TGRush

People often compare the fediverse to E-Mail, for a good reason

E-Mail doesn't need to live all on the same server, or be made by the same provider. I can use ProtonMail, you can use GMail, somebody else can use Outlook, but in the end it doesn't matter, as we can all talk.

The "Fediverse" - short for "The Federated Universe" - follows a similar concept, but it doesn't do this over Email; The Fediverse does this using the ActivityPub standard instead.

Activitypub allows all the servers we have our accounts on (in your case kbin.social and in my case forum.fail) to talk to eachother so that content can show up and be interacted with on ALL servers.

This is also why I - someone from a different server/instance - can reply to your comment and up/downvote it if I want to.

This is essentially all you need to know to get started. To see where somebody's account or a magazine/community is hosted, just hover over their username / check the magazine out. It should have something like @name@server.example. We are currently talking in @lemmyworld@lemmy.world for instance.

check https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse instead, we have MUCH more users than you think.

Edit: also note that beehaw isn't completely defederated. They only defederated from sh.itjust.works and Lemmy.world.

Mirroring would be trivial, but you'd have to either scrape content yourself or pay for the API (soon)

I would also find it funny if they then linked a kbin magazine for posting actual pictures

Hm, I find it somewhat annoying that right now, this is not really searching the Fediverse, but rather what we've come to call "the Threadiverse", which is all about Reddit-like content aggregators.

In other words, I'd love an option to search different kinds of content, like instead of Threadiverse-stuff searching the most popular mastodon, misskey, or pleroma instances just to name a few.

I'd say this is for the best of us.

Even the existing moderators have started to acknowledge that Reddit is no longer a platform for the people, and it was just a way for Spez to make money all along, even saying that the years of content can be marketed and sold.

To be entirely fair with Kbin:

From Kbin.pub: "NOTICE: This is a very early beta version."

@hariette@tech.lgbt is working on a client that is (currently) called Kmoon.

It might be renamed soon, but I've signed up for the beta and am currently waiting for an Android build 👀

Everything on Kbin and Lemmy is "federated"

This is basically just a fancy word to say "no matter what server you're on, we can all talk to each other".

It's kind of like E-Mail where no matter if you use GMail or Outlook, you can talk to your friends and colleagues.

When a server defederates from another server, It's like a two-way block.

People on (in this case) beehaw won't see threads, magazines and replies from Lemmy.world and sh.it just.works and people from Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works won't see threads, magazines and replies from beehaw.org

Server/Instance admins usually do this when there are instances which spread unwished for content.

This is also why on my profile, there's a link (forum.fail). It's part of my identifier here on the Fediverse (@TGRush@forum.fail).

NixOS can become quite complex, so maybe stay away from it until you know more about how to manage your system ;)

The other options you've mentioned here are good, but EndeavourOS is based on Arch, so that may be contradictory to what you've said earlier.

Because these instances are often run as hobby projects and out of passion, not to be sustainable.

The Fediverse isnt corporate, we're a community and nothing will change that. We don't want to make money, we want to bring back what social media was supposed to be.

Additionally, it has become part of the culture of the Fediverse to regularly remind your peers to donate to your instance, as they're who are running this all for our benefit.

it won't be automatically defederated, but you won't have a cache built up, meaning that some older posts in communities you visit, as well as older comments won't show up at first.

Though, unless you also want to implement a ruleset and moderate the instance (in addition to doing legal stuff), I would advise keeping it closed to yourself.

I'm surprised how everyone has this issue but me.

Yeah there's lots of reddit-related content, but not at this scale

Thank you so much for the consideration! <3

That's what ActivityPub has planned.

Well, that is kind of what ActivityPub is already allowing us to do.

They linked to fediverse.observer for the entirety of Lemmy tho 🤔

On that note I highly suggest you read EFF's "To save the News" articles, where they also go over why targeted ads don't work. It's a great read

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-ban-surveillance-advertising

Well then, welcome to the Fediverse I guess :P

Get comfy, as Kbin and Lemmy aren't the only services part of the Fediverse. There's also Microblogging services like Mastodon, YouTube-like Video sharing through Peertube and even self-hosted streaming with OwnCast.

There's statistics on https://fedidb.org, on which there's also a list of instances/servers on all kinds of topics using all kinds of software.

We ain't corporate, we're a community.

Popular pieces of software that's part of the fediverse usually give you either:

1. Export options - manual export options intended for GDPR-Compliance and peace of mind
2. Account Move options - Mastodon is best known for this, as you can migrate your profile (but not your posts and followers) to another instance. Anyone which then visits your old page will have it blurred out, linking to your new one.

#2 could be expanded in the case of Kbin and Lemmy to also include subscribed communities/magazines, settings and some other things where Federation allows for it.

this would be really funny, even if ineffective :P

These magazines are hosted on different servers, even though they serve the same purpose, yes.

I bet that people will naturally go to the magazines/communities that are moderated better or more active once everything settles down.

For some reason, the box to reply to OP is at the bottom of a thread.

Not sure why it wouldn't be at the top, but it is how it is.

I might look into whether I can fix this using a custom theme 🤔

This wouldn't work for the actual content however, as those are posted by individual users from all around the fediverse.

Exporting settings, moderators and alike might be feasible, though.

I've also made sure there's an archive on https://archive.is/qD5b6

I wasn't the first one to archive here, but I still want to share for everyone interested.

Let's paraphrase to "CLI applications are quite cumbersome to use under Flatpak as per the current implementation".

Unless you set up your own aliases, you'll have to write out commands like flatpak run ..., and if you don't know the package name yet you'll need to run flatpak list --app first as well

I hope that in the future, Flatpak gets some improvements for exporting CLI utilities into the user's environment.

Probably not the most unique take, but I still really love Minecraft's soundtrack (and other C418 tracks for that matter).

We can already view PeerTube channels in the "Microblogging" tab, as that's the way PeerTube federates to other services.

At least in theory that should be the case

The problem here is that most packages aren't maintained by developers, but rather by independent package maintainers from respective distributions.

In my eyes, this adds another potential point of failure outside the control of the developer of a given tool.

Your best bet right now is blocking the biggest NSFW instance, lemmynsfw.com

Always check up with local data protection authorities, and if those dont properly handle your request either you can take legal action against either. As a citizen of the EU it is your right to do so.

It's not that we all can't talk to eachother, but rather that Memmy has no idea how to login and interact with Kbin, but it DOES know how to login and interact with Lemmy.

Sharing posts between instances is handled by, well, your instance. It'd be really slow if each user had to share posts with eachother like a Torrent or something :P

Which posts you see depends on the instance that you're viewing from. If you're on a really small instance and content from outside (e.g other Kbin or Lemmy instances) isn't viewed much, your instance will not backfill the threads.

This essentially means that until at least one person follows a given magazine/community, posts from said community will be invisible. This is some jank regarding Federation that many people are currently working on improving, but efficiency is still a huge concern.

Kbin doesn't seem to support this yet, at least I can't find an option in the web interface or by appending .rss to a magazine's link.

Users upping permissions is not something that Flatpak is to blame for.

Flatpak has set the groundwork for sandboxing of desktop apps with a runtime permission system. People dont yet know how to properly use it.

Either Minecraft or Sonic the Hedgehog 3 would take that title for me

Both of those are games I've played LOTS of when I was younger (well, I am still quite young) which provided me with lots of fun and I just kind of come back to playing them periodically.

Either because there is some cool new community project I want to try or because I just miss playing the games.

It isn't just a fork, its a collection of tools and patches around wine tailored for a specific purpose.

DXVK, VKD3D and other components aren't part of Wine or Proton's Wine builds, for example. They're extra tools used on-top of Wine.

I think it'd be fine if the decision was made outside of this context...

man am I glad that my real name is so generic that you don't find me unless you specifically search for keywords associated with what I do (e.g "Codeberg" or "Mastodon")

it's truly great to have the same name as somebody famous' brother.

They'll be able to look at it from their own instance, without the need to switch over to yours. They can also comment from their own instance. I for example am replying to you from https://forum.fail, whereas you seem to come from the https://kbin.social server/instance

(federation can be a bit wonky, but generally this is true.)

OP is talking about Kbin, though 🤔