I love how the Fediverse/ActivityPub prevents region blocking from being effective
Lemmy.ml, the most popular instance fo Lemmy out there, is not accessible in my country unless I use a VPN. But, I can subscribe to any community that exists on lemmy.ml from here and even post on those communities from this account.
I love this aspect of Lemmy.
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@mykl @AndreTelevise Or even better you can use the ActivityPub like me to send a comment from Mastodon to Lemmy.
So if they block every instance in Lemmy, which is impossible by the way, you can still use other fediverse social networks to access to it.
Yeah, I was careful to say fediverse rather than lemmy for that reason. I think a sufficiently motivated party could still make access very difficult to sustain. Whether anyone's going to be that motivated remains to be seen.
@mykl There's only one issue with the ActivityPub.
Which is:
- Is more feasible to make an account into Lemmy or Kbin to comment, save posts or give them thumbs up/down than to access to the ActivityPub from another social network in the fediverse.
For example to make these comments into Lemmy from Mastodon I had to search for a guide on internet to make it possible. ActivityPub isn't user friendly which is the main issue in the entire fediverse (issues with UI and UX).
I certainly admit your dedication in working it out 😀
I knew it was a feature, but I suspect it's one of those things that will make little sense to most people until power-users start using it to build extraordinary features and services that we don't even know we need yet.
@mykl I make it work, but there's interoperability issues.
Right now I can see that one of my comments got like 2 thumbs up. The issue is that I can't see it on Mastodon, not even like a "favorite ⭐" which is the closest thing.
Also I gave you a "favorite", but Lemmy don't register it as a thumbs up, so probably you only gonna see some of my interactions with you, only if you access through the Mastodon UI.
Also I can't find the way to follow people from Lemmy and bookmark/save their posts.
Well, early days I suppose. Now they're both receiving a lot more attention I hope that these sorts of issues will get addressed. If you enjoy the pain I hope you've checked out how it all works with kbin too!
@mykl Right now I think that I'll leave the ActivityPub for now.
Is easier just to make an account in lemmy.ca and in kbin.social than trying to reply comments/toots, find a way make the comment in first place, to try to follow someone and also to find a way to save content from another social network.
Also ActivityPub allows me to make a post on Lemmy from Mastodon on any of their "subreddits/communities".
The issue I can only post and reply 500 characters. Which is very annoying.