Succinct and punchy, melikes

Here is some feed back from my friend who is a social media user. I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.

I think the landlord part is a huge slopulism redflag. landlords have nothing to do with a social media platform bringing up that there is 0 here is dumb

I think there should be a sell that isnt negative. The fediverse isnt good because its less shitty. Its good because its actually cool in a lot of unique ways. Those unique ways are hard to sell easily but in my opinion the sell should be something positively cool about the fediverse. Personally I like the instance concept I think its what makes this place so great. To my friends I just say its a shared feed not controlled by any one entitiy.

I don’t really feel like the landlord part is true on principle, either? Isn’t the landlord technically the person who runs the server you use? Granted, they’re not managing billions of accounts like Meta and the like, but it doesn’t strike me as an accurate analogy

I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.

Well you can reach the end of the feed in lemmy, that’s a plus isn’t it?

Two recommendations would be to use “overlords” instead of “landlords” I think former is a better catchall than the latter.

Second recommendation, on the “Find an App” page it should auto-scroll to the list below when you select one of the large pills. Or alternatively, do away with the big selection pills altogether. No reason to have two filtering methods that accomplish the same thing on the same page.

I love that the icon for the fediverse is a collection of assholes.

Thanks, I hate it 😂

You own your identity.

Your handle, your posts, your followers. Outgrow a server? Move and take everyone with you. No lock-in, no starting over.

Patently not true, every server you sign up for is a different account and if you move servers you make an entirely new account there that cannot edit any of your posts, comments, or DMs; there is no method of transfer outside of some external tools that allow you to move your follow lists, which typically need to be the same service (can’t move your Lemmy communities to Mastodon follows last I looked).

Also anyone following you does not automatically follow your new identity.

TBH this is something that ActivityPub was not designed for, but it should be.

I wish websites like these weren’t vibe coded because they could offer real value. I wouldn’t feel comfortable recommending it because I can’t guarantee the information is/will be correct.

Edit: I just noticed it’s partly made by dansup, I guess it makes sense why AI is involved.

ALT#neverslop

Yeah, I think this is a bad look. Lots of wrong/missing information, and looks lazily slopped together.

Server browser doesnt seem to have all servers. Programming.dev is missing.

Do you see more than just lemmy.world and piefed.social?

Nope, but didnt look terribly hard either. Just searched “programming”

Ah okay, I wasn’t sure if I was looking in the wrong area. So yeah it seems they only have just those two instances listed

it looks to have 10 servers, which is hardly enough to be a useful resource.

I like the concept here, but it doesn’t address the big gotcha that I found out when I setup my own lemmy instance is that you can’t federate to all the different instances that support activitypub. I can’t use my lemmy account to post on mastadon or loops.video or pixelfed, or etc. you still need separate accounts on each instance. Maybe someday they will all talk to each other but at the moment it is certainly mildly annoying.

That’s because Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy etc etc are different services based on ActivityPub, they aren’t instances of the same thing; what you want is a software that can communicate with Mastodon, PixelFed and Lemmy

TL;DR: the softwares themselves have to be made in a way to be compatible with eachothers, eg: Lemmy and PieFed works with eachother or you can also use Mastodon to interact with Lemmy (but not viceversa IIRC) too

Youre probably looking more for something like the atmosphere (bluesky network) where you have one identity for every app.

But as the other guy said definitely in an ideal world everything communicates with everything cleanly.

Ahh 10-4, yah I have accepted it and all is good :)

The issue isn’t instances.

The issue is that Lemmy isn’t designed for interaction with single actors, e.g. Mastodon users or PeerTube channels. Lemmy can only interact with groups, and that’s by design because it’s a purist Reddit/Hacker News clone.

If you have one account someplace that isn’t Lemmy or Mbin (or something similarly specialised), you can connect to and interact with just about everything everywhere.

Thanks for the added details. I appreciate it and it helps clarify some things for me. Thanks.

I saw this site a few months/years ago. It led me to a gore instance which is something that that I have absolutely no interest in. I think this kind of content will drive away regular, decent people.

Hopefully they’ve done some moderation since then but TBH I’m not optimistic. I don’t even want to do their survey again because it was so gross last time.

How is this site better than FediDB?

Dansup actually designed and built both of those.

not for nothing but wordpress is not fediverse. it’s corporate horseshit. (under the section re blogging long form)

also note: there are absolutely legal risks running your own instance of anything and choosing to federate content with other instances.

Wordpress has a well working ActivityPub extensions that is developed with official funding by Automattic. You can interact with Mastodon quite well via these extensions.

But yes, Wordpress is kinda shit otherwise.

Is there an algorithm deciding what I see? Your home feed is the people you follow, in the order they posted. Nothing is injected, ranked, or buried to keep you scrolling. Discovery happens through hashtags, trending posts, and your server’s local timeline, all on your own terms.

At least lemmy and piefed do have algorithms. also there should be a link to github/codeberg so that people could actually provide feedback on what is wrong with the website (and generally speaking we prefer open source around here). like in fediverse party which lists the link.

Awesome concept but shit execution;

Ah darn, I didn’t know it was just an AI built site :(

Dw, it can happen

It’s not. Dansup has mentioned in the past actually having to reduce some of the design elements because someone thought the previous design was vibe-coded. He doesn’t do that.