Fediverse

Since AWS is still having issues, I was wondering how the fediverse is? How are you all fairing this fine Monday?

I do a presentation of the Fediverse to my college students and will soon be giving short workshops to organization as well. I realize that a viable, decentralized altenative to Facebook is IMO the biggest missing piece of the puzzle. We need something that offers some kind of central platform for networking, events, groups, etc. For work related stuff I present Nexcloud. Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed and Loops are getting really interesting and working alternative to their counterparts. I believe if we could get a massive movement of people to adopt an FOSS alternative to Facebook, everything else would easily follow. What do you people think, what would you recommend? I haven't tried Friendica yet.

I've been looking for an overview of how different fediverse services interact in practice.
For example, what happens if I follow a lemmy account from mastodon, or if I send a dm to a writefreely blog, or use gotosocial to comment on peertube, etc?
Is there something published on this subject? If not, would it be of interest to other people?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/52386265

Right now, big communities dominate the feed. I’m wondering what sort algorithm could level the field so niche or hobbyist communities have a fair chance to get seen.

There’s a good related post: Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until Lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account. It puts it well:

“If Lemmy is to truly start having active hobbyist communities instead of being 95% lefty US politics, Shitposts, and some tech stuff, it needs a sort that takes into account the user’s engagement.”

What do you think should be the default sort for a more balanced Lemmy?

Accidentally found earlier today you can follow communities/magazines as "group"-tagged users in Mastodon, e.g. https://mastodon.social/@fediverse@lemmy.world

The problem is that posts in the community appear as boosts on Mastodon, and even replies are treated as posts. So if you follow a community with high engagement there, your feed easily gets flooded by replies people make to a given post.

Hope that helps ^_^

Anyone know if they've actually open sourced everything yet? I haven't kept up with things and I know that was an issue for a while

Today I discovered the Fediverse Software Database, and it’s a bit disheartening to see how many platforms have so few users. What are some ways we could help promote these smaller or newer Fediverse projects and give them more visibility?

Using Voyager at the moment and its great but i was wandering if its possible to get an rss feed like top month or active and put it on feeder

Just a little thought I wanna discuss.

Unlike the more massive social media or the real world where theres not many leftists and we are gladly more united Lemmy and its left leaning tendencies with the instances providing natural cult grouping tendencies. Add to that the matrix in groups there and we all seem to be making a thing out of how to anger each other. How to troll each other or annoy x or y instance.

I hate this.

Living in an extreme right wing nation I know no other anarchist. A few left wingers. Even the libs here are right wing extremists by the standards of a western nation. I hold dear any solidarity.

I support unions here even when everyone there is a religious fundamentalist who wants sharia law bc they still qantnto improve the conditions of the working class.

Many folks here, who again I don't have any hate for, I see intending these fights and dramas. Having the goal to be banned from x or y community or instance.

• Why!?!?
• What do you gain?
• What is the desire here??

I'm looking for active federated communities on the fediverse where users share tips, tricks, and best practices for using the command line. Something similar to the Arch Linux forums but accessible through the fediverse.

I've checked out a few communities like Command Line@lemmy.ml (1.47K subscribers) and Command Line@programming.dev (2.09K subscribers), but they seem to have many subscribers but no active users per month. It feels like Lemmy smothers these niche communities somehow.

Does anyone know of other active federated communities or instances where command line enthusiasts gather to share knowledge and help each other out?

Using Voyager at the moment and its great but i was wandering if its possible to get an rss feed like top month or active and put it on feeder

this week's fediverse news:

• a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both activitypub and atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky network
• Loops is getting closer to joining the fediverse

For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising. It can speak both ActivityPub and AT Protocol, offers a ton of interesting features and customization, and focuses on making an incredibly fun experience.

I haven't gotten her spam, nor heard her talked about in a while. Did she finally get banned?

I follow a few sites but can’t filter Lemmy by domain or follow domains, so I want to create a community where a bot reposts my RSS feed to surface the most interesting items from those sources. Which Lemmy instances or communities are bot-friendly, have signups enabled, and permit this kind of mass automated posting?

I had some week off work and spent some time fiddling with that side-project.

I enjoy it a lot, since I find it actually useful for discovering accounts worth following and threads worth engaging.

I hope you won't find this post spammy, here's the list of changes:

Complete redesign

Previous design was stolen from kukei.eu (web dev search index) and it didn't really fit the stuff I've been adding recently.

The re-design is fresh out of oven, probably with some bugs and mistakes but well, just YOLOed it to 'main'.

It's an effect of all-weekend work, third actual iteration and I think it's much better now.

Summaries

For certain browse categories (news, programming, technology) I take newest 1000 (or 2000) posts, throw it into an LLM model and ask for a summary in a form of "topics people are talking about".

While it's not super useful, it's nice to get there once a day and see what's up in the world. It's better than most news magazine headlines "Google made huge changes in Google Home App. We know who's affected!"

Banned

Previous update made categorization of each indexed post, with a possibility that some posts land in "banned" category (fraudulent, porn, phishing).

Today I decided to exclude those posts from search results as well (I still see creepy search queries in logs, I don't want to deal with this).

That's all folks. I hope you enjoy this piece of web as much as I do. If not, downvote the hell of this post and I won't bother you again.

💜 masto.kukei.eu/browse/news

I always felt like it was wrong to block an account unless it was smth absolutely insane. Nazis etc.

But now I'm blocking people who's tone I dont like, or who are baiting or actingnin bad faith.

I know I can't do it as a mod. But i can certainly do it as an individual now. Judgy comment? Blocked. Unnecessarily confrontational? Blocked.

This is new to me, literally 3 days. Wonder how this affects my feed. Only disappointing thing is they can still see and respond to my posts, just that I can't see it. I wish they couldn't see anything I posted either.

What are your blocking habits? If you do block a lot of people, has that affected your experience?

I'm on SJW mainly because it's somewhat popular and it supports vpn usage.

I use voyager as my main means of interacting.

What's the word, friends?

Hope this is okay here but I am more and more skeptical of short form videos and hope there is a community where we can go to drop slop and have it identified.

Here’s the one in question today:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMsX0WJOInE/