Suprised folks are suddenly engaging with this again, did something happen thats been putting this in front of people? Radiofreefedi has sadly shut down in the last year

The indie beat is now the same kind of idea, but I haven’t found as much stuff there I’m really into https://theindiebeat.fm/

Thats not because of transistor, thats because sadly radiofreefedi stopped operating sometime in the last year. The indie beat now serves the same purpose, but I’ve not found as much stuff I’m into there

https://theindiebeat.fm/

Hope you’re having a lovely day :)

Yeah, I wish visiting a fedi site from an external link gave you a little button that said “select your instance” so you can switch when possible

Its definitely a ux issue that needs some care and attention. My android client at least tries to view the link from my current instance

Thats super cool!

I’d not heard of that one, thats super cool!

I think this is my favorite visualization of the size distortion that I’ve seen!

Happy threadiverse anniversary :)

And also Thanksgiving if you celebrate it ☺️

I use peertube.wtf and have had no issues if thats of help. There’s an artist on peertube who posts his music I’ll see if I can check what instance he’s on…

He’s on communitymedia.video :)

Hope either of these are helpful suggestions :)

Thanks for making this thread, I didn’t really realize it worked this way either!

When I’ve posted to lemmy from mastodon, you “@” the community, treating it like a user which is interesting. The underlying guts of the fediverse are fascinating and confusing lol

Hello ☺️

it’s funny watching people downvote us for saying hello to each other lol

Regardless of whether it has original content (of course it does, its userbase is massive 😅) it does still absolutely have a bot problem, and reddit has way more resources to throw at the issue than we do. This is pretty much all community built and run with donations.

I’d just make a new gmail, proton mail, or tutanota address you can provide with no other connection to other stuff 🤷🏻

The threadiverse really does have to be more guarded against spam and bad actors. The servers here are largely run by volunteers, and community projects with no full time sysadmins, fewer devs and moderators, and less fancy protections are a very appealing target for trolls and bad actors. If I remember right lemmy was actually hacked sometime early in my time using it and I think instances running a certain version went offline for a while while they tried to fix the vulnerability. And there’s a well known bad actor who periodically shows up in a thread with like 50 accounts and makes hundreds and hundreds of comments drowning everything out with angry gibberish

Federation combined with an anonymous platform modeled after reddit makes it in some ways a lot harder to ban people. So all his accounts get banned and he just comes back.

This is all managed by volunteers being paid donations and occasionally sponsor money. Thats part of what allows it to be independent and resilient to enshitification (combined with federation, and being self hostable, and free license open source software) but it also means we don’t have the same luxury of resources that reddit does.

Bonfire social seems cool as fuck, but I wish I understood exactly what it is a little better-

Am I understanding right that its more fediverse building tools for folks who run instances? Or is it a platform like lemmy, mastodon, piefed? Both? Something else entirely?

It feels hard to pin down what it actually is 😅

Info dumps by nerdy folks who are passionate about stuff are my favorite!! ☺️☺️

That’s super interesting, thanks for explaining! And yeah that’s a pretty central contradiction, I can see how that’d drive a lot of theological debate/discussion. Even within the public consciousness it feels like you have the two versions of the christian god, the “turn the other cheek” and the wrathful god you must learn to fear.

I get not wanting to accept the compliment, there’s often a really big difference between a true expert within a field of study and someone with “expertise” in the more coloquial sense of someone having significantly more specialized knowledge than a layman. Regardless, you know a lot more than me or most other folks in this thread and I really appreciate you sharing your knowledge and perspective with us ☺️

Thanks for sharing your expertise with us!

Are there any major contradictions that come to mind off the top of your head?

Nice!! Thank you for filling me in, I appreciate it ☺️

Weird…

Yeah, short form content isn’t really my cup of tea either. I’m glad it exists though :)

I think someone told me in another thread a while back discussing loops that at the time it was only like certain libraries and whatnot? I wasn’t sure if that was still the case, or if that person was right, or what 🤷‍♂️

I’m not an especially technical person so I don’t really remember details though 😅

Much respect to the devs for doing their best to transition actively to end-of-life and port functionality to the offline mode :)