There’s a button in settings to not show bot accounts. I clicked it when I realized how many posts were just reddit mirror bots

Wordpress has had an activitypub plugin for years, in part because it’s an open source project.

I can see why a company with so many separate products like Meta would want to look at federation, but I’m not so sure about Tumblr. Part of their value is in having a walled garden so you need to join them and see advertising from them.

For small instances, strong captcha and applications and email verification are sort of important. I know my fbxl video was constantly growing until I realized they were all fake users. Just adding email verification meant that most user creation stopped immediately in its tracks

A quarter million users and that’s not even with all the different instances.

Very cool. Just remember folks, don’t forget to diversify and decentralize! These other instances have some interesting posts and conversations, and by spreading out we make sure no single instance or community can break the fediverse.

In practice, don’t be surprised if most of the fediverse doesn’t defederate from either.

I say it all the time: decentralization is strength.

America has a lot of problems right now leading to exceptionally low trust in government, even for them.

They’ve done a lot of stupid things lately, but this isn’t one of them.

Governments should be using open platforms and open source software.

Decentralize anyway. Make an instance with blackjack and hookers and run it exactly how you want.

If anyone was bothering to listen, we’ve discovered that big tech uses a lot of fraud to make themselves look bigger than they are, especially early on

The reality is that it probably won’t accomplish anything at all, particularly for lemmy users whose fediverse is structured considerably differently than mastodon.

You don’t tend to see people from that side of the fediverse over here.

Tech enthusiasts have always been the early adopters. They’re the ones who see the potential for a new platform and migrate to it first. Recall that the internet itself was just a thing for nerds for the longest time.

Somebody has to be first. It isn’t going to be people who are only going to follow, it isn’t going to be people who are going to leave when they realize that none of their favorite people are on there. Going to be people who have some kind of vested interest in trying this new and interesting thing.

As for the relatively older age, I hate to say it but a lot of kids think that technology is consumption. It’s a big problem. In a recent shocking employer survey, employers talking about the lack of tech skills among gen z. This isn’t an isolated data point, either. There’s a lot of data suggesting that kids are growing up as experts on TikTok and Facebook rather than fundamental skills that would let you go out and do something like run a website.

Rather than make thread after thread after thread about it, just start an instance with blackjack and hookers and threads.net on your blocklist

You really need to just test on a piecemeal basis. It’s a matter of what works with what, and sometimes even the devs don’t know.

What I’ve found so far:

Lemmy uniquely grabs old posts from Lemmy, but most software is “here and now” so you won’t see a history if you go somewhere until your instance is following it.

Mastodon can see Lemmy communities and users and you can DM people on mastodon from lemmy, but you can’t follow Mastodon users on Lemmy because the paradigm is different.

Lotide communities can be followed and interacted with. I think the latest Lemmy has fixed federation in the other direction.

Friendica groups can be followed and interacted with. Users are the same as mastodon users

Peertube channels can be followed like communities and you can see, upvote, and comment on videos, but you can’t post anything new – your instance will let you, but it won’t federate.

Kbin communities can be followed, be aware that kbin is in its early days so it has a lot of work on the back-end.

I was not able to federate with a.gru.ppe communities.

Hopefully this helps, and maybe others can post their discoveries. Decentralization is strength on the fediverse. The more things we can connect to, the less reliant we are on any one thing.

To do a lot of these, you put the community, magazine, or channel url into Lemmy search. It takes longer than you expect but if it’s federating at all it’ll show up on the search, then you can go and subscribe.

They’re already on the fediverse. Tens of thousands of people on thousands of servers saying things that make libsoftiktok and gaysagainstgrooming look like woke hippies.

The thing is, unlike big tech which wants you to see things that piss you off because it drives engagement and will actively put you in that situation, for the most part people tend to stick together in groups. You’ll get the odd troll looking for a thrill, but overall there isn’t an algorithm doing the Jerry Springer thing so other than a cheap thrill there’s no point to it.

Algorithms end up being really sneaky in that regard.

5 million mostly fake users? We could have 10 million in a heartbeat.

My blocklist is empty. I intend to keep it that way unless there’s an actual imminent systemic threat.

But we’re not stuck in here with them, they’d be stuck in here with us.

Really good advice.

The more we decentralize, the less any one server needs to pull all the load.

Forget corporate influence, how about nation-states and political parties sticking their fingers into things?

I honestly think the outsized impact of the internet in the 2008 election was partially to blame for reddit becoming what it did. Suddenly people realized if you control the conversation there you can control the conversation elsewhere with an outsized impact.

Yes, this seems reasonably accurate. I think it was the 17.3 release where federation with lotide went silent