Kierunkowy74

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

This time is probably unrelated to @ernest's supposed inactivity. Actually, his another /kbin server, https://karab.in has been brought back on 15 of February.

Why not kbin.social? Well, this server is co-administered by FTdL (Technology for People Foundation) (https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/177112).

Entire FTdL infrastructure was down from 16 o'clock in Cracow to this morning.

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

Wait, kbin.social shows that ONRYO has got already 236 rep
You are not seeing everything ;)

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

https://c.im has 5000 characters limit.
https://kolektiva.social (anarchist) has 10 000
https://infosec.exchange has 11 000 characters and formatting.
https://qoto.org has 65 535 character limit and other features, but some servers (including Universeodon and main British one - mastodonapp.uk) block it.

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

Asked a few qoto users, you actually are able to add a hashtag view as another column.

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

Friendica provides blogging, microblogging, pictures, friend circles (but they work only for Friendica users), and multiple identities managed by single login.

And there is a fediverse marketplace software - Flohmarkt - instances

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

There is already a Meetup alternative - Mobilizon

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

You probably want to use a regional instance to have more relevant users, groups and events, but there is a global search engine for Mobilizon

For example, I am using a Polish instance, with an unsuprising domain https://mobilizon.pl

With an account, you are able to publish events, with header image, title, category, tags, date, place, description (with formatting available), and metadata. The event can be accesible publicly, or only via link.
The event (if public) can federate (and be boosted to e.g. Mastodon) and be commented, but you are able to turn off the comments.

Individual account can only be followed from Friendica, but not from Mastodon.

For more features you want to create a group. A group can be followed from Friendica and Mastodon, but only Mobilizon accounts can become its members. Group members are able to participate in discussions (not visible from outside), manage a "common resource folder" - links, make group events and group announcements

You can experiment with Mobilizon features with a demo instance

Kierunkowy74, 2 months ago

The newer ones are:

• Mbin, a recent fork of /kbin - fedia.io is the largest server,
• PieFed

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

Already available on /kbin.
(but no instance blocking on our side)

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

Lunar supports both Lemmy and /kbin

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

For example, Threads supports audio posts, a feature not currently supported within ActivityPub(...)

Laughs in Funkwhale, Castopod, and even any ActivityPub platform implementing an Audio object type

Wired checked no Meta claim against reality.

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

Lemmy joins /kbin and mbin, which already were able to interact with Guppe groups

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

Posting the same link to 3 magazines is enough IMO. Your /kbin account can be followed via Mastodon and similar services, and Mastodon interprets crossposting as completely different posts.

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

They appear as another toot - with title, summary (shortened if it is long) and link. Like shown on an image.

(BTW this means, that articles will not be shown in their entirety, contrary to microblog posts)

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

Forgot to say, but all /kbin posts will have at least one hashtag - the name of the magazine.

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

From the project website:

Sublinks, crafted using Java Spring Boot, stands as a state-of-the-art link aggregation and microblogging platform , reminiscent yet advanced compared to Lemmy & Kbin.

But the author of PieFed, written in even more popular language than Java (Python) said:

The thing with the more twitter-style ActivityPub projects is they send activities to individual users inboxes a lot, whereas with the threadverse it's all shared inboxes. So there's a fundamental difference in the way they use the protocol which makes scaling those projects much more difficult. My gut feel is that adding full microblog support would increase the size and complexity of the codebase by at least 50% and triple the server load. Maybe much more. It just doesn't seem worth it.

A feature creep?

(maybe they see a bus factor = 1 as the only issue of /kbin, though)

Kierunkowy74, 3 months ago

Proposed solution 2: Multi-communities

They are already implemented on /kbin - as Collections