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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

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It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo


If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Not friendica, which seems an obvious facebook alternative.

Also, I think they're onto something with their fuck it approach that every social media platform would benefit from. The internet was mostly that before. Content moderation primarily serves advertisers, it was never really for the people. Old internet anarchy was chaotic fun.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 38 minutes ago

The Internet was never supposed to have a central authority beyond the DNS tables.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Can anyone explain Bluesky vs Mastodon as Twitter alternatives, asking as someone who never really used Twitter much anyway?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won't face the same problems old social media did.

Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.

BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that's true. However with their structure, a central relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn't truly decentralized. Right now BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance.

BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech. There is more technical discussion on if it's even possible to have a decentralized BlueSky and if it's all just talk while they gather users.

My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they're promising, but I'm not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 70 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 61 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (10 children)

Yeah I think it's best we don't advertise this place. It's a little strange.

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 2 points 38 minutes ago

We need to get more people in here if we want it to actually be a Reddit competitor. Right now it’s good for some communities, but smaller ones are still extremely underpopulated.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 82 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.

[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 minutes ago

*porn involving some or all of the above

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 16 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 hours ago

How much do you need!?????!

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, Stefon.

[–] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Don't forget the Trekkies.

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

I see a lot more Trek memes here than on reddit and I love every one

[–] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

There we go. I was waiting to be represented.

[–] Someplaceunknown@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

Don’t forget the No Poop Challenge

[–] TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 13 points 4 hours ago (3 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 3 hours ago

Don't forget Margot Robbie

[–] hex@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wait how is Squid this popular? 😂

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Its not, this incident will be reported to the nearest democracy officer.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Also dull people

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Also, porn.

Where is this abhorrent content? I need to know so i can avoid it....

[–] Sconrad122@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Is sh.itjust.works not federated with lemmynsfw.com? Or maybe you use a Front page or Local feed. Here on world (no comment on the instance wars), lemmynsfw communities pretty regularly show up on my All feed. Seems like whatever they do with posts over there really makes the "Active" sorter happy, if you know what I mean

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

It definitely was federated back when I made my acct here, as I had to block it lmao.

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