Can you describe how (if?) the flair part integrates with AP?

I’m downvoting because this community doesn’t feel like the right place for any type of meta-discussion.

An oversimplification: wikidata is a graph database where people edit semantic triples (subject, predicate, object) instead of text articles.

One could argue that the Fediverse is itself a graph database that anyone could edit, though current implementations are mostly focused on taking this abstract data and putting a usable shell that resembles specific applications.

Is every entry on a ibis an as:Article object? Could it be generalized for any type of Linked Data? This would make it possible to not only have a federated wikipedia but the whole wikidata project.

I’d guess that whoever would be willing to give you copies of legal documents just to join an “exclusive” instance would also be okay with contributing a few bucks per month to pay for its costs.

Why do you want to run an instance for that many people? Do you have 1000 people already, or is that just a number that you decided to work with? Why would people be interested in joining an instance with less functionality than the bigger ones?

Also: does it have to be Mastodon, or would you consider other alternatives? Pleroma and GoToSocial would be a lot easier to manage.

Hey, just wanted to thank you for bringing up the issue with the portal at alien.top. I updated both the portal and the lemmy instance now, should be working again.

1. Go to Wikidata. Create an account if you don’t have one.
2. Search for the person.
3. Find the “Add Statement” button (all the way on the bottom of the list of statements)
4. For property, select “Mastodon User” (you start typing it, it will show up in the dropdown).
5. Add the mastodon handle (without the first @ sign)
6. Submit.

This is totally a display of form over function.

The main issue for newcomers is the paradox of choice, and unless you are some exceptional case you’ll end up clicking more than one of the options and be facing a wall of options to choose from.

Also, what is the use case for recommending Emissary?

The confusion is yours: citizenship and nationality are equivalent terms. You might be thinking of residency status, which gives you the right to live and access to all of the welfare system, but does not make you a citizen, so you don’t have the right, e.g., to vote for national elections nor gives you a Portuguese passport.

For the while, yes.

FYI: there is !toyota@gearhead.town. Maybe it would be better/nicer to use that one instead of being too specific?

I can make you a mod there too if you’d like.

On a penalty shootout. What’s so special about it? Am I missing something?

instead of downvoting it, how about blocking the communities that don’t interest you?

I will take a look at the login issue. Seems like I need to update alien.top to a more recent version of Lemmy.

If you already have a Fedi account and just want to help with the community mapping, please take a look at https://fediverser.network/. The “fediversed” instances (like alien.top) can update their own mapping based on changes from fediverser.network, so any on one place can be used by admins elsewhere.

Nothing can be easier than going to https://portal.alien.top/, signing up with your Reddit account and seeing your account already subscribed to communities corresponding to your favorite subreddits.

Unfortunately Brazilians have a kind of automatic citizenship on arrival from an agreement between Portugal and Brazil.

Either you are grossly simplifying their extended visa process or you are utterly misinformed.

There is no “automatic citizenship” for Brazilians. The only path to citizenship in Portugal is by bloodline and even that has become harder to get: it used to be that grandchildren of Portuguese citizens could start the process to get citizenship directly, and some good ~15 years ago it changed that only the direct descendants can do it.

I am not talking about people like you that get involved in the communities they enjoy. I am talking about those that seem to be dedicated to a personal mission.

Yeah, I didn’t get this part either. I will take a look later to see if I can turn the this into a more traditional web app.

I agree with almost all of your points, but I don’t think that it’s okay to normalize guilt by association, and I call them “the mob” because I see these calls for defederation less as a real concern for their safety and more of instrument to enforce compliance.