Huh the integrated CI surprised me. Woodpecker seemed nice with the fully containerized approach (no vendor lockin? It's just a container).. Not a fan of "yet another CI yaml", but from a practical point of view, it's easier than setting up Woodpecker.
It's talking about a new app made by Meta. Key point from article:
“Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon,” Instagram’s slide says. “Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you’re public, or if you’re private and approve them as followers.”
They said it is going to work with Mastodon but we don't know if they are going to federate it. They are most likely to do so since they are actively talking about "decentralization" but who knows
In the article it says that people from Mastodon are able to interact with this. So it kinda seams like they are just making a new frontend based and their own instance of Mastodon. We just don't know if we are able to access their instance without their app.
My guess is that they want to use the already established userbase of Mastodon as a starting point. There's going to be more content from the start and also more users. If they would make a new app with no users they would need to start from scratch which is more risky.
I don't see this as a good thing. I see it as a logical step after the success of the fediverse. But I am afraid of how it will develop, with more commercial participants in fedi.
hello, being an user on the same instance, i just gave an eye to federated. Federated means that someone on pixelfed.uno follow those kind of remote accounts. As they are external users and respect Content Warning i don't see any way the instance can do something.
I am very curious about this. It would be really nice if federation in git took off. Hopefully, it could be the thing to finally get more to move away from GitHub.
Yeah, been considering migrating to a non-Mastodon instance. Not sure where, though. Wouldn't mind using Lemmy as my entrypoint to the Fediverse, but I don't think, you can follow individual users here...
I can't really use mastodon for the same reason... I like following interests and communities, not people.
After I follow a few ppl that post a few times a day, it becomes a full time job just to read ppl's posts. I have no idea how so many ppl use the twitter model.
@butter, @dessalines, I've grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as "forums", plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as "contacts", where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the side of my page where I can simply click on it to filter my current feed.
I know that other #fediverse / #ActivityPub interfaces such as #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla, and #Streams have some/all of these capabilities, each to their own extent. However, having played around extensively with all of them, I've come to find that #Friendica is the one that works best for me. And at the end of the day, this is the only thing that matters. It may be a bit time consuming, but trying all the things is the best (only?) way to see how they'll work for you.
I like Calckey the most as it has the best thread view out of all fediverse software.
Akkoma is simpler and more lightweight if you prefer that, but I find its thread UI hard to grasp.
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