AJ Sadauskas
Australian urban planning, public transport, politics, retrocomputing, and tech nerd. Recovering journo. Cat parent. Part-time miserable grump.
Cities for people, not cars! Tech for people, not investors!
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@lemmyreader Here’s a starting point for a fediverse StackExchange: Make sure it’s interoperable with Lemmy.
Now, you may not get the full feature set on Lemmy, but you should be able to interact with it from Lemmy as if it’s a group on there.
@thegiddystitcher @helenslunch I think hashtag feeds being overrun with vertical videos is an excellent point. (One I hope @dansup considers!)
But beyond that, I think vertical videos through Loops on the Fedi are likely to be far less obtrusive than they have been on other platforms.
What’s so annoying about them on Instagram and YouTube is that the algorithm automatically drops vertical videos into my feed.
And there’s *lots* of them in my feed, often on topics I’m not interested in.
They’re not there because I’m interested, but because they serve the commercial interests of the social media app’s owners.
Hashtags aside, on the Fedi, they’ll only appear in your feed if you follow a Loops account you’re interested in, or someone you follow finds one interesting enough to share.
And if people on your Mastodon server all find them really annoying, there’s always the option to just block the Loops servers and be done with it.
@deadsuperhero @nutomic I think the concept of a TikTok on the Fediverse is solid. And if short form videos help to get more people on the Fedi, and engaging with the Fedi, that’s a good thing in my book.
@AMillionNames @nutomic In which case the ibis, a species of bird that’s also known as the bin chicken, might be a fitting name for the platform?
@nutomic That last question was me trying to get my head around how this works.
Will each page have a username, in the same way each Lemmy group has a username, which can be followed from Mastodon?
If you follow that username from Mastodon, will you see a series of posts? If so, will they contain page edits or something else?
What happens if you tag that account in a post from Mastodon? Or reply to one of those posts?
@nutomic Looks like an interesting project!
Will there be a mobile-friendly version of the front end?
And will you be able to follow Ibis pages (or perhaps edit them?) from Mastodon? Or potentially even Lemmy?
@Meowoem @kd637_mi Better yet…
Many Lemmy instances have communities on the same topic. For example, there’s @technology@lemmy.ml and @technology@beehaw.org and @technology@lemmy.world .
It’s unnecessary duplication.
Having a Fediverse-wide !Technology community would avoid a lot of duplication.
Each Lemmy instance would then responsible for the posts of its users, and if an instance fails to moderate appropriately, it gets defederated.
@donut4ever @igalmarino Last I heard, @dansup and the @pixelfed crew were working to get the Pixelfed app into the Android and iOS app stores. There’s currently a version of the app that you can sideload if you so desire…
@anji @cyclohexane I agree that it would be better to have one or two instances hosting a retro games community and all other instances encouraging their users to post on those instances.
Ideally, popular communities on other instances should appear on the main communities page/list of each instance.
@rysiek @KelsonV I’m all for the growing hype around ActivityPub.
From The Verge:
"The hottest new thing in social isn’t vertical video, and it’s not AI-driven algorithmic feeds. Instead, it’s a little-known, years-old protocol called ActivityPub that could help rewire the entire social fabric of the internet.
“In recent months, a number of tech companies have thrown their resources into ActivityPub and what’s now known as “the Fediverse.” Tumblr is working with ActivityPub, as are Flipboard, Medium, Mozilla, and even Meta. There’s now an official WordPress plug-in for ActivityPub, which will enable the protocol for something like half the internet all at once. Developers are using ActivityPub to build new and different takes on YouTube, Instagram, and much more. ActivityPub is everywhere! ActivityPub!”
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
@maegul @lemmyreader
I definitely agree with this suggestion:
“Improved identity management across the Fediverse
* Easy-to-use single-sign-on across servers. Use case: I use several apps for different content types (like micro blog and video). Bonus: they all post from the same identifier
* Easy-to-use persona management. Use case: I have a personal and a work account, bonus if they can be on the same server Identifiers not tied to the domain name system”
https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230425-w3c-activitypub-wishlist/
I currently have a Mastodon, Pixelfed, Lemy, and PeerTube account. A single ID across all of them would be amazing.
Not just that, but it would really help accelerate the uptake of other Fediverse services if users could simply login with their Mastodon account.
Pixelfed is a better UX for photos, so why not let Mastodon users use it for that?
@maegul @SteveKLord Groups in Mastodon, especially if they’re interoperable with Lemmy, would be a great thing to see in my book.
The added bonus is there’s already a number of groups in the Fediverse on the day the feature goes live.
@ArtBear @ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml @zoeschiffer @caseynewton It also makes it less a form of social media, where people actually have conversations with one another and interact.
Instead, it functions more as a form of broadcast media, where public figures disseminate their messages to the public.
That’s why just 25% of users create 97% of all content there.
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml Excellent work by @zoeschiffer and @caseynewton for uncovering the fact that Ben Shapiro is on a small list of Elon’s Twitter VIPs whose posts are getting boosted above everyone else (including Elon himself).
Yep, that Ben Shapiro.
https://www.platformer.news/p/the-secret-list-of-twitter-vips-getting
#Twitter #ElonMusk #Elon #BirdSite #Politics #Mastodon #Fediverse
@Malditopelirrojo @lemmyreader You’d have to ask @admin / @contact@press.coop , but I suppose it’s for people who want to keep track of what Fox is up to, or who enjoy hate-reading the Murdoch media?
(I don’t consider Fox to be a news outlet either!)
@dessalines @lemmyreader For people following along on Mastodon, here’s the link to the article: https://blog.foxxtrot.net/2023/03/federation-isnt-inevitable.html
From the OP: "With the rise of the Fediverse driven by Elon Musk’s continued efforts to make Twitter unpleasant for the majority of people, it has been interesting and exciting to see increased interest in forms of Social Media outside the corporate hegemony dominated by Twitter and Facebook over the last decade.
"Truthfully, for a lot of us who had been on Twitter pre-2012 or so, Mastadon, with it’s user-curated stream of content, feels more like a return to something that was lost instead of something new. There is an excitement about Mastadon, it’s underlying protocol ActivityPub, and the collection of inter-operable apps and servers that make up what we’re now calling the Fediverse.
“And I’m glad for it.”
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Facebook #Twitter #ElonMusk #Elon #TwitterMigration #ActivityPub
@lemmyreader Cross-posting this to Mastodon: Do you love Mastodon, but miss having your favourite news outlets in your feed?
Press.coop is a project that replicates the Twitter feeds of popular news outlets on Mastodon. That includes the likes of The Guardian, the NY Times, the Washington Post, CNN, Nature, The New Yorker, Mother Jones, Pink News, Techcrunch, and more.
Here’s a full list: https://press.coop/directory
@randulo @bmaxv True, although I guess if it’s a niche specialist discussion, it would most likely remain a niche specialist discussion on the Fediverse.
The advantages would be that specialists who might not participate directly in the forum could join in some of the conversations, and it would be interoperable with other Fediverse tools (potentially things like PeerTube videos and such).
@sabreW4K3 Plume doesn’t appear to be active, unfortunately 🥺
There’s a notice on the official Join Plume website saying the former developers don’t have the time to maintain it anymore. Most of the former public instances now throw up errors of various kinds.
WriteFreely ( @writefreely ) is alive and well. I was seriously toying with the idea of setting up a blog through its main instance, which is called Write.as Professional. The sticking point for me was that the official on-platform monetisation tool (Coil) appears to be dead, and doesn’t support members-only posts (like Ghost).
Ghost, when federation goes live, looks like it will be the best option for my blog.
WordPress plus @pfefferle 's plugins is another great option, depending on what you want to use it for. (There’s no shortage of WP plugins!)
As for Lemmy, I could see a blogging-focussed front end being created for it, in the same way FediBB put a traditional message board front end on it, but one doesn’t appear to exist at present.