Fediverse

If so consider a post to the Fedimigration community (!growthefediverse@slrpnk.net). There you'll find resources and assistance to help people get onboarded.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/17597774

Not all these features are in the WebXDC supporting XMPP clients yet though.

The developer behind Pixelfed, Loops, and Sup, open source alternatives to Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, respectively, is now raising funds on Kickstarter to fuel the apps’ further development.

The trio is part of the growing open social web, also known as the fediverse, powered by the same ActivityPub protocol used by X alternative Mastodon. The latter saw increased signups and use after the company formerly known as Twitter sold to Elon Musk in October 2022 and during the X exodus that followed the U.S. presidential election.

In the months and years following that sale, open source and decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky (which uses the newer AT Protocol), have continued to grow their user bases, as people sought alternatives to centralized social media apps controlled by billionaires like Musk and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg.

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Edit: Link to the kickstarter

Most recent examples, seems like Americans users are mostly impacted.

the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14645438

Additional example

It also doesn’t help that it’s slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don’t know if it’s because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it’s a very significant difference.

https://lemm.ee/post/53056454/17657107

3rd comment below

So slow unfortunately

https://lemmy.world/comment/14661546

Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so… Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14676091

Images have been fine for me, I’ve given up on videos

https://lemmy.world/comment/14676052

Note: if this post seems familiar, it's because it was originally posted on !asklemmy@lemmy.world . It has since then been removed as a "support question". Not sure why asking people if they've been impacted about the instance that hosts 30% of the whole Lemmy userbase is a support question, but I'll revisit that tomorrow.

This is a community intended to collect resources and build a movement to get people off of legacy social media. If you have some people you'd like to switch over, or are willing to post about Fedi on your old accounts, please come check it out:

!growthefediverse@slrpnk.net

Cross-posted from "If you could improve PeerTube, what would you improve?" by @asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev in !asklemmy@lemmy.world

What keeps you away from PeerTube? What features does PeerTube lack? If you were the developer of PeerTube, how would you improve it?

https://possumpat.io/post/7411749

"The Fediverse is a relatively new concept for most of us, so today I'm covering what it is, why it's relevant for crafters, and how you can join! And if you don't want to join, that's ok too, at least now you know what it is you're not joining 😄"

Video by @thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee

It's a Lemmy front end, very clean. On your local device it runs some algorithm that tries curate a better feed for you based on your interactions with Lemmy. Not unlike many larger social media sites.

You can also sort by the normal filters like 'active', 'new', etc.

I read about it burried in some comments.

It's great to see so many front ends and experimentation within the Fediverse.

Another interesting frontend is tesseract.dubvee.org which has some clever features, and good mod tools.

Pixelfed has been making incredible strides over the past few years, and has begun developing a suite of different platforms and services for the #Fediverse. After just one day on Kickstarter, they've already smashed their campaign goal.

But they still need your help!

With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it's scary. And so I'd like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more.

I personally hate it when I'm stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you're reading this, the likely chance is you're the same.

All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn't of enough substance to be worth anyone's time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won't have to visit walled gardens so often.

Thank you :)

Hi, I tried a new Lemmy app yesterday. I was already kind of annoyed by different sort icons when using Photon and Voyager, but something snapped when I opened the menu in Interstellar. The third meaning of this arrow was too much.

Voyager	Photon	Interstellar

Here's a table of all sort icons:

Some of these differences I'm okay with, like controversial sort, but others not so much. Especially when the same icon is used for different things. The symbols become useless if the meaning is different in every ui. I guess because Lemmy-UI doesn't use icons for sorting, other devs just picked something in isolation.

So, my solution is to build a reference icon set that apps / frontends would loosely follow. This could then be added to Lemmy documentation. Any thoughts?

My ideas so far:

• Hot: fire
• Controversial: Anything negative or conflict
• New: leaf, sprout
• Old: clock, hourglass
• Scaled: I don't like the scale icon, but it's still better than random.
• Most comments: Multiple speech bubbles?
• New comments: Single speech bubble? I like the unread dot in interstellar.
• Top: trophy, medal, podium
• Avoid: star (reserve for favorites)

This post was kinda lemmy-specific, but I'm posting to the generic /c/fediverse since other platforms could have similar issues, and extra perspectives don't hurt.

Links:

• Lemmy sort modes: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
• Material icons: https://fonts.google.com/icons

But there's not many current users over there to answer them. If you still have a reddit account and are willing to help some folks out, please consider doing so!

I have just received an update of the #peertube app from #fdroid on my phone: the adding of the official peertube app in fdroid is imminent ^^

We live in interesting times. As users migrate en masse from existing social platforms to new networks and apps, we ought to think about how to make the experience of signing up, connecting to friends, and finding the good stuff as solid as humanly possible.

To follow-up on the Reddit thread yesterday, here are a few elements that can be interesting to discuss.

Link to specific instances and apps rather than just saying Lemmy

Just quoting "Lemmy" or pointing to join-lemmy.org can lead to a very unintuitive and clunky experience, as people can just end up randomly on a very small and/or outdated instance. Recent post by a new joiner 9 days ago, they had to change server 2 times to get a satisfying experience: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536.

Using something like

"Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

• https://discuss.online/ if you want a server located in the USA (content is still accessible from any server, the most difference latency)
• https://sopuli.xyz/ if you want a server located in the EU
• https://vger.app/ if you want an app

Feel free if you have any questions"

Can already point them in one direction, and avoid them getting lost in the too many options.

If people want to debate the choice of those two instances, I'll add my thought process in the comments.

The Lemmy feed looks as depressing as Reddit's All, and how to mitigate that

Some feedback I received when promoting Lemmy the way above

Just checked out lemmy to see if it’s different from reddit. Im very disappointed lmao.

First post I see is a comic about cultural appropriation with an ifunny watermark. Next are several posts about the proton vpn ceo “going full maga.” And finally a post I saw on Reddit days ago that is ragebait making fun of the cybertruck.

Yikes. It’s the same exact thing.

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Lemmy still has a pretty obnoxious tankie problem. Even if you block the .ml instance, pretty much every thread about US politics or world news on any major instance gets hijacked by the same handful of trolls and their associated vote bots. Hopefully this will become less of a problem as more sane people join, but just as a word of caution, be aware that you will be called western imperialist scum by a bunch of 14 year olds.

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Lemmy is utter rubbish, it's as if their entire userbase consists of the top layer of scum carefully siphoned off from the Reddit cesspool. It got the worst of the annoying political echo chamber and "very smart" argumentative users from Reddit.

I just clicked on half a dozen random Lemmy servers, and all of them had at least one link about Trump in the top 5 posts. Even ones that seem like they're supposed to be about tech.

Normal humans want the Reddit of 10+ years ago back. We don't want to use a different site colonized by the same modern day Redditors we loathe interacting with.

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To be fair, you can't say they're wrong. Open https://discuss.online/ , by default you'll be set on All - Active. Out of the first 9 posts you see, 8 are about T or M, the last one being a meme.

What I try to do in such instances is to give something like

"While politics are important, you can still very much block them. Here are an example of some communities that can interest you:

• https://discuss.online/c/casualconversation@lemm.ee
• https://discuss.online/c/foodporn@lemmy.world
• https://discuss.online/c/superbowl@lemmy.world
• https://discuss.online/c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
• https://discuss.online/post/15026558 for 20 non-political communities"

I also wrote a long post about that issue that you can read here https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1fmuk7o/post_to_address_the_usual_criticism_about_lemmy/

As a side note, I recently started a discussion on !fedigrow@lemm.ee about a potential political-free instance for new joiners, feel free to have a look: https://feddit.org/post/6819084

Lemmy is too small, 42k monthly active users is nothing

Discuit, the centralized alternative to Reddit, currently counts 181 weekly active commenters: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/NlAdOWAp

You can also mention that NodeBB is now federating with Lemmy:

• https://feddit.org/post/7035166?scrollToComments=true
• https://community.nodebb.org/topic/71fe3f89-361c-4716-a79e-de02f94b3113/test-from-lemmy-to-nodebb

That's all for now, happy to discuss in the comments.

Note: if you're not interested in promoting Lemmy, feel free to hide this post, you are able to do this on specific posts if your instance is running 0.19.4 and newer

Hello all, and happy New Year!

If you haven't heard of Interstellar before, it's an Mbin and Lemmy app (available on Android and Linux). It includes many interesting features such as Settings Profiles (easily change a group of settings at once), a Markdown Editor with automatic (and manual) draft support, Push Notification support through UnifiedPush, content filter lists to hide (or warn about) content that matches from a list of words (including different match modes, such as Whole Word and RegEx), Microblogging from Mbin, and much more. I've also worked on an upcoming feature that will allow you to migrate your magazine (community) and user subscriptions & blocks between your signed-in accounts. This includes some interoperability between Mbin & Lemmy accounts as well!

Interstellar still has much to be worked on though, and it is starting to be too much for just one person. So, I am putting out this request for any Flutter developers who would like to help make Interstellar better. If this sounds interesting, please take a look at the GitHub and join the Matrix (chat) so we can figure out the next steps.

Below are some of the major goals I have for Interstellar (no specific order):

• Finish up the redesign
• Release on more platforms, including iOS, macOS, and Windows
• Flesh out Lemmy support
• Create an official list of features, and update old screenshots
• Create a landing page website for Interstellar

I feel an iOS release is much more viable than it was a year ago, thanks to our sponsors. If you don't know, an Apple developer account costs $100 annually! If anyone's interested in iOS support, let me know so I can collect votes. I don't have a Mac, though, so I'd have to use a virtual machine to get publishing set up; hopefully I could get it automated afterward. It would also be very helpful if I had a collaborator who could lead the Apple side of things, including testing, development, and possibly releases; that would make Apple support way more viable.

Other ways to contribute

• Report bugs: If you find any bugs you'd like to report, you can create an issue on GitHub or post on the Mbin magazine or Matrix chat.
• Translate: If you'd like to help localize Interstellar, the translations are made through the Hosted Weblate.
• Financially: If you'd like to donate monetarily, you can see a list of options on kbin.earth's about page, or in the sponsor section on the GitHub.
• Feedback: Any feedback is great (good or bad); it helps me know what features are used, what aspects to focus on, what to improve, etc. At the moment, no telemetry or analytics are used, so the only feedback I have is what you guys tell me. If you have any ideas for the app too, feel free to share.

To celebrate the release of the Pixelfed Mobile app going live on the Apple App Store & Google Play Store, we’re proud to be launching our first Kickstarter campaign. All funds raised will go toward continued development and support of the core Pixelfed Foundation applications and the ActivityPub ecosystem at large.

The Pixelfed Team builds open source and ethical social networks for the masses. We aim to be the first Fediverse app with a billion people by taking on the worlds biggest players using open source standards. Designed and built for a better society, to bring us closer together without tracking or surveillance.

Edit: They met their funding goal!!! 🎉