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It totally depends on how many people one needs in a community, and how much content they're posting to feel served, doesn't it?

The persistent FOMO that has floated around Lemmy for the past two years has not been a positive for the space.

It's not "instance tribalism", it's making sure the website you're using isn't just some dumb terminal, and preventing the network from collapsing down to "lemmy.world and some empty tributes".

It's creating a space that is resilient to network splits, and accepting the fact that, at some point down the road, network splits will happen.

It's seeing the fediverse through a "Local+" lens, and encouraging people to treat their local site as meaningful. And rejecting the illusion that this is centralized social media.

Look for what you want on other sites. But there's no reason to look off-site first, if what serves you is already hosted locally.

Welcome, new neighbours!

While checking out this wacky new space, I'd like to emcourage everyone to check out the Local tab, either at the top of your feed, or in your app menu. That's where yoi'll find posts from "communitues" (Lemmy's "subreddits") that are hosted on lemm.ee!

A lot of communities are on different sites, and are ported (tarriff free!) for your enjoyment, but as with most things, it seems, the most sustainable way forward is to support Local!

One thing that many people new to Lemmy and the wider "fediverse" (because it's not just people on Lemmy-based websites that you'll find posting in the communities here, surprisingly enough) struggle with is that each website on the network has its own "name space", meaning that each community name can be used on each site. So, you can have, say, !pottery@lemmy.ca, !pottery@lemm.ee, and !pottery@lemmy.world. People often fret over "having to follow all of them", and wanting ways to collapse them into a single forum. And for a really niche topic, that might make sense (the thing to do, though, is just pick the one that best serves you and don't worry about what's going on on the other side of the fence). But for bigger topics, this "splintering" is often a godsend, since we can all have real discussions about the topic in smaller spaces. And, of course, !politics is going to just be meanibgfully different on .ca vs .ee vs .world.

If you look to local first, it becomes much easier to stop worrying and love the ~~bomb~~ distributed network.

Welcome from Halifax! I hope you guys can get a good little community going here!

There are solutions for the far arctic that aren't high density mesh networks polluting low earth orbit.

It's very similar to RSS in concept, just two way!

We do not need a constellation. We do not need more space junk.

We need fibre everywhere.

The Republicans are suddenly very concerned about demanding the world thank it for its self-centred meddling.

They have to know what the reaction is going to be. This has to be a pretense for something.

If you follow a community (or a user, if you're using something that allows following user accounts, which Lemmy does not) on a remote website, that website will send the website you're using a copy of all future content they post, and your website will include it in your feeds (as well as in the sites's 'global' feed). It doesn't really matter what software those other sites are running, so long as they A) use ActivityPub, B) have federation turned on, and C) have not blacklisted the website you're using.

It's like following a Twitter user or a Reddit subreddit from Facebook. And it highlights that that's a thing they all could have done, if they all wanted to work together to make it happen.

They didn't. Fedvierse developers do.

So, there are different types of... the jargon term is "actors", but you can think of them as, like, accounts. Each user has an 'actor' associated with it, and each 'actor' has an inbox. But there are also group actors, which are not individuals, but more like a system or bot account. Group actors just "boost" (reblog/re-shaere/etc.) content that is sent to them.

You can follow other actors, both on your own website, as well as on other sites. When you follow a remote account, your host site will request the remote site send all future content posted or "boosted" by that account to your host website, and then your host website will add it to your feed.

Different software allows different kinds of requests. Mastodon makes no distinction between user or group accounts, and let you follow all of them. Lemmy, though, uses group actors for its communities, and only allows users to follow groups. This means that Mastodon users can see Lemmy discussions, and contribute to them, but Lemmy users cannot follow Mastodon users or interact with their posts unless they've been boosted by a group actor.

Other software has other abilities. nodeBB lets group actors follow other group actors, which has the potential for mutual group synchronization. mbin has both a Reddit-like interface as well as a separate microblog feed, separating out group and user content. Hubzilla (and I think Friendica?) allows accounts to have multiple actors, letting you manage multiple 'personas' from a single login. And they all speak the same language, which means they can accept content from all the others.

*waves vigorously*

Heya, neighbour!

I've had to get a criminal background check for most jobs I've ever had, a check that my employer gets to see before they decicde to hire me.

Only seems fair that people running for office have something similar.