implement a user bot that subscribes to all the users and communities it can scrape from all federated instances until this search limitation is fixed.
Because having communities with an identical name on different instances will fracture the community.
They're different communities on different websites, though. Trying to force them all into one space is erasing all communities but one, just for the sake of having to see an @website.com address, or for pretending you're not missing out on something when you ignore 99.9% of posts and comments that end up in the space.
1 million users discussing a topic spread out across 1000 communities of 1000 active users leads to more vibrant and meaningful discussions on that topic than having 1 million of them all crammed into one place, shouting and competing for slivers of attention. And no one will miss anything of deep value in the 999 other communities, because people will cross-post the good bits anyway.
The process you are going through now is how things get “better”.
Right now there a a multitude of communities across multiple instances that all superficially appear to be the same thing; if you must have ready access to all of it in your feed then yes you will need to subscribe to all of them.
The reality is that these places are not all the same. Not everyone is going to want to join all of them and they will be subject to different moderation. There will be different levels of activity and on the whole different vibes.
Over time, some will diverge, some will diminish and some will close and direct you to post elsewhere.
If you’re comparing to Reddit - that is a place where a lot of this has already happened; for mainstream subjects one sub became dominant but it’s worth bearing in mind that for some niche subjects there would still be a handful to subscribe to for a fuller picture.
It’ll happen here too; over time things will evolve and settle into a pattern.
As for the caring part - caring comes across in how we choose to interact with each other on here; the way we do that will strongly influence the way these communities grow and change over time.
So. We can influence how things will be. No individual person or entity will ever be in complete control. So it goes.
Discovering new communities that share names and topics will be the biggest core improvement in my opinion. Like having a way for an instance to poll all federated instances for communities with the same name or with a name that includes a term to easily add would be awesome.
Then the ability to combine them into subsets of your siscriptions by whatever topic you want would be awesome. Like instead of subscriptions as a while you could have 'Tabletop Gaming' with various 40k, CAV, BattleTech, and other games grouped how you want or subgroups for each game.
There is nothing stopping the fediverse from checking with other instances to see if a name is already in use. That would be a pretty cool feature to avoid a whole bunch of duplication.
Wait, he’s got a point though: Why not something like this:
A user wants to create a new community. He enters a name, then the system checks and informs that “the fediverse already has a community by that name +here and +here.” The user may still create this same community on this instance - or he might say, hey cool thanks, and go subscribe to (one of?) the existing ones instead.
Choosing different communities with the stated purpose is all about context: the policies of the mods, the policies of the admins, and the reputation of the instance. Yes, it isn’t a perfect analogy, but people need to shift how the think about the Lemmy/Kbin model from how they think about Reddit, and the example that seems to connect most easily with users is e-mail. Maybe a more subtle / apt analogy would be [email protected] has an obviously different context and significantly different content than [email protected], but the same stated purpose (and community name).
The problem is that it isn’t just the users who are confused about this: Lemmy admins seem to each have the goal of being “the place to be”, and Kbin goes out of its way to devalue off-instance content. I personally think (primarily) user instances should be separate from (primarily) content instances, but that would take a coordinated effort by the admins. We are starting to see some grass roots efforts at making that happen, though the actions of the admins may prevent that from taking hold.
Hubzilla is a "social content management system", so-to-speak. It's actually an absolute feature monster.
It's kind of a derivative of Friendica by Friendica's own developer who also created the protocols that each one of them is based on (DFRN for Friendica, Zot for Hubzilla). It inherited several features from Friendica: Post length is virtually unlimited. Text formatting is supported through BBcode which includes embedding of images and other media within the text, and which has been enhanced further on Hubzilla. Both have supported public groups/forums from the beginning, as well as a public calendar.
Friendica had organisation of contacts in groups before Diaspora*'s aspects (which some think were the first of their kind), let alone Google+'s circles (which everyone else thinks were the first of their kind), but Hubzilla expanded them with privacy features. Generally, Hubzilla has one of the most advanced access/permission control systems in the Fediverse.
Both have built-in file hosting which is also used for embedded images and other media. Instead of your pictures being stored "somewhere", you always know where they are because you've put them there.
Friendica mostly became famous for the many services and protocols it federated with. Diaspora*, OStatus, e-mail, RSS (in both directions), WordPress (with no plug-in in WordPress), Tumblr, Libertree, Twitter (!), even Facebook (!!!) for a few months before Facebook changed its TOS. Hubzilla took most of these connectors over.
Now comes some of what Hubzilla has on top, some of which is optional and has to be activated by the user:
WebDAV access for the file space
private CardDAV address book (I'm not kidding)
an additional system of private CalDAV calendars (yes, separate from the calendar inherited from Friendica)
long-form article writing using BBcode (and I'm not talking about posts, this is fully separate and a nice way of showing formatted text with embedded pictures to Mastodon users)
a wiki system based on BBcode and Markdown + a bit of HTML, allowing for multiple wikis (I'm still not kidding)
a simple webpage engine based on BBcode, Markdown and HTML
That's why Hubzilla is a "social CMS". You can do everything with it and then some, just pick what you need. The official Hubzilla website itself is a Hubzilla channel.
Speaking of which: One major organisational difference between Hubzilla and almost the entire rest of the Fediverse is that your content is not stored in your account. Hubzilla (when it was still young, in development and named Red Matrix) introduced a system of "channels". That's where your content goes.
When you register your first account, you automatically create a channel along with it. The channel is your home, your online identity. The account is only necessary to access the channel. You can have multiple channels on the same account, i.e. multiple fully separate identities with one login, and you can switch between them while logged in. Of course, on top of that, Hubzilla still has Friendica's feature of multiple profiles per channel (per account on Friendica) so that you can show the same identity to different connections in different ways and with different details.
The channel system became necessary for the introduction of another one of Hubzilla's killer features: nomadic identity. This goes way beyond account migration. Essentially, you can have the same channel on multiple hubs. Not independent, disconnected copies, but the exact same channel with the exact same content and even the exact same identity.
It works this way: When you register an account on another hub, and you already have a channel, you can choose to clone that channel to the new hub. Not only does this create an identical copy of your channel with everything in it. It also links the original ("primary instance") and the copy ("clone") together and makes sure they always stay in sync. So whatever happens to change on one instance is mirrored to the other one in near-real-time.
You can basically have as many clones as you want to have. If one instance goes down, the others continue to work. And if you have multiple channels, you can mirror them to separate hubs; you don't have to have all of them on the same hubs.
The ID is derived from the hub which the primary instance is on and includes its domain name. The primary hub can be switched if necessary, for example if your original primary hub will or has shut down. This will also change your ID accordingly. One downside is that you have to re-connect all your non-nomadic bidirectional connections (Mastodon, Lemmy, Diaspora*, Friendica etc.).
Last but not least, another nice feature introduced by Hubzilla is a single sign-on system called OpenWebAuth. When you're logged into any hub on which you have an account, and you visit any other Hubzilla hub or other website that supports OpenWebAuth, your login credentials are recognised, and you're treated like logged into that site, only that you obviously don't have all features you'd have with a local account. So you can post directly onto the "walls" of other Hubzilla channels, regardless of on which hubs they reside, but you can't create a channel without an account. Mastodon is said to plan to introduce OpenWebAuth, too.
There's another Fediverse project with nomadic identity, by the same developer yet again. The result of of a long and somewhat convoluted series of forks from Red Matrix which persisted beyond Hubzilla's stable release as an experimental platform.
The project itself is deliberately, intentionally nameless (!) and brandless. But since the code repository needed a name, it was named Streams. So the project is commonly being referred to as (streams), but most instances don't identify as that; they tend to have individual identifications and logos because these can be customised.
In comparison with Hubzilla, (streams) is cut down a lot, offering only Friendica-level "basics" and external federation only with ActivityPub which, on the other hand, is greatly improved.
The original idea behind (streams) is no longer to have a jack-of-all-trades that has all kinds of features imaginable and unimaginable readily built in for admins and then users to activate. This part of Hubzilla's concept made it rather unfit for specialised hubs because the hub admin first had to remove what was unnecessary.
(streams), on the other hand, is fairly bare-bone, and the idea is that creative admins capable of coding can and shall develop their own additions on top of it, ideally also share them. At the same time, (streams) gained some interesting new features such as additional Markdown and HTML support in posts.
Since (streams) is based on a newer version of Zot, now named Nomad, it federates with Hubzilla quite well, and both understand the other's nomadic features. It's even possible to mirror a Hubzilla channel to (streams) (minus the features that (streams) lacks, of course), but not the other way around.
The problem comes from federation. You never know where your messages are synced to + what will happen if instances are defederated. Matrix might become something really cool, if it spends 1-2 years solely on security. Otherwise… it’s just nothing more than an epic (and misleading) name + some IRC legacy vibes.
I am so confused at your comments here. It’s a webpage.
It means there's no link to it from the [email protected] community that I'm viewing. I would have to proactively navigate to a new website to check the rules, and why would the instance have different rules than the community? I wouldn't naturally in the course of logging into my kbin account, opening this thread, and commenting on it, see those rules or a link to them anywhere.
moderators need to know how to spot and resolve types of detractive content that aren’t simply name calling.
This is a nearly impossible ask, because that type of content is tailored specifically for plausible deniability. There's a ready-made "mods are overreaching/censuring" argument if they get banned or silenced. Community censure is the only way to stop these types.
Name calling and insults are also not a productive way to address what you consider bad-faith conversation.
I disagree. Attacking an idea requires a lot of effort; indeed, that's why sealioning and JAQing off is a type of trolling at all. It's asymmetric warfare, designed to wear a person down who's trying to attack an idea.
Conversely, responding to a bad faith argument with "that's stupid and you're stupid for saying it" is a no-win position for a concern troll. They either waste time getting dragged into the mud with you trading insults, which doesn't convince anyone of the thing they're pushing. Or they leave and they don't get the chance to push the thing in the first place.
what good is insulting someone who isn’t actually acting with malice?
It's a quarantine. How often have you managed to convince someone of something by arguing with them on the internet? Or been convinced of something yourself? It's quite rare. The whole idea is that forums are a debate stage, and the 85% of forum users who just lurk are the audience. You're not trying to convince your opponent; you're trying to convince the audience.
Medium.com. Shitty blog opinions. Name a more iconic duo!
Crowbcat (not Crowbar) specializes in highlighting these problems in games in a detailed way that no other review can. Yeah, it mostly just a montage of clips, but each set proves the main point more than just say “Well, this game is bad, blah, blah, blah” and talking for five minutes. Show, don’t tell.
For example, his Back 4 Blood video proved his main point directly and pretty definitively with 30 minutes of evidence. Everybody else talked about how it was a bad game and sure that’s fine. If you want a more traditional review, then go watch those. But, it’s also useful to catalogue these instances as directly as possible in a comparative way. It was a single point, and it wasn’t supposed to be some grand review of the game, but the point was backed up with evidence, which is more than I can say about some of these shitty bloggers that call themselves game journalists.
Is it insincere? No. The insincere thing to do is sit back and allow game companies to shit all over the consumer when they put out a half-baked product. There is nothing wrong with calling out their shit. Let me repeat that more directly:
There is nothing wrong with being outraged at a company trying to fuck over the consumer!
Frankly, I try to stay away from AAA gaming, because of shit like this. But, just because I don’t play a lot of AAA games doesn’t mean I’m going to write some shitty blog article that calls fighting the good fight “outrage journalism”.
Android Community Reopening Announcement
We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same...
18+ NSFW Gay Communities - An easier way to find what you want (lemmynsfw.com)
I’ve searched for hours for NSFW gay-specific Lemmy communities (don’t judge me), so I decided to create something similar to r/gaysubreddits to help others out....
Threads Continues to Copy Twitter's Worst Elements With New Rate Limits (gizmodo.com)
Ordered 20+ groceries from Amazon on Prime Day. Today my order arrived with each item packaged separately. (media.kbin.social)
lemmyverse: find communities from the command line (git.sr.ht)
lemmyverse: search lemmy communities from the command-line. Thanks to the data HTTP API from lemmyverse.net! This is not really as polished as I like but, hey, in the interest of having a lively Lemmy I thought I’d share anyway :)...
Guide to Self-Hosting Lemmy with Individual Containers & Existing NGINX Instance.
Problem Statement...
Most Brits reckon Brexit has failed, new poll finds (www.politico.eu)
Anyone hosting pixelfed using docker?
Hi I am finding it extremely frustrating that the provided docker compose does not work. and documentation is non existent for docker pixelfed installation. Does the internal/external networking ever work? What file/folder permissions I have to set? Please help....
Can I use the same domain name for Lemmy and Mastodon?
I’d like to self-host Lemmy or kbin and mastodon. I know I could use different subdomain for each, but I’d much rather keep it short. Something tells me, however, that other instances might not be happy about it....
The Wikimedia Foundation has joined the fediverse by setting up their own Mastodon server! (wikimedia.social)
Welcome to tropical paradise [Flightgear] (i.imgur.com)
hi guys,...
YSK that a lot of common questions/complaints about Lemmy are presently answered by kbin (kbin.social)
This is not an attempt to convert Lemmy users, nor is it a slight on Lemmy. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why Lemmy works better for some, and I love the fact that we not only have multiple choices, but multiple choices that allow us to interact with each other regardless! It's amazing. Lemmy is great, no shade....
Do I understand correctly that I have to subscribe to 5 different NoStupidQuestions on 5 different instances?
The content on all the communities seem different....
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TIL there is an fediverse alternative to Discord (matrix.org)
About Matrix Matrix is an open protocol for decentralised, secure communications....
Big oil quietly walks back on climate pledges as global heat records tumble (www.theguardian.com)
Crowbar, the Kuleshov Effect, and Insincere Games Criticism (thetaxcollectorman.medium.com)