@ai6yr I just deleted the post on other platforms and I deleted the Smartnews app which is an app that gathers all of the latest news stories in one place. That's where that article came from.
As soon as I saw WXFanatic talking about automatic block and you talking about removing me from your server, I was like OMG OMG OMG and started hyperventilating. I just had a heart echo the other day so lol yeah this got me.
I can assure you I will not be posting anymore news articles again. Only NWS, astronomy, and NFL stuff from here on out because THAT'S not happening again. LOL
As I mentioned recently, I have noticed the rather severe lack of sports related feeds here on Mastodon. So, I decided to start my own. First up is an NFL instance to follow all the NFL news of the day. Soon I hope to add an instance for NCAA football and possibly others. If you have any interest in the pro football consider giving me a follow @NFL_Update
It could actually be an instance thing, because depending on what’s actually federated with you you’ll get different results.
One thing I like to do for my main tags is do an occasional trawl through the results on that site I linked, and compare it to search results from my server. Anyone not showing up is either on an instance that mine has blocked (in which case booo) or they’re just not federated yet because nobody on my server follows them. In which case I follow them!
This can be a big advantage of themed instances because if you’re on, say, warhammer.social then chances are the people on there with you are already following lots of people posting about it elsewhere and so you’ll get lots of search results. But if you’re on, idk, an instance about birdwatching then it’s less likely to already have a lot of Warhammer content federated and waiting.
One of my accounts is on a tiny creative server so I’m good for knitting content but struggle a bit with the weekly NFL live-tooting for obvious reasons!
And yeah I do agree following hashtags isn’t the be all end all (especially with the lack of language filter), but it’s a good way to start at least finding those people you want to specifically follow 🙂
I am a big NFL fan, and I found the instance nfl.community. It has a community for each team, as well as a general NFL community. I joined a couple of the communities through my lemmy.world account, but it sees no posts there. I know this instance isn’t defederated from nfl.community, so why wouldn’t I be able to see any...
Basically it just displays a stream of Fediverse posts as they come to the server. Says it streams from “Mastodon/Fediverse” and links to jointhefediverse.net, so I don’t know what the sources are....
Yeah I recently migrated server and we tried the relay thing on my old one, which did help a bit with tags for active events like #NFL or whatever. It doesn’t find anywhere close to everyone and tbh was janky and delayed at the best of times (not great for keeping up with live events, which is my main use-case) but it was definitely a huge improvement.
Haven’t bothered asking my new admin because it seems a bit rude when I’m new to the server. But now we can make lists of people that are excluded from our home feed, so I can federate all the things without it cluttering everything up anyway. Hurrah!
If you have been following my daily Kickoff Countdown threads, you will know that we are just over a month out from our first college football game of the 2023 season. We are quickly approaching 200 local subscribers (officially the second largest community on fanaticus.social) and it would be great to have a couple more mods...
I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me....
Pretty sure it was in direct response to you specifically.
Ah yea, guess you did. So that was my bad in return, I thought that was someone else.
But I still maintain it’s totally weird. There are general purpose Fediverse and Lemmy instances based in the US. All that’s needed is for one to step up and try to be the local default. Again, if other countries can have that, and they are also paid for with donations…
And I guess its news to me that you can moderate a community from a different server.
Oh yes, you can moderate from another Lemmy instance no problem. No real problem there aside of general federation bugs, but the modding tools aren’t affected by this, from what I see.
There used to be a bug that could brick a comm’s visibility if a remote mod edited the sidebar, but that was fixed weeks ago. No issues since then that I know of.
Only kbin <> Lemmy inter-modding doesn’t work afaik.
I guess I just don’t understand the point of view of wanting to filter out non-local topics.
It’s not about blocking non-local topics specifically, but about blocking any topics I know I don’t care about. If I don’t care what’s happening in Switzerland, I should be able to block feddit.ch. If I know I don’t care about sports, I should be able to block fanaticus.social. If I don’t want to see nsfw, I should be able to block lemmynsfw and pornlemmy. And so on. There already are tools to do it at least partially via apps and browser scripts.
If I don’t care about what’s going on inside US, whether it’s farmers strikes or school shootings or NFL or some random local laws, I’ll always be stuck with blocking every darn community individually, because US = World.
My time on this planet is limited. If I have half an hour to browse /all and I want to find some new stuff while also avoid stuff I know I don’t care about, then it’s a real annoyance. My blocklist is 10 pages long and most of it is US stuff… While I still keep bumping into new and new posts about this NBA team and that city. It’s crazy.
Ed: and I don’t want to sound too hateful (maybe that ship has sailed), but it simply is true that most stuff I don’t care about is specific to some country, and most of that is indeed tidied up in separate instances.
Ed 2: as for search, well you can go to e.g. lemmy.ca and have everything about Canada in one place. Or mander.xyz and have all their science topics… Doesn’t that make it easier to find stuff?
I know sports content is hard to find on Mastodon. MastodonSports.social and a few other servers are slowly working to change this. In the mean time, for those looking for a good sports account to follow I suggest @rawchili lots of sports content from multiple leagues.
Please reply to this post with other sports accounts to follow.
Help me out here. Like a lot of ex-redditors, I made my way to the fediverse to find a whole new world of social media. Is it confusing at first? Yes. It takes a moment to adjust and learn the difference between an instance and a server and all that. But the one thing that confuses all hell out of me is @name. Not because it...
Help me out here. Like a lot of ex-redditors, I made my way to the fediverse to find a whole new world of social media. Is it confusing at first? Yes. It takes a moment to adjust and learn the difference between an instance and a server and all that. But the one thing that confuses all hell out of me is @name. Not because it doesn't make sense. I get that on the most basic level if I wanna find user @JakoJakoJako13 that's what I need to search for. But mainly because it doesn't work in the way it's proposed to work across all instances/servers/services. Which is if I search for @nfl on Mastodon or Calckey or any fediverse server I should be able to see what they posted. Most of the time, that's not what happens.
First we need to look at Lemmy because they've kinda thrown a wrench at this cog. What is this: !nfl? More importantly what is [!] doing there? Well that's the NFL community on lemmy.world. But to be super distinct, its a place. Not a person. What happens if I search for that on Mastodon? It returns nothing? What if I change that to @nfl. I get a user on Mastodon with 16 posts that don't populate on Mastodon. Same thing on Calckey but 0 posts instead of 16. Why does this happen? That user (to my knowledge) doesn't exist. On Lemmy, it's a place. A place where a collection of users congregated to make a collection of posts about the NFL. You could argue it's the same thing on Mastodon but instead of a dedicated place it's a subject and it's out in the open.
A noun is a person, place, or thing. So far in the fediverse we've concentrated on a person @ and a thing #. Mainly because the groundwork is there thanks to twitter. The fediverse's implementation of interactivity only focuses on the user. It has only looked at the @ of human interaction and not the whole noun. If this idea of connecting across servers want's to fully work then each service needs to come to an agreement on how they want to implement places !. We've got the user part down. We've got the thing part down. Only using an @ and a # leads to small talk. Need proof. See Twitter. If you want deep thoughtful discussion, you need the !. And in my analogy that is the place. And like in real life when it's all working together it leads to a community.
So I guess what I'm proposing, is as much as we hate reddit right now, Mastodon, Calckey, Lemmy, Kbin, and so on need to find a way to incorporate places together to get the whole idea of the fediverse walking.
I shouldn't have to enter a full URL to get Mastodon to populate the contents of a user or place. That's not the way we've been told this works. We're being sold on the model of @name. Well @name wants to see what !nfl is saying about #nfl over on !different. Until we standardize that, the fediverse will only ever be a half baked idea.
I think point two is interesting, but only if the communities choose too. One of the interesting promises of federation is that you can have competing communities with different interests. I can completely see commerical interests hosting a server (e.g the NBA or NFL) that has strong brand identity as a place to interact with stars, and then the un-branded fan sites. IMO, the competition is what makes the Fediverse interesting, and seeing that play out is fascinating.
Agreed. I think the move right now is to take niche topics to more "umbrella" mags, like instead of a world of war craft server, start a thread in gaming or pcgaming. Instead of a Philadelphia Eagles Mag, bring it to an NFL or Sports mag
This is also the confusing part to me. If I want to see content for NFL, are we all fractured among hundreds of servers and there is no way to see all new posts on all of the verse at once?
Yes this would be two different communities on two different servers. Right now everything here is still wild west but overtime you will get something like a "default" NFL community where most people visit and several smaller sub-communites on different servers.
We have a gaming on lemmy.ml and we have a gaming on beehaw.org. The later is already bigger and way more active than the former.
Yeah that's right. In practice though, over time you'd expect most people to eventually congregate on 1-2 big communities where there is the most quality content and moderation.
The upside is that no single server or moderator(s) own any community. Like on Reddit there can only be one r/NFL so if the mods decide to do something unpopular with the subreddit then everyone is just stuck with that.
Here someone can just create a new NFL community on a different server or start their own server with their own mod policies.
Really it's not too different from how things were with reddit though. Often subreddits would fracture and people create a new subreddits dedicated to the same topic. There are a lot of very similar subreddits that for the same topic that co-exist
Think about how r/FreeFolk split from r/GameOfThrones because people got pissed at the moderators and then later it ended up becoming more popular than the initial subreddit
Your account (and every account) has a home instance. Both you and I have our accounts on lemmy.world.
And every community (aka subreddit) also has a home instance. The home instance for this community happens to be also be lemmy.world, same as our accounts.
But through federation, the posts from each community gets copied from the communities home server onto each subscribed user's home server. So you can subscribe to any community on any server that lemmy.world federates with.
So while it's possible for multiple instances to have an nfl community, it's not necessary since you can sub to the NFL community on another instance and that's totally normal and expected. Think of it as the subreddits name includes its instance name, so !nfl@lemmy.ml is just a different subreddit than !nfl@lemmy.world, just like on Reddit you could have competing subs named /r/nfl and /r/nflfootball. And just like reddit, when things start to calm down, I think you will see that in cases where a bunch of dupe subs exist... one or two with active mods start to dominate on user count and those end up being the most interesting. It will be a bit wild west for a while though. Lemmy is a lot smaller than reddit, though, when I find dupes of a topic I care about, my strategy had been to subscribe to them all and I'll cancel the ones that flopped a few months from now when it's clear what is active and what's dead.
Really smart post. I was just about to create an Always Sunny in Philadelphia community but I'm gonna wait.
I'm assuming that the server admin (AKA theDude) can also delete dead/spam communities if it becomes necessary. Might make sense to nip our nfl community in the bud and direct people to !nfl
Are there any notable content creators that focus on content other than niche tech and US political on Mastodon?
I’m hoping to find more general, less nerdy content or infuriating American news. 99% of what I see and is recommended to me is just that....
NFL.Community - Not Seeing Posts - SOLVED
I am a big NFL fan, and I found the instance nfl.community. It has a community for each team, as well as a general NFL community. I joined a couple of the communities through my lemmy.world account, but it sees no posts there. I know this instance isn’t defederated from nfl.community, so why wouldn’t I be able to see any...
Fedi on Fire! - Streams fediverse posts in realtime (fedionfire.stream)
Basically it just displays a stream of Fediverse posts as they come to the server. Says it streams from “Mastodon/Fediverse” and links to jointhefediverse.net, so I don’t know what the sources are....
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Looking for Mods/Community Suggestions
If you have been following my daily Kickoff Countdown threads, you will know that we are just over a month out from our first college football game of the 2023 season. We are quickly approaching 200 local subscribers (officially the second largest community on fanaticus.social) and it would be great to have a couple more mods...
C/politics@lemmy.world being US only is weird (lemmy.world)
I guess it is a consequence of the Reddit migration where the habit is just keeping the old community name. But having C/Politics being US only on Lemmy.world, an instance that aims to be international (hence the name), seems weird to me....
My Opinion of the Fediverse so far.
Help me out here. Like a lot of ex-redditors, I made my way to the fediverse to find a whole new world of social media. Is it confusing at first? Yes. It takes a moment to adjust and learn the difference between an instance and a server and all that. But the one thing that confuses all hell out of me is @name. Not because it...
Lemmy needs two things to be successful
In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now:...
Is anyone interested in helping me create a Lemmy server focused on sports?
We're at a great nexus for Lemmy here, with so many users (including me) giving up Reddit for good and moving to the federated universe....
The Migration seems to be going well! 125k on kbin.social instance alone, and over 100k across Lemmy!
https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy...
Current list of NFL communities added to sidebar and within this post
NFL !nfl...
How is Lemmy supposed to replace Reddit?
I just don't get how Lemmy is going to act as a proper replacement for Reddit....
Welcome reddit refugees!
how are yall feeling about the website?
Advice on Creating a Community
Imma preface this by saying that I'm not an admin or mod here, these are just my thoughts & advice on the matter....