@talou @caos @deadsuperhero A nice and good read in this regard comes from the ActivityPub academy: https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/understanding-activitypub-part-2-lemmy/
This explains it very well

@talou @caos @deadsuperhero whaaat :O screenshot please

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One point on Lemmy. What software best federates with Lemmy? I’m posting this comment from a Mastodon account through Fedilabs. The Lemmy thread is understandable, more or less. Is this only a matter of client and UI?
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@ziby0405 @geoma Mmm so, you envision something that is on website as an “official presence online” and then also a separate account on Mastodon and things for social media purposes?
I mean, it makes sense. At the end of the day, even current mainstream businesses have a website and Instagram accounts for things, so yes.

@poVoq @geoma This looks interesting. Would you imagine the marketplace as paired to the local listings?

Given that one big problem of the fediverse for business applications so far is discoverability, I imagine to have a federated service that indexes all posts from accounts on that instance, and also has a marketplace. It basically is a federated Etsy? 😳

@fresh @geoma It looks interesting. Business benefits over hosting WordPress and federating it with some plugin?

@CannotSleep420 @geoma What is the currently accepted/perceived use case for federation then?

I personally perceive that the Fediverse is currently appealing to geeks, organizations that look for digital sovereignty or autonomy, curious people looking for something new, die-hard alternatives

@SomeoneSomewhere @geoma Probably it just means that people are on massive platforms like Instagram only because everybody else is there (?)

@h3ndrik @geoma There are other things to consider, like what kind of dependency you want to have to other organizations. You might be a network of small orgs ready to share resources for setting up a collective Mastodon instance. Similar approach with a big entity with enough resources (be those donations, own money, or whatever) to fund all of that. A different case would be just a small project/business that currently uses Instagram for PR purposes, but that wants something alternative

@geoma @h3ndrik we get back to other issues/problems that are discussed somewhere here around on Lemmy. Striking the balance between autonomy and management costs is always hard. That’s why probably there is the need to have a service that helps users get paired with the best software given their needs.

As others are saying, Firefish/Calckey might be interesting in that sense.

(gosh, even Friendica has a relevant concept there, but it is soooo unpolished and not appropriate for business.

@geoma @zzepposs There is some value in this. It is vital to understand real world needs and issues. Looking forward to follow the discussion

@stu @yogthos Can anybody point to research or literature about the development and survival of FOSS communities? I am only aware of Gabriella Coleman’s studies on Debian and Raymond’s “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”