What's the status of federation between Lemmy/KBin and Misskey/Sharkey/Firefish/Iceshrimp? I just tried loading several Lemmy and Kbin posts in Sharkey and it doesn't work. I remember having the same issue with Firefish, and I vaguely recall hearing awhile back it was something related to authorized fetch. Have their been any recent developments on that front? #FediQuestions#FediverseQuestions#Threadiverse#Lemmy#KBin#Misskey#Sharkey#Firefish#Iceshrimp
@183231bcb
lemmy posts are not visible on the *keys > regarding kbin: it depends - adding a link on kbin will result in invisibility on the *keys > every other kbin post type (thread, post, photo) should appear on *keys timelines
@183231bcb As someone hosting both Iceshrimp and Kbin:
Iceshrimp to Kbin Microblog seems to work if Authorized Fetch is off! Update: Iceshrimp to Kbin Microblog seems to work again, even with Authorized Fetch: Update 2: Nope, broken again. I have no clue tbh :neocat_glare_sob:
“We need a better site to link to than join-lemmy.org. It should concisely pitch lemmy to everyday users and suggest an instance for them to sign up at. Don’t get into the weeds about federation or choosing instances or selecting apps. Just select a sane default and point people to it. Rotate defaults to avoid overloading a given instance or making it too powerful.”
I think there would have been less controversy if the official Mastodon app would had sent the user to a random general Mastodon server with open sign-ups, rather than only to mastodon.social .
(I asked some of the people who were upset over it if they would still be upset under the alternative scenario I just described — at least the ones I talked to said "no".)
@eblu theres also discuss.online which is nice and smaller as well. mines more focused on local communities that are reading and writing if thats more your style, but it isnt for everyone and you can browse it on pretty much any other instance
theres also some good tools to find new communities specifically lemmyverse.net and the community !trendingcommunities which has a bot that posts daily communities
lemmy is still in development but it has a lot of good stuff going for it rn
@eblu I've been on kbin.social (the main kbin instance) for a while and it's been working well. I prefer the kbin UI over lemmy and I think that's really the only reason to pick one over the other at this point.
The fediblock account is stopping operation because mastodon.art retaliated against their parent instance with silencing because of a credible #fediblock report deduplication by @fediblock for .art , until the admin behind the fediblock account steps down from their own instance? And that admin is actually quitting the fediverse? WHAT?!
Mastodon has some wild drama I'll tell you... I'm glad I'm a #threadiverse addict instead.
@victor it's childish as hell. Just look at their rule list. If you don't block the same people they do, BLOCKED! So I did them a favor a week after I started my instance by defederating🤷🏻♂️fuck em. I don't need that shit.
Y’know, I really wanted to like #kbin, #beehaw and #lemmy, but they really are as toxic as Reddit - the gaming groups at least.
It would be nice to find a gaming group that’s not infected with assholes, but I feel like that’s asking too much, because Gamers are the worst.
Altho it’s not just the gaming groups. There’s a level of nastiness I wasn’t expecting going in after being on Mastodon. Mastodon has the HOA and Well Actually mansplainers, but some folks are just dicks on the #threadiverse.
The administrators of BeeHaw are considering moving on from Lemmy to a yet to be selected platform, citing a multitude of issues with the current state of development on the Lemmy project.
@freakazoid I can see the article while logged in to the site, but linking to it doesn't work. Thinking it's locked down to local users only. Can't really quote post it because it's really long. Hmm...
@freakazoid I have an account on Beehaw. Can try to answer some questions. Moving won't be soon, if it does happen. MANY tech issues and the time they take to fix are one of the reasons.
The core group came from another platform, wanted to set up a safer community and chose Lemmy for their platform. Which worked until the Reddit-influx exacerbated every tech and non-tech problem with Lemmy.
"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"
@db0@reiver I think that must be a browser plugin or some other client-side funny business going on, because on my end I’m seeing the original instance links.
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.
@maegul
> masto users would benefit from being able to use and engage with communities/groups in a meaningful way
Agreed. But federated groups are challenging for a whole bunch of reasons. For a start, there are different ways of conceptualising and implementing grouping, and folks are only just starting to explore these. It would really help if there were some high-level docs laying all the possible group types, and detailed docs of all the existing group implementation.
@strypey
Their extreme political views were a red flag but that’s not the real problem. It’s their extremely controlling moderation style that’s a problem. Worse than Reddit they way they rampantly delete absolutely civil content by those without extreme views. And then how they delete mod logs to cover up their moderation acts. It’s despicable. It’s not the sort of thing you could reasonably expect them to change.
The good recent change is there are now many nutter-free instances. @erlend