My first impression of sync: it's good, it allows me to use #Lemmy the way I used #Reddit. Don't know how much better it gets with an Account, as I only have one for kbin. Some apps only allow limited home instances without an account, here I can freely choose whichever.
I see there’s no #indieweb#lemmy / #kbin community. Anyone interested in starting one up? Or maybe there’s another better place (aside from Mastodon) that people thread stuff? I’m happy to start it but kinda new to the whole community as it is. That and I already admin/mod a few #threadiverse communities.
The biggest issue with the #threadiverse - findability. The second biggest issue is #federation issues.
Still early days, I get it - but using search engines outside of your home instance (e.g., https://sub.rehab/ or https://browse.feddit.de/ ) to find magazines is bad enough, but then for an instance to not federate with the one that a magazine is hosted on is another.
I'm also of the mind that the aforementioned instances should be removed from searches for breaking federation.
Part of the reason I hosted my own #kbin instance was to be able to control who I actively choose to federate with (or not federate with). It's just frustrating when you see federation broken, or when #lemmy instance (it seems most common to be them, anyway) break kbin federation proactively.
Kinda funny considering #Lemmy got the ml domain to mean Marxist-Leninist but they're probably gonna get fucked by re-nationalisation of the Mali country TLD. #fediverse#threadiverse
Mastodon certainly has a lot of creative, unique apps. You can definitely find a fit just for you.
But I think the #Threadiverse is having it's own golden era right now with a plethora of choices for us finicky #Fediverse users. The best list I could find for #Lemmy is attached, but it's still missing a few newcomers, like @bean
Nothing near as comprehensive for #kbin yet (the API is still getting it's legs) but there is the amazing @ArtemisApp
I used #kbin & #lemmy for a couple days on a measured rate internet connection and it sucked ~2gb of my credit (half my credit for a month). Yikes. I don’t know which one did the damage but I suspect kbin since I had images disabled on the browser I used for lemmy. I guess I’ll have to step away from the #threadiverse until I find a text-based linux app for one of them.
@reiver kbin is very recent tho, ernst only released it a few weeks ago, and most of its users are from lemmy instances
i'm one of them, including being a reddit fuji, and was witness to several conversations where people ar eattempting to throw off the bitterness and venom prevalent on reddit. the tankies aren't helping tho when they defederate fromeach other due to ideological differences (lemmy.ml and lemmygrad being traditional tankies defined by their bigotry vs. beehaw treating LGBT+ people like pets)
Great to see this, and good blog (am still reading).
The marriage of chat + forum on the characteristics you list is an important one.
Once you have 2 separate community channels, say a #Matrix chat and a #Discourse forum, you immediately have a problem. The chat is so low-barrier that important info to be kept longer term ends up there and gets lost in the chat flow history. It requires reminding all the time "Please take this to forum".
Commune is an extension of Matrix to make rooms web-public and threads-enabled. Layered unobtrusively on top of your existing Synapse server; most of the setup can be left up to us.
We’d like to eventually be a plug-and-play extension for any Matrix network, including Matrix.org 🌐
..so as a first step, we wanna work on interop with the smaller #IndieWeb networks as our earliest adopters.
It is quite a downer to see this unhelpful error message on so many instances. I know it's directing you to the Matrix room, but they are effectively begging you to harass their notifications there instead of letting this be reviewed with your instance host first and foremost.