Fediverse

wow, why is your comment green? using lemmy on android summit

Yes. Here, nobody is selling anything to me and I'm not getting sold.

I like that there’s genuine conversations here, much like this one.

I completely agree with this, and especially with comment sections. In reddit, even before the bots took over, every discussion was overrun really quickly, with a huge mass of people. If you failed to take part, in like an hour after posting, it did not matter if you commented, as it was either buried, or nobody else would comment as the post tanked. So it was just pointless to even write comments.

Here, I can still jump into comment sections, and manage to have a conversation, even if the post was made days ago.

How do you know?

I've seen more than enough bots here, and we know that only the tip of the iceberg is actually visible with things like this. Bots nowadays can pretend to be humans scarily well.

Yes so much of the advantage of the fediverse is that it’s a thoughtful person on the other end of a post and not just content engineered for the most engagement

Yeah, I think people often assume that "good" federation means even user distribution. But the power of federation is that you can leave if you want to and no one can weaponize your social graph.

Wait until you find out about the Barenaked Ladies :-D

Barenaked Ladies (BNL) is a Canadian rock band formed in 1988 in Scarborough. The band developed a following in Canada in the early 1990s with their cassette Barenaked Ladies (1991) and their debut album Gordon (1992). The band's popularity eventually spread to the United States following the release of versions of "Brian Wilson" and "The Old Apartment" from their 1996 live album, Rock Spectacle. In 1998, Barenaked Ladies released their fourth studio album, Stunt, which contains their highest-charting hit, "One Week", along with "It's All Been Done" and "Call and Answer".[2] Their fifth album, Maroon (and lead single "Pinch Me"), also charted well. The band is also known for creating and performing the theme song of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. Barenaked Ladies has continued to regularly tour and record new music, having released 14 primary studio albums of original material and three themed studio albums. Barenaked Ladies The band in 2012 The band in 2012 Background information Origin Scarborough, Ontario, Canada Genres

Alternative pop[1] folk rock pop rock comedy rock

Years active 1988–present Labels

John King Artist Consultants Page Music Sire Reprise Desperation Raisin' Walt Disney

Members

Ed Robertson
Jim Creeggan
Tyler Stewart
Kevin Hearn

Past members

Steven Page
Andy Creeggan

Website barenakedladies.com

Initially a duo of singer-guitarists Ed Robertson and Steven Page,[3] the band grew to a quintet by 1990, adding brothers Jim and Andy Creeggan on bass and keyboards/congas, respectively, and drummer Tyler Stewart. Andy Creeggan left the band in 1995, and was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Kevin Hearn. Page left in 2009, reducing the group to a quartet.

The band's style has evolved, and its music (originally acoustic) grew to encompass a mixture of pop, rock and folk.[4][5] Their live performances feature comedic banter and freestyle rapping between songs.[6] They have received a number of Juno Awards, and have been nominated for two Grammy Awards.[7] The group has sold over 15 million albums and singles, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in March 2018.

Lemmy and Jerboa are good enough for me.

I really liked using Apollo to browse Reddit back when it was good. Voyager fills that same void but with less noise than using Reddit at the end

I think the W3C SocialWeb Working Group is working on Federated Identity right now to incorporate into ActivityPub.

there actually is a thing where every account is part of the system using tokens. I keep on meaning to do it more https://nostr-resources.com/#learn-more