I thought they fixed the a.gup.pe groups recently?

the more convinced I am that the AT protocol is better than ActivityPub.

That’s because AT was very deliberately designed to solve problems with ActivityPub.

I wonder what sort of bridging can be implemented between AT Protocol and ActivityPub implementations.

The folks over at https://fed.brid.gy/ have been working at this. Much to the chagrin of the folks over at Mastodon.

Yes but if you want to do just want anything more advanced than putting users in a list you’re out of luck.

You’re absolutely right and I definitely shouldn’t be making broad statements like that. Another thing I’ve found is that if you can stomach the effort (or do this from the get go), it’s a good idea to put all your academic or professional accounts into a single list. It’s nice to check into a slightly smarter feed from time to time.

Mastodon really does seem to rally around braindead takes and misinformation. The culture over there can be hard to stomach sometimes.

So, you won’t see Mastodon content on Lemmy unless a Mastodon user has posted in a group (the generic term for community, subreddits, etc). For example, here’s an exchange I had with some Mastodon users. Groups don’t always come from Lemmy and as a Lemmy user you can subscribe to more Mastodon centric groups like !histodons@a.gup.pe or even PeerTube channels like !veronicaexplains_channel@tilvids.com. Direct user-to-user microblog style interaction with Mastodon users is not supported, and that’s mostly a design choice of the devs. Projects like kbin/mbin seek to bridge the gap and directly support both experiences.

The Verge has been all in on the Fediverse, and they’re probably the biggest advocate in the media. They’re also going through the process of switching their entire backend for direct fediverse support. If you have a mastodon or kbin consider boosting this at their official account (@verge@mastodon.social) here: https://mastodon.social/@verge/111891107107406018

Pretty sure it’s not. Wired is just talking about the wrong thing. Currently threads voice posts federate fine.

Some of the apps will struggle with higher ping rates. I have some issues on thunder

The devs actually talked about this in the AMA from a couple of days ago. Sounds like the current plan is to have all federating servers send their entire list of communities to each other on a regular basis.

The other thing that I think is worth mentioning is Lemmy Community Boost which is basically a bot that serves the same purpose.

Great project! I wish y’all the best

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There was a fair amount specifically upset that the creators had not decided to focus their efforts on contributing to lemmy directly. I personally think that’s silly as it’s not hard to find folks who’ve tried and had a terrible experience.

This is not hobby software, this is public good software. They are paid in large part by grants

hashtags have better use in platforms like mastadon

Says who? Because that’s how the old platforms used it? I think we should really be moving past the direct influence of these corporate platforms and on the fediverse that probably means something of a well understood common language (like @user@instance or !group@instance). Hashtags were only ever a thing on twitter because the users just started using them and full text search was sufficient to handle it (this is more or less the position we’re in on lemmy). Direct support didn’t come till much later.

With regards to hashtags I think the utility is mostly in searching among similar things within a community. Suppose there’s a community that serves a purpose like r/askhistorians, stackexchange, or like what I’m trying to do over at !opencourselectures@slrpnk.net. In each of those cases, it is enormously useful to be able to search the community by subtopic. Obviously, this could be solved in other ways, but hashtags are probably the simplest to understand and implement.

Very excited to see the outcome of your Ibis project, but I think Lemmy native wikis would see significantly more activity. The easiest implementation I can imagine is a slightly altered frontend for communities marked wikis that also handle some well known syntax (like [[link]] popularized by pkm systems) for internal links. That is links to posts by the same name within a community.

Currently, I’m working on a lemmy bot that handles exactly this internal linking, and hashtag functionality, then builds a static site with support for github pages (so the end result is both a linked community and a seperate site), but I’d much rather have this functionality built into lemmy. To be frank, I’d much rather be trying to build this functionality into lemmy and if I wasn’t nearly certain it’d get shot down as out-of-scope, I’d probably be doing that.

I know you’re not particularly fond of growth based arguments for new features, but I sincerely believe that the thing that made reddit great in those early days was the tendency for communities to compile resources (particularly for niche and hobby communities). This gave the communities a certain depth that is nearly impossible with posts alone. If that were a first-class feature of Lemmy, I think you’d very quickly see Lemmy fill the niche that federated wiki projects and supplementary wiki services have so far failed to.

If you want a cheap tablet

Man they’re alright but I picked up this guy on sale for $300 and the surfaces don’t even come close to that sort of value.

Some things that seem hard to argue with:

• A mod panel with things like ‘add moderator’ (maybe this could be attached to the new moderator view?)
• Targeted reports (choose who receives it; admin/moderator)
• Moderation actions on jerboa
• Moderator edits. There’s a fine line here and I can understand why you wouldn’t want total edit capabilities but it’d be nice to at least be able to do things like mark as nsfw and add content warnings. This sort of feature should also probably target megathreads
• Private communities (I know local only communities are in the works but there’s a whole mess of other criteria that would be useful)

My own personal wishlist:

• Karma requirements
• First class wikis
• Hashtags (I actually think a super simple stopgap solution here is to just have them link to the appropriate search page)
• Flairs

There’s some other stuff that I have seen PRs for and I do understand y’all are working hard. I appreciate the work you’ve done so far and the communities you’ve helped build. The Internet is undoubtedly a better place for it.

Do you have a touchscreen by chance? I’ve really been wanting to try this but my chromebook is a 2-in-1 and I love using it as a tablet.

I have and if I’m honest I’m probably a little bit too harsh. I think the bigger issue is honestly the priorities of the dev team. There’s good reason that this project is focussing on moderation tooling.