Fediverse

How to sign into any of the fediverse lemmy site on desktop?
It appears to continiously load at the login page after entering credentials.

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This is Fosstodon's official stance on the whole Facebook joining the Fediverse debacle.

I originally posted this in m/kbinMeta: https://kbin.social/m/kbinMeta/t/73476/How-do-kbin-instances-and-all-aggregator-protocols-work-to

Not sure what's the etiquette on splitting discussions, but fwiw here's the key para from my post:

I'm bringing this over to the kbin side because of the three concerns: political (extend, embrace, extinguish playbook means standards-setting work will be under threat of an eventual oligopoly); privacy (data scraping and surveillance capitalism is a known thing, legal or otherwise); and infrastructure (the full blast of new Threads accounts and the way AP and esp Masto does JSON will mean the perpetual fetching will overwhelm smaller instances) - the most particular for threadiverse is on technical capacity.

most instances are still finding their feet. What measures are already in place short of defed to help admins not get overwhelmed? What measures are being worked on?

kbin does scraping posts very well. Even untagged posts end up here on kbin.social because the 'random' magazine was created. What can instances do to not become a risk vector for at-risk persons who probably didn't realize this protocol (that's not even a year old) has been quietly slurping their posts in machine-readable forms all this time?

Hey All,
I’m an (old 😉) IT guy, very excited by the #fediverse and trying to find my way amongst various services.

As an example, I started gathering topics I like on a Lemmy account. Then, I got tempted to create different accounts on smaller instances and try out kbin.

I’d love that my « subscriptions » follow me, so that I don’t have to scan all my « magazines » and re-register from everywhere.

Can someone kindly help me on how I can achieve that? Apologies if the question is naive, but given the decentralised nature of those services, shouldn’t each user have a « local » trace of what they follow (for example on a local app), no matter the service, so that they get « their view », their « window » on the #fediverse?

Many thanks for the #fedihelp and again my apologies for the probably basic questions!

Apologies in advance if I am using the wrong terms or posting the wrong way.

Onto my question, I see that despite being on kbin.social, I see articles for lemmy.world and other platforms on this site. Did the admins of each instance configure this, or does it occur because they are all public and each instance fetches data from everywhere else?

The reason I'm curious is because I'm wondering about building a read-only instance for myself. Hosting an instance of kbin/lemmy/etc comes with a lot of extra functionality (users management, communities, content uploads, etc), along with associated costs (storage, scaling). I imagine having a instance that simply reads other federated instances, caches their posts/comments temporarily, with minimal storage for configuration (subscribed topics/people/etc).

I can't seem to subscribe to new communities that are not on kbin. I've tried to search for !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world in both the search area and the magazine area with no luck. I'm using Firefox browser on an Android phone.

Anyone have a solution?

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Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediverse

I just found this, forgive me if its been posted before!

I just joined here and I'm so incredibly confused, to be honest.

How exactly can I follow communities from other 'spaces' in the fediverse? I'm trying to follow the bisexual community on lemmy.world and it says to copy/paste !bisexual@lemmy.world in the search bar of whatever you're using, but that comes up with nothing here.

I'm very lost and also very stupid. Please help.

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New research from my team on the #TwitterMigration: This is our 3rd quarterly update on which platforms are growing, new entries such as #BlueSky, #Substack Notes, #Nostr & all public data on Meta's #project92 Includes latest on the #RedditMigration, New polling, new posting data & more. Welcome any notes or feedback & boosts! Get it here: https://is.gd/5PJQH7 cc: @spreadmastodon @fediversereport @fediversenews

https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/13642/Check-Out-These-Linux-Related-Magazines-on-Kbin

With its latest update, PeerTube now supports remote transcoding (in shared servers etc). This is huge and can help with the large amount of computing power required to trandcode 4k videos.

Seeing stuff about reddit being posted to 10 different technology boards, plus reddit-themed ones, then reposted further just makes this whole idea a mess. Reposts have to be consolidated into a single comment thread.

Attached: 2 images I'm not kidding, @pixelfed has silently shipped Live streaming support over a year ago. I don't think it's ready for prime time yet, that's why I haven't advertised it that much. I'm working to ship this within the next month 🚀 https://docs.pixelfed.org/running-pixelfed/optional-features/livestreaming/

Daniel Supernault (@dansup@mastodon.social)

Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.

A growing number of instances (mainly of Mastodon so far) are signing an 'Anti-Meta Fedi Pact', pledging to block any instance owned by Meta in the fediverse.

I don't know how big this will get or how effective it will be, but if you run a fediverse instance, you should take a look at this https://fedipact.online/

Rather than try to act like a link aggregator where people submit links to articles and images and that submission comes with a comment thread specific to the fediverse instance in which it was submitted, what if each news site, image host, blog, whatever was itself the instance and the reddit-style instances federate with those. Someone submits an article to /m/news and the comments link goes to the instance associated with that article. Submission is the act of 'bridging' the article's instance to yours. Everyone sees the same comment thread and it's tied to the article itself. Comment on the article via kbin and everyone sees your comment. Perhaps the user can also see what other communities/instances where the article has been posted, and perhaps comments could be filtered by user instance.

Could also have instances have separate comment sections that don't go the main one for communities that prefer to have insulated discussion (the discord effect, where you can share a link with friends and be assured that everyone can chat about it in an isolated environment), like "forking" the article.

I can see several benefits (and a few potential issues) with this, but it seemed like an interesting idea at least.

Obviously the biggest issue with this is getting the content sources on-board with acting like a federated server. But then again, tons of major sites use various third-party tech for comments on articles...

https://lemmyverse.net/communities

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Instance and Community Explorer for Lemmy

The growth of Lemmy and Kbin continues with the #redditmigration. Flickr is considering ActivityPub support, and new proposals to help people join the fediverse.

Wholesome

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I’d like to explore a project for NLP based search on the fediverse. But I’m a fediverse beginner and am not sure if it’s possible to index fediverse content.

My general idea is -

1. Set up my own read-only instance, let’s say of kbin. I’m not sure if the concept of a read-only instance makes sense. It’s read-only because the instance only needs to be able to read the content already on the fediverse and doesn’t need the ability to post content.
2. At some regular interval, let’s say once a day, monitor any changes in the content from the previous run. I’m not sure if there is a single “fediverse” where all the content can be read from. If not, then I can start with tracking the same content as on kbin.social. Is it possible to monitor changes to content on a kbin instance?
3. I’ll convert the content into vector embeddings by a using an NLP ML model like CLIP. The embeddings will be stored in a vector store. The vector store will also include the url of the content as metadata.
4. When a user requests a search, the search term is converted to its vector embedding using the same ML model and the most similar vectors are identified.
5. The user gets the search results as urls of the most relevant content, and perhaps a preview of the content. The user can then access the full content from where it’s originally posted using its url.

I’m comfortable with setting up steps 3 and 4. But I do not know the fediverse enough to answer whether steps 1, 2, and 5 would work or even make sense how I’m envisioning them.

Can some of the fediverse veterans help me understand if this is a feasible approach or if I’ve got it all wrong?

The real history is much messier—and more inspiring.

what's the difference between kbin and lemmy? if i go here kbin isn't on the list, so is kbin like it's own thing? still kinda trying to figure this out lol

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Find my lemmy user here: https://jemmy.jeena.net/u/jeena

I installed Tangram browser on my Linux computer and finding this quite good for accessing kbin and Lemmy.

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