If there were ever a single post that truly shows how running a Fedi instance is, that I could boost to the moon, it's this one.
People still somehow think that Fedi is "opt-in" or "privacy focused" or even "community focused". None of these things are true and I wish more people understood.
It's not a BAD thing, per se. I like it, personally. I choose who I want to interact with by blocking those instances I DON'T want to interact with, but it's OPEN BY DEFAULT is something some people can't grasp.😬
Have you even tried #Piefed? Piefed.social is:
"A lemmy/kbin clone written in Python with Flask.
-Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.
-Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.
-AGPL.
-First class moderation tools."
It's actually really quite nice, and I don't hear much noise about it. Go give this project a look at https://piefed.social.
If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
Testing out #mbin because I just couldn't stand the timeout errors on #kbin anymore. Does anyone know if mbin pulls in upline changes from kbin, or is it a hard fork at this point?
Fedia.io is currently closed to new sign-ups due to spam. Of course, you could always post using your Mastodon account by mentioning @CPCSupport in a pinch (as described above).
You can even follow @CPCSupport (a subscription!) at the risk of your timeline being clogged, should @CPCSupport (or another community/magazine) become popular.
If that becomes the case, you could follow just me, @CPCSupport
But let's say you want to stop having a clunky experience interacting with the Threadiverse via Mastodon. Hey, do you want to be a part of the ActivityPub Fediverse (Threadiverse) that somehow gets as much engagement as Mastodon with a fraction of the servers, and so far, the only majorly competitive Reddit replacement (that also interacts with Mastodon?!)
You can create an account at one of the various Lemmy and Mbin servers/instances you can find on fedidb.org. (With the usual caveat of: browse around before you sign up)
Or... you could just create an account on Discuss.Online, like I have.
With a Lemmy/Mbin account, you can just subscribe by searching !CPCSupport and not have to worry about mentions and all that nonsense.
Please note: DMs do not work across platforms. Mbin's only work locally (follow these Matrix rooms for updates) and Lemmy DMs only work on Lemmy. If you're on Mastodon, you need to DM my username of Fedia.social.
If you have not heard of them yet, they were formed on 2024-01-17 out of the talent search survival show #UniverseTicket. There are 8 members from three countries:
The web is so thoroughly enshitified that authors of new posts cannot be trusted to select public-worthy sharable links. Someone running all the latest mainstream Windows junk is oblivious to the UX of others....
Ok now I’m a little sad. I just recently found the Artifact app, and now it’s shutting down. What app do you all use to read various types of news on all kinds of topics?
Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...
We're one week into 2024, do you know what that means? Time to clean up your #SNS “following” especially here in the #Fediverse.
Check the “dormant” accounts if you can unfollow them.
Check which accounts “moved”. Follow their new account, then unfollow their old account.
And maybe there are other accounts that you haven't interacted with in the past few months; and their content is no longer something that you are interested, you can unfollow them too.
If you still want to see their content, you can encourage them to use #hashtags and you follow those hashtags. Or, join a federated “group” like those powered by #Mbin#Kbin#Friendica#Chirp and #Lemmy.
Of course, depending on the fediverse platform your instance is using, there are probably better features to the content of users without seeing their content that is not of interest to you. A good example, #Firefish / #Catodon / #IceShrimp can do that through the “Antenna” feature.
Take some time to do this, and start your 2024 fediverse better than 2023.
You can try out #Mbin, it's #Kbin fork, it has issues too, but at leave there's multiple devs and all of them are active.(And anyone can become a dev, and actually send pull requests that will get merged)
@jerry
Interesting because I too announced that my kbin instance, feddit.online, is shutting down on November 4th for a different set of goat rodeo reasons.
Photo post test to /m/random on Fedia.io
Mbin v1.4.0 release
Has changes to the messenger queue layout, the background worker system....
Microblog Section / Fediverse Q+A ( fedia.io )
Click the link again to access the microblog section....
[Milestone] Update to v1.3.0 📦 ( github.com )
URL appraisal feature/mechanism needed; alternative link support also needed
The web is so thoroughly enshitified that authors of new posts cannot be trusted to select public-worthy sharable links. Someone running all the latest mainstream Windows junk is oblivious to the UX of others....
Mbin is a fork of kbin: a decentralized content aggregator running on the Fediverse network ( lemmy.ml )
Mbin is a decentralized content aggregator, voting, discussion and microblogging platform running on the fediverse network. It can communicate with many other ActivityPub services, including Kbin, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma, Peertube. It is an open source alternative to other link aggregator services like Reddit. The initiative...
Do any of you have that one service that just breaks constantly? I'd love to love Nextcloud, but it sure makes that difficult at times ( lemmy.world )