Pamasich

@Pamasich@kbin.earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There's actually shoot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Piefed has only 2k too and it has 6 apps on this list.

  Mbin is at 1.4k according to fedidb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"A curated list of UI clients for accessing the ActivityPub Fediverse social network"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame there's still only one for Mbin after all this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Votely Political Quiz - Most Accurate 3D Political Compass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the nordic countries are single-branch

  According to this official government page Norway at least does have separation of powers into multiple branches. I haven't looked into the other nordic countries, but it's hard to believe that they don't at least separate out the judiciary (courts) from the rest.

  Power in Norway is divided into three branches:

  • the Storting – the legislative branch
  • the Government – the executive branch
  • the courts – the judicial branch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of RSS feeds distributed by each software on Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your list doesn't look complete in regards to Mbin. For example, tags seem to have RSS feeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we need more users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK, content-centric networks are only lemmy and piefed as of today, modeled after Reddit.

  There's also Mbin, which I'm using. And NodeBB and Discourse if we go beyond Reddit-inspired and include forums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do think that some direct democracy would be good, but there's a reason why Switzerland still has representatives too.

  Having to vote on every single moderation action would be a pain to deal with. Not just in terms of fatigueing users and causing only few to actually participate, but also because it'll slow down the process and empower bad actors to cause more damage.

  What should be a thing imo is what Switzerland has: the ability for regular users to propose new rules and then vote on approving them, and the ability to undo any moderation action through a democratic vote. Both of those being binding.

  Also of course the ability to vote a mod out if they're abusing their power. That's something we're lacking IRL too.

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  Edit: On your other point:

  It gets a bit tricky with technology. Ideally we could do things like democratically decide to have a voice chat (if that's what people want) and somehow 3 months later the platform has a voice chat... But it's not that easy, software development doesn't work this way.

  I think one thing that's possible is to copy the GOG model. Have a wishlist of features that people can add to and vote on. The highest voted features you prioritize in development.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think posting to a group (like a lemmy community) is a good idea because they act like relays. On Mastodon, your posts are only sent to your followers and people you mention. If you're not followed by anyone and don't mention anyone, your post won't be federated anywhere. Lemmy communities however will share your post with all their followers, allowing it to reach a larger audience. So unless you already have a huge audience, I think microblogging users that want to be heard can benefit greatly from interacting with groups.

  To make microblog posts more appealing to Lemmy users, do consider separating out a plaintext line at the start to act as a title. Lemmy iirc takes the first paragraph of the body as the title if there's no actual title given, and that can look awkward when that first paragraph is your entire post. This title pragraph shouldn't include formatting or mentions or hashtags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.

  Web office has barely any features compared to the desktop thing, iirc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ActivityPub (the model that the fediverse uses for federation) is publishing-based, as the name implies. Like email, you're sending messages to a list of recipients. Usually that's your followers, people you mention, and the person you're replying to.
  If the recipient list is empty, then your message won't leave your instance.

  Threadiverse users don't really have to worry about this too much because communities act as relays, sending your posts to all of the community's followers as well. But microblogging instances don't have that luxury. If they don't have any followers, aren't writing a reply, and don't mention anyone... their post isn't federated anywhere.

  It's also worth considering that only public data is federated. For example I wouldn't be able to recover my bookmarks from another instance, and it doesn't seem like Lemmy federates your list of subscriptions. Your posts may still exist elsewhere even when your instance goes down, but that's not necessarily the data people want to be able to recover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it really worth starting a lemmy community?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't forget the Lemmy Federate step, otherwise that would be the obvious answer to that last step. Especially if you're on a smaller instance.

  Other instances won't get your community and posts therein automatically, only instances with subscribers do. Lemmy Federate automatically uses a bot to subscribe to the community from various instances that have opted in to the service, allowing your community to reach those instances from the start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland has Fedlex. For example here's the constitution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would this be possible with the fediverse?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if there were a way to do this with multiple fediverse services?
  What if you have an article, and the comments are 1 lemmy user, 1 mastodon user, 1 misskey user, 1 friendica user, ect ect ect?
  Basically start making ANY fediverse service a viable way to leave a comment, which can be replied to by any other fediverse user, regardless of service?

  That's just the base promise of ActivityPub, the basis of the fediverse. It's not a hypothetical, but rather reality.

  That scenario you mentioned, it's not only Lemmy users that could reply there. All the ones you mentioned would have had access to that blog's comment section and been able to leave replies.

  So if you have user@lemmy.world, and you go to his community, you see a thread, you comment.....your comment is now in the comments section of his blog.

  That's just literally the same as me looking at this Lemmy thread from Mbin, leaving a comment, and it appearing on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse wide cross-instance / cross-platform link substitution [UX improvement thoughts]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you're already aware, but that relative link there is broken in Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed.

  If you used it manually, I'd suggest not using relative links in posts targeted at users from software that hasn't implemented them yet.

  If it's some automated feature, I don't think it should be in the source property of the federated JSON in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  most users find the most popular platforms and don't have a reason to move on

  This is definitely a good point. Is even visible here, with not just Mbin but also Piefed still barely having users compared to Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isint lemmy more popular?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  federation and instances is a confusing prospect

  Which is why we shouldn't frontload people with that stuff. They don't need to understand decentralization from the start, let them familiarize themselves with the fediverse first before throwing that at them. Just recommend a default instance, maybe change which every few posts if centralization is a concern. They'll pick up the idea of instances as they interact with the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to interact with mastodon instances from lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I said, if you want more integration than what Lemmy offers, do consider switching to Mbin instead. It targets both, the threadiverse and the microblogging side of the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All that's needed is the reminder (as visible as possible) that content you are looking at is incomplete and you can find the more complete version on this or that URL or app.

  That's what Mbin does, it displays a banner on federated user profiles explaining that they may be incomplete, with a link to the same profile on the originating instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tell us of your experience with NOSTR⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  NOSTR is not any more a protocol of the fediverse than ATProto and Matrix's protocol are.

  This is the first time I've seen anyone consider it as being part of the fediverse. Are there even any federated platforms that federate with it? If we can't talk to it, how is it federated with us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the same way it makes sense for Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed to only show posts made on a community.

  To be fair, that's not how Mbin works. Its communities also capture microblog posts that weren't originally posted to a community, based on the community's configured hashtags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This article's core argument seems to be that Pixelfed is violating the ActivityPub protocol by not displaying posts that do not contain images. That's just not true at all. I'm interested to know where the protocol ever has such a requirement.

  The principle behind a communication protocol is to create trust that messages are transmitted.

  And they have been transmitted. They've been filtered out after transmission, but the protocol did its job.

  If a message is not delivered, the sender should be notified.

  Perhaps. But that's not in the spec. There's no obligation to notify iirc that a post got filtered out on the target instance.

  Even if Pixelfed sent Reject(Note) back for every post without an image, would Mastodon even display that to the user anywhere? Would most users want to see that for every post not containing an image multiplied by every Pixelfed instance it got federated to? I'd personally interpret that as spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to interact with mastodon instances from lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy doesn't really target compatibility with Mastodon. It does have some of it by using the same federation protocol, but it's all incidential and not actually directly supported.

  If you wish for proper support, I recommend switching to Mbin instead. It's a Lemmy-like project that aims to work with both Lemmy and Mastodon.

  When it comes to communicating between Lemmy and Mastodon though, this is what I know:

  Contacting specific Mastodon users

  You can mention any Mastodon user the same way you'd mention a Lemmy user. They will get your mention and will see the post or comment you mentioned them in. Your instance doesn't need to be federating with the Mastodon instance in question for this to work, as long as you're not explicitly defederated from each other.

  Federation to Mastodon

  Lemmy communities show up on Mastodon as users, so Mastodon users can browse and follow them. They basically function by boosting (retweeting) every post made to them. So all you need to do for your posts to show up on Mastodon is to have a user on there follow the community you're posting in.

  Posting to Lemmy from Mastodon

  Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities by mentioning them, as if they were a user. Lemmy will display them as threads despite them being microblog posts, Mbin separates Lemmy-style threads and Mastodon-style microblog posts in your feed.

  Discoverability

  Interacting with Lemmy communities directly isn't too common for Mastodon users, hence the low amount of contact between the two. If you want to increase your discoverability, add hashtags to your posts. Mastodon iirc mainly relies on hashtags for discoverability.

  Lemmy does NOT let you browse Mastodon posts or follow users on there. Mbin does though. So again, if this is something you want, do consider switching instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Liability waivers don't apply outside the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crosslinking posts from Mastodon -> PieFed or Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now to figure out the final step, how to crosslink posts.

  What do you mean with "crosslinking" in this context?

  You know how to view a threadiverse post from Mastodon.
  You know how to post a Mastodon post to a threadiverse community.

  What else are you looking for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community mention spam from Microblogs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don't want to see mention soup, just limit the number of mentions per post on your instance.

  Doesn't Mastodon require mentions though to function correctly? Imo instances should just not display leading or trailing mentions / hashtags. That should get rid of the problem without imposing limitations on Mastodon users.

  Definitely agree with you on your first two points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Community mention spam from Microblogs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So what if Lemmy, Piefed, Mbin, and NodeBB made it so that only the first matching community gets the post?

  I'm pretty sure Mbin already does that with sorting posts into communities based on their hashtags. Does it not do it with mentions too? I can't really test it since 99% of federated posts only mention one community, if any. So I'm struggling to find a post that mentions two communities, let alone two that are active enough on my instance to compare them.

  But like, is it actually an issue? I always get the impression Lemmy users have more of a problem with the hashtags and mentions in general, not with the fact the post appears in multiple communities. Which would be easily solved by having their instance remove those from microblog posts.

  We can already tell which posts come from threadiverse software and which don't (because we use audience, Mastodon doesn't.)

  I honestly don't think that's a good way to decide between threadiverse and others in general. There's no guarantee non-threadiverse software won't make use of it in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  reluctance to stop dealing with Russia

  Can you name examples?

  We did always implement all the EU sanctions afaik.

  In case you meant us not using Russian assets to help Ukraine like the EU does, iirc they're using interest, not the actual assets, for that. Which I remember reading (but don't have a source right now) isn't possible for Switzerland due to how they are stored in commercial banks rather than central repositories. And just seizing them would be illegal. It's not like we don't want to (though that's probably a factor too), but more like we can't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Nazi gold is still very much a thing.

  The Nazi gold was given back. It's very much not a thing anymore. And back to the jews I mean, not Germany.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @TheracAriane Should work like communities
  Search page -> username@instance (like TheracAriane@thebrainbin.org) -> it should start fetching it
  then follow to get new posts federated to brainbin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't other instances and communities load for my instance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to subscribe to a community

  It sounds like they did think that far, but that has its own problems for them.

  my subscription to the community remains pending