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Galeras, eu consigo criar conta e autenticar numa conta [#pixelfed](https://ursal.zone/tags/pixelfed) usando uma do [#mastodon](https://ursal.zone/tags/mastodon)?? [@fediverse@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) [@fediverse@bolha.forum](https://bolha.forum/c/fediverse)
techcrunch.com
The fediverse is now something that you can evangelize about. Its turning into a buzzword ...
I hope my post doesn't break the rules ; I'd like to invite as many people as possible to participate to Sunnyvision, the summer edition of the Lemmyvision song contest. It's a fun way to celebrate summer, and discover new music, more info on the original post, quoted below ! > > ***TL;DR*** > - In ~~this thread~~ the thread on [!lemmyvision@jlai.lu](https://jlai.lu/c/lemmyvision), in the comments, post a song that was released in summer of any year. > - Next week, you'll be able to vote for your favourite song from the songs posted here. > > Remember that time I wanted to set up a smaller scale Lemmyvision for summer? Yeah me neither. > > But here it is, it's still summer for a week, so.. > > > ***Welcome to Lemmyvision's summer edition, Sunnyvision!🌞*** > > If you don't know what Lemmyvision is, check out the sidebar! > > *The aim is to promote different languages and cultures from around the world, to share more between our online communities across Lemmy, and discover songs from lesser known artists.* > > The first edition concluded on April (https://jlai.lu/post/6041838) with 9 instances/countries/communities participating! The Northern Boys - Sexy Train (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXKhJfRQ7k), the feddit.uk submission, won! > > For this 'lighter' edition, the goal is to celebrate the last week of summer, with some summer related tunes. You do not need to bring your instance/community, everyone can share a song, no matter what instance they're on, as long as they can federate here! > > > ***Rules*** > - Just post a song that was released in summer, from any year you want > - At the end of the week I'll gather all the songs posted in this thread > - You'll then be able to listen to a playlist with all those songs, and vote for your favourite! > > Spread the word if you can, and I hope you have fun, and that everyone can discover new music! 🎶
This should inspire [Prismic](https://codeberg.org/prismic/prismic) and the upcoming revival of [OpenBlox](https://github.com/openblox)
wedistribute.org
sub.club is an emergent new platform for paid subscriptions in the #Fediverse. It's simple, smooth, and easy to use.
wedistribute.org
For Fediverse musicians looking for a new Bandcamp alternative, Bandwagon feels extremely promising. It's built on top of the Emissary platform, and offers a robust amount of features for playing, promoting, and discovering music.
arxiv.org
Lemmy mentioned＼( °□° )／
> Hey 👋 if you don't know us already, we're building [Frontpage](https://frontpage.unravel.fyi/); an AT Procol based federated link aggregator. We shipped an initial MVP in closed beta recently and have since been thinking about the road to general availability. > > This post is an RFC (Request for Comments) targeted at technically minded folks who are interested in seeing the progression of atproto for non-Bluesky/microblogging use cases. All that's to say the language that follows assumes some knowledge about how Bluesky and atproto work! I've tried to include links to explain what all of the jargon means though, so hopefully it's not entirely nonsense for folks a little less familiar! > When you post on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror post will also be created in your Bluesky account. When you comment on Frontpage, we propose that a mirror reply will be created in your Bluesky account. > > Conversely, when you reply to one of these mirrored posts in Bluesky - we will show it as a reply in Frontpage. > > Additionally, Bluesky likes will be translated to Frontpage votes and vice versa.
Quick question, I’m looking to make an Mbin account and just wanted to ask if there is any lemmy.ml type of situation to be aware of.
danterious.codeberg.page
This is my first try at creating a map of lemmy. I based it on the overlap of commentors that visited certain communities. I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024 (sometimes shorter if I got an invalid response.) I scaled it so it was based on percentage of comments made by a commentor in that community. Here is the code for the crawler and data that was used to make the map: https://codeberg.org/danterious/Lemmy_map
www.openread.academy
Following change in Twitter's ownership and subsequent changes to content moderation policies, many in academia looked to move their discourse elsewhere and migration to Mastodon was pursued by some. Our study looks at the dynamics of this migration. Utilizing publicly available user account data, we track the posting activity of academics on Mastodon over a one year period. Our analyses reveal significant challenges sustaining user engagement on Mastodon due to its decentralized structure as well as competition from other platforms such as Bluesky and Threads. The movement lost momentum after an initial surge of enthusiasm as most users did not maintain their activity levels, and those who did faced lower levels of engagement compared to Twitter. Our findings highlight the challenges involved in transitioning professional communities to decentralized platforms, emphasizing the need for focusing on migrating social connections for long-term user engagement.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13148749 > Is that something people would even need/want here?
Trying to figure this out as in the recent threads a few people said that Bluesky was federated, but it didn't seem to actually be the case. https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web in February announced that Bluesky would allow federated servers The Bluesky documentation on the topic isn't very clear. They mention Bluesky.social a lot, as if it's supposed to be the one central server other PDS need to federate with: > Bluesky runs many PDSs. Each PDS runs as a completely separate service in the network with its own identity. They federate with the rest of the network in the exact same manner that a non-Bluesky PDS would. These PDSs have hostnames such as morel.us-east.host.bsky.network. > However, the user-facing concept for Bluesky's "PDS Service" is simply bsky.social. This is reflected in the provided subdomain that users on a Bluesky PDS have access to (i.e. their default handle suffix), as well as the hostname that they may provide at login in order to route their login request to the correct service. A user should not be expected to understand or remember the specific host that their account is on. > To enable this, we introduced a PDS Entryway service. This service is used to orchestrate account management across Bluesky PDSs and to provide an interface for interacting with bsky.social accounts. https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/entryway#account-management > Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider Bluesky social network. https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds?tab=readme-ov-file#what-is-the-current-status-of-federation The custom domain name is still something else, and does not seem to require a PDS: https://bsky.social/about/blog/4-28-2023-domain-handle-tutorial So, to come back to the title question, do people know of an example of PDS that can be used to access Bluesky without being on the main server?
Because let's say you're Tom Hanks. And you get TomHanks@Lemmy.World Well, what's stopping someone else from adopting TomHanks@Lemm.ee? And some platforms minimize the text size of platform, or hide it entirely. So you just might see TomHanks, and think it's him. But it's actually a 7 year old Chinese boy with a broken leg in Arizona. Because anyone can grab the same name, on a different platform.
I'm really liking the worth RetroMags is doing, and notice they have 16K members, so I assume it's about 4K active monthly users. I'm wondering if to expand both their users, and the fedizerse's users, if it would make any sense at all to use the servers they use for downloads on a new Lemmy instance, that creates a seperate community for each magazine, and auto populates a new post in the correct community every time they post a new download over on their forums. They don't REQUIRE membership to download, which is what this whole idea is based on. Since I assume it would be entirely too costly to have downloads on their forums AND a duplicate set of downloads on a seperate server. Seems costly given their massive scale. Am I dreaming pipe-dreams? Or should I let them know about this idea?
I recently discovered an interesting (and somewhat disappointing, as we'll find later) fact. It may surprise you to hear that the two most upvoted comments on any Lemmy instance (that I could find at least) are both on Feddit.dk and are quite significantly higher than the next top comments. The comments in question are: 1. [This one](https://feddit.dk/comment/1080106) from [@bstix@feddit.dk](https://feddit.dk/u/bstix) with a whopping 3661 upvotes. 2. [This one](https://feddit.dk/comment/1841842) from [@TDCN@feddit.dk](https://feddit.dk/u/TDCN) with 1481 upvotes. These upvote counts seems strange when you view them in relation to the post - both of the comments appear in posts that do not even have 300 upvotes. Furthermore, if you go on any instance other than Feddit.dk and sort for the highest upvoted comments of all time, you will not find these comments (you'll likely instead find [this one](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/9786314) from [@Plume@lemmy.blahaj.zone](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/Plume)). Indeed, if you view the comments from another instance ([here](https://lemmy.ml/comment/1965651) and [here](https://lemm.ee/comment/2698363)), you will see a much more "normal" upvote count: A modest 132 upvotes and a mere 17 upvotes, respectively. What's going on? --- Well, the answer is Mastodon. Both of these comments somehow did very well in the Mastodon microblogging sphere. I checked my database and indeed, the first one has 3467 upvotes from Mastodon instances and the second one has 1442 upvotes from Mastodon instances. Notice how both comments, despite being comments on another post, sound quite okay as posts in their own right. A Mastodon user stumbling upon one of these comments could easily assume that it is just another fully independent "toot" (Mastodon's equivalent of tweet). Someone from Mastodon must have "boosted" (retweeted) the comments and from there the ball started rolling - more and more people boosted, sharing the comments with their followers and more and more people favorited it. The favorites are Mastodon's upvote equivalent and this is understood by Lemmy, so the upvote count on Lemmy also goes up. Okay, so these comments got hugely popular on Mastodon (actually I don't know if 3.4k upvotes is unusual on Mastodon with their scale but whatever), but why is there this discrepancy between the Lemmy instances then? Why is it only on Feddit.dk that the extra upvotes appear and they don't appear on other instances? The reason is the way that Mastodon federates Like objects (upvotes). Like objects are unfortunately only federated to the instance of the user receiving the Like, and that's where the discrepancy comes from. All the Mastodon instances that upvoted the comments only sent those upvotes directly to Feddit.dk, so no other instances are aware of those upvotes. This feels disappointing, as it highlights how Lemmy and Mastodon still don't really function that well together. The idea of a Lemmy post getting big on Mastodon and therefore bigger on Lemmy and thus spreading all over the Fediverse, is unfortunately mostly a fantasy right now. It simply can't really happen due to the technical way Mastodon and Lemmy function. I'm not sure if there is a way to address this on either side (or if the developers would be willing to do so even if there was). I personally find Mastodon's Like sharing mechanism weird - only sharing with the receiving instance means that big instances like mastodon.social have an advantage in "gathering Likes". When sorting toots based on favorites, bigger instances are able to provide a much better feed for users than smaller instances ever could, simply because they see more of the Likes being given. This feels like something that encourages centralization, which is quite unfortunate I think. --- TL;DR: The comments got hugely popular on Mastodon. Mastodon only federates upvotes to the receiving instance so only Feddit.dk has seen the Mastodon upvotes, and other instances are completely unaware.
Decentralised Networks as a Tool for Fighting Disinformation and Censorship: The Fediverse and Free, Collaborative and Open Networks (LIMITED ACCESS CONTENT) Analysis of the opportunities and limits of decentralized networks as a resource to overcome the problems of traditional social networks and the resilience of these networks as a tool to fight disinformation and censorship [@fediverse](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) [https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5\_2](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-63153-5_2)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19004972 Let’s be honest, the real reason Lemmy build most of its traffic is because of Reddit users. But the thing is, outside of the mass exodus in the west that too from the PC era.. people discover and join Reddit not because it’s another social media like Facebook or Twitter that people need to reserve their usernames on like a brand or celebrity but because Google Search is kinda… actually absolute trash by SEO and machine learning crawlers. Most of the world (I am from India btw, hello~) join or even discover reddit because they’re trying to search for actual solutions, recommendations, advice or even reviews by actual experienced people without having to go through another YouTuber which can stem from troubleshooting a router, finding an actual FOSS option or seeking immediate solutions to the recent CrowdStrike fiasco for example. After having to visit reddit every time whenever using a search engine including for education to career advice, I ended up directly signing up with reddit a decade ago. Recently, Reddit even restricted its search results to Google only in a business partnership meaning those using Bing, DuckDuckGo to Ecosia or even SearchGPT wouldn’t be able to access Reddit answers anymore. Say, if someone searches for how to block ads on chrome as example - Solutions like **uBlock Origin** come into existence and continue to exist because of the combined community in Reddit that Lemmy is trying to preserve. Unlike others, am not saying Lemmy would be dead but it would be pretty much like Discord-Telegram or Tumblr instead of wiping Reddit or correcting Facebook. Reddit is not something you discover from word-of-mouth or join from peer pressure unlike other social media which is even truer for Lemmy but because it actually helps and is useful to people. Lemmy can’t be taking the path of 𝕏 (Alone Mask’s Twitter) but any of the good platforms were before the Enshittification with Facebook’s way~
I am trying to follow my own Pixelfed account on Mastodon, but even though I search for, find, and follow my Pixelfed account, none of my Pixelfed posts appear in my Mastodon timeline. I am unsure if the problem lies with Pixelfed, Mastodon or both. Anyone else have a similar experience? I am @5teverin0@mastodon.social, and @5teverin0@pxlmo.com. Thanks.
blog.erlend.sh
Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech: (1) The commodification of #OIDC infrastructure, (2) the emergence of #FedCM, (3) and the compatibility of both with #indieauth . In short, it is now easier than ever to log into web applications using your own website as an identity provider. Or at least, it would be, if your favorite web apps supported these agency-enhancing technologies. https://blog.erlend.sh/indie-social-sign-in-could-go-mainstream #opensource #indieweb #identity https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113091679196090320
I wish it was allowed to have persian letter usernames maybe even symbols as usernames it looks really cool and increases the username pool as well.
Question triggered by the other post about instances shutting down due to costs Summary of the answers: - lowest number so far: lemmy.ml with 0.03€ per user per month - a few others (feddit.uk, lemmy.zip) have around 0.11$ per user per month - obviously single user instance have higher costs
info.firefish.dev
> > > **Announcement: Firefish will enter maintenance mode** > > > > For those who have been supporting Firefish and me, I can’t thank you enough. But today, I have to make an announcement of my very difficult decision: As of today’s release, Firefish will enter maintenance mode and reach end-of-support at the end of the year. The main reasons for this are as follows. > > > > In February, Kainoa suddenly transferred the ownership of Firefish to me. This transition came without prior notice, which took me aback. I still wish Kainoa had consulted with me in advance. At that time, some people were already saying that “Firefish is coming back”, making it challenging to address the situation. Also, since there were several hundred active Firefish servers at that point, I could not suddenly discontinue the project, so I took over the project unwillingly. > > > > Over the past seven months, I have been maintaining Firefish alone. All other former maintainers have left, leaving me solely responsible for managing issues, reviewing merge requests, testing, and releasing new versions. This situation has had a significant impact on my personal life. > > > > Frankly speaking, there are numerous bugs and questionable logic in the current Firefish codebase. While I attempted to fix them, balancing this work with my personal life made it clear that it would take ages, and I’ve started thinking that I can’t manage this project in the long run. Additionally, vulnerabilities have been reported approximately once a month. Addressing vulnerabilities, communicating privately with reporters, and testing fixes have proven overwhelming and unsustainable. Moreover, a certain percentage of users have made insulting comments, which have severely affected my mental well-being and made me fearful of opening social media apps. > > > > I will do my best to refund the donations made to Firefish via OpenCollective, but that’s not guaranteed. > > > > `firefish.dev` and `info.firefish.dev` will remain operational until the end of February 2025, after which they will return a 410 Gone status. > > > > Server admins may downgrade Firefish to version `20240206`/`1.0.5-rc` and migrate to another \*key variant, or may fork Firefish to maintain. > > > > Downgrade instructions: [https://firefish.dev/firefish/firefish/-/blob/downgrade/docs/downgrade.md](https://firefish.dev/firefish/firefish/-/blob/downgrade/docs/downgrade.md) > > > > Thanks, > naskya > >
The biggest F U you get while signing up on lemmy is choosing a instance and I know this process acts as a filter in itself, clearing the randoms and normies. But if lemmy instance is assigned randomly, it is like hitting two birds with one stone. it solves discouragement you get when signing up but also distributes the load on different servers. the only downside I see with this is if the instance is closed. Edit: I know there are a lot of variables and dependencies that I didn't think of earlier. But I just wanted to imagine a welcome page of lemmy with simple, and as less steps as possible in the sign up process.
For whatever reason, [misskey-square.net](https://misskey-square.net/) started to not work yesterday. Anybody else having the same problem?
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27216373 > Instead of focusing of creating good algorithms to push certain content to users why don't we focus on creating a good map that allows users to find the kind of content they want more easily? > > I found this website that created a map of reddit with different countries for different topics and I thought it would translate to lemmy because instances sort of do this already really well. > > https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-reddit/ > > [~Anti~ ~Commercial-AI~ ~license~ ~(CC~ ~BY-NC-SA~ ~4.0)~](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en)
So I just signed up for Mbin at Fedia.IO, and part of the registration says it will send out an email to complete the registration. Great! It's been like 10 minutes with nothing in "all mail" and nothing in the trash or spam folders either. Is this something I need to wait a while for, or has something gone wrong, and I should contact their staff somehow?
I am sure it was discussed here before, but I can't find a good way to search this community. Are there any arguments against having a user's identity federate, and be compatible across platforms? For example, let us say I sign up with my instance, matcha_addict@lemy.lol But what if I go on mastodon, and I want to have my own micro blog. Or maybe go to write freely and post some blog posts. I'd have to make a different account on each one. What if mastodon or write freely could just let me log in with my lemmy account (or lets call it federated account). This has several benefits: - users don't have to scratch their head on if I am the same person or not across these platforms - theoretically, someone following my feed can get updates on what I do on multiple platforms Now I understand this would be difficult to implement and iron out all the edge cases, but am I missing anything on why it wouldn't be a desirable feature, given it is implemented?
wedistribute.org
In the development and building of a shared, open, collaborative network, efforts have come and gone over the years for the Fediverse. We dig into the history, various attempts, and some of the ideas people have had.
This is a follow-up from [my previous thread](https://lemmy.zip/post/22030071). The thread discussed the question of why people tend to choose proprietary microblogging platfroms (i.e. Bluesky or Threads) over the free and open source microblogging platform, Mastodon. The reasons, summarised by [@noodlejetski@lemm.ee](https://lemm.ee/u/noodlejetski) are: > 1. marketing >2. not having to pick the instance when registering >3. people who have experienced Mastodon's hermetic culture discouraging others from joining >4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow >5. marketing > >and I'm saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer. Now that we know why people move to proprietary microblogging platforms, we can also produce methods to counter this. **How do we get "normies" to adopt the Fediverse?**
**[Welcome to Kagi, the paid search engine full of surprises, which today opened an account in the Fediverse!](https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/113074391235397771)** ========== [@fediverse](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse) [@kagihq](https://mastodon.social/users/kagihq) is the very interesting project for a paid search engine, without tracers and with an accuracy in identifying results such as to exclude all Google spam. Those who believe that [#Kagi](https://poliverso.org/search?tag=Kagi)'s costs are too high, should reflect on a small detail: if Google lets all those searches be done "for free", who pays those costs? The answer might seem simple: "advertisers". Yet this would be an incomplete answer: like saying that rain is caused by clouds! In reality, those costs are paid by users, by being milked and letting Google extract their "value", a bit like in the human farm in Matrix... We first heard about Kagi on the [@lealternative](https://mastodon.uno/users/lealternative) **[website](https://www.lealternative.net/2019/10/18/alternative-a-google-search/)** (unfortunately, since then the prices have increased a lot, raising many doubts about the sustainability of the project) and recently Cory Doctorow **[also talked about it on](https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/)** [@pluralistic](https://mamot.fr/users/pluralistic) In any case, we are really happy that a service like Kagi's, effective and respectful of users' privacy, has landed here in the [#Fediverse](https://poliverso.org/search?tag=Fediverse). [mastodon.social/@kagihq/113074…](https://mastodon.social/@kagihq/113074391235397771)
I visit this site probably more than I should, and when I browse, then come back a bit later to browse again, I'm seeing a LOT of repeat content. The one and only feature I miss from that other site was being able to browse by reading a thread title to assess if its something I want to click on, if no hit 'H' to hide it, and it's gone; next one bumps up, and repeat. So I'd skim by pressing H... H... H... H... "Ooh that one looks cool!" read the article, comment w/e, H... H... H... H... then I'd pop back in an hour later, and those threads would still be gone. Unsure if that was a built-in feature or part of the RES thing. ...is there an RES -or- 'LES' for Lemmy?
I wish the fediverse would just stick to one set of jargon, and everybody uses the same terms to mean the same thing. Even "instances" should just be called "servers". That's all it is. This server talks to that servers, and information is exchanged. So, if I understand this right, "magazines" on Mbin are the same as "communities" on Lemmy, are the same as subreddits on reddit. Three names to mean the same thing. And a "Thread" is just a post. Like I'm making a post right now on Lemmy. If I did this on Mbin it would be called a "Thread". But then I see there's also "comments" which is self explanitory (I hope...) And there's also "Posts". But if Threads are posts, then what are Posts? QUIT FUCKING AROUND WITH TERMS, FEDIVERSE! LETS ALL JUST KEEP THINGS SIMPLE!!! ........I keep thinking I have things figured out, until someone says "yeah, but have you tried this?" and then I look into it, and I'm confused again. Arg!
A poster I made to promote the Fediverse. The PDFs and the light version is on [the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fedi-dark). This work is public domain, so feel free to do whatever you want with it; for example print it on a T-shirt! EDIT: Low-contrast Solarized versions are now available!