fediverse

The best part of the fediverse is that anyone can run their own server. The downside of this is that anyone can easily create hordes of fake accounts, as I will now demonstrate....

FYI!!! In case you start getting re-directed to porn sites....

If they’re trying to attack all of Lemmy, or the whole Fediverse, they’re doing it wrong. lol...

Buying from an alternative ecommerce site usually sucks: you have to register for every website, enter your address, payment information and other information, they may leak data or store it improperly, you may not know the reputation of the website or business, you can’t easily compare products with other vendors and more....

I really want to nip threads in the bud. Besides blocking threads.net itself, defederate from any instances that do not. This is blatantly an EEE strategy and a united front is the only way to save what have been accomplished. Here is how Indivudals can do it on mastodont as an example to follow....

Ugh.

cross-posted from: waveform.social/post/310138...

With the vlemmy situation ongoing, i feel like it would be useful to put this here (i did not make either of these tools)...

Lemmy.world has somehow decided to become to extreme defenders of “copyright” and decided they will now delete posts that contain archive links in an absurd move that not even corporate websites like Reddit do. Archive links provide a service to provide access to an article long after it is deleted or changed....

Crossposted this in case of takedown. Hope this isn’t breaking the rules....

Old habits die hard, but there’s Reddiquette which needs to be revived, and some which needs to die....

We have bookwyrm.social, which does an excellent job at replacing the need for goodreads (which is owned by Amazon). But is there an alternative to imdb.com?

Hello everyone,...

Hello everyone,...

With the mass migrations of Reddit users to Lemmy/Kbin, and Twitter now speedrunning its own mass extinction, it seems me that the eventual future of social media is de-centralized. I like how Lemmy is slowing turning out, even if it still has some work to do and growing pains to fix up. It’s still able to inform me of all of...

cross-posted from: lemdit.com/post/44993...

I was never extremely active on Mastodon until recently but I followed it’s development relatively closely from its infancy. And I will say that it’s really strange to watch lemmy face nearly identical issues that Mastodon did when it was in a similar development stages. (Though, some of the drama thus far have been...

Pretty straight question....

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?

Hey all! I’m interested in creating an account on mastodon, and am looking to build up a list of people to follow. Let me know who your must follows are!

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 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.