Join Lemmyvision, a Eurovision-like Song Contest for Lemmy communities around the world ! ( jlai.lu )
Crossposted from https://lemmy.world/post/12717592...
How do you like to tell people about the fediverse?
It's been difficult to broach the subject and explain the technical concepts to the average person. I did have some success in first sharing the email comparison, which lead into interoperability....
Is the bot/troll situation getting worse?
It feels like the amount of both, divisive posts and ghoulish comments is rising again....
Who wants an app for Peertube?
Has anyone defederated your instance? An update to the Defederation Investigator ( defed.xyz )
A few months ago I released the Defederation Investigator, a tool to verify the federation status of Lemmy instances. With this new update, I've expanded it to support multiple Fediverse softwares, including:...
[Resolved] lemmyverse.net looks to be unmaintained and is becoming increasingly less useful
As you may have noticed, the crawler at https://lemmyverse.net isn't picking up anything from instances on versions 0.19.4 or 0.19.5....
is there a search engine for the fediverse?
Since big part of the web is drowning in AI junk, including Reddit, is there a good search engine to find answers in the fediverse?
Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion ( github.com )
Github ticket: https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
Meta to close Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram ( techcrunch.com )
Meta said on Monday that it plans to “temporarily” shutter Threads in Turkey from April 29, in response to an interim injunction imposed by the Turkish competition authority last month over the way Meta shares data between Threads and Instagram....
Active communities promotion thread
Hello,...
The main feature i would like to see on Lemmy
Im pretty satisfied with Lemmy, but one thing i wish you could do is browse instances. Like i wish there was a way i could almost emulate being on my programming.dev account and see all that instances communities while im logged into this account. Afaik theres no easy way to do that without visiting some aggregator website. It...
I think I might have a problem ( lemmy.world )
Alt Text: A screenshot of the tab bar and address bar of Firefox where twelve different fediverse websites are pinned. There is a new DuckDuckGo search being made in the address bar saying, "I think I might have a problem."...
Open source meets open science - announcing the Open Science Network initiative ( bonfirenetworks.org )
Lemmy Just Reached 1 Million Posts
Lemmy just reached a new milestone: 1 million posts, across 1,323 servers....
Kbin.social down again? Are people moving to mbin instances (kbin.run, fedia.io)? ( kbin.social )
Link to a list of mbin instances: https://fedidb.org/software/mbin
A different strategy for promoting the Threadiverse
So, with news of Reddit making deals to sell user data for AI training, I think we should really start organizing ourselves for an effective migration campaign....
Does Reddit shadowban mentions of Lemmy?
In the months since I deleted my Reddit accounts and joined Lemmy, the lack of user base growth has made it clear that we need some users to stay on Reddit as a means of shepherding more users over on an ongoing basis. Otherwise, Reddit simply got what it wanted: less users who make a fuss about how it manages its platform...
Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time ( www.theverge.com )
The Fediverse is starting to break walled gardens [TechAltar] ( piped.video )
For a Universal Declaration on Fediverse Rights, or: At the Core of the Threads-Debate lies a deeper problem: how can the Fediverse grow without losing its soul in the process? ( fungiverse.wordpress.com )
Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta ( privacy.thenexus.today )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/7477620...
Proposal for GitLab to support ActivityPub ( docs.gitlab.com )
The end goal of this proposal is to build interoperability features into GitLab so that it’s possible on one instance of GitLab to open a merge request to a project hosted on an other instance, merging all willing instances in a global network....
Bluesky opens to public registration ( bsky.social )
Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far?
What are the practical benefits of the fediverse?
I don't fully understand how lemmy works completely yet. But for example I made an account at Division by zero and subscribe here to post. Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?...