NebLem

The existing integration works suprisingly well given the different use cases. Bettet than Masto and Peertube.

Unfortunately Mastodon not supporting group actors is the main difficulty in the integration on its end. Lemmy has hacks like auto-boosting thread posts, but kbin and peertube don’t so you can’t get thread posts without following the post author.

I think allowing user following (allow subscribing to user pages) and handling tags (which I’m not sure the right approach, probably can fit in whatever multicommunity feature gets developed) are the only missing things on the Lemmy side.

Thank you Ruud!

https://m.lemmy.world already points to an instance of Voyager, probably close to what you are asking.

Follow your friends, check out your instance’s federated feed and follow some people there (if you aren’t self hosting), follow some tags, and follow a trending bot like @popularposts@masto.ai

Is that 100m active users?

I hope hosting all these massive communities is enough a portfolio to land Ruud a crazy job offer one day that pays him stupid levels of money while allowing him plenty of time off to maintain these massive hobby projects.

True, that’s why you have to appreciate that all that glitters is gold.

Semver pre version 1 lets minor changes be breaking (points 4 & 5).

Definitely something instance owners could define, but a specific list is not something I think needs to be defined at the code level.

Your profile says exactly what I’d expect Myspace Tom to say, so thanks for being a friend to all!

Is that Myspace Tom in your avatar?

I mean it is pride month, let him dig in those heels! Silly wording aside, where the heck are Reddit’s PR team and why hasn’t the board put controls on Huffman at this point? Where are the adults in the room? Man this going to fill the minds of conspiracy theorists for a decade.

27.3k as of right now, that is crazy! Its nice to see the instance counts going up for both lemmy and kbin, hopefully communities can be more spread out too to prevent defederation like we saw this morning.

Instances have filters in the admin settings, but for a user level filter there isn’t one yet. The devs are overwhelmed trying to get some key performance stuff out, but I can’t see them turning down a feature patch if you want to write it and create a pull request.

Awesome, glad this is finally getting cleaned up, I wanted to hear about announcements, but it was getting so spammy so fast I unsubscribed and was just checking in from the local feed. I’m going to resubscribe.

Q: Is it better to create my community on a large general Lemmy instance, a topical Lemmy instance, or create my own Lemmy instance?

A: It is up to you, but there are a few things to consider. General instances will likely help early discoverability, and your main account is likely already on one. However, your community will encounter risks of admin change and others defederating with the general instance for reasons unrelated to your community. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you must create an alt account on the general instance to create the community.

Self-hosting an instance will let you be in control. You’ll have fewer worries about your community not being found due to defederation or the instance admins shutting it down over reasons unrelated to your community. However, you’ll have to rely on word of mouth, communities like this, and the community search tools like Lemmy Explorer to get people there.

Topical instances might be a good middle ground if you trust the instance admins. As the local feed will have related topics, you’ll likely be a positive contributor to the local instance feed and find a lot of shared interests with others on that instance. Topical instances will probably only be defederated by instances you wouldn’t want to federate with already. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you’ll need to create an alt account on the topical instance to create the community.

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Q: Is it better to create my community on a large general Lemmy instance, a topical Lemmy instance, or create my own Lemmy instance?

A: It is up to you, but there are a few things to consider. General instances will likely help early discoverability, and your main account is likely already on one. However, your community will encounter risks of admin change and others defederating with the general instance for reasons unrelated to your community. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you must create an alt account on the general instance to create the community.

Local instances will let you be in control. You’ll have fewer worries about your community not being found due to defederation or the instance admins shutting it down over reasons unrelated to your community. However, you’ll have to rely on word of mouth, communities like this, and the community search tools like Lemmy Explorer to get people there.

Topical instances might be a good middle ground if you trust the instance admins. As the local feed will have related topics, you’ll likely be a positive contributor to the local instance feed and find a lot of shared interests with others on that instance. Topical instances will probably only be defederated by instances you wouldn’t want to federate with already. If the account you want to be your main Lemmy home is on another instance, you’ll need to create an alt account on the topical instance to create the community.

Think of email as people sending letters over the phone. When it first came out, mail carriers only took their specific-sized paper, which couldn’t fit into mailboxes provided by other carriers. People could only mail each other if they used the same carrier. For example, kids wanted to send letters to grandmas, but the grandmas used different carriers. Eventually, some carriers got together and decided to use the same size of paper and mailbox size. The standardization became the email protocol.

However, with the new ease of sending letters, some mean people started sending messages to the grandmas, so grandmas stopped allowing all the carriers to deliver to them. This is how ban lists were made.

Grandmas can be very different, and each has their own things they are okay with. Eventually, this led to many bans making it hard to keep up except for the largest carriers that could hire staff to ensure compliance. They bought out the smaller carriers as more people switched to them. This is called centralization.

Some grandmas thought it would be neat to find and share recipes together. They sent their collections to recipe magazines and asked the magazines to send the completed magazines back to themselves, the other grandmas, and their grandkids. These became the first media forums, blogs, and websites. Eventually, people wanted to get their blogs about different topics all in one place. This became social media.

It was really messy at first because the magazines/websites created were in the order that the stories were received. They could be about anything, and some of the stories were from that yucky kid in class that talks about bugs and poop all day. To solve that, they started voting on what topics were the best and only showing the good ones to everyone but allowing those that really wanted to hear about bugs and poop still read and talk about that. This became link aggregation.

The rules for how that voting worked were decided by the website owners. Sometimes they would cheat to get their stories put to the top, for example, their choice of who Superman or Batman was the best superhero. People started wondering why they had to listen to those people, so they started making their own websites. All these small splits ended up with the main website everyone went to and mostly empty websites about whatever topic the small website wanted to discuss. Since that didn’t solve the situation, they came up with the idea that maybe the small websites should talk to each other, and as long as they didn’t talk about the one issue, they split from the big website. They could all stop being on the big website. This was called federation.

Lemmy is federation for link aggregators.

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Its a bit complicated. EFF has a good post from a US perspective https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer . My understanding for US instances (and IANAL), is that if you have a TOS banning illegal content, register for a DMCA agent, and remove illegal content in a reasonably fast timeframe when you have knowledge of it, and ban repeat offenders, you should be okay.

The instance’s hosting country’s law applies to the instance and the communities it hosts.