lotanis

@lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de

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What is the status of federation with kbin?

kbin.social shows up in the instances list (https://discuss.tchncs.de/instances), but I'm having trouble with !nfl. I couldn't get it to show up in search until I searched for the full URL (https://kbin.social/m/nfl). Once it did, I can join, but there's no content. See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/NFL@kbin.social...

lotanis,

It's notably different from how it has worked with Lemmy instances. With Lemmy I can search by community name e.g. !nfl rather than the URL, and once I've done that it automatically pulls at least some recent content. It did this when I joined !knitting for instance.

lotanis,

That's not been true for me joining communities on other Lemmy instances.

lotanis,

When I joined the !knitting I was definitely the first person to join. E.g. I got an error going to https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/knitting@lemmy.world until I did the search. But once I did the search it worked, I could follow I had immediate content etc.

lotanis,

It means that you aren't subject to anyone else's decision making or the effects of that like defederation. But obviously there are implications on cost and work for you

lotanis,

The term "user" has some implied level of technical skill (or lack).

If have to use the binocular microscope and soldering station at work (as I did for headphones last month) then I don't count that as "user replaceable".

lotanis,

The same thing will happen on the fediverse if there are enough people using it. It's a circular problem.

The technical and usability aspects of Lemmy/Kbin will get ironed out, and probably sooner rather than later. I just want there to be enough critical mass of people that I have communities for most of what I want. E.g. gaming is well covered, but I don't have a replacement for /r/nfl which was my primary NFL news source.

lotanis,

That's looking good, but I'm having trouble with the federation to kbin.social. I can follow it, but I don't get any content. This instance has been pretty good at federation stuff and it's listed in our instances list, but nothing doing.

See here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/NFL@kbin.social

lotanis,

newsminimalist.com

It's uses ChatGPT to work out which news stories are the most significant so it can show only the important ones. It's great and has been my main source of world news since I started using it a few weeks ago.

lotanis,

It has a cut off date for data that it's trained on. But you can feed it the content of an article and ask it "how significant is this".

lotanis,

Is it actually a problem? One of them will naturally "win" - they'll get the first chunk of people, then people will join that one because the people are there.

If we do get two vibrant competing communities it will be because they provide something different to each other in some way and then we probably don't want to lump them together.

I think multi-lemmys would be useful but I don't think we need them as a solution to the competing communities situation.

lotanis,

Always difficult in a shunt to know whether the car is going to turn out to be made of adamantium or tissue paper. Can be either!

Questions on creating and modding communities across lemmy instances

I’ve recently found it beneficial to have a home lemmy instance that does not have a lot of users. This allows me to access content that has been defederated. But, as many have said, using the communities and creating content for them is like oxygen, and we need oxygen for survival....

lotanis,

It shouldn't matter which instance you create your community on, and in fact it might better to be on a smaller instance. The same things about defederation mean your community is more likely to be accessible.

I think you can only create communities if you have an account on that instance so you'd have to have multiple accounts to do what you're suggesting, but that's doable.

lotanis,

Yeah, after I started using Sync and they did the redesign, desktop browsing felt so slow. Even old.reddit felt clunky compared to Sync.

How do you start a new community on lemmy?

So i recently moved to lemmy because of the Reddit outrage and I have been liking it so far! However, there are quite a few communities that don't exist yet like for my particular phone model. Is there a way I can create a community for it so I can eventually ask the Redditors to migrate to it? Thank you in advance. 😊

lotanis,

Yes - if you go to the home page of your instance, there should be a "create community" button top right.

lotanis,

Would love to hear how Andromeda actually is. There's been a bit of an anti-hype cycle with everyone criticising it, but I've always wondered if there's a decent game in there (but kne that's not quite as good as the original trilogy).

lotanis,

I just bought it on the GOG summer sale!

lotanis,

It is weird that diablo feel like you haven't really started the game until you've completed the story once. Like that whole well written story and beautiful cut scenes are in fact the prologue to the real game.

I haven't actually completed the story yet, but that's what it feels like at the moment. To be clear though - I'm really enjoying it!

lotanis,

Breadth is a good way of putting it. The thing that's making it hard for me to leave Reddit behind is an NFL community with any level of activity. /r/NFL was my main source of football news.

lotanis,

This wouldn't be a problem at all, or possibly even a good thing. If one instance is supported by shitty ads then people won't go there and they'll sign up elsewhere. That's the whole value of the fediverse - choice and no lock-in.

lotanis,

The way I see it everyone naturally assumes we're trying to recreate Reddit but with distributed computing.

I think instead we should be trying trying to create something that gives us the community and communication that Reddit gave us, but democratically and without reliance on or control from any one organisation.

This is going to result in some things that work differently from Reddit. We should work to make the experience smooth and intuitive, but it can end up with a different way of working.

lotanis,

Completely agree that there needs to be some strides in usability. I'm in exactly the same situation with myself and my wife in terms of what's needed to be able to recommend Lemmy to her.

I just wanted to get people thinking about a "product" direction and set of solutions to these problems that weren't only aimed at replicating Reddit.

lotanis,

I'm just about to give GW2 a go on my Deck. Thanks for this message - I'll take any advice I can get!

lotanis,

Lemmy instances don't pull content (and make the link work) until someone searches for the relevant community.

lotanis,

It's definitely resulted in me spending more money on Steam. If I'm buying a game and there's a choice I'll now buy it on Steam every time. Plus there's some games I never would have bought because I'm doing a load of gaming on the sofa and whole travelling.

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