Here's the standard, FEP-1b12: Group federation -- finalized in February.
Thanks for the suggestion, but as somebody just checking lemmy out I'm not there yet.
That's good to hear (although I agree this bug needs to be fixed). A couple of things I ran into when I tried with VoiceOver on a Mac
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there didn't seem to be a "skip to content" link so I had to skip over the header stuff manually
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I couldn't figure out how to navigate from reply to reply when reading posts
Not sure if these are bugs, it might just be user confusion on my part!
This is functionliaty I'd also find really valuable.
because that would also cover sites like Dreamwidth and AO3 that don't aren't decentralized so aren't concsidered part of the fediverse.
yeah, i've come around to it as a working name. kbin bridges between the threadiverse and the "feediverse" or whatever to call it.
Great points. A signup that focuses on communities seems like a great idea, a lot of people will be looking for alternatives to their favorite subreddits. And 💯 on the accessibility problems with captchas.
Also, Mastodon's switch to making mastodon.social a default signup is leading to more centralization (signups have decreased significantly on other intances) and hasn't led to overall increased usage (total accounts and monthly active users are both relatively flat). So I'd be leery of using it as a model.
A name for forum- and aggregator-style fediverse software. and instances sounds like a good idea to me. I agree with the points you and @ada@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone make elsewhere in the thread about the problem that most people coming from Twitter currently equate Mastodon with the "fediverse" as equivalent to Mastodon (a problem in general because it leads to centralization and marginalizing other implementations, and an even bigger problem currently because of Mastodon's reputation for anti-blackness and reply-guyism), and not wanting to have similar dynamics with people coming from reddit.
I'll have to think more about the specific term threadiverse. I see what you're getting at but Mastodon / Pleroma / CalcKey etc all have threads as well even from a microblogging perspective, and Kbin also has a microblog (as opposed to forum) view.
Those are solid requirements to be listed on joinlemmy.org and I would also add another one about moderation policies prohibiting racism, sexism, anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry, Islamophobia, etc. Otherwise, if a user joins an instance that the "official" page recommends and discovers it's racists / sexist / etc, they'll see it as a problem with #lemmy as a whole, as opposed to just one bad instance.
And as we've seen on Mastodon, if a Black user goes to a site where racism is tolerated and quickly encounters racist sh*t, they leave and tell their friends; ditto for trans, queer, Muslim, etc. users having bad initial experiences. Once that happens a bunch of times the reputation becomes hard to shake. Much better to steer people to sites where they're less likely to have a bad experience!