maegul
A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.
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Yep! It seems a good Threadiverse ecosystem could be on its way with lemmy etc, nodebb and discourse. Hooking a stack overflow alternative into that could make a lot of sense of kick starting it.
Though at some point UI differences could prove problematic(?)
Yea. Generally a good demonstration of how the promise of the fediverse isn’t really there yet.
Lemmy does groups and mastodon does users with neither really understanding the other.
I think there’s more scope for lemmy to cover the user side of social media than mastodon the groups side. Kbin is an example of a continuing effort to do that.
If some keen devs got involved, I’d suspect lemmy could add some good user based functionality.The core devs have recognised it’d be good.
Friendica definitely is one of the underrated fediverse platforms.
Many bounce off of it because it seems a bit slow and its UI is dated. But in terms of the general ideas about what the fediverse can be and the functionality it’s implemented, it’s very interesting and it would be awesome for it to seem more love.
Really vital point you make there. It illustrates the ways in which a dominant platform shapes the ecosystem to be more like it, especially when the ecosystem is one of interconnectedness.
Calckey offers full post migration from mastodon to calckey. Great. But mastodon doesn’t offer the reverse. Ok, don’t use mastodon, that’s shit. But everyone is already using mastodon and have their posts there. Ok, stay on mastodon then, safer!
@hellerphant
Yea … it’s pretty easy get upset and negative about these things in the moment, especially if things get cleaned up.
But yea, calckey.social was always a kinda beta thing, which was perfectly fine for a young/experimental platform.
But this past week or two has really cemented its beta status and put a wet blanket on any excitement and good-will the platform had.
I kept my mastodon main anyway, but its things like this kinda reveal why mastodon is dominant. Platforms be tricky
@hellerphant Yea … seems something big went bad, like something on the VPS provider broke (see the admin’s alt here https://stop.voring.me/notes/9fplmm2ct2ijtu9n).
There’s a chance that there’s nothing they can do to fix their VPS provider or they’re trying to move to a new provider.
Additionally, seems that the brutal thing about going down on the fediverse for a long time is that once you’re back up the server has to “catch up” with everything.
@naeap @reiver Hi … I’m on the fediverse too, but not on lemmy either! Welcome!
The simple answer to your question is that lemmy users (such as yourself) and lemmy communities (such as !fediverse@lemmy.ml) appear as similar kinds of things here. You look like a user here, so I can look at all of your lemmy posts etc by just clicking on your name.
And lemmy communities basically look just like users too, which I can follow, except they “boost” (like re-tweeting) everything posted in them.
@weirdwriter @ajsadauskas @lemmyreader
Yes, forum platforms too (incl #nodebb of course).
I do get the (very vague) impression discourse is focusing on integrating well with masto to a good extent and so might not integrate too well with the other Reddit/forum platforms. If true, that might be a good enough reason to start with another base. OTOH, it’s a familiar platform to many devs so adapting it for stackoverflow like use could go well right?