I'm learning about the Fediverse and am confused about how federation is supposed to work. I understand that there can be communities with the same name in different instances, with different content. But I also understand you can subscribe to another instance's community. For example, there are sysadmin commnunities at...
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Is there a federated alternative to Stack Exchange?
When I look at Mastodon posts, I see a decent amount of replies and boosts for popular posts, but not very many stars (see example image). I assumed a star is the same as a like, but I feel not a lot of people star a post, whereas I did see a lot of hearts/likes on Twitter posts. Are they not equivalent?
It would be extremely funny
As far as I know, one of the headline features of microblogging networks is searching and following hashtags. On top of that, Mastodon (like Lemmy) tells users that it’s not important what server/instance you join, because of federation....
And vice versa I guess....
Another year, another incredible music contest. Check out the winners, and listen to the 43 different music entries from around the network!
Granted, the warning says clearly "If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content", which places the onus on the individual user, as apposed to logic built into Lemmy on which posts/comments can be viewed, while also leaving it to each user to have to weed out alternate languages for their views which are...
Laut @louis können wir uns das Deföderieren wohl sparen - Meta schafft mit Threads mutmaßlich nen exklusiven Club im Fediverse:...
If you’re new to the Fediverse you should know about ActivityPub and why it gives the Fediverse an edge over other social networks.
It's really important for those of us who've lived through previous megacorp attacks on free software ecosystems to TEACH that history....
Is there some application like a wiki in the fediverse? A place to gather and edit information together about a specific topic.
I'm just musing on the end game for #Meta here, and would love to hear what others think....
cross-posted from: https://news.cosocial.ca/post/3451...
Is there a Fediverse option for hosting fanfiction, or maybe web novels/serials/etc? Like an AO3 alternative, basically. I looked around but couldn't find one, the closest thing that kinda works are the blogging platforms like writefreely. If there isn't, do you think fanfiction would be a good candidate for federation?
A legendary blogger weighs in on reactions from a user-run social network towards a big corporation diving into the space.
I'm pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?
Concerning the current debate on Meta, I‘m a bit concerned over where I should make my home. I don‘t want corporations to intrude and ruin my just newly found space of freedom. They would just offer "help" and then centralise and privatise and infest it with ads, data collection and profit motive. I need to search for the...
Why isn't it so popular compared to mastodon? I just found out about it and it looks pretty mature imo, it's only popular with japanese people.
Especially some kbin instances...
I was recently thinking about how amazing it is that with this decentralized community we would have no censorship from big corporations and then I asked myself: what about illegal content? The kind of content that really should not be shared? As an example, what if someone creates a Lemmy instance and starts creating a...
cross-posted from: news.cosocial.ca/post/2263...
