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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 4 days ago

huh, I didn't realize it had a paywall because Brave shows it just fine here...

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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 (www.reuters.com)
TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 1 points 4 days ago

yeah, you're not wrong...

AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 52 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I found it funny that the page says "Give us your email to read the full story"

TIL the fediverse basically DDOS's sites when you share a link. in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

But what happens when a link target changes? For example, I've seen news articles change as the author gets new information. Might be an edge case, but a solution like this would always show the preview at the time of the initial post.

Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

lol, I said this kinda jokingly in another comment, but you may actually want to try Catodon (disclaimer: I'm the maintainer), "the child of Mastodon and Lemmy" sounds pretty close to what we're doing (among others)

Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I never heard of those to be described as close to Tumblr. If we're suggesting nice fedi platforms in general, I would suggest Catodon, which I maintain 😁

Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 7 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I don't know what to tell you, I never used any of those, but Wafrn is the one Fediverse platform that I know that presents itself as "Tumblr-inspired". Don't know if there are others, but this one's the most popular for sure. It also connects with Bluesky.

Pillowfort, a (non-federated) Tumblr-alternative, is closing down in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 34 points 4 days ago (15 children)

I have not used it, but wafrn is supposed to be a federated tumblr alternative.

The US is ordering every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 4 days ago

A custom emoji (used as a reaction here), perhaps they don't work on piefed.

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The US is ordering every civilian agency to rip out DeepSeek, even tools built on it (madrobot.blog)
Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 1 week ago

Thank you! Yes, I have already investigated these options and rejected automatic detection for them for the reasons you mention. Anyone can still suggest specific communities manually, through the suggestion form.

Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 1 points 2 weeks ago

both implemented

Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog in c/fediverse@lemmy.world
[–] panos@catodon.rocks 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right - I have no idea how I forgot the Fediverse Observer! I think it's because I have mostly used it for viewing microblogging software, so when I decided to build a threadiverse catalog, my mind only went to indexes specifically for the threadiverse. Adding it now, thanks!

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Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog (catalog.catodon.rocks)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by panos@catodon.rocks to c/fediverse@piefed.social
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I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy.

So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it.

The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know.

We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it.

Cheers =)

#threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed

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Introducing the Threadiverse Catalog (catalog.catodon.rocks)
 

Cross-posted from !fediverse@piefed.social

I'm the maintainer of Catodon, which offers both microblogging and forums (Lemmy-compatible communities), and we noticed that discoverability is not the threadiverse's strongest point: Our server only showed forums/communities that it "knew" because someone from the server already followed them. In Reddit it's easy to see if there is a community for a subject you care about; on the Fediverse it's not that easy.

So I looked at what indexes there are, and most were focused in Lemmy - lemmyverse.net has added MBin and PieFed explorers, but I was looking for something that covers more platforms, and is a unified directory, rather than per-platform only. Maybe there is something that I missed, but I didn't find what I was looking for: a directory for the threadiverse. So I decided to build it.

The Threadiverse Catalog lists forums/communities from Catodon, Discourse, Friendica, Lemmy, Mbin, Mobilizon, NodeBB and PieFed. It hasn't been online for many days, so it hasn't indexed everything, but we already list over 20.000 forums/communities. If there are any bugs or other issues, please let me know.

We built this primarily for Catodon, and on our latest release (26.10.0 "Bongo Cat") users have access to its results through the in-app Search and Explore features, but it's open for everyone to use. It's open source and written in Go. Other projects are also welcome to use it.

Cheers =)

#threadiverse #fediverse #catodon #discourse #friendica #lemmy #mbin #mobilizon #nodebb #piefed

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