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Akkoma and Pleroma are two popular “Mastodon style” Fediverse apps, I think born out of exactly this type of complaint about Mastodon, which you could get involved with if you wanted to be involved with better software without it being a one-man show.
I think it’s made needlessly difficult by how sloppy a protocol ActivityPub is, such that different Fediverse apps can’t really interoperate with each other except at a pretty rudimentary level, so you kind of have to pick one of the leading ones and imitate it, in order to be a citizen in its community and not have to build your own little community from scratch. But that’s a problem without a real easy solution, I think.
You can make a protocol that allows for not-yet-defined behavior, or has parts that are prescribed to work in a certain way if you’re choosing to implement some certain behavior although you’re not required to. The 7-layer OSI model and SMTP-email headers are two good examples. Even grafting encrypted or multimedia email on top worked, more or less, reasonably well and was still interoperable for the most part. They could have used that type of thing as a starting point, instead of doing the equivalent of “well we don’t want to constrain what types of networking applications you might want to implement, so we’re just gonna specify the from and to addresses. You do your checksumming and MTU management the way YOUR application wants to do it.”
I mean I’m not gonna sit too much in judgement of someone who created something which is working and producing good things but it’s hard not to be wistful about how much better it could be if the spec was specific enough that the different apps could substantively talk to one another.
Friends don’t let friends use vague protocols
ActivityPub is popular because it solves a vital problem, which is fine. But the protocol itself as a protocol, in my unfair opinion, is way too loose and basically results in little single-app fiefdoms that communicate outside their borders poorly if at all. I don’t know what the solution is, but it definitely is a problem that didn’t need to exist in its current severe form.
Migrating posts over seems reasonable to me
What? No it doesn’t. To someone unfamiliar with Lemmy, and expecting it to be like Reddit where /r/all/new is somewhere only the insane or curious would ever visit, sure; it makes total sense. To someone who understands how Lemmy operates and how a lot of people actually use the per-instance “all” feed because it develops a certain per-instance vibe that they like and want to be a part of and don’t want crapped up with spammy content, it sounds obnoxious.
lemmy is bereft of content
No it isn’t.
The dude in question included their intention to move stuff in their application for an account.
Well apparently there was some sort of miscommunication.
Also lack of content is an issue on lemmy right now. We need more people posting.
I don’t agree with this for a couple of reasons. Reddit didn’t go from good to bad because of a lack of people posting. I think I’ll let this comment by the reddit OP speak for itself: “Ultimately, it’s up to the server admin(s) to allow you on their server, and being ‘too corporate’, ‘kind of spammy’ or ‘dry and uninteresting’ is enough of a reason to turn you away.” I have never in my life heard of a community being banned for being dry or uninteresting, so that leaves…
Like I say, I’ve had admins say to me (more than once now that I think about it) that a community would be better placed on a different server. I said ok gotcha and moved it. If it’s unanimous among server admins that your stuff doesn’t belong on their instance, that’s absolutely a you problem.
He also conveniently refuses to identify the communities he’s trying to migrate, claiming he doesn’t want to draw “negative attention” to them. Honestly it sounds like the system is working as designed, and better than I would have expected.
You’d think niche communities… niche servers… what a match, right? My communities were deleted or removed from all three Lemmy servers, even after being approved.
This was confusing to me. I’ve literally never heard of this happening. New communities are formed every day. Surely there much be some way to explain the unknown-to-me world this man experienced, where the admins started up their server just rubbing their hands together waiting for someone to try to start a community so they can DELETE IT! And then run off into the night, howling with laughter.
We were migrating two weeks worth of content (25-30 posts) just like we said we would do in our application. They suggested a third server (can’t find the name/application now) which we applied to, got approved on, and let us post for two days before deleting us.
A haaaaa. The critical issue.
I’ve formed a few different communities on Lemmy. Only one was going to post-spam like this, and I talked with people on the server to make sure it wouldn’t be an issue, and when it was, I found another place for my thing and moved it there instead. Everyone’s happy. No one had to delete anything, and no one took any kind of attitude like their response was “unwelcoming.” We just worked it out. Honestly all this would have taken would have been just not migrating the previous posts over, and creating a fresh community instead. Boom. Everyone’s happy.
This attitude “YO YOU BETTER FIGURE IT OUT FOR ME OTHERWISE I WON’T BLESS YOUR NETWORK WITH MY PRESENCE.” Dude Lemmy admins are not your parents. It’s a culture of people who work together. Just talk to them, work something out, don’t come in with what you want to do as your list of demands, and then if it doesn’t make sense storm off in a huff demanding better service in the future.
Yeah agreed. In particular I really like that feditest exists even if I haven’t done anything to check it out / learn about it for myself yet.