Yup, and afaik bluesky is just another corporate competitor to Twitter, so migrating there would still leave users vulnerable to the same basic hazards of Twitter, namely that they’re still at the mercy of the whims of some CEO or board of directors. It’s just a hope that those “leaders” are better, and will remain better.
The right wingers demonstrated the folly of that when they tried to migrate to parler only to have passport info and all kinds of shit demanded, STILL get censored by their own fellow right-wingers, and eventually had the rug pulled out from under them.
There’s no reason to place your trust in a centralized corporate entity. Better to have something like this, with a good (not hateful) community and multiple points of redundancy. If lemmy.world went down there’s tons of alternatives that take literally no effort to migrate to, if you don’t like the moderation (or lack thereof) on one instance you can easily move, etc.
Granted, I don’t use Twitter so I can’t judge the relative ease of use, which I reckon will be the main factor for most normal users, less-so for someone already on Lemmy since that seems to self-select more for tech savvy.
I do know that the transition to Lemmy was very easy for me, and if it doesn’t already exist a dead simple instruction post could be written up to get people up and running within minutes so long as the author doesn’t bog the reader down with too many choices (ie, just suggest one good-enough client for Android and apple each, point people towards lemmy.world and don’t confuse people with all the various instances, and let them expand outwards from there organically as they get the lay of the land).
Every Peertube instance has its own focus, rules, etc, so the one you browsed may have had educational materials but that is not representative of every instance.
I found beetoons.tv which at least seems to have some gaming stuff. When you browse any Peertube instance if you see a gaming video pay attention to what server it lives on and that might be one worth looking at, it is after the @ in the person’s username.
Yeah, those are very good concerns, and in his position (I understand the instance is named after it’s admin), I would be wary. But he pays the operating costs and he opens himself to liability, which means the decision is his to make. I can only say it’s the one instance I know of that seems to be leaning into the spirit of self-determination through self-hosting.
You aren’t logged out per se, you don’t have an account on that instance so will show as not being logged in there (which you aren’t). What I tend to do is save any community links to a notepad app and then go back to my own instance and paste the link into the search box or just search using the communities name.
Nobody can “get ahold” of an instance in any meaningful way. Accounts can be migrated to other instances. Instances that act poorly get defederated.
If Meta buys lemmy.world you know what happens? Everyone migrates to other instances, lemmy.world gets defederated, and Meta now has a completely useless instance name and not much more.
I was under the impression that accounts cannot yet be migrated to other instances, you can just create a new account on another instance but you’d start with an empty account without your previous posts. And your name might already be taken of course.
I’d love to have a migration option though because that would solve a lot of problems.
I chalk it up to the name. Your name is your central piece of branding, and can be used to your advantage. To me, when I wanted to join what I thought would probably be the largest lemmy instance, I didn’t look at the stats or rules. I just looked at the names of all the not-tiny ones. This one clearly signified to me that the owner intends to become a very large Instance.
To most people, it will simply sound cool and be very easy to remember. Both of those are very important points.
Look at the automotive industry. Performance is desirable in a vehicle, certainly, but according to the market, does it seem more desirable than looking cool and having enough cup holders?
I am new like most of us. When I signed up I had now idea what an instance was. To me the name Lemmy.world sounded like it was more general and therefore would have more content so I picked that one.
I am new like most of us. When I signed up I had no idea what an instance was. To me the name Lemmy.world sounded like it was more general and therefore would have more content so I picked that one.
What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?
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ActivityPub is used for more than just Reddit-likes. Mastodon has a similar micro-blogging format to Twitter, and PeerTube is similar in function to Youtube. There are alternatives to Facebook and I believe Snapchat as well.
You can kind of think of it like email–there is no central email.inc that all emails go through; gmail and protonmail and icloud and compuserve and hotmail and whatnot are all different servers that are capable of using the internet to find each other and send messages back and forth.
How all this runs.
You sign up for an account on an instance, say lemmy.world. This is your local instance; your local instance will handle all of the data going to and from you. If you create a community, it will be stored on your local instance. You may notice that instance addresses look a little like email addresses, ie !nostupidquestions. That notes which instance that particular community is on. If you don’t see an instance name appended, it’s on your local instance.
When viewing lists of posts or communities, you are given an option to search for Subscribed, Local, and All. Subscribed will show you only communities you have subscribed to, it’s like your Reddit home feed. Local will show you only posts or communities made to your local instance. All will show you posts or communities from across the Fediverse. You can subscribe to, post and comment on communities from other instances, like I am doing now (my local instance is sh.itjust.works, I am posting to lemmy.world). It looks and works just like posting to my home instance.
A major difference users of Lemmy/the Fediverse should keep in mind: Reddit had platform-wide rules of conduct, which individual subreddits were allowed to expand upon. Lemmy does not have central admins or owners like u/spez to enforce platform-wide policy; those general rules come from the admins of each individual instance, which community moderators may add to. So rules and norms can vary between each instance, and when posting on an instance that isn’t your own, it’s a good idea to read the sidebar of that instance’s homepage to review them.
Long time reddit is fun user and now I feel lost but I feel moving on is the right thing, I was wondering how do I find community spaces like there were on Reddit?
You are in a large instance, so searching for communities shouldn’t be so much of a hassle, since most are fetched. You use the feddit community browser, look for some keyword of your interest and if it exists you just search it within your instance. Subscribe and you’re done.
If you for some reason can’t find it, it means it is not fetched yet.
So you copy the whole URL (any.instance/c/anycommunity), paste in the search bar and then search again for the community name only. It will show up and you can subscribe to it.
There’s a user on lemm.ee who has been making hundreds of communities over the last few days, but it seems like a flag-planting operation more than anything else. It would be impossible for one person to moderate all of these communities, and they have zero post or comment history....
other than those specific names on that specific instance being “claimed”, they have no real value or purpose. XeNoX (or whomever) doesnt know how decentralized media platforms work.
Looking to maybe self host my own instance, I’m still learning about the fediverse. If a different instance that I federate with hosts something illegal are there risks to me? Is anything from other instances hosted on my server like a copy of it? Or would I only end up hosting things my users post? I’m paranoid and sorry if...
I’m running it in the smallest VPS of vultr with 25GB of disk.
This instance only has 3 users, with me being the only active. It says it’s been up for almost a month and I’ve only used 3GB.
Here are the docker volumes which have the actual data of your instance, and from inside the DB the biggest table is the one called activity which the devs said it’s only sometimes used to validate the data, but could be truncated if needed (there’s a schedule task which only keeps up to 6 months).
Also the thing to have in mind is to properly configure the logs of whichever installation guide you follow.
After that I’ve seen other admins say the next biggest is the media uploaded (from bigger instances).
I keep trying to make one. But when I finish writing the name and details I try hitting create and nothing happens, no comment that i did anything wrong either (im ont the mobile site btw)...
Another thing to look for is whether your community name is already taken, on your instance. (You can use the same name on different instances, but only once per instance. Same with usernames.) Sometimes Lemmy just gives you the spinning wheel of death when something is wrong, but doesn’t tell you what the problem is.
Ok so different instances have different rules on who and how communities can be created
some require that you ask the admins, and they create it and give you mod priveliges.
some allow you to create communities on an ad-hoc basis.
some only allow admins to create communities and give no mechanism for users to do so.
Generally you can only create communities in instances you’re apart of, but you can be given moderator privileges for communities across instances, provided the admins of the instance where the community allow it. If you don’t like the community creation requirements of a server? Create an account on another instance and start a community there.
Community names are unique only to the instance they are created on - meaning you might want to do some research and check if the community already exists on other instances.
Otherwise redundancy means different versions of the same community on different instances can have lightly more or less palatable rules and moderators, therefore catering to different people of the same group.
There is talk of adding an option to, on a per user basis allow an option of browsing a combination of communities across instances at once. But it’s hard to say whether this should be incorporated into the backend as an API addition or to let the various frontends implement it based off of the data they can already get from the API.
One of the best things about reddit was looking for answers or other users with the same problem as you, and since Google didn’t really help with that anymore and instead insisted on giving you business results, the best practice was to put your search terms in followed by ‘reddit’ and you’d find your answer.
I guess you would need the name of the instance where the community resides. But usually if you search about specific questions the site with the information will appear (be it reddit or some lemmy instances) without adding it to the search term
I’d be really keen to host a lemmy instance but just wondering with GDPR and everything, if there is anything else to consider outside of the technical setup and provisioning of hardware?...
First of all, I’m not a lawyer or a legal consultant, just a instance admin that wants to make sure that his instance complies.
Lemmy does not store any PII (birthdates, legal names, addresses,securitynumbers). But users are able to share whatever they want. And that can be a problem.
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.
I apologize, you are correct; I assumed every account displayed as “[name]@[instance]” if it wasn’t native to that instance, and that every account that was just “[name]” was a native one, but it seems like some (mainly kbin.social?) accounts don’t do that.
If you go to the community search bar and search for say, “gaming” you’ll get multiple results. The one that’s just “gaming” is your home instance, any with an “@instancename” behind them are from elsewhere.
Mod work in general is going to be a tough issue for everyone to solve. Different places will have different norms they want to enforce, and a limited volunteer staff to push that agenda. But there’s nothing that can’t be automated. Automate the creation of AI mods, automate the selection of user mods, automate the banning of objectionable comments and users using a combination of both humans and AI to both handle the workload and adhere to community regulations. If these tools can be developed as part of lemmy, automated moderation can become an available option for all instances, which hopefully will mean that moderation here will be better quality and lower cost than moderation on that other social media site, I’m forgetting the name.
Bluesky invite codes
Since Bluesky reopened for signups, does anyone have any invite codes? If so, feel free to DM me. I want to get out of Twitter.
Is there a video gaming platform on peertube or an instance that deals with questions in this regard?
Hi, I was redirected here after asking about this topic...
Would darknet market discussion be allowed on Lemmy?
Hey guys,...
How do you find a list of communities of another instance?
I don’t know if I make sense, For example, I am on lemm.ee and I want to find or browse all communities in Lemmy.world
Preparing for Future Corporate Influence
The Fediverse as it stands now is super ambitious, prospering, and honestly really exciting to see and be a part of....
How did Lemmy.world become more popular than Lemmy.ml?
I don’t understand how Lemmy.world developers managed to surpass both Lemmy.ml and Beehaw.org instances in user activity.
ELI5 Reddit to Lemmy
What is an instance? what is a federation? what is a server? can someone please describe in simple terms how this all runs and how we as users navigate it?
I was wondering how do I find community spaces like there were on Reddit?
Long time reddit is fun user and now I feel lost but I feel moving on is the right thing, I was wondering how do I find community spaces like there were on Reddit?
How do we effectively report users and/or communities?
There’s a user on lemm.ee who has been making hundreds of communities over the last few days, but it seems like a flag-planting operation more than anything else. It would be impossible for one person to moderate all of these communities, and they have zero post or comment history....
If I self host a Lemmy instance for just myself and maybe a few friends are there any risks?
Looking to maybe self host my own instance, I’m still learning about the fediverse. If a different instance that I federate with hosts something illegal are there risks to me? Is anything from other instances hosted on my server like a copy of it? Or would I only end up hosting things my users post? I’m paranoid and sorry if...
How do I make a community?
I keep trying to make one. But when I finish writing the name and details I try hitting create and nothing happens, no comment that i did anything wrong either (im ont the mobile site btw)...
Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?
One of the best things about reddit was looking for answers or other users with the same problem as you, and since Google didn’t really help with that anymore and instead insisted on giving you business results, the best practice was to put your search terms in followed by ‘reddit’ and you’d find your answer.
Anything else to consider when hosting a Lemmy instance in the EU?
I’d be really keen to host a lemmy instance but just wondering with GDPR and everything, if there is anything else to consider outside of the technical setup and provisioning of hardware?...
YSK: If you're on Lemmy.World or Sh.itjust.works you should not subscribe to any Beehaw communities
Why YSK: Beehaw defederated from Lemmy.World and Sh.itjust.works effectively shadowbanning anyone from those instances. You will not be able to interact with their users or posts.