Hey folks, I have several accounts across the fediverse (Lemmy, pixelfed, mastodon, bookwyrm), and I think it would be neat to have a single identity across all these platforms.

This is just something ActivityPub just doesn’t handle very well. It’s one of the things AT Proto (Bluesky, Tangled) handles a lot better and hopefully something we steal from it.

Rebased, a fork of Pleroma

The TERF fork?

Could I still use the different apps? (Blorp, Pachli, Rocinante). Would I be missing features?

No, these apps depend on the various platform APIs. Pachli might work, depending on how Mastodon-compatible Pleroma’s API is, but Blorp and Rocinante will not.

They’re not EU based, but libro.fm is good for DRM-free audiobooks.

Thanks for your efforts! I know that feeling well friend, my main social media used to be Reddit and Twitter.

!rwby@sh.itjust.works has been weirdly active lately, which is a nice surprise. I would’ve thought the community would be mostly dormant until Volume 10.

They’re really leaning into the email similarities here, not a fan of moving the sidebar to the other side but I’ll get over it. My biggest wish on the UI front though is for them to add a threaded view for replies like what Bluesky has, navigating long threads on Mastodon can be really taxing just trying to follow reply chains.

Why not just use something like Wordpress? Plenty of web fiction is already published on it and it federates.

The best part is that this won’t even work, the max page size in Lemmy is 100.

Detrans.ai is on X, the everything app

Modern fascism in one sentence.

Sure, but I’m just pointing out that these are different features that happen to be named the same thing. I’d also point out that something that doesn’t federate can’t really be called part of the fediverse, which is what OP was asking about.

Piefed’s private communities are local only, ie no federation. The Lemmy 1.0 ones do federate.

Lemmy 1.0 will have ‘private communities’, which are communities whose posts can only be viewed by approved subscribers. I wouldn’t trust this though, you can’t guarantee other instances running other software will keep the posts private, so I’d only trust this if you host the instance and allow list vetted instances, which just opens you up to the problems mentioned in the other thread.

Your best bet is an e2ee messaging app with group support. People will recommend Matrix, but the moderation tools kind of suck and it can be very resource demanding to host (from what I’ve heard, I don’t host Matrix). Signal is what most privacy people will recommend but I don’t know how accessible it is in Iran given it’s centralised nature. The XMPP people will inevitably speak up and they’re probably even right, but I’ve never used XMPP so can’t speak on it.

Then you can just block the user agent in nginx or whatever you use, like all the other AI scrapers who ignore robots.txt (*cough* Amazon)

The point is that there’s going to be no difference, soon Google search will be just another chatbot interface.

Information-gathering agents are an evolution of Google Alerts. Beyond spotting changes, they can make sense of them, too.

… Links will become an afterthought with the coming changes to the Search results experience.

Web publishers should honestly just block googlebot at this point. Why should they provide credibility to whatever Google’s stochastic parrot hallucinates if Google won’t even give them any kickback?

So what do we search with instead of Google? There isn’t a lot of choice. There’s various flavours of Google or Bing.

Microsoft deprecated their Bing API back in August, instead telling people to use some Azure AI thing. DDG and the like weren’t affected because they have contracts, but I can’t imagine they’ll be renewed.

BTW, in markdown you can put alt text in the image link and renders will put it into the image tag. ![alt-text](https://example.com/this.png)

Well that’s embarrassing, it’s literally in the part I quoted.

This is not in any way a “new” idea. It’s company scrip — a company’s own made-up money that you can only spend in the company store.

At least you could buy food with company script. Tech bros have really invented company script, but worse.

You were instance banned under lemmy.ml’s rule 4, not the privacy community’s rule 4. ml’s rule 4 is “No Ads / Spamming”. This seems to have been prompted by you reposting a removed post, which frankly seems fair despite what I think of ml’s moderation normally.

Rule 4 does seem to be a bad reason to remove the original post, though I think it should’ve been removed simply for how cringe ‘cuckloading’ is as a term. Stop trying to link sexual deviancy to moral deficiency.

One problem with the whole C2S thing is you can easily end up in the Matrix/XMPP situation where some clients and servers implement some smattering of standards and it just becomes confusing to navigate and use.

This is approximately the situation in the fediverse today, with Mastodon in the role of Gmail. The difference is that email has IMAP and SMTP, client protocols that are not only standardized but universally adopted. Every email server implements them and every email client expects them.

Tuta has entered the chat.

I’ve seen other people on Mastodon/Bluesky mention that the site takes an ‘anti-censorship’ approach to moderation, so there’s a bunch of far right people doing Nazi stuff on there.