julian
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- Comment on Cardassian Security Priorities 3 days ago:
Don't forget the rocks built into every console
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 5 days ago:
The Gorn connection was an interesting one... it seemed entirely out of left field, especially since the Gorn were literally put to bed two (one?) episodes ago.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 3x05 "Through the Lens of Time" 5 days ago:
Exactly. The moment the camera focused on the orb I knew that little twerp (RIP Gamble) would do the typical redshirt thing and pick it up.
- Comment on FediForum October 2025 Tickets Are Now Out! 6 days ago:
@troyunrau@lemmy.ca fwiw the organizers are quite transparent with how the tickets are priced and where the money goes.
Hosting a conference, even one that's online, does take money.
- Comment on Fedicon 2025 is currently taking place. All the videos are being posted in this PeerTube account 1 week ago:
I think maybe posting each individual video to this community might be helpful so individualized discussions could take place.
- Comment on CMS/Newsletter plattform Ghost joins the fediverse 1 week ago:
That is completely on brand with how the Ghost team operates. It's wonderful to see.
- Comment on CMS/Newsletter plattform Ghost joins the fediverse 1 week ago:
Heyyyy, I'm one of the "many more"! :laughing:
Seriously this is super cool. With Ghost and WordPress on the fediverse we're that much closer to connecting the social web and the world wide web together.
There's some concern that this doesn't really apply to the threadiverse, but it does, and I will work my damned hardest that it does. WordPress blogs already show up as communities here. Ghost blogs don't, but I will continue to advocate for it.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Followers-only replies are broken between pixelfed & mastodon (non-mutuals can’t see them) 4 weeks ago:
@occultist8128@infosec.pub "followers only" is a concept that is Mastodon specific, and Pixelfed supports it.
There's nothing to change at the protocol level itself.
Sending the reply to OP in your example would be a betrayal of the visibility of followers only... which is kind of silly but technically correct.
Better would be followers + participants, but that's up to the individual implementors to adopt.
- Comment on Federated Social Media with Topic-Based Following and Blocking? 4 weeks ago:
@pumpkindrama@reddthat.com NodeBB supports topic based following, because it's a forum and that's literally how it was done way back then.
You can follow tags as well.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Loops is newly funded, so that round is still active. I still wouldn't get hype about it until it happens though! 😉
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately it actually isn't. NodeBB (me!) and Discourse are the only two forums that federate.
NodeBB has full two-way support with discovery features, Discourse is mostly broadcast-style (i.e. you can't find Lemmy posts from Discourse)
- Comment on Canadian Trekkies: SNW Season 3 will be airing on CTV Sci-Fi Channel 5 weeks ago:
@valuesubtracted@startrek.website CTV SciFi is still an add-on channel, which is unfortunate for freeloaders like me (I use an antenna which probably makes me a crusty old fart.)
- Comment on Which instance should i choose when i share a link? 5 weeks ago:
Theoretically, it shouldn't matter.
In the ideal case every connected server should host a full and complete copy of the data from the originating server (as @xkdrxodrixkr@feddit.org says, that's B)
Reality is a bit different, but not enough to warrant always picking B. Just share whichever you'd like, but B is the most right.
- Comment on Communities not existing on all instances is a big problem. 1 month ago:
Hi! We should chat.
NodeBB also does this, and currently still does. A category (group actor) can follow another category (also a group actor).
It essentially is synchronization of categories using 1b12.
Proof of concept does work but it needs reworking in some ways. The largest issue is that Lemmy itself doesn't understand when a group actor tries to follow a community.
- Comment on OF alternative fediverse? 1 month ago:
Tell me about it! There are some very cool people (i.e. @thisismissem@hachyderm.io) working on content classification and tagging so that the burden of filtering out this kind of content isn't borne by server admins directly.
- Comment on Voting in the threadiverse 1 month ago:
@snoopy@jlai.lu personally, since I create AP enabled software I am on the side of votes being public data. We already have enough issues with votes being out of sync with each other. Mixing in private voting is just asking for trouble.
Emoji reactions are neat, although niche to those softwares that utilise it. They allow for greater expression which is nice. They're useless for deriving value (for ranking purposes) unless you assign value to them.
- Comment on Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why. 1 month ago:
Does anyone remember way before Google had image recognition technology, the time they built a game that paired up random people on the internet, showed them each an image, and waited for them to both guess the same keyword?
It was gamified human powered taxonomy for meaningless internet points and it was hilarious (at the time.)
- Comment on Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why. 1 month ago:
@rglullis@communick.news A little bit, yes! There was a recent thread in the community I posted to where a discussion about the rather lacklustre search of various software took place.
- Submitted 1 month ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 16 comments
- Comment on Clarifying Costs of Running the Fediverse with Jerry from Infosec.Exchange 1 month ago:
Very interesting article! I have immense respect for @jerry@infosec.exchange, he was one of the first people I found on the fediverse, and it's no wonder why, he's revered quite highly by others as being a generous and kind admin.
I do want to point out one thing, and that is that Mastodon has some design decisions that make it rather resource and storage intensive.
There are oodles of lighter software out there, some with even more features than Mastodon, and some with less. For example, snac.bsd.cafe (https://snac.bsd.cafe/) runs on Snac, which is fast as hell.
I am going to guess that a not insignificant portion of Jerry's bill is caching assets. Mastodon likes to save everything it encounters, videos, images, avatars, everything... forever (though I imagine this is customisable). Most likely the assets are viewed a handful of times in one day and never seen again... but you'll pay to store it forever!
- Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? 1 month ago:
Thanks! It's something that I personally feel is more performant and future proof for other important things like private discussions (which Mastodon also doesn't support natively yet — mention spamming doesn't count.)
- Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? 1 month ago:
Sure, check out my post about it here:
https://community.nodebb.org/topic/18844/backfilling-conversations-two-major-approaches
There are steps being taken in the right direction.
- Comment on Why is data congregation so hard on Mastodon? 1 month ago:
Lemmy and lots of other software use a fediverse extension called 1b12 to keep everything in sync.
In a nutshell it means Lemmy communities can follow other communities, and they keep each other in sync. The same applies for other types of communities, like PieFed communities, Mbin magazines, NodeBB categories, etc.
Mastodon doesn't have a concept of community or categories, so they don't support this kind of synchronization.
- Comment on what fediverse software is similar to lemmy? 1 month ago:
There's NodeBB if you want a forum/BBS style UX for the threadiverse!
- Comment on Need help implementing ActivityPub - getting inconsistent results across platforms 2 months ago:
For what it's worth your blog does show up fine in NodeBB as well. Perhaps you are missing the
@contextproperty and so Mastodon is refusing to parse it? - Comment on Missing project? 2 months ago:
@m_f@discuss.online not directly, but there was a session at FediForum on Thursday that discussed the website and next steps for updating it. It's been stagnant for quite awhile but @evan@cosocial.ca and @j12t@j12t.social finally have write access to the repo and control of the domain.
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 2 months ago:
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eerie silence
- Comment on Slrpnk.net outage 2 months ago:
you can still have it with NodeBB!
- Comment on Bounce Helps You Switch Networks 2 months ago:
Hey @deadsuperhero@lemmy.world have you tried updating to the latest NodeBB? You can post to Lemmy communities from there too!