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Blaze (he/him)

@ Blaze @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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8mo ago

Is the Fediverse stalling?
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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Have you subscribed to the new Piefed communities following the lemm.ee shutdown?
https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/post/326
I just tried with !movies@piefed.social and !casualconversation@piefed.social , and it seems like your instance doesn't federate them, I guess it's probably the same for the others
Wait a sec, how come that https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk isn't federated either?
Edit: what a sec, your instance only has 7 communities federated?!
https://lemmy.relayeasy.com/communities?listingType=All&sort=TopMonth&page=1

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Yeah we can reach out to the mods there and see if they’d want to redirect to us.

Thanks!

8mo ago

Upvote the post linked in the description to show support for Summit to work with PieFed too

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

You still don't want to use https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.world/post/31899935 ? 😄

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Thank you!

8mo ago

Is the Fediverse stalling?

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

!unitedkingdom@lemmy.ml

Last post then 10 days ago, !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk has 2 from today

!UKCasual@lemmy.world

Last post 1 month ago, !casualuk@feddit.uk has 2 posts from today

@blackn1ght@feddit.uk @Flax_vert@feddit.uk @GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk @frankPodmore@slrpnk.net do you maybe want to try to reach out to the .ml and LW communities to see if they could redirect to your communities?

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Block the meta communities

Or use Piefed where you can create different feeds (a la multireddit): https://join.piefed.social/

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

It's the other way around, OpenStars suggested Lemmy to the people, the people had a look and were not convinced.

They usually have a comment where they explain it, but I can't find it now.

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

I would say so, worst case scenario it's a false positive, best case you identified a bug!

8mo ago

Upvote the post linked in the description to show support for Summit to work with PieFed too

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Let's hope we can reach 200 votes, the dev said that after this release the counter would be reset

I’m going to be generous and leave the PieFed post up for one more release but I will definitely reset it next release. If you want Summit to support PieFed please upvote this post: https://lemmy.world/post/31899935 .

https://lemmy.world/post/32400368

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Though you are right, PieFed is just now turning the corner where I feel that I could ethically do so (I still see so many bugs: especially notifications that lead to nowhere, e.g. if the post gets deleted but the notification remains, and the continued lack of a Preview ability, but at the rate things are going those could both be resolved by next month! Or possibly already are in the Voyager app support?).

Are those bugs still around even with the new notification update a few days ago? If yes, could you please report them on https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues ?

8mo ago

Voyager v2.37.1, with experimental Piefed support

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Comments and reports are usual better at calling out controversy than downvotes

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Doing well, thanks!

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Every single person that I’ve ever told about Lemmy has not only refused to join, but outright chided me for having recommended it to them. Every. Single. One.

Have you tried to suggest then Piefed since then, especially now with Voyager starting to support it?

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Always cool to see you around!

8mo ago

Anyone fancy themselves a fancier casual conversation community?

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Are there any issues with !casualconversation@piefed.social ?

8mo ago

Let's explore the fediverse 🤓 - 27

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Trying to revive !wholesome@reddthat.com because why not

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Aren't most of them on https://feddit.uk/communities ?

8mo ago

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Thank you!

8mo ago

Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Yeah, the reason I say that is because Sunaurus had setup something like 10 sub-servers (most of them non-redundant) running the instance, at a cost of ~US$200/mo. I can’t pretend to be any expert in such stuff, but my perception is that (rather famously unlike certain other instances) it was overall beautifully able to handle massive influxes of users, DDOS attacks, spam issues, outage issues, and whatever else. It also had a health-status link (now defunct) and I think maybe other user/server tools, as well.

Lemm.ee was definitely solid, but it was not the only one.

https://discuss.tchncs.de/ is managed by the admin behind https://tchncs.de/ , as you can see, they offer quite a few services: https://status.tchncs.de/status/tchncs

Another issue apart from that is that even when the content can be migrated to another instance, nobody can say with any certainty that such instance won’t crash, either. There’s also the fact that now that EGN’s stuff is mostly migrated (with ~160 postings lost), I can’t actually edit any of it even as the community owner. So personally, it’s another big chonk of work trying to patch up any content that has aging issues… such as Imgur content needing to be re-uploaded, info updating, and/or links needing to be fixed. I.e., I’ll need to delete, rework and re-launch so many of those aging posts when I’d much rather be focused on creating new content.

In your situation, have you ever considered hosting a blog rather than content directly on Lemmy/Piefed? That might be an easier way to manage the content over time. https://text.tchncs.de/about this be used for example, there are probably other instances around (https://writefreely.fediverse.observer/list)

Another option would be WordPress, which would allow you to link your blog with a Lemmy/Piefed community, like it was done here:

As much as I like Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin, in their current state they're not the best solution for content that is going to be edited and updated over a long period of time

8mo ago

lemm.ee has shut down for good

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Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.com 8mo ago

Being a dedicated content instance provider would also inherently imply dedicating that instance to a certain, more controlled type of content. An authentication instance might want to cater to a geography, which will probably decide to interact with the rest of the world and to provide adequate verification and certification mechanisms. A content instance might want to cater to a geography or a subject, resulting in specialized participation, with certification and verification based on the content, not the user.

Those control mechanisms were available to lemm.ee. There's a reason most active instances mostly defederate from certain instances.

You keep seeing monolithic instances that congregate the most communities as a plus. That’s a negative in my perspective on the fediverse. It shouldn’t be competing reddit clones with the one having the most communities winning out.

I don't, I'm the one regularly pushing for more decentralization of communities (https://reddthat.com/post/20197120 , e.g. !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com vs !privacy@lemmy.ml)

But I would rather have instances use the tools they currently have (and hopefully more will come with Piefed development catching up) rather than trying to re-engineer the whole platform when some instances don't use the existing moderation tools.