#lemmy seems cool and all but I really don't understand how it federates. I made an account on the #sdf instance but I can't seem to figure out how to view anything but the posts there. How can you subscribe to communities on other instances? How can I follow content with my #pleroma server?
Is any of that even possible? If not, why is it even federated at all? It's just another forum at that point.
I agree with @jwildeboer about how DMs shouldn't be sent unless a relationship of trust (perhaps by mutual follows) gets established first.
However, maybe it's time to retire DMs -- at least as implemented on Mastodon.
Even with recent UI changes, they're easy to confuse for regular messages -- making it all too easy to make a faux pas with visibility settings.
Now some server software (like #Calckey and #Pleroma) have a chat system with a UI that makes it clear that the discussion is not to be confused with status updates. Moreover, these are not Mastodon-style DMs either, but something separate.
I personally prefer chat over DMs. And while I think there's lots of room to improve them, chats are an upgraded user experience over DMs.
Based on a discussion that I've had with @Gargron, I don't think he likes DMs either. I remember him talking about building a separate chat system. That's probably not a bad idea.
Trying out #Lemmy. First impressions are that it's a bit intimidating.
Much like moving from Twitter to #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #CalcKey, #Akkoma, or others, Lemmy intially appears rather sparse compared to #Reddit (or at least the instance I joined does). As with the rest of the #Fediverse, you have to seek out communities to join. However, the decentralisation of Lemmy introduces some friction there which isn't present on Reddit, and I haven't really experienced it on Mastodon either.
La sola idea di inviare un messaggio da Pixelfed per vederselo ricondividere su Lemmy (una piattaforma così diversa) è qualcosa di esaltante! @fediverso
Quando si parla di crisi di #Mastodon (crisi, peraltro inventata da blogger disinformati e in cerca di click) ci si dimentica di che cosa sia il #Fediverso e di come i recinti costruiti dalle grandi piattaforme centralizzate stiano per essere spazzati via dalla rete libera, federata e interconnessa! #Lemmy#Friendica#Pleroma
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Il seguente link lo consiglio a chiunque abbia voglia di pubblicare dei contenuti da condividere con le communities Lemmy. Naturalmente rispettando le regole del server.
Was mir hier auf #Firefish wirklich noch ganz dringend fehlt, ist die "Glocke" in Profilen wie bei z.B. #Pleroma. Die Benachrichtigung für neue Posts von wenigen Accounts.
Diese Funktion verändert die Nutzung von Social Media für mich sehr angenehm. Man könnte meinen, dass diese Benachrichtigung einen ständig wieder rein zieht. Bei mir beobachte ich aber das Gegenteil: Mit der Bimmel hört das Gefühl auf, etwas zu verpassen. Dadurch legt man den Tab viel öfter zur Seite. Ohne das beobachte ich mich, dass ich viel länger einfach rumscrolle.
Die Listen Funktion, mit der ich mir Favoriten zusammen klicken kann, ist da leider nur ein schwacher Ersatz für mich. Zum einen benachrichtigt da auch nichts, zum anderen kommen da halt dann bei Firefish auch Antworten auf andere Posts rein und nicht nur die originären Posts der Favoriten. Dadurch wäre das Geklingel dann auch wieder kontraproduktiv.
Vorschläge, wie man damit am besten umgehen könnte? 🙂
Ya know, since projects like @nodebb have mentioned wanting to bring in #ActivityPub federation, I realise that that could end up being a strength of AP's implementations - choosing your preferred format of discussion.
A lot of us have been lamenting the loss of small community forums in favour of Discord servers, and Discord's own built-in forums leave something to be desired.
But it's struck me that since #Lemmy/#Kbin communities are easy enough to participate in on services like #Mastodon, #Pleroma and #Firefish - Why wouldn't federated message boards be the same way?
Hell, why couldn't a message board have a forum that's just a subscription to a link-sharing community? Why couldn't Lemmy/Kbin users be able to follow a forum?
There's some exciting inter-operability ideas to be had as software grows around this standard.
While folks are thinking of leaving #Mastodon, just a friendly reminder that #Pleroma let a known TERF (Alex Gleason) join the project and only kicked him out because of conflict over code.
Nice to see the Pleroma team getting an NLNet grant so development can pick back up. I missed it when it happened but apparently there was a big shakeup with the Pleroma dev team. I'm glad they seem to be recovering from that and hopefully we'll see some sustained progress with Pleroma again.
Pleroma Blog - We got a grant from NLNet! (pleroma.social)
Nice to see the Pleroma team getting an NLNet grant so development can pick back up. I missed it when it happened but apparently there was a big shakeup with the Pleroma dev team. I'm glad they seem to be recovering from that and hopefully we'll see some sustained progress with Pleroma again.