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TGRush
joined 1 year ago
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.
Popular pieces of software that's part of the fediverse usually give you either:
- Export options - manual export options intended for GDPR-Compliance and peace of mind
- 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.
That's what ActivityPub has planned.
Well, that is kind of what ActivityPub is already allowing us to do.
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.
Thank you so much for the consideration! <3
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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