Will be my 1-year anniversary on Mastodon and the fediverse in June. Been that long since I left Reddit.
But I still feel very much like a noob. For example, I have a hard time grasping why I can’t sign into my Mastodon profile (https://lemmy.world/u/Hyphlosion@donphan.social ) on lemmy. There’s obviously a profile of my posts, so why can’t I sign into it on lemmy and use it?
@Hyphlosion federated identity still isn't really a thing yet, but following works between most systems. Mastodon will hopefully support groups eventually and that will make subscribing to lemmy communities here easier, and hopefully the reverse will happen too. To get the best experience, and account in each platform is needed for now. Federated identity would be the holy grail of distributed social for sure, though I think an everything client that wraps all your accounts would be cool too.
It is still early enough in the #redditmigration that #lemmy or #kbin can easily be replaced if something superior comes along. So if #piefed or #sublinks can develop their consumer facing products better and faster then they will inevitably get the community support. And since sublinks uses the existing Lemmy API it might have the best chance to do so.
You never know, the current Lemmy devs might be pushed aside tomorrow, anything could happen.
@ecksearoh the even better prospect is that with all these platforms with group threads with voting systems, there will be even better standard tooling, transferability, apps, and discovery ecosystems that work across all the federating platforms.
Nous avons assisté au blackout #reddit et nous avons souhaité redonner le pouvoir aux utilisateurs ! ✊
Nous versons 3000 € à https://join-lemmy.org et 333 € à https://kbin.pub qui proposent des alternatives avec déjà plusieurs dizaines de milliers de "sous" et de membres actifs de ce nouveau #threadiverse 🧵
Cela fait partie du 1% de notre chiffre d'affaires que nous versons tous les ans avec @copiepublique et on est pas les seuls !
Wow #Fediverse, thanks for the help! I am genuinely surprised at how close the results were. It looks like the recommendation is to try out the #Threadiverse (#Kbin and / or #Lemmy) first - but only by 1.8% over #Peertube! Y'all must know that I've been getting frustrated with #Reddit lately. I also appreciate the recommendations for other things to explore.
Now the question is Kbin or Lemmy? Or both? (any thoughts?)
@seanbala one more thing i really like about kbin: even with bad internet connection, kbin is still usable > when other fedi platforms such as mastodon etc would not work anymore, kbin still does what it is supposed to do :)
If you are new to the #Fediverse network (inaccurately called #Mastodon network) and looking for end-user apps for mobile and desktop, check this #PublicDomain list:
@youronlyone I spent a long time trying different apps when I joined and ended up landing on #icecubes, it’s quite good and the only one I could find that properly maintained position and loaded new posts without shooting me up the timeline.
Step 3 of my evil plan regarding #fediverser and the #redditmigration has been executed. Anyone with a reddit account can go to https://portal.alien.top to claim their account at the alien.top #lemmy instance, and when they do so it gives you a list of your current reddit subscriptions and recommends the corresponding lemmy community.
Now, on to build and extend the lemmy communities so that we have more recommendations to make.
Yes, absolutely! In fact, it seems that this subreddit is a good candidate to try implementing the strategy that I described on https://communick.news/post/769373
I'm sharing my work on my social media accounts and that will be it. I don't need Reddit and it's weird moderators & members. Literal weirdos deleting your posts for no reason and members who drop even weirder comments. At this day and age I don't need any of that nonsense.
@NaturaArtisMagistra Unbelievable. Not different than art related subreddits. Mods can not tell the difference between an ai generated image and original digital art / 3d rendering. They just delete any digital art they see and expect me to to prove it's not ai generated. Reddit seems to me like an absolute waste of time. People there have no intention to learn anything.
@CharlieMcHenry I worry that it won't get removed or even just downranked in search results on the various search engines. I don't ever use it any more, but a lot of people may not know what's been going on there.
Recommended follow list for Ukraine war on Mastodon
Here are my recommendations for coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Only accounts active recently and you can easily import them from a file. They are split into two different lists by type.
Ukraine: OSINT & war updates
This list mostly has accounts posting quickly about daily events of the war and doing open source intelligence.
The import file relies on the List import feature recently added to Mastodon. I have noticed the list import results in a few accounts sometimes ending up in their separate list by the same name so you may have to fix that manually afterwards if this happens on your instance. If many people are on an older Mastodon version and want it I can also post a follows file that will work for those.
Import instructions:
Sign into your instance on the web
go to settings (Gear icon)
Choose Import and Export -> Import
For import type choose "Lists" (could also be "Translation missing: en.imports.types.lists" if there is an issue with the localization).
Select "merge" to only add to your current follows/lists so nothing you have gets deleted
Are those accounts globally neutral ones (focused on trying to double check the data they receive before echoing them), or do some of them tend to support NATO or Russia? If so, it could be useful to precise it (through a mention in parenthesis, for instance).
One of Mastodon's features that I love is that it allows us to keep a balanced news stream from opposite views on any world event or phenomenon 🙂.
Anyone following @kevinrothrock should be VERY careful. Meduza gets good scoops on #Russia, which is their focus, but Kevin has some odd takes on geopolitics which he likes to interject as commentary. He also has paper thin skin. I wrote a thread about him a while ago.
Yet another reason why I chose #Raddle over #Lemmy for hosting my #Touhou forum: reliability. You can often see lemmy.world (which has the largest Touhou community AFAIK at 132 subscribers and 96 submissions, vs https://raddle.me/f/touhou at 124 subscribers and 970 submissions) and lemmy.blahaj.zone (2nd largest 2hu with similar subscriber count but way less submissions) out of service. Might be due to too many users using at once, some server crash, idk.
Whatever the reason is, the Lemmy software being so heavy has to be a factor. I mean come on, it requires JavaScript ffs.
Raddle meanwhile is so lightweight (written primarily in an appropriate language like PHP like a sane web-facing service would, and DOESN'T require JS), and server reboots (and I only witnessed one in my entire 5 years on that site) take only seconds. Postmill is a champ!
My first attempt at #blogging in a long time. This is about my experience on #kbin what I have loved about it, and some of the issues that still hold it back. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you!