Fediverse

I started to notice that my posts get no interactions at all and that a lot of communities seem to be empty. At first I thought that it's just the effect of Lemme. ee shutting down, but after checking some of the communities from my current alt account I started to notice that .Dev does not pull the latest posts and does not federate my posts.

Source.

one of the Fchannel0 forks is still getting updated, and has an instance running.

But it seems to be an isolated instance, as the federation appears to have been broken:
https://github.com/anomalous69/FChannel/issues/9
https://usagi.reisen/followers

more info:
https://fediverse.wiki/wiki/FChan

lemm.ee has shut down at 00:14 UTC.

unfortunately I realized too late that I have had hundreds of saved links to posts and comments from there, so I did not have enough time to save them, but anyways it is interesting that maybe a third of the post links I could try were dead. I think linkrot is happening much faster here than on reddit, even if just counting deleted posts.

Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.

My dad used to say this to me. He didn’t come up with it of course. Searching for the source, I see attribution to Marc Anthony. How it came to be a 70-80 year old man was quoting a singer to me I’d bet money he’d never heard, I’ll never know. Maybe he didn’t either.

The basic idea behind the quote is that what you’re doing won’t feel like work if it’s something you love doing anyway. I mean, think of the thing you want to be doing right now instead of reading this post. Your favorite thing in the world. Now, along comes some idiot who offers to pay you to do that very thing! How can you possibly say no?

There’s a darker aspect to this quote that I don’t think people consider though. If you take the thing you love and do that for work, you’re turning what you love into a job. This is a trap that I’ve fallen into. Multiple times.

TL;DR: Please share links of public presentations about the Fediverse that provide an introduction to non-tech-savvy people showing the benefits and some examples like Lemmy.

Recently I have discovered Lemmy and with it the Fediverse - sure I heard of the Fediverse and Mastodon before, but I never really looked it up in detail, because it sounded like one of those projects that are really cool, but do not work because everyone keeps sticking to the big tech giants. However, now that I tried Lemmy for a couple of weeks, I feel like this does work and would like to spread the news a bit more.

For that I am looking for a nice set of slides that cover the Fediverse - and some examples like Lemmy - in such a way that students of different sciences can understand its purpose, advantages and disadvantages. I am aware that this is a bit low effort on my part as I could create such slides myself, but probably someone with more skill than me has done that already so...

EDIT: I just found https://u3acommunities.org/is-it-time-to-move-to-the-fediverse-followup/ which is very close to what I am looking for. Sadly, I can't find a download link for the slides to make some small edits (I feel like just using someone else's slides is fine as it is only for a private audience).

tl;dr: The large central instances that host a majority of the content here are operated by people with a talent for software, but do not display a degree of emotional intelligence I feel is required for responsible stewardship of a social media platform.

tl;dr of the tl;dr: nobody stopping anything less than the most obvious harassment, sexism, ackchyually guys, reply guys, drama queens, and tantrums tantrums tantrums.

The result is that even if you choose sanity and block every instance that does not moderate the above behaviors you are left with too little of content to fully replace reddit.

I'm speaking mostly of lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.dbzer0.com, hexbear.net, and yes, lemm.ee (who's administrators at least admitted that they weren't capable of assuming the mantle of social responsibility).

I think Lemmy is a really smart idea. I have a lot of respect for people who choose to maintain the software host instances for free. I am not here to tell anyone how to run the instance they pay for, and I have no doubt these administrators are running exactly the kind of instances they want to be running. But as long as they remain in control of the majority of content, Lemmy will have a big obstacle for anyone without extreme levels of patience and inch thick skin.

Just so I'm clear I also think Reddit is garbage at keeping out the bad apples, and the community moderators on Reddit tend to be free speech absolutists too, but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content. Most of the "hot" sort on Lemmy is 10 year old memes trying to fake an illusion of activity, while also drowning out any actual human activity.

OK I've spoken enough. Take my 2c or leave it. I hope future administrators and moderators can identify and have the backbone to stand up to this sort of thing but maybe I'm asking too much of volunteers. All I can say for now is that in it's current state Lemmy isn't for me.

I'll probably check back in a year. See you 'round the web ✌🏼

tl;dr: The large central instances that host a majority of the content here are operated by people with a talent for software, but do not display a degree of emotional intelligence I feel is required for responsible stewardship of a social media platform.

tl;dr of the tl;dr: nobody stopping anything less than the most obvious harassment, sexism, ackchyually guys, reply guys, drama queens, and tantrums tantrums tantrums.

The result is that even if you choose sanity and block every instance that does not moderate the above behaviors you are left with too little of content to fully replace reddit.

I'm speaking mostly of lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, lemmy.dbzer0.com, hexbear.net, and yes, lemm.ee (who's administrators at least admitted that they weren't capable of assuming the mantle of social responsibility).

I think Lemmy is a really smart idea. I have a lot of respect for people who choose to maintain the software host instances for free. I am not here to tell anyone how to run the instance they pay for, and I have no doubt these administrators are running exactly the kind of instances they want to be running. But as long as they remain in control of the majority of content, Lemmy will have a big obstacle for anyone without extreme levels of patience and inch thick skin.

Just so I'm clear I also think Reddit is garbage at keeping out the bad apples, and the community moderators on Reddit tend to be free speech absolutists too, but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content. Most of the "hot" sort on Lemmy is 10 year old memes trying to fake an illusion of activity, while also drowning out any actual human activity.

OK I've spoken enough. Take my 2c or leave it. I hope future administrators and moderators can identify and have the backbone to stand up to this sort of thing but maybe I'm asking too much of volunteers. All I can say for now is that in it's current state Lemmy isn't for me.

I'll probably check back in a year. See you 'round the web ✌🏼

This article is a response to Tim Chambers' recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It's a pretty great read, and I'm writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.

This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.

Was nerver a big social media person, never really posted or interacted with a personal account on intagram,Facebook etc. When I, a couple of years ago, began filming and documenting my creations. I made a bunch of social media accounts on basically all the platforms(because thats what you are supposed to do). Got some followers, never in the thousands or even hundreds for that matter. But I figured it's probably because I'm not trying to click-bait or follow the latest trends. I wanted to be genuine, still am. But the interactions often times felt like bots. A couple of Smiley's, a like. Someone followed then never again an interaction with a post. I did set out to make things because I love making things and learning new skills, but got lost on the way. The lower the effort my post had the more interactions. 50-minute video of a woodworking project from start to finish with voice over and explanations, 10 views. 15 second video of a toy car rolling on a track, 2500 views.

And the incessant, follow for follow trends by grifters.

Dead internet theory rang in my head.

I missed the old internet and began dreaming about setting up my on forum with no bots allowed, like in the old days(Yes I'm old enough to remember). Then I learned that mastodon was part of the fediverse, but I had never heard of the fediverse, and mastodon I thought was like twitter for sysadmins.

I've almost completely transitioned to the fediverse now. I have yet to delete my YouTube account, but I now also have a peertube channel.

I've seen posts about It being hard to get followers on the fediverse, and mastodon. But I'd gladly post to the the ether, if that one in 50 posts is an actual human responding or liking what I do.

Thanks for reading.

geteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/14121936

"This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say."

An open source, self-hostable music platform will soon allow people on the Fediverse to buy music and support artists. Here's why it's a big deal.

This might be a bit of a niche thought, but I’ve been wondering: is it just me, or has anyone else ever thought about how cool (and possibly important) it would be to have a federated alternative to platforms like Giphy and Tenor?

These platforms are everywhere—embedded into our keyboards, messaging apps, social media tools—but they’re centralized, proprietary, and often raise questions around privacy, data mining, and corporate consolidation of internet culture.

In the age of the Fediverse, where we’re seeing federated replacements for Twitter (Mastodon), Reddit (Lemmy), YouTube (PeerTube), Instagram (Pixelfed), etc., it seems like the next logical step would be a federated GIF repository and search engine.

Imagine a platform where communities could host and share GIFs in a decentralized way. Artists could upload and tag their own content, instances could have their own moderation rules, and apps could tap into the federation to serve GIFs without relying on corporate APIs.

It could even potentially extend beyond GIFs into stickers, short looping videos, meme formats, Bitmoji - style Emoji's, etc.

That said—I’d absolutely love to attempt something like this, but I’ll be honest: I just don’t currently have the knowledge, time, or energy to build such a project myself.

Still, I can’t shake the feeling that this could be a valuable addition to the wider Fediverse ecosystem.

So I wanted to put this out there and ask:

Has anyone ever considered/already started working on something like this?

Are there any existing tools or protocols that could make this easier to develop?

What kind of features would you want to see in a federated GIF platform?

Curious to hear your thoughts.

Given that Lemmy currently has no native support for migrating communities if an instance shuts down or becomes unstable, I’ve been wondering:

Has anyone thought about creating a bot that helps with this process?

The basic idea: when a migration is needed, one or more mods could create a new community on the target instance (setting up rules, banner, header, etc.), and then the bot would clone the old community’s content — posts, comments, etc. — and repost them to the new community (all with the community's support, ideally preserving authorship, or noting who posted what).

To be respectful of users, there could even be an option to exclude posts/comments from users who don’t want to be included in the migration.

This kind of tool could dramatically reduce the time and effort needed to manually recreate communities and save valuable content from being lost.

I’d love to attempt this myself, but unfortunately I lack the time, technical know-how, and energy.

Has anything like this already been attempted, or is anyone working on a tool like this?

Curious to hear your thoughts — feasibility, technical hurdles, privacy concerns, etc.

The team behind Bridgy Fed is working on a new tool that helps people migrate their accounts between Mastodon and Bluesky. It could end up being a core piece of infrastructure for helping people on other platforms with moving to the Fediverse as well.

We're covering FediForum this week, and talk about what's going on in the space, ActivityPub and AT Proto, the controversy that made FediForum postpone, and some predictions for what this week's unconference entails.

I found https://wanderer.to/ as an alternative to alltrails, but it seems not to address my main use case for alltrails: search around for potential hikes, look for reviews about them, photos, etc.

Is there anything like this? Anything close to it?

After a two month postponement, a lot of community feedback, and organizational restructuring, FediForum is happening once again starting June 5th!

Sembra che ci siano nuvole all’orizzonte per il film su Clayface, uno dei villain più particolari di Batman. Fin dall’annuncio, il progetto aveva generato un mix di curiosità e scetticismo, ma ora, con alcune indiscrezioni trapelate dietro le quinte, sembra che la strada verso la realizzazione sia tutt’altro che liscia. Sarà l’ennesima sfida per James Gunn e Peter Safran, che hanno preso le redini del DC Universe con l’obiettivo di rivoluzionarlo.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30324960

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our crowdfunding campaign! This campaign is focused on our PeerTube mobile app. You can read more about why we are doing this crowdfunding campaign and how we want to improve our mobile app in the blog post!

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, we can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

• Report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
• Submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
• Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
• Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

If you want to follow the PeerTube project:

• Follow us on Mastodon/BlueSky/Reddit (or here, on Lemmy).
• Subscribe to our newsletter

I've been thinking lately about how much of the web's metadata—like link previews, rich snippets, and structured content—relies on centralized standards like:

Open Graph (by Meta)

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graph_Protocol

https://www.opengraph.xyz/

https://ogp.me/

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-is-open-graph-and-how-can-i-use-it-for-my-website/

and

Schema.org (by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Yandex)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema.org

These formats are widely used for things like link previews in social media, product listings in search engines, event markup, and more.

Open Graph lets websites control how their content appears when shared (e.g., title, description, preview image), and Schema.org provides a broader vocabulary for marking up structured data like reviews, articles, events, etc.

But both are effectively governed by large, centralized entities.

This makes me wonder:

Has anyone ever proposed, or worked on, a federated or community-governed alternative to these standards?

Something open-source and consensus-driven that better fits the ethos of the Fediverse?

I imagine such a system could:

Empower smaller platforms and content creators.

Improve interoperability across decentralized platforms.

Prevent a few big players from shaping metadata standards to suit themselves.

I’d love to attempt something like this, but I currently lack the time, energy, and technical skill.

Still, I wanted to throw the idea out there in case it sparks interest, or someone knows of prior attempts.

Would love to hear your thoughts, links or brainstorms.