Kichae

I’m not sure how lemmy or kbin handle instance-hosted media links – whether they import the media and redirect the link, or whether they point to the original media object – but otherwise, yes.

There are ways to access other websites directly from within a given website – iframes and the like – but that’s not what happens here. Each website is independent of each other, and all text is locally hosted in your instance’s database.

There are also (limited) copies of user profiles all over the place – if you click on my username, for instance, you’ll be taken to lemmy.world/u/Kichae@kbin.social. That’s a local lemmy.world user address, even though I’m not on lemmy.world. I can’t login to that account – it’s either credentialless, or has randomized credentials – but it exists. And by going there, you get to see what lemmy.world knows about my activity across the fediverse. Without ever leaving lemmy.world.

Yup. It’s mirrored content all the way down.

The whole point of that server is to allow people to simply login and then participate in other instances from there.

In order for users on lemmy.one to interact with content on other instances, lemmy.one has to import and host that content. So, it has plenty of content on it, just most of it originated elsewhere. That remote content should be just as indexable as local content.

As I say, it’s an open door for trolls. Anime titties, holocaust denial, endless pictures of Rush Limbaugh’s face, you name it, with enough effort it can flood any auto-grouped community tag.

I don’t think it should be done by a specific name, it should be user defined, I should be able to add the communities together which I deem that they do belong together for some reason.

This.

People are used to a single handle mapping to a single community, and I get that they want that to still be true, but it isn’t here. It just isn’t. Having a communities auto-group in any way is asking for a bad time for all involved.

First of all, people generally are not considering the contexts that those communities are situated in. My go-to example here is politics communities. r/politics is, very frustratingly, about American politics, but that isn’t going to be universally true here for communities named politics. You should not assume that an Australian based server, a Canadian based server, a UK based server, an Indian based, etc. will reserve that name to deal with, well, foreign politics. And having them automatically lumped together will functionally destroy the communities on instances focused on smaller countries.

In top of that, it’s wide open door for troll instances.

If people want lists of communities, that’s fine. That’s great even. I’d love to lump together some sports communities so that when I’m in the mood for that, I can find them all in one place. It’d be cool to be able to have them optionally not show up in Subscribed, too. But auto-grouping is one of those features that is actively bad for smaller communities, and which people really only think they want. It’s more of a sign that people aren’t opening their mind to this new space and paradigm they find themselves in than an actually useful feature.

Brands don’t have to do shit like this. They have weird trolls with weirder parasocial relationships to intellectual property to do it for them, unprompted.

By my own accord? Probably Back to the Future 2/3, or Serenity. But my partner and step-son spent 6 months last year watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy over and over again, so those are the ones I’ve probably actually seen the most number of times.

The guidelines, they be bein’ ignarrrrrred

Eh, I still use it a little bit. I follow Blue Jays games via the team’s subreddit, and the Pathfinder community hasn’t really migrated over, so scan that every couple of days. And the memes have just clobbered my feed these last couple of days, even after blocking most of the meme groups.

But I’m using Reddit very differently now.

Given the rights prisoners have in many other countries, it might be better to say that things are just as bad in the US as the media paints other countries.

Because, uh, prison labour is pretty fucking awful, especially when considering that y’all gots them private prisons down there.

Once you get them together, consider doing the POSSE thing and posting them to a blog first. That way you can retain full control of them and still spread them around wherever they may be useful. There’s even an ActivityPub module for WordPress!

Yes, Calckey is to Mastodon as kbin is to Lemmy. Different pieces of website software that do similar things and cross-communicate.

Calckey is less popular, but is developing at a faster rate, and is much more open to community feedback.

Check out a Calckey instance (I think it’s a significantly better UX compared to Mastodon, and they federate) and their PWA. It’s pretty good. But there’s a list of native apps for it here: https://calckey.org/apps/

The John Oliver stuff is happening on Reddit, though. That’s where the attention is, that’s where his face is being plastered everywhere. It really has nothing to do with anything here.

It’s all people who don’t want to be here, sending the message that they don’t want over there to change.

Plus he’s probably heard of Reddit, but not Lemmy, kbin, or the Fediverse. And he has no dog in

Ah. I got woooshed!

IQ probably has little to do with it. It’s socialization and learned expectation that are acting as a filter currently.

The community size thing is going to be interesting as the space grows. The fact that there are functionally infinite name spaces means that “politics” doesn’t just get to become the default politics discussion space for everyone wandering into the place. Lemmy.ca/c/politics can be a very different place than Lemmy.ml/c/politics, which will be very different from lemmy.world/c/politics, which will be very different again from beehaw.org/c/politics.

And you can suppose that everyone will just use the biggest one by default, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. The biggest subreddit got that way predominantly because of their name, and there’s a good chance that people’ll see their local one first, not the biggest. Or that they’ll see multiple of them, and end up engaging with multiple communities before they realize what’s going on and settle on the one that suits them best.

There will always be a biggest, but there can be a larger number of smaller, lively communities because they don’t need to take on names like “r/truepolitics” or “r/onguardforthee” (which is a so very discoverable and intuitive r/Canada alternative).

We’ll have to see how the dynamics play out over time.

Media hosting is the biggest expense, and there are services that make that significantly cheaper through sharing and deduplication.

A major instance can probably get by on a few hundred dollars a month. If it has, say, 100k active users, and 1% of them donate $5 a month, then not only is there enough to cover infrastructure expenses, but they can also put some aside in a rainy day fund, use it to expand hosting to other platforms (lemmy.world is made possible, at least initially, by donations to mastodon.world), or even pay instance-level mods.

Mstdn.social, a very busy Mastodon site, has 200k users and runs on a 32 core VPS with 128GB of RAM. Comparable unmanaged VPS packages go for around $300/month. After that, it’s all media storage.

There could be several reasons for this, depending on what exactly you mean.

When the first person on an instance to subscribe to a remote community does so, the local mirror of that community starts receiving posts and comments from the original. But older posts and comments are not retrieved. You’re only getting stuff going forward.

So, if you’re talking about an instance that is much younger than Lemmy.ml, it’ll have only a small fraction of the backlog.

On the other hand, if what you’re seeing is that new comments and posts aren’t reliably showing up, we’ll, that’s likely an issue of the server hosting the community being absolutely fucking destroyed by traffic right now.

Not an expert, but what I’ve pieced together over the past year:

ActivityPub platforms work on a subscribe-and-wait model, similar to a magazine or newspaper subscription. You find an ‘actor’ on another server you want to receive content from and you follow them. This sends a signal to your server that you want to see that actor’s posts in your streams, and if your server is not currently receiving content from that actor, then it should request that the actor’s host server send any posts they publish along. Your local server then stores and hosts those posts locally, as if they had originated from the server (but with pointers back to the original host, so that replies can be forwarded back to the original poster).

These actors can be other users, or they can be groups (which is what Lemmy communities are), which work by receiving posts addressed to them and then forwarding them along to subscribers.

Your local server infrastructure may allow you to subscribe to users, or to groups, or to both. And they may play host to users, or to groups, or to both. Lemmy hosts both users and groups, but only allows users to subscribe to groups. Friendica and /kbin host both users and groups, and allow users to subscribe to both. Mastodon hosts only users, but allows users to subscribe to both users and groups. And Guppe and Chirp host only groups.