Our Groups UI hasn't been updated since the initial development in 2021, we don't want to delay any more so we will launch as-is and update it over the next few months! #groups#pixelfed
"It may seem positive that Islam is being discussed by former detractors beyond the prisms of #extremism and #terrorism, but this exchange is part of a growing trend of something more ominous that involves #ideological borrowing in both directions.
Conversely, conservative #male pundits in the West are hosting #Muslim voices on their #podcasts and #shows.
And while these #groups have historically been at loggerheads, the overlaps in their values are also clear in their opposition to #feminism and the #antisemitism that is rife in both #communities."
the best thing masto can do right now, imo, is to prioritize features & support for organizing communities.This is why facebook has society in its jaws, people are able to easily create, find, and post in any number of communities they overlap with.
if mastodon or an adjacent fediverse platform can better facilitate self-organizing communities, they will win all the spoils and then some
Unless someone provides a program with #root#privilegues it can only mess up the $HOME of the user account which it runs under.
This is why the default config for servers like #Apache and #PostgreSQL to literally be run as #daemons or rather #systemD services under dedicaded user accounts, so a webserver - even when hacked - can't f**k up the system.
So… welcome to new users in the #Fediverse network!
If you are exploring the fediverse through the #Mastodon software, feel free to explore other platforms like #Streams#Calckey#Hubzilla#Friendica#Akkoma to mention a few, for your usual “status updates” (and more) UI/UX.
If you want a platform more focused on photos and images, then there is #Pixelfed. Or, you want bookshelves and tracking what you've read, or leaving #book reviews, there is #BookWyrm.
But the beauty of it all, all of these are connected to the fediverse. You can follow any user regardless of which software they are using; AND regardless which server (domain name) they signed-up for.
One thing the #Fediverse is missing is a #Groups functionality. Public groups, private groups.
So many people have told me: "I can't leave Facebook because my [knitting/school/yoga/…] group only uses #Facebook to communicate. Sub-#Reddits are groups. #Discord are groups. Group chat on #WhatsApp or #FacebookMessenger. We need groups on the Fediverse!
Well, good news: people are working on them! And it's apparently fucking difficult. But they are making progress!
Crowds, obedience and the psychology of group behavior, with Stephen Reicher, PhD
This is an excellent interview on a fascinating and important topic. It includes discussion of the famous Milgram Experiment of 1963, COVID, the positive sides of group solidarity, and even the recent coronation in England. #psychology#GroupPsychology#groups#behavior#crowds
You can find and follow communities and users as easy as simple as you would follow another account in the #fediverse: type/paste @name in the search field, press enter and it will show up and you can follow it.
New posts from users are displayed and behave like Mastodon users/posts, so I will not go into that any further. Posts/replies in communities are boosted by the community account. So watch out with this, because it can be overwhelming. I really hope that the new group tab in Mastodon (included in the upcoming #groups feature) will have support for Lemmy communities (and Kbin magazines), so your home feed can stay usable (same for following #hashtags btw, but that's another discussion).
You can reply on posts that are forwarded (boosted) by a community and it will show up on that particular Lemmy server.
You can also post to a community directly, just add @community somewhere in the post. For me this only worked when using a maximum of one mention.
Kbin
Federation with Kbin works almost the same as with Lemmy. The main difference is that you can only communicate with the microblog feature of a magazine AFAIK. I didn't found a way to follow, post/reply to the threads feature.
You can't just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @technology or @technology is going to get HOSED on the regular.
In that sense they look a lot more like Reddit: They have a page listing their groups (“Communities” in Lemmy, “Magazines” in Kbin), each of the groups have index pages with list recent posts or highest-upvoted posts....
So it sure looks like #Reddit is going to eat itself in the next week or so. The recent AMA from the CEO pretty much shows they are going the Twitter route. Trying to monetize a platform in a way that's going to drive the users away from it.
I had hoped that #Mastodon would be the thing that could replace both Reddit and Twitter, but without a federated #groups model, or proper #threading, or similar tools, it's not going to work.
II. Music industry
@-ppop@chirp.social
@-kpop@chirp.social
@-jpop@chirp.social
@-cpop@chirp.social
III. Asian dramas
@-pdrama@chirp.social
@-kdrama@chirp.social
@-jdrama@chirp.social
@-cdrama@chirp.social
Just remove the hyphen.
It is highly advisable that we always tag at least two similar groups (located on different servers) to ensure continuity of discussions in case one goes down. (If one goes down, then someone needs to create another duplicate located in another server for the exact same reason… continuity and redundancy.)
@atomicpoet Are groups like #calckey 's channels? Because I think this was the differentiation point I was missing to see the difference between #groups and #hashtags.
@hubert
> I don't know if a ["group ID"] exists in ActivityPub Direct Posts
Hmm, no idea. But on a related tangent, I recently saw that Mastodon is going to add a group feature. I'm guessing for federated groups to work (especially across implementations), a group will need a unique ID. So maybe MLS could be used for private groups? Circling back to the original topic, maybe Direct Posts could be implemented as private groups?
Groups On Fediverse – Lemmy and KBin (dalliance.net)
In that sense they look a lot more like Reddit: They have a page listing their groups (“Communities” in Lemmy, “Magazines” in Kbin), each of the groups have index pages with list recent posts or highest-upvoted posts....