Three months ago I submitted a post to the #Rust sub-reddit called 'Building a better /r/rust together' wherein I hailed #Lemmy as a fitting successor.
Today we have 3 moderately active Rust spaces on the threadiverse. To counteract community fragmentation we need the ability for #ActivityPub groups (Lemmy community or #Kbin magazine) to follow other groups.
Help needed from fedi-curious Rust developer out there: Implement FEP-d36d for Lemmy!
@RookieNerd it’s a way for sub-communities within an ActivityPub instance to federate with other subs of the same kind.
If mysite.com/c/art subscribes to yoursite.com/c/art and a new post is made on yoursite, that post will be federated to mysite as well, as the same post rather than a separate cross-post as is now the case on the #threadiverse if I want to share some news about the fediverse with the different /fediverse subs.
It makes distributed common-topic conversation less fragmented.
"Twitter and Reddit may have only lost a few million users to Mastodon and Lemmy so far, but these are nation-sized numbers, comparable to what Scandinavia is to the United States of America. The incumbents have allowed the fediverse to reach critical mass. It's only gonna get bigger"
I'm guessing the progress in ActivityPub support in Discourse and GitLab, and the emergence of threadiverse, will all be adding both motivation and complexity to the job of adding federation support to Flarum.
Unsure if this fits here, but the tool's been quite fun to look through. It lets you look at specific Fediverse software and instances, see graphs for their growth. And there's even a whole section for the Threadiverse (Lemmy & Kbin)
@RookieNerd Nice! One of the problems that kbin faced, when people started migrating massively from Reddit a few months ago, was that the flag instance, kbin.social, couldn't bear the load of the newcomers. So it's cool to see other instances joining the #threadiverse!
And in my opinion, having a kbin instance makes total sense for a hacklab.
Pour faire simple, il s’agit de la partie du #Fediverse constituée par les services Kbin et Lemmy, qui sont des clones de Reddit. Il est possible d’interagir avec ces services depuis Mastodon, ou Akkoma, ou Firefish, ou quoi que ce soit que vous utilisiez pour me lire en ce moment, ce qui est bien pratique !
Si vous ne connaissez pas Reddit, il s’agit d’une application où les utilisateur·ices peuvent créer des communautés autour de thèmes qui les intéressent, pour ensuite y poster des fils de discussion. Par défaut, les fils sont classés par popularité, en fonction des « likes » qui leur sont attribués.
Il y a deux avantages immédiats à ce mode de fonctionnement : d’une part, ça permet de regrouper des posts thématiquement (et donc de trouver où retrouver plus facilement ce qu’on cherche), et d’autre part la structure hiérarchique des posts au sein d’un fil permet de voir facilement qui répond à qui.
L’interaction entre ces plateformes est bien sûr possible, on peut chercher, voir et booster des fils depuis un compte Mastodon par exemple.
Un mot au sujet de Lemmy : j’ai tendance à déconseiller ce soft pour des raisons éthiques (voir ici pour les détails : https://lemmy.world/comment/371372 ).
Un mot également au sujet de kbin : ce service propose aussi une fonctionnalité de « microblogging », c’est à dire la possibilité d’écrire des posts sans les grouper dans une communauté particulière, comme on le ferait depuis un compte Mastodon par exemple. On pourrait dire que kbin se veut être un équivalent combiné de Reddit + Twitter, en quelque sorte. C’est un service assez jeune, toujours en cours de développement intensif, mais très prometteur.
Un tuto très intéressant de @Snoopy qui explique comment créer un nouveau fil dans une communauté Lemmy depuis un compte Mastodon, Firefish ou kbin. Vous n'avez plus d'excuse pour ne pas participer à l'aventure #threadiverse ! 😜
Kbin Cafe had a brief issue between early yesterday and now that impacted newly registered accounts or current users attempting to log in. We apologize for the inconvenience and this has been resolved!
Still in the process of disentangling myself from #facebook, but getting there. Reddit will likely go as well, once #lemmy picks up a bit more steam for niche communities.
But how about search and email? Password manager? GImme your best tips for leaving Google behind as well.
@protonvpn please create an account on #Kbin or #Lemmy#threadiverse
I know lots of Reddit users use the Proton subreddit but given everything they’ve done and your support of Mastodon, I’d say it would be good to have an account on Fediverse Reddit alternatives.
Yeah good point by @cendawanita about permissions (or lack thereabouts) for #kbin et al to scrape the #fediverse and put posts/toots into magazines. It feels like so many #Mastodon admins are blind to how the fediverse beyond Masto software & the Masto API actually works.
Seeing such folks write lengthy posts about defederating Masto instances running Vyr's search patch while the rest of the fedi has #FullTextSearch and the #Threadiverse scrapes it with next to no backlash. It's like folks don't know that there's a bigger problem with #ActivityPub re #privacy and #safety than Website Boy's latest antics, and we need to push for #FediverseSafety and privacy flags at a ActivityPub protocol level. Until then, everything is just a non-binding, non-enforceable agreement about cultural norms that there's seems no consensus on; and definitely no focus on minority safety, rather features some will claim are wanted by a majority.
I just noticed that Mastodon web is identifying Group accounts in the UI and happy to see it.
With the #Threadiverse expanding, I appreciate knowing that I am replying or interacting with a Group account, where my response may end up in front of audiences I wasn't expecting.
Hoping more third party clients will start adding this as well.
The identifier is included in any Account element returned in through the official API.
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FediDB is a tool to track the size and growth of Fediverse platforms and instances (fedidb.org)
Unsure if this fits here, but the tool's been quite fun to look through. It lets you look at specific Fediverse software and instances, see graphs for their growth. And there's even a whole section for the Threadiverse (Lemmy & Kbin)
OC There is a lesson to be learned here
TL;DR: We should bring blogs (self-publishing) back instead of putting all our knowledge into other people's websites....