Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 34 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Simon Repp. Simon is working on Media and systems with a focus on ethics, simplicity and sustainability. In 2025 working primarily on Faircamp and the Hyper 8 Video System (static site generators for audio and video publishing). (he)

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https://simonrepp.com/faircamp/
https://simonrepp.com/hyper8/
https://simonrepp.com/feber/

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Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

• A new peertube channel
• An interesting mastodon account to follow
• Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
• An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
• A playlist from funkwhale
• A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

People ask me what it’s like to be a moderator. Our discussions reveal that a lot of what we do is a mystery. So, I’m gonna lay it out for you. Specifically about the unique fediverse moderation model, mutual aid, and mental health.
What Fediverse Moderation Looks Like

Centralized networks like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter create rules that please executives and shareholders. Those decision makers don’t have to be ethical—and they rarely are.

They obey money. Big money. And big money is never on the side of the people. Big money gets rid of fact checkers, amplifies malicious bigotry, and platforms nazis.

The fediverse is decentralized. That means there isn’t one server for all accounts and it’s not run by one company. It’s a network of servers (or instances), each self-owned/operated. Sometimes that’s one person, but most often is a small team. And each team makes its own rules for moderation. They all communicate symbiotically to create the single social network.

There’s a common theme to the rules. While not universal, the majority of instances focus on ethics and inclusivity. Those who don’t get blocked through a process called “defederation.” This is a global block between instances. It means no one on the blocked server can interact with anyone from the server who moderated it.

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Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 32 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Benjamin Pryor. Benjamin is a full-stack software developer, musician, graphic designer and is currently pursuing their bachelor's and/or master's in computer science and is always trying to grow and adapt their skills to help people in any way they can :)

https://fedi-search.com/
https://github.com/programmer2514?tab=repositories
https://ko-fi.com/benjaminpryor
https://www.patreon.com/BenjaminPryor
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BenjaminJPryor

Learned about it thanks to the Fireside Fedi Podcast. Might just end up becoming a new way to find solutions/perspectives by real people, just as looking for reddit results has been in the past for many people.

Hey ! Did you draw during the Canvas event ? You can now give some context to your drawing :3

Good news. This year (mostly by getting ready and reusing the code and infrastructure from last year), I have been able to launch the atlas much quicker.

The atlas is a website that allow you to get contextual information about art placed on the canvas, as well as submit your own information.

This year, unlike the last, I decided to use the feature to view older version of the canvas. There have been some fighting, and this might allow for removed art to still be documented (reused from the r/place 2023 atlas, which is where most of the code come from).

Also, I should make it clearer on the site, but if you need help, in addition to the lemmy community, there is a Matrix room (the same as last year).

Related to recent events:

So Lemmy, for some reason, just copied Reddit's whole model wholesale, which honestly isn't the best. Reddit was a neat design and had the advantage of scalability, but the clever people at Reddit either got driven into the background by the chodes or hounded completely out of existence by the feds, and it stagnated after initially being a successful nice place to converse.

There are better models to draw from. Slashdot was way bigger than Lemmy, and the system was that votes were given out in tiny batches of a handful of votes, randomly, maybe once every couple of months to each one of a big population of active users. Not everyone could vote, and no one could vote on any kind of big scale or control when they had input. The votes on comments on any given post would be determined by a couple dozen randomly selected users, not just whoever felt like being most vocal. That meant the votes on any given comment would generally range from +5 to -2 (they were actually capped to that range), and almost all the comments just sat at 1 (or 2 if you were an established user, I think, or 0 if you were algorithmically determined to be a dickhead a lot of the time). There would be a few +5 comments in the big posts, and it was fine, they were usually worth listening to. Anyway, the point is that they put some thought into how to prevent people from just making 100 accounts and spamming votes, and how to surface good content in a way that couldn't be gamed very easily. There were roles equivalent to "moderators" on Lemmy/Reddit, but they were very rarely used, because the impact of votes was just a lot better managed and so mods weren't needed nearly as much.

Lemmy / Reddit's solution to all of this is to give out unlimited votes to every single free-to-create account, and then put it on the shoulders of the mods and admins to realize when someone's abusing the system in obvious ways, and also trust that those people will never be clever enough to conceal it from the admins (which they will be able to if they are clever). Also there will be some collateral damage in terms of people getting punished for downvoting a dozen of someone's comments one day which arguably they should be allowed to do.

Basically what I'm saying is, there are fundamental problems with the ease of account creation and then letting people make inputs to the whole system that can be friendly or malicious from their free accounts, and then after the fact making all the admins play whack-a-mole with anyone who wants to abuse the system. It's not sustainable. It also causes a lot of drama while the admins are (very valiantly, don't get me wrong) making the attempt.

Another good system that is generally very well regarded is Something Awful. An account costs cash money, a one-time $10 fee I think, and if you're a douchebag to a sufficient level you can get your account permabanned and then of course just like Lemmy there is no way to prevent you from making another one, but you're out ten bucks. That seems to work very well; the SA forums generally are known to have very lively discussion but it stays generally on the rails. They're also extremely strict about some things that I really wish the Lemmy mods would be more strict about: For example, if in order to keep an argument going you start pretending someone else in the argument is saying something that they aren't saying, just so you can scream at them and into the void about this thing you're pretending they're saying, you get banned. It's wonderful. That's one of my least favorite things that a certain Lemmy contingent loves to do. I think it's generally a temp ban when you do it on SA, you're not out your $10, but it's not just an encouraged and protected and celebrated thing like it is on Lemmy. (I actually have been playing with the idea of making a politics forum on Lemmy that works that way, my only hesitation is that (a) it sounds like work (b) Lemmy already has a sufficiency of politics forums.)

Anyway, I don't think any of this is realistic to do on Lemmy. It seems like we're pretty much set on what the system is, objectively bad though it is. I'm just throwing out ideas for whatever the next thing is, and for people to keep in mind when they're dealing with any of the inevitable drama that's associated with the current system.

(Oh, also making people put in their emails when they sign up for a Lemmy account isn't much more than a speed bump to someone who wants to abuse things. It doesn't stop anyone who has even the vaguest motivation to try to fake up a bunch of new accounts (because making new emails takes seconds), but it does stop someone who wants to have solid privacy and anonymity when they're using Lemmy (because making new emails that are totally divorced from your identity if some agency really wants to come after you is actually a little difficult.))

That's all I got, cheers mate

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Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

• A new peertube channel
• An interesting mastodon account to follow
• Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
• An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
• A playlist from funkwhale
• A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

Welcome Fedi Friends to episode 31 of Fireside Fedi! I'm your host ozoned. Fireside Fedi is a show about folks within the Fediverse. If you're seeing this, you are a part of the Fediverse.

With me today is Lioh! Lioh is an amazing artist, developer, and teacher. Lioh was one of the original citizens of the Fediverse and helped contribute to GNU/Social. As well as being the founder of the largest german speaking news outlet on Linux and free software.

@Lioh@social.anoxinon.de
https://linuxkurs.ch/
https://www.spacefun.ch/
https://videos.spacefun.ch/
https://artart.ch/
https://artart.ch/meme-cemetery
https://spacefun.tpopsite.com/
https://gnulinux.ch/spenden-spenden-spenden

Made a script real quick to generate images of what certain users & instances placed

Top 10 instances that placed the most pixels (that appear on the final canvas)

1. lemmy.world (48122 pixels on final canvas, 145 users)

2. feddit.org (19372 pixels on final canvas, 57 users)

3. toast.ooo (18415 pixels, 34 users)

4. lemmy.zip (13335 pixels, 20 users)

5. pawb.social (12768 pixels, 7 users)

6. sh.itjust.works (9739 pixels, 25 users)

7. grants.cafe (7264 pixels, 7 users)

8. mastodon.social (7129 pixels, 18 users)

9. programming.dev (6205 pixels, 15 users)

10. mas.to (5805 pixels, 5 users)

Top 10 users

1. https://toast.ooo/u/starpup (4608)

2. https://pawb.social/u/tblFlip (4458)

3. https://programming.dev/u/Ategon (4023)

4. https://lemmy.zip/u/rrconkle (3886)

5. https://lemmy.world/u/green_copper (3679)

6. https://pawb.social/u/KoboldCoterie (3595)

7. https://mastodon.mariusdavid.fr/users/marius851000 (3529)

8. https://mas.to/users/Vaporek (2815)

9. https://feddit.org/u/DmMacniel (2486)

10. https://lemmy.world/u/Adopon (2448)

(Anyone who wants an image of certain users or instances you can let me know but the functionality for users will also be on https://canvasstats.com/ this week)

Canvas 2025 has concluded!

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Hi all. So, it's done: All the RSS feeds that were on rss.ponder.cat are now served from ibbit.at instead. More about it in the sticky post in !meta@ibbit.at, but if you're subscribed to RSS stuff, look for it on ibbit.at instead now.

One question I have for the community: My thinking is to send a DM to anyone who was subscribed to something on the old server, with links to the equivalent communities as what they were subscribed to, on the new server, so that it's easy to transfer subscriptions. Is that spam though? My thinking is that it's fine, since presumably people want to be able to have their subscriptions carry over if they already took the trouble to subscribe on rss.ponder.cat. Right? Or no? It just gives me pause when I'm talking about setting up the bot to send unsolicited DMs to 3000 users...

July 12th, 2025 @ 4am UTC

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Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas that includes everyone apart of the Fediverse! Any fediverse platform that supports direct messages is able to login and participate for this 48 hour live event

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Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

• A new peertube channel
• An interesting mastodon account to follow
• Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
• An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
• A playlist from funkwhale
• A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32887973

I'm sure there are some good reasons, but I don't know what those reasons are.

I've noticed that sometimes the instance of the community doesn't match the instance of the user who posted there, and I was wondering why they chose to post to that community instead of an equivalent one on the instance they joined. Are there pros and cons to doing this?

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Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

• A new peertube channel
• An interesting mastodon account to follow
• Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
• An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
• A playlist from funkwhale
• A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

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Hi ! I hope you are well ! Here is our weekly thread 😎

The fediverse is big ! Let's share our small gold nugget found in the fediverse. :)

It could be :

• A new peertube channel
• An interesting mastodon account to follow
• Your new community ! Yes ! Why not ?
• An cool gallery of picture from pixelfed
• A playlist from funkwhale
• A text that moved you

Let's dig together ! 😁

This article is a response to Tim Chambers' recent writeup, titled The Seven Deadly UX Sins of the Fediverse Web Experience (To Fix). It's a pretty great read, and I'm writing this not as a rebuttal, but to analyze and expand on the points made.

This is a musing on 7 problems that have been pointed out, with some ideas on what progress has been made to fix them.

PieFed has a chat room now, at https://chat.piefed.social/

We're using Zulip for this, which is an interesting combination of forum / chat room with strong support for threaded discussions.

You can use your piefed.social login with chat.piefed.social, BUT you need to use your email address instead of your user name. Use the same password.

The login details used by chat.piefed.social are synced with piefed.social when you log in to piefed.social or when you set a new password in your settings so if you haven't done either of those recently then log out of piefed.social and log back in.

You can also just make an account at https://chat.piefed.social/register/ if you don't have a piefed.social account.

This chat.piefed.social does not replace our Matrix rooms, it is an additional option for those who don't use Matrix.