birdwing
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- Comment on 6 days ago:
I’d explain it like this:
Social media are built on ‘protocols’. Protocols tell e.g. social media what they can do and how to ‘talk’ to each other.
The Fediverse is a group of social media that use ActivityPub, Diaspora, or AT Protocol. These protocols allow something special that ‘traditional’ social media like Facebook and Instagram don’t: they can communicate across each other, without using a centralised server for hosting content.
It’s comparable to email; you can mail to someone not using your mail provider, and vice versa.
On one of these fediverse social media, people self-host or join a self-hosted group. Such a group is called an ‘instance’. Each instance functions independently and can have its own policies.
Instances (and users) can decide with which other instances they allow their own content to be seen. They can also decide what instances their users can see content from. An instance that is connected to another instance is said to be ‘federated’ with the latter. If that is not the case, they are ‘defederated’.
Within each instances, there are many communities. There’s a community for Linux, a community for cat pictures, a community for nature, and so on.
View the fediverse like a few forests, linked by many wild bridges. Lemmy might be one forest, Peertube and Mastodon yet other ones.
An instance is like a single tree. And a community a branch. Users are leaves.
Some parts of the fediverse allow these leaves to leave and join another tree.
Traditional social media, on the other hand, are comparable to a single, isolated and big tree, far away from other trees. You cannot jump to other trees, cannot easily go to a forest.
Would that be a good explanation?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
the cia would try anything, but hornyposting isn’t their main thing. They’d try that with high-profile individuals.
I recall them having made a fake sex video of Sukarno or Suharto (the Indonesian leader), and trying to blackmail him. Upon seeing it, he said he was delighted and wanted more, lol.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
For politics I just use a keyword block. If it contains terms related to that orange or such, I block.
Piefed does have a nsfl tag option, a bot filter, as well moving communities to another instance. Imho, those are the three big things that most fediverse places should have. Being able to move to another instance is a gamechanger, should an instance disappear or get seized by far-right peeps.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
nah, hornypost all you want (keep it to nsfw communities tho if it’s “hard” nsfw)
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I just avoid harshly criticising the left, while continuing to do so for liberals (but still being welcoming for them), and outright rejecting far-right.
Keep in mind that infighting was often initiated by the CIA, in order to undermine the Black Panthers. Likewise we may see such attempts.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I disagree, you def would need to block the worst places. A good new-user friendly instance would block far-right and authoritarian content.
- Comment on Do people actually need a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
Given the fascist regime, privacy is an absolute right.
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 3 weeks ago:
More accurate version:
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 3 weeks ago:
Communities are largely similar, but the underlying hardware and tweaks are slightly different.
- Comment on My mom really love NBC Good News tonight. How come there isn't a show where they report on the good news of the day instead of all the bad crap all the time? 3 weeks ago:
If you only ever hear bad news, this can also demoralise and disincentivise people from taking action. That’s why I usually balance them a bit, to avoid doomscrolling.
- Comment on I suck at reading comprehension... what the heck does this law even mean? [8 U.S. Code § 1451 - Revocation of naturalization] 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t Signal readable through Israeli spyware the US bought?
Threema then, I’d say.
- Comment on Is there a place online to ask for Non Money donations? like books, jerseys, or whatever? kind of like go fund me or kickstarter without giving someone money kind of like a gofundme donations thing? 3 weeks ago:
Like a gift economy thing?
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 4 weeks ago:
Live image and test?
do you mean I’d download a distro, put it on a USB, and then extract/open it in there, and test it out?
(and ofc, saving my data on my own desktop on an external hard disk, before committing to switch)?
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 4 weeks ago:
Would it work for general usage too?
Within Linux I see ‘beginner’, ‘intermediate’ and ‘advanced’ users mentioned, but I’m not sure where I’d fall, or what those would roughly denote.
Like I’m familiar with what a terminal is and how it can be used for commands, I’m not like an old grandma not knowing what the big red X button does, I know not to delete system32 or to avoid sudo rm rf, but I’m not familiar with a shell, setting up an IP of your own, that stuff. I think this would label me as an average user for whom intermediate distros would be possible, but I’m not sure.
- Comment on Which Linux Distribution has the best Community Support? 4 weeks ago:
Re: the EndeavourOS, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed also has a nice installer, no?
- Comment on Are users data protected on the fediverse? 4 weeks ago:
Basically, the right to be forgotten? Afaik, on Reddit you have scripts to erase all message and rewrite/redact them with nonsense.
I assume something similar may exist for Lemmy, Piefed, etc.
- Comment on Awkward interaction with my doctor 4 weeks ago:
This is honestly the answer.
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 4 weeks ago:
Terrible, it should never be allowed that companies can grow this large.
- Comment on This is a federated test post from a nodeBB forum. 4 weeks ago:
Some forums still exist, actually.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 5 weeks ago:
I’ve experienced it. Loved it. Good infrastructure also helps, we have communal services that clear the roads and bicycle paths and salt it.
- Comment on Heavy snow when you're a kid is a dream come true, heavy snow when you're an adult is a nightmare. 5 weeks ago:
Disagree, heavy snow as an adult is still awesome. I almost never experience it anymore…
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 5 weeks ago:
For positive voting you could look at how quickly accounts upvote after a post has been made, combined with how new they are.
- Comment on How should Lemmy & Piefed handle voting activity from banned/deleted accounts? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a shame honestly, I feel like Piefed without up/downvotes at all would work better.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
You mean other federated sites? Mastodon, Friendica, PeerTube, to name a few.
- Comment on Wafrn.net admins on age verification 5 weeks ago:
Based and good
- Comment on Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse 5 weeks ago:
how about the jacobin?
- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 5 weeks ago:
Omae wa mou shindeiru
- Comment on Blocking Threads 1 month ago:
I feel it’s better to not receive Threads content altogether, or severely limit it. What if Threads tries to overload us wirh a lot of it?
- Comment on Is there any limit to the amount of instances to federate with? 1 month ago:
In other words, it’s better to have multiple of the same communities among different instances, and not too big either?
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 1 month ago:
This is why I have multiple accounts, one for the political shit and another for just relaxing. I try to limit the political stuff.
