Yes! It's a great thing! The next thing we should aim is to pass laws forcing Government instances (Germany and Netherlands already have) so politicians and institutions use those for their public/social media profiles and abandon X/Twitter/Threads and anything that isn't decentralized. The mention of Mastodon/Lemmy/Pixelfed in the media (when eg. journalists quote a politician) would attract more users to these platforms. I believe this is truly necessary if we want to keep democracy healthy and have our socials out of the control of crazy billionaires.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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I've always felt that the Fediverse was perfect for governments and businesses since it disconnects them from a third party allowing them to manage their own distribution of information.
Using Twitter and so on for official government channels was a short sighted decision.
Exactly!
I'd love for more people to join but even if not there's no going back for me ๐
Good!
Explain Fediverse for me, I'm new! Pls and thnx
Different websites running the same program that work with each other. Lemmy is the program running on lemmy.world, where you and I both have accounts. There are other Lemmy servers that lemmy.world is compatible with. In the comments of this post you can see some user names that end with other sites in this format: name@other.lemmysite, they have accounts on different websites that also run Lemmy.
There are other programs that work this way too, like Mastodon and Pixelfed. All these websites running all these programs are "the fediverse"
Why only Europe? Make the world use it. Takes profits away from reddit.
Yea, it's really awesome!
Wait, from what Nic Cage movie is that snippet again? Is it the one where he becomes a vampire?
@vesi@lemm.ee I agree, mentioning a lemmy group on a mastodon/pixelfed post also helps it get a lot more visibility
I'm gonna boost this on my 'don
It's either because it awesomely transparent either because it's very niche but I don't think I've witnessed it. Are we talking about diverse fediverse app talking to each other through activitypub ? Like can I find a PeerTube vide or Pixelfed post on Mastodon ? How ?
That's really easy. Just follow a Pixelfed User on Mastodon, or put their account name or Post Link into the search field.
You can also subscribe and post to Lemmy Communities on Mastodon. To subscribe just follow the "Account" of the Community on Mastodon. To post, @ the Community when making a post .
PeerTube I haven't tried out yet, since most instances are run by conspiracy nutjobs (Covid-Truthers, Deep-State and other dumb shit)
I found myself! ๐
That was really trivial so I can be blamed for not even trying.
clip.place seems to be a reasonably reasonable PeerTube instance
That looks normal on the first glance
But if you look at FediDB or other Services, the biggest instances are run by the Nutjobs, followed by the French Government for their schools and students (good on them for deploying it) and then come the "normal" Instances
Not everyone can talk to each other easily yet, but if you look at people's instances in their username, you'll see mastodon, threads, etc. Lemmy is a weird case, a lot can read it and respond, but it doesn't go the other way around from my understanding.