Even more so since profiles are generally less anonymous than reddit.
How so?
My profile tells you I use an instance (in this case my own, dusty-radio) and my username on that instance (in this case Dusty). All this tells you is the name I’ve chosen and that I host this myself. It’s no different than if I was Dusty on reddit, other than the instance URL.
I recently got into the world of self-hosting, and although I’m doing it through a VPS I’ve learned many interesting things, even so, I’ve only had my VPS contracted for 10 days, and of those 10 days, 8 I spent burning my head learning concepts that I had never heard or understood, and actually it’s funny because I...
A link to an instance is always going to be absolute so you just type the name of the instance. Most of the time the editor links it, but it still doesn’t understand some of the domain names, for example lemm.ee links but lemmy.world does not. If the editor fails to link you can prefix the name with https://lemmy.worldle lemmy.world
The link fixer bot shows how to link a community for Lemmy, but it’s different for kbin. The problem is if you use an absolute link to a community, you redirect the user away from their instance. The [email protected] format makes links relative so you stay on your own instance. Now we have the bot and it will post a fix, but better not to call the bot. Just do it right from the start.
There’s still the problem of how to do a relative link for a post. If someone knows I’d like to see that. At this point all post links are absolute and direct you away from your instance.
I really wanted host this in the fediverse.
I struggled through the signup process.
Not able to make it public so was finally forced to put it on youtube.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !fediverse
I looked up a list of Lemmy World instances and signed up for a bunch, but how do I see everything at once in one app instead of downloading one for each instance? I am new to what the kids call “federation.” Thank you.
I’ll try to simplify some concepts about the Fediverse and Lemmy using some more common IT knowledge.
I assume you are familiar with emails: gmail, protonmail, hotmail, aol, each of them runs a Server which will give you access, when registered, to a mailbox which will have a name of your choice, followed by an AT(@), and then a Domain specific to the vendor you have chosen.
ID
Lemmy works in a similar way: When you choose an instance (for example lemmy.world, or lemmy.ml, or feddit.de, you can find a list here: lemmyverse.net ) you are choosing where your account will live. You’ll get a full ID composed by your name of choice followed by an @ and then the domain of your chosen instance.
In your case your full ID is [email protected] . This is unique to you in the whole Fediverse.
Communities
Contrary to emails we have another abstraction: Communities. They are collections of posts and comments, moderated by someone and about a specific subject. These communities will reside on a specific server, like your account, and you can, for example, go to !technology or !mildlyinfuriating . As you can see their format is similar to that of your account: they have both a community name, the name before the @, and a domain that specifies where the main copy of it physically resides.
You can find a full, searchable, list of communities here: lemmyverse.net/communitiesFor some more complex reasons just disregards any of them that reside on beehaw.org (they have defederated with lemmy.world, but you don’t need to understand this concept yet).
Feeds
When you start to look around the lemmy.world site, and you are logged in with your lemmy.world account, you’ll have the ability to follow three different types of feed: Subscribed, Local, All.
Local: This feed shows only communities which main copy actually resides on the instance that you are currently on.
All: All the posts from all the communities of all the instances will appear here.
Subscribed: All the posts from the communities that you have subscribed to will show here.
Federation
Until now the concepts were pretty straightforward and not so dissimilar from other services, but now starts the more complex subject: Federation.
For all this different instances (computers running the Lemmy server) to have the information it needs to spread and they need to duplicate it.
This will allow you to see the same exact content whichever instance your account is on: this means that if you have chosen to create an account on lemmy.world or lemmy.ml it, generally speaking, doesn’t matter. You will see and interact with the same content and people.
Your instance is just the gate towards the content, which you have to always pass through (so no, you shouldn’t make an account in each instance, you just need one, and you should choose an instance which rules and values are acceptable for you and, better yet, similar to yours).
Going back to the previous comparison with email services you can think of this as: Each time you take an action (writing a post, a comment, sending an upvote) you are really just sending an email to all the instances, so they get notified and update their copy of the content.
An email saying something along the lines of “[email protected] has just downvoted the post number 69420 in the community 42 of the instance 123” will propagate until every single server has received it.
Defederation
Defederation is the strength and the weakness of the whole fediverse: it helps to moderate the content but it also breaks the web connecting all the servers.
Each instance automatically connects itself with all the others present in the net, but an Admin can actively decide that some other instance - maybe because it is full of Bots, or Scammers, or contains communities clearly voted to illegal or immoral things, or just they don’t like it; the reasons are subjective - really rustled their jimmies and they don’t want to see it anymore. In that case the Admin could decide to Defederate from them: this means that each time a new email from that instance comes it just get dropped and ignored.
So, if Instance A defederates from instance B, each time B sends an update to the content produced by the communities or people from B it will just be ignored by A. All the users registered on A will just not see anything or anyone from B.
Basically an instance wide shadow-ban.
Conclusion
This was just a quick and rough explanation of the concepts, but I hope it was useful: if you have any question I’ll try to answer them at the best of my abilities. But keep in mind that they are not really high. And I’m kinda tipsy.
The main takeaways are this:
You only need an account in a single instance.
You can subscribe to any community that you want, wherever they are.
You can search instances and communities here: lemmyverse.net
You should choose an instance that has similar values as you.
Sometimes the federation (the mails sent around between the servers) can get slow, but all content will be eventually consistent. Kinda.
Communities are sprouting around at high speed, there are a lot of duplicates and everything is in flux, try to be patience.
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<span style="color:#323232;">minetest.register_chatcommand("music", {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">params = "[on|off|invert [<player name>]]",
</span><span style="color:#323232;">description = S("Turns music for yourself or another player on or off."),
</span>
New settings added
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<span style="color:#323232;">#Maximum amount of hostile mobs (default:300)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mcl_mob_cap_hostile (Global hostile mob cap) int 300 0 2048
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#Maximum amount of non-hostile mobs (default:300)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mcl_mob_cap_non_hostile (Global non-hostile mob cap) int 300 0 2048
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#Maximum amount of ambient water mobs that will spawn near a player (default:20)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mcl_mob_cap_water_ambient (Mob cap ambient water) int 20 0 1024
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#Maximum amount of underground water mobs that will spawn near a player (default:5)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mcl_mob_cap_water_underground (Mob cap underground water) int 5 0 1024
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">#Maximum amount of axolotl mobs that will spawn near a player (default:5)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">mcl_mob_cap_axolotl (Mob cap axolotl) int 5 0 1024
</span>
Gameplay Improvements
Cherry Blossoms - Saplings added as loot, and trees and craftables added. Initial changes to enable a Wood API. - PrairieWind, SmokeyDope, Wbjitscool
Fix issue with drops turning black due to clipping into walls and floors and visually demonstrate drops merging - AncientMariner
Hoglins attack frequency reduced now due to new attack_frequency mob setting - AncientMariner
Hostile mobs should lose aggro if they cannot see their target - AncientMariner
Nerf skeleton attack - AncientMariner
Split global cap for peaceful and hostile. Introduce underground water, ambient water, axolotl cap. Slight peaceful spawn balancing. Mob spawning can have more density in some instances. Slightly less passive mob spawning. Some mobs were not counted in cap calculations. Refreshed cap space after spawning in cycle. - AncientMariner
Prevent slime blocks from ‘connecting’ to honey blocks when pushing/pulling, like in Minecraft - seventeenthShulker
Add support for external custom skins mod - MrRar
Double doors fixed - FossFanatic
Make elytra enchantable and the enchanted elytra usable - PrairieWind/FlamingRCCars/MrRar
Remove slimes from mushroom islands - AncientMariner
Remove Flower Forest Beaches from Wolf biome spawn list - PrairieWind
Make Piglin Brutes drop golden axes = PrairieWind
Make end crystals explode when nearby crystals are punched and explode - PrairieWind
Improved pig riding - PrairieWind
Visual Improvements
Incorporate sheep eating animation. - epCode
New textures for warped for Crimson Fungus, Crimson Fungus planks, Warped Hyphae planks - Exhale
New sweet berry textures - SmokeyDope
Add Piglin and Creeper description names to death message - AncientMariner
Creeper should not walk to player if it does not have line of sight. Mob shouldn’t look at player it does not have line of sight to. - AncientMariner
Remove one cause of extra jittering in mobs - AncientMariner
Update dead bush generation - PrairieWind
Fix a typo in the Acquire Hardware achievement - uqers
Clean-up mcl_bamboo text - rudzik8
Sounds
Add more fishing sounds! - Niterux
Add max_hear_distance flag to composter sounds - SmokeyDope
Add barrel sounds - SmokeyDope
Translations
Update russian translation - Temak
(french) translation enhancements - 3raven
Add spanish translations - megustanlosfrijoles
Performance
Reduce network activity for elytra flying rocket particles - AncientMariner
Mapgen Performance Improvements - FossFanatic
Migrate beacons back to abm - chmodsayshello
Frequent danger checks and movement actions removed from non-moving and out of range mobs - AncientMariner
Duplicate jump and danger checks removed from mob processing - AncientMariner
Decreased frequency of processing for some mob actions - AncientMariner
Only run certain checks if applicable for mob - AncientMariner
Multiplayer
Add global cooldown for the bed quick chat feature - chmodsayshello/AncientMariner
Music toggle for players connecting to servers - chmodsayshello
Make sure dying sign text respects protection - AncientMariner
Code Quality
Oxidation API - PrairieWind
Fix sign color requirement and translation issue - PrairieWind
Standardise despawn logic and add asserts. Add persistent flag for mobs that have been interacted with. - AncientMariner
Replace the zombie pigman with the zombified piglin - AncientMariner
Clean up crash code and convert to new style vectors - AncientMariner
So after twenty-something years on social media, along with mailing lists, messageboards, usenet, this is a topic I think about literally every time I have to add, change, migrate, delete my account as I migrated from platform to platform like some virtual vagabond between text-driven city-states. A virtual vagabond with no worldly goods, no name, no history, and completely invisible to all. To exist, I must apply to the City Leader, and if accepted, I get a name, a nice studio apartment, and visibility as well as contact with other humans after watching a short commercial every five or so humans. If I leave, am thrown out, or the city is burned down, I can’t take anything the city gave me with me. By ‘gave’, I mean ‘loaned’ btw; none of those things were actually mine.
All the discussion of whether or not to federate with Threads were interesting in that in general, it’s kind of pointless. A server instance isn’t a democracy; the owner’s opinion is the only one that matters. If you don’t like it, leave. And I don’t argue their right to do so; they’re paying the bills, doing the upgrades, eating grapes with robot butlers, I don’t know their lives. Federated means anyone can run their own not-twitter or not-reddit; go for it. All you need is money, free time, and the knowledge of how to register a domain name, get, run, secure, and maintain servers, and install and configure the program, lure people in, and avoid breaking any national or international laws. Like I said: I really seriously do not argue the owner’s right to decide anything for their server. i know how to do all those things and I ran several websites and archives: I wanted a nap before installation step.
Fediverse is a massive step in loosening the stranglehold megacorporations had on our ability to shitpost in peace and talk about our cats without feeling stalked by people wanting to sell us shit or sell our browsing habits, blood pressure, and underwear size to those who will the try to sell us deeply individualized shit; it’s the circle of life, man.
Wow this got long but feelings.
So at this point–two decades and change of social media, the rise and fall of social empires, so much virtual vagabonding across the virtual desert to find a new city-state…I don’t think it’s too early to consider getting around to a productive discussion of how we go about separating the individual identity from the community and define what is theirs to keep no matter where they are. If there was ever a place and time to start building a model, it’s where all the city states are allies and the individuals can interact with each other no matter what city they’re in. The account transferability in Mastodon is a really good start, but it’s not a solution, much less the solution. It’s a beginning.
I don’t expect to have a working, finished, flawless product in six to eight weeks or six to eight months; I expect it to slide in three weeks and two days after the announcement that it’s ready for alpha testing and immediately break the first time a tester opens it; it’ll be another month before it goes into testing again. I expect it will be a weird buggy mess of wtf after months of virtual warfare and everyone will hate it before the rough draft of the design documents are even released. I expect there will be one weird guy who really thinks everything should be written in Rust because he’s insane and never sleeps. Five to eight devs will dramatically quit; one will quietly move to Utah and farm emus. None of them will be the Rust guy; you’re stuck with him. I expect the working version after testing is done will be hated by everyone and probably kind of crappy. But it will also be amazing, because as of it’s release–no matter how shitty, buggy, or how many inexplicable design choices are made–the individual exists outside of being community property and that no matter where we go or how much we pissed off that admin or if our city-state was nuked from orbit, there are things that are ours and we get to keep them.
The talk about “enshittification” made me think of the very email we use for the instances we signed up and instantly, it paints a grim picture. One of my account used gmail to sign up. Some proton mail. It reminds me that these too are companies beholden to their shareholders....
Is it possible to change lemmy’s domain after I have already started it once and produced some content? I am thinking of moving to a subdomain but I’m not sure if it will go smoothly
It can cause some wackiness… basically you will need to maintain that old domain forever and everything will still refer to that old domain.
For example, your post looks like this from an ActivityPub/federation perspective:
{
[...]
"id": "https://atosoul.zapto.org/post/24325",
"attributedTo": "https://atosoul.zapto.org/u/Soullioness",
[...]
"content": "<p>I'm curious if I can migrate my instance (a single user) to a different domain? Right now I'm on a free DNS from no-ip but I might get a prettier paid domain name sometime.</p>n",
}
The post itself has an ID that references your domain, and the the attributedTo points to your user which also references your domain. AFAIK there is no reasonable way to update/change this. IDs are forever.
It would also break all of the subscriptions for an existing instance, as the subscriptions are all set to deliver to that old domain.
IMO your best bet would be to start a new instance on the new domain, update your profile on the old one saying that your user is now @Soullioness and maintain that old server in a read-only manner for as long as you can bear.
I’m glad you think most things OP said are valid, as that’s me ;)
It is important to have healthy conversation about it - I don’t think there’s any reason to assume instance admins are acting in bad faith, even if I do think a wait and see approach is wrong and I certainly don’t think they should be being called out by name (or instance name) or harassed in any way - they’re providing a free of charge service after all. I donate to the person who admins the instance I’m on and I’d urge everyone to do the same.
But to extend your biohazard analogy - rather than containing a spill, wouldn’t it be better to prevent the spill from being able to happen in the first place?
A problem many have realized is that there are many /tech, /gaming etc. communities in different instances/servers. There is already https://fediverse.observer/ , so I think it wouldn't be too hard to make a service that periodically roams the fediverse, checks for example the last 100,000 submissions of each (or top 100 active...
There is one argument I’ve seen missing in most of the de/federation discussions, that I think should be mentioned, and warrants it’s own discussion....
I didn’t research it too in depth, but from the quick understanding I have about it, it works something like this:
Fediverse is just a name for servers that implement the protocol ActivityPub. The protocol defines a way how different servers should share data and interact with eachother.
For example, you have Mastodon, which has decided to implent a Twitter-like social network. Or Lemmy, that implemented Reddit-like social network, or the Pixelwhatever, that implements a picture sharing service.
When someone hosts an instance of the social network, you use it just like you would a normal social network. But in addition to that, ActivityPub protocol defines a way how can the servers talk to eachother - how they share data. So a user of i.e lemmy.ml can ask their home instance “can you let me subscribe to posts from programming.dev community?”, and the instance will use the protocol to start fetching posts from there, to show to the user, while also sending back comments the user makes on said treads.
It would also be possible to connect Mastodon with Lemmy - assuming that some kind of UI is created that would handle the difference in type of content. But the ActivityPub protocol gives them a common language about how to interact. So if a Mastodon creates a special post type for Lemmy posts, users can start requesting “Hey, can you get me posts from this Lemmy instance?”, and it will be able to get them though ActivityPub and then somehow show it to them.
A fediverse is just a network of servers that are allowed to talk to eachother. If Meta would join the Fediverse and we did not defederate with it, it would mean that Meta’s servers can ask any instance to give them their content and let their users interact with it - but Meta will decide how is it shown. So Meta can riddle it with ads, run analytics about how are users interacting with the posts, scrape it for user data or simply use the content we have as a way how to kickstart their platform that noone would want to use in the first place.
So, defederation just means “I don’t want to talk to you, and I will not give you any data.”
I don't think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on "Lemmy" or "kbin" is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer....
I just consistently mention it because it's a huge topic atm and it's to everyone's benefit to clarify. If I'm over here talking about how I'm SO glad I can mute instances willy-nilly as I please but don't mention I'm doing that from kbin, that's going to send a lot of frustrated lemmings scrambling through their settings.
Generic is "(the) fedi/fediverse." But where I'm specifically from may carry connotations in UI or culture for those here, and those not here would maybe prefer a platform name they can actually look up, as has already happened to me once.
I do think the "Blaaah, we got X amount of users and we're the biggest in the fedi!" posts are borderline odd, because yeah, we're not going head to head anymore. The tribalism we've had drilled into us for decades, we have no need of now and I don't wanna see any of the platform politics that's always been in the past. Thankfully, it seems to be stemming from genuine enjoyment instead of elitist gloating, and it keeps itself to a minimum.
I don’t think this is EEE, I think this is a chance for meta to dominate the narrative by drowning us out with algorithmically curated censorship, distractions, hatred, outrage etc. I would join threads if I want threads, I would be on Reddit if I want corporate influence....
We're here because Reddit was shit on top shit, led by gaping anus. We all accept that Meta is the same.
We didn't want Reddit profiting from our work. Meta will do the same, only more competently.
Defederation is useless at scale They can continually spin up new instances that act as spies and bridges to Meta's area.
Once enough Meta bridge nodes are woven into the Fedi, they'll be masked by a backchannel to mask the exchange/activity.
Someone plz tell me I'm wrong, but this is how I think things work in the background...
Bob creates a Lemmy node - @Zucc1.ughfuckoff. It has 3 users and basically shops around until someone in lemmy.world's sphere allows federation. Zucc1 looks like any random, small instance.
Once federated, Zucc1 syncs to its connected Lemmy instances - for now there is no Meta connection.
Zucc1 can then federate with a bunch of other instances, including Zucc2.
This repeats for a few weeks, infiltrating Fedi. This could be happening now.
A new set of Lemmy nodes spin up and federate only with a portion of the spy instances. The spy instances don't respect the federation rules, distributing portions of the Fedi sync back to the Meta connected nodes, masking the source and destination.
Once signed posts are received by the spy nodes, user names are swapped with a table synced by spy and bridge instances. @User1 becomes @User7.
The Threads user sees their message from @someone (which can also be swapped if they worry Threads users care about any of this stuff).
Probably easy to combat when it's one instance here and there. If it's constant and automated, federating would have to be paused until the spies are weeded out and there's a better detection strategy. If they get a big enough network going, they could all dip out at once, change identity, and refederate back in as the Fedi network flips out because of all the sync mismatches. Just more new nodes joining in. They have the source code, so they can act differently from other instances as long as it doesn't cause problems.
Is this a realistic scenario or am I way off base? I feel like it has to be one of the two.
Thank you for pointing out that this is so much worse than just EEE. Meta has a long history of social and political engineering, and deliberately creating a toxic environment that turned all of our parents and grandparents into deranged conspiracy theorists. They don’t just let hate thrive on their platform, they artificially inflate it in the name of engagement and profit.
I see no reason to assume they won’t do all of this again, and should they do it all again it’s going to impact the entire Fediverse. Even if you just stick to instances that block Meta, if you’re federating with instances that aren’t, the toxic environment Meta is likely to build will come back to you. If the majority of instances fail to block them, I can’t bear to stay here and watch what has become the internet’s most healthy and vibrant community rot from the inside.
I honestly don’t understand why this is even a debate. If even a fraction of the shit meta has pulled was done by a smaller Fediverse instance, we all wouldn’t hesitate to defederate from them.
And to those of you who justify Threads because Meta is somehow the lesser of two evils compared to Twitter, please remember that while Twitter is owned by a raging and incompetent manchild, Meta has eroded democracies and played a major role in a genocide. Don’t fucking support these murderers. Meta is more than happy to spread even more hatred and killing in the world if it boosts their profits.
This post is a sort of partial dump of my efforts towards an idea/proposal for improving discoverability and onboarding for the Fediverse while avoiding new users just being dumped on a centralised instance. I’ve seen people suggest that one of our secondary defenses from megacorp social media (like Meta) is improving our UI,...
I think the issue with mainstream mastodon discussion and adoption is several fold.
The first is that for a large chunk of the population the appeal of twitter is that it’s full of famous people, big name professionals, industry insiders, journalists, local governments, and etc. Mastodon users will often brush this off as not why they enjoy microblogging, but a lot of mainstream users care a lot about this. Twitter is a service where you follow individuals not communities and topics and so if the people you follow arent on the replacement service it matters.
The second is that mastodon is over protective about pulling in posts and messages if nobody in that instance follows them which makes using mastodon a pain. The instance I subscribed to for example is federated with mastodon.social and many other major feeds but for some topics like say wrestling I have to open up another tab, and search on mastodon.social and then copy and paste stuff into the other tab. Its not necessarily unintuitive,but if we’re already federated why arent I seeing these posts? Of course then I can fix this by following these people, but of course that doesnt pull over the old posts either so I still cant see their stuff on my instance unless they post something new.
Finally the community comes off as super defensive about the way things are. People get suggested this product(by mastodon users) as a twitter replacement and when they bring up potential usability and connection issues the community treats these people like theyre absolute morons. This might be more of a reddit issue, since I’ve googled some questions and complaints I had with mastodon and it took me there. The github is more civil but there doesnt seem to be appetite to make changes that would make it easier to follow or find people that are several instances removed from you. I know someone put it like “you dont have to be a part of every conversation” which works for message boards, and communities like reddit, lemmy, and such, but on a service that built to follow specific people it’s a problem.
My dude… If you want to contribute, by all means, show us where there is a problem, other than in your imagination, and it will be seriously considered.
I had no idea we were doing condescending pet names, this is a fun game. My sweet summer child…
The defaults of this script encourage single-user instances admins to bump their sub count ~70x from something like 100 communities to something more like 7000 communities.
Users of this script actually literally don’t understand how federation works. They think they’re proxying through to the upstream instance while they browse rather than getting firehosed with the entire lemmyverse by they’re asleep.
It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to figure out that global federation worker queues are not in great shape, or that a default that encourages single-user instance owners who have no idea what they’re doing to bump their sub count 70x isn’t helping the situation. If you think this is in my head I can’t help you. But I can help others understand that running this script with default settings is an awful and unnecessary idea.
You can set your own display name, and you can have any username you want if you run your own instance or at least join a small one. Getting that one special username is not that important which is great because it’s another feature that keeps egos in check.
Since usernames are only unique to the instance it’s created on, what’s to stop someone from creating a copycat username in order to impersonate another user?
I mean depending on how you look at it. Usernames are really your name + instance, and that is unique. To know you are actually talking to the right person you just have to make sure that matches up
How should we deal with similarly named communities? (kbin.social)
Right now there are similarely named communities across the fediverse....
I should feel bad about myself for selfhosting using Yunohost?
I recently got into the world of self-hosting, and although I’m doing it through a VPS I’ve learned many interesting things, even so, I’ve only had my VPS contracted for 10 days, and of those 10 days, 8 I spent burning my head learning concepts that I had never heard or understood, and actually it’s funny because I...
Request: I’m looking for a more inclusive way to search for communities as a neurodivergent person.
There are two ways to discover new communities:...
how do I link a lemmy instance or community in a comment?
As title....
Re: Defederation - Does Lemmy need a charter?
***Edit:*Shit, I probably should have made the title plural - “Does Lemmy need charters?”...
I don't understand.
I looked up a list of Lemmy World instances and signed up for a bunch, but how do I see everything at once in one app instead of downloading one for each instance? I am new to what the kids call “federation.” Thank you.
Lemmy's active users (content creators) see impressive 35% growth so far in July (lemmy.world)
We’re seeing an increase from 53k active users at the beginning of July to 72k active users at the time of this post....
MineClone2 : Release 0.84 - The Very Nice Release (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1192887...
why can't we have federated identity ?
Why can’t we have federated identity to login into fediverse instead of creating login for each instance?
What’s the fediverse’s answer to email? And everything else we use?
The talk about “enshittification” made me think of the very email we use for the instances we signed up and instantly, it paints a grim picture. One of my account used gmail to sign up. Some proton mail. It reminds me that these too are companies beholden to their shareholders....
Is it possible to change lemmy's domain?
Is it possible to change lemmy’s domain after I have already started it once and produced some content? I am thinking of moving to a subdomain but I’m not sure if it will go smoothly
Yet Another Post About Threads/Defederating and 'wait and see'
Sorry. I know it’s getting a bit annoying with all these posts obsessing over this subject but still…...
Idea: Fediverse community/"subreddit" explorer (kbin.social)
A problem many have realized is that there are many /tech, /gaming etc. communities in different instances/servers. There is already https://fediverse.observer/ , so I think it wouldn't be too hard to make a service that periodically roams the fediverse, checks for example the last 100,000 submissions of each (or top 100 active...
In my understanding of the main principles of the Fediverse, federating with any large corp should never even be considered. Is my understanding wrong? What is the "idea of the fediverse" to you?
There is one argument I’ve seen missing in most of the de/federation discussions, that I think should be mentioned, and warrants it’s own discussion....
It is not Lemmy or kbin, it is the fediverse. (kbin.social)
I don't think many people understand that if they use Lemmy or kbin, they are posting to the fediverse. There are other platforms and will be more to come. Referring to a post on "Lemmy" or "kbin" is like saying you saw a post on your Windows or Mac computer....
lemmy.world has bent the knee to corporations. Consolidated comments into body.
I don’t think this is EEE, I think this is a chance for meta to dominate the narrative by drowning us out with algorithmically curated censorship, distractions, hatred, outrage etc. I would join threads if I want threads, I would be on Reddit if I want corporate influence....
Improving Fediverse Discovery & Onboarding
This post is a sort of partial dump of my efforts towards an idea/proposal for improving discoverability and onboarding for the Fediverse while avoiding new users just being dumped on a centralised instance. I’ve seen people suggest that one of our secondary defenses from megacorp social media (like Meta) is improving our UI,...
Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App (www.vice.com)
UPDATED: lemmony: A (better) better "All" browsing experience for small and large Lemmy instances (github.com)
v.0.0.6...
Now that we are all switching to Lemmy, now is the time for all the redditors with embarrassing usernames to make their username right! Don't screw up this time!
What's to prevent someone from hijacking my username?
Since usernames are only unique to the instance it’s created on, what’s to stop someone from creating a copycat username in order to impersonate another user?