fediverse

To really own your content, I think you need to host it yourself. The fediverse makes it possible.

For those that have poked around other fediverse stuff beyond Lemmy, and been around the spaces awhile, what’s stuck out to you as stumbling blocks, or basic user experience fumbles? Which parts do you think may be technical, and which may be cultural?

I just discovered baraza.africa, which is an African focused instance....

I’ve noticed a lot of people complain that niche communities aren’t really all that present here or are difficult to find. Having some consolidated in specific instances is very helpful for discovery as well as spreading the federation around....

Things have been incredibly unstable there. Until things stabilise, they should force the traffic elsewhere.

There's a common false dichotomy about #Threads: cut them off, or leave it to user choice.I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server....

There’s been an ongoing debate about whether communities should combine or stay separate. Both have significant disadvantages and advantages:...

Why do the instances keep going down? It makes me think that this is not a reliable social network, but the alternatives are not as good.

cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/3172728...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/9483559...

The problems faced and solutions mentioned seem particularly relevant to !fediverse and !fediverse

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Very nice improvement and I hope more fediverse software starts supporting this. tl;dr popular videos are also uploaded by the viewers, thus lowering the server load, similar to Bittorrent, but all in the browser.

From the Average Lemmy Servers Online by Day graph...

They’re doing really well! Do you think Lemmy should also implement alt text?

Hello everyone,...

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1025004...

Integration between WordPress and ActivityPub has been a long time coming. It’s existed in several different iterations over the years, but the latest attempt is directly sponsored by Automattic, the owners of WordPress. This article covers some basic how-tos and explains some various quirks in the integration.

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3932795...

CalcKey adopts a new name, new logo, new site, and new project infrastructure. While the name is somewhat odd, this feels like a really big step forward for the project.