A lot of your problems woild go away if you stopped browsing by all…

It’s not a federation issue, just that the community was running the alien.top mirroring system and I stopped it.

Regarding “why I do not join you instead”: Nothing against you or lemmy.zip, I just do not want to contribute to communities that are on non topic-specific instances.

I can give you all the moderation powers and full control over the community at the topic-specific instance if you want. Also, my ADAPT project is very close to achieve API-parity with Lemmy, and this summer I am planning to convert the topic-specific instances to it. This will mean I will be able to add new features and make the work for content curation and promotion easier.

Yes, it was one of the alien.top targets. Still, better to use a topic-specific instance that already exists for 3 years than bootstrapping yet-another community.

If you’d rather join forces, take a look at !watches@style.land

I’ll be interested in following this thread. Some customers of mine are tired of Pixelfed thousand little papercuts and are considering dropping entirely. Even one photographer preferred to run their own Mastodon instance to avoid dealing with Pixelfed’s eternal beta status. I might spend some time this weekend figuring out how difficult it would to deploy Vernissage.

Best person to answer this is @mariusor@metalhead.club

True, you’ll need an activity object whose actor is the same as the original post creator to indicate the answer is accepted. The point still stands, though: the ActivityStreams vocabulary already has what’s needed to enable this funcionality.

whether this feels useful as a product category or too sensitive to trust

To me it falls into “this is not a product, this is a feature” type of idea. If you are looking for crowdsourcing the feedback, then the whole privacy aspect falls flat and you might as well just do without it. And by then you have no real differentiator than running a simple “rate my photo” community on Lemmy.

Ok.I see. Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea. It’s only a marginal benefit in terms of protection against data scrapers (you can also build that profile based on who they follow, or what they write about…) and it makes things more difficult for moderators and hides important information from other community members.

Stop thinking in terms of “votes”. Think of the activities as a “fixed content messages”: John liked this. Alice liked that. Bethany did not like that other thing. Each “vote” is a meaningful interaction. A server that says “2734 people did not like your message” means absolutely nothing.

This is not a political council nor a popularity contest. No one will make critical decisions based on the amount of worthless Internet points.

I do not understand arguments about privacy when we are talking about a public, social network. Social interactions online do not need to be that different from real-world interactions. if you are not willing to say “I did not like / I disagree with you” to someone personally, then you shouldn’t say it at all.

Sean proposed something more ambitious: identity-first onboarding, where you import your social graph and content before choosing a server. The idea: set up a “pre-identity” that pulls in your posts and connections from other networks, then pick a server that fits

https://fediverser.network/ has exactly this. The missing piece was (still is) that no lemmy admin that I talked to bothered to integrate with it.

I understand that coming from users, but not from the project developers. They know they’ve built a client for the Mastodon API, so it should be described as such.

I was super excited when I saw the headline because I am just about to deploy a headless ActivityPub server, then I realized it’s a client for the Mastodon API.

Seems like the type of thing that can be solved with a trip to archive.org, no?

This looks more like an issue with Android than Fairphone, to be honest. AFAIK, they don’t do any customization on the Android rom they use.

Right, I misunderstood. We have daily backups and I can give access to them via SFTP, but to be honest there is no interface to do that via the website yet. It’s only recently that hetzner integrated their storage box solution to their cloud API, and I didn’t have the time (or customer pressure) to automate that yet.

Hey, Communick founder here. End of last year we did the migration for ttrpg.network from K&T to our servers. There were definitely some issues in the beginning as that was the first large-ish instance in terms of community activity, but things now seems to be a lot better. To anyone willing to migrate, I can extend the same deal I offered to @eerongal@ttrpg.network: if you commit to an yearly plan, I can waive the setup fee.

Correct. ATProto is the protocol used by Bluesky. There is one bridge already

Right now: communick members get an account on Matrix, Mastodon and Funkwhale, where they can upload up to 250GB.

Coming soon ™:

• account at an ADAPT instance, with a custom client that can let people interact with any type of server.
• XMPP integration to integrate movim.
• Custom Voyager client to get read-only Reddit access.

Under consideration:

• Bridging with ATProto

It’s quite easy to flip this around: forcing topical discussion through groups are just a workaround for lack of proper discovery and aggregated search…

To give you one simple example: I get a lot more useful and meaningful interactions from following #emacs on mastodon than by waiting for people to find out and post to !emacs@programming.dev. Same thing for #nfl and !nfl@nfl.community or !nfl@a.gup.pe, etc.