π The Future is Federated - issue no.9 π©βπ
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
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The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
An exploration of Fediverse content aggregators as an alternative to Reddit, with a twist: the magic of ActivityPub, allowing communication with other Fediverse projectsElena Rossini
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informapirata β
in reply to Elena Rossini β • • •Congratulations @_elena for this new post.
You always know how to be very clear even when you deal with somewhat complicated topics.
The impressions you reported are very similar to those I have had in these years of using aggregators.
The only difference is that I have never had the problems you had between Friendica and Lemmy. In fact, I tend to prefer using the Lemmy communities with my Friendica account
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informapirata β
in reply to informapirata β • • •Since I am the administrator of three different instances (Mastodon Friendica and Lemmy) I have always been very careful to explore the potential and limitations in the interaction between these three platforms.
From Lemmy, for example, it is still impossible to publish on Friendica Groups (even if theoretically...ππ ), but Friendica manages Lemmy communities beautifully.
Maybe there is a problem with your Friendica instance
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Unknown parent • • •Fiona Gregory
in reply to Elena Rossini β • • •For example when I search for a particular Mastodon account so I can follow it from Friendica, often the first few times I search it only brings up Friendica accounts with similar names, and then I search again and suddenly it works and I can follow the Mastodon account. Still haven't figured that one out.
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in reply to Fiona Gregory • •@Fiona Gregory That's right. In Friendica, if you want to search for a user, you have to enter the full name in the form @username@instance
Otherwise you have to look for the link https://instance/@username
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Kevin Rutherford
in reply to Elena Rossini β • • •I'm loving this article series Elena, thanks for putting so much work into it!
Do you plan to cover Matrix in future?
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marcelcosta
in reply to Elena Rossini β • • •Hi Elena! Thanks for your post, Iβm enjoying your Federation series. I appreciate your efforts in testing federation boundaries between Fediversal software.
I would like to comment on that idea that you state in the article:
While itβs true that Mastodon usually integrates better than other software and I can see the pragmatic point for a newcomer user, probably this is because developers mainly check mastodon compatibility and not (or slower) with the rest of the software. And the mastocentricity of the Fediverse may be the responsible for that. Maybe if it was more software-diverse more of them would be compatible by default or more bound to a standard.
Probably you know that, but I donβt sense it in your articles (maybe itβs intentional) and I would like to know if you have an opinion on it.
Again thanks for your work!
marcelcosta
Unknown parent • • •Ey! Thanks for answering!
Sure! If you find something interesting enough π.
I completely agree that sustainability is a critical and not easy topic. I would add also instance governance.
While choosing an instance with stable financial support seems a good criteria to me, centralizing the Fediverse into few big instances (and software) is dangerous in the long run.
First, it goes against the decentralized nature of the federation, gives more power to few people and is less resilient to attacks. Second, it dilutes the community feeling of the smaller instances and makes the βlocalβ and βfederatedβ timelines pretty useless. And they are one of the best features of our Fedi in my opinion!
In any case, Iβm not minimizing your argument and choosing the proper instance for each one is not easy.
PD: if you are curious, Iβm writing this from and akkoma instance π.
Have a nice day!