Fediverse

post: https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane/statuses/01JY2NBJEASW1E21NFJ0NZ3GDC

github discussion: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

I'm migrating away from lemm.ee and I want to open my Saved posts on lemm.ee, then open them on db0, and then save the posts on my db0 account.

But I can't figure out how to make the URL open via db0 instead of lemm.ee.

Any ideas? Thanks.

I'm looking for a new instance since lemm.ee is closing by the end of the month. What's a good instance to be on these days?

I'm looking for a instance with the fewest trolls, bots, and anyone that likes to take things to the extremes.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/4724285

As a personal observation, seeing it in this article was the first time I heard that they also had an AMA on Reddit in parallel, and I was positively surprised to see, that Lemmy had the vastly better numbers here, (and, subjectively speaking, more insightful questions, too).

Lemmy - 1035 upvotes, 7 Downvotes, 226 comments

Reddit - 251 score, 71 comments

Of course that is the most favourable demographic to expect to perform better in the Fediverse - FLOSS fedi enthusiasts - but still, it shows the giant userbase alone does not have to translate to better engagement for your topics on Reddit. First time I saw that live in action.

I linked my bluesky account to bridgyfed, what instances will show my account and not say “error”?

Thank you, everyone who contributed! And thank you, Framasoft, for providing free and open services like it to everyone!

I want to be part of the solution of the problems I see on Lemmy, that is why I opened my alt account at my current server to open new communities while fixing their issues.

I had been informed by the server admin that I should not post more than 5 posts in any local community which is guaranteed to kill my communities on my current server.

I am explaining the backstory here for people to understand my logic for my question.

So, I really appreciate any help here. If anyone can give me good servers to open my communities in.

My current communities:

• News: to lower the load on Lemmy. World server and to improve the Fediverse health.
• Europe: due to less than optimal moderation actions as documented in "power trippin " community.
• Misinformation/ Disinformation: Because there is no community to post research and news about this topic.

Thank you all for your help. I really would appreciate any lead here.

I admin a Facebook group with just about 30k people in it. It used to be great, and over the past few years the enshittification has been too much. Lately there is an out of control Facebook AI bot posting constantly pissing everyone off that we can't seem to turn off. I only use FB for the group, and don't have their spyware - I mean, app - installed and wont. Admin abilities are severely limited on the webapp.

I'm stepping down as admin cuz I'm tired of this mess. But I'd like to offer an alternative community to members who are ready to jump ship. Is a Lemmy community the best option? It's a photo heavy group so when Pixelfed launches groups that will be great, but I haven't seen an ETA on that. I've read that Piefed has better mod controls. It can/should be public and accessible across platforms.

Thoughts? And before anyone points it out, I know most folks won't bother switching. But I also miss when it was smaller and had more chill vibes so I can live with that.

I think this was asked by someone already, but I do wonder. I think it would be cool if my sister joined the Fediverse (but blocked NSFW content). She is a high school freshman, but I can’t have her join an instance where you must be an adult.

I do have friends on other social medias that are 13+ with their teen siblings making an account to follow them, but what are the rules here??

Welcome back to the Ghost Lab, where pull requests multiply faster than gremlins in the rain, and the phrase “just one more edge case, I swear” has been officially banned by HR (hi Beccy...

I know rekabu.ru does because I was looking for Russian-language instances and found that, what else uses it??

Hi,

i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.

Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...

Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as https://slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...

There is also also website that compare software or video as https://tournesol.app/

• Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
• Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
• What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
• What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/4595091

Check out their news post about reaching stretch goal number 3 here!

As of posting this, it sits at €61,437 - which means they met their first 3 stretch goals, which gives us these features for the coming mobile App:

• Play videos in background
• Cast your videos to your TV
• Get notified of newly released content
• Change the video definition
• Manage all channels of your account
• Edit video chapters, subtitles, info, etc.
• Get detailed stats of your content
• Upload new videos from your mobile
• Set up & manage livestream
• Use device cameras & connection
• Stream live from your hand
• No more need for a secondary mobile app dedicated to live streams

With all stretch goals that give "rewards" met, why is it still good to reach their final stretch target? To further help everything they do in providing a free (as in freedom and as in beer in this case) alternative to common internet services. In their own words, from their blog post about reaching 55k:

🫶 Next goal: Support Framasoft

We can imagine many of you have questions about this goal.

If you didn't know, PeerTube is developed by a small french non-profit called Framasoft (yeah, this is us!). Our mission is to raise awareness about digital issues and cultural commons: to help people all around the world (even if we mostly work in France) to have a critical look on our digital society by sharing keys to understanding.

However, we define ourselves as being an organization "that does". We like to think but above all we seek to build solutions that enable everyone to take ownership on these issues and become emancipated.

That is why we built PeerTube: to allow everyone to get back control on their videos.

That is also why we have been running the "De-google-ify" campaign for the past 11 years, providing alternative services to those offered by Big Tech. These services, which are free and accessible to all, are among the largest non-commercial services in the world!

Finally, we opened Framaspace for the same reason: to provide a free collaborative space (based on Nextcloud) for small non-profits and collectives.

We seek to equip those who wish to build a fairer and more equitable world.

Of course, even though all of our services are free, they still have a cost. We have to pay each month for our 10 employees and the whole infrastructure we maintain. To do so, our business model is based on solidarity: that's donations from thousands of people (mostly based in France) that fund us! That's thanks to all these people that PeerTube was born, that 2,000 collectives can enjoy Framaspace today or that more than 2,000,000 of people can freely use our services each month!

So, if you still have some money lying around and haven't donated yet, check out the link to help them meet the final goal. As a motivation, I like to think about where closed source software and proprietary services basically blackmailed me into giving them money through subscription services - and how even a fraction of that money given here can help them and others far more in the long run.

cross-posted from: https://video.fedihost.co/videos/watch/6749fe45-dec9-430c-b8e2-b3d703fdf221

Bridgy is so easy to use you may find yourself accidentally going down the wrong path instead of just following the bot, but it's really that simple. > > Activity Pub users, follow: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy > BlueSky users, follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy > > Written version: https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/how-to-bridge-to-bluesky

I'm looking to subscribe to some peertube channels and not go to youtube for entertainment.

Which ones do you recommend? Thanks in advance

Edit It can be for anything. For example gardening, news, tech, etc.

I have a Kbin account just to try it, which I normally use, and I have a community there, but I can’t figure out how to change the photo? Thanks! 🙏

I tried to enter chachara.club but it didn't work. When I went to my account, the account he showed me was that of lemmy.ml. It says that I have no posts or comments on my account and I know that I have posts. What's going on?

You might've heard that search sucks on software X... maybe software Y... definitely on software Z. The default one kind of sucks on NodeBB too, admittedly.

But why? It's because search is really frickin' hard to get right, and expensive to get good at.

Remember that Google started as a search company, and they became king because they got really good at it, and it was their only product (at the time, anyway!)

The easiest type of search is "full text" search. It matches words exactly based on what you type in. For example if you search lemmy it would match posts that include the word lemmy but depending on how the content was indexed, might not match lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmyverse, etc.

From there you start adding complexity like supporting AND and OR. You support partial matches (lem returns posts containing lemmy and lemmings).

Add more logic to remove stop words and articles like a, the, etc.

Put in some sorting logic to rank stuff higher (what's your algo? Recency? Votes? etc.)

That's just the tip of the iceberg... this problem domain is so vast that entire companies have been built around just providing searching as a service (e.g. Algolia), and it isn't cheap!