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I love how the Fediverse/ActivityPub prevents region blocking from being effective (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world
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Lemmy.ml, the most popular instance fo Lemmy out there, is not accessible in my country unless I use a VPN. But, I can subscribe to any community that exists on lemmy.ml from here and even post on those communities from this account.

I love this aspect of Lemmy.

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[โ€“] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yeah, I was careful to say fediverse rather than lemmy for that reason. I think a sufficiently motivated party could still make access very difficult to sustain. Whether anyone's going to be that motivated remains to be seen.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @mykl There's only one issue with the ActivityPub.

    Which is:
    - Is more feasible to make an account into Lemmy or Kbin to comment, save posts or give them thumbs up/down than to access to the ActivityPub from another social network in the fediverse.

    For example to make these comments into Lemmy from Mastodon I had to search for a guide on internet to make it possible. ActivityPub isn't user friendly which is the main issue in the entire fediverse (issues with UI and UX).

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I certainly admit your dedication in working it out ๐Ÿ˜€

    I knew it was a feature, but I suspect it's one of those things that will make little sense to most people until power-users start using it to build extraordinary features and services that we don't even know we need yet.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    @mykl I make it work, but there's interoperability issues.
    Right now I can see that one of my comments got like 2 thumbs up. The issue is that I can't see it on Mastodon, not even like a "favorite โญ" which is the closest thing.
    Also I gave you a "favorite", but Lemmy don't register it as a thumbs up, so probably you only gonna see some of my interactions with you, only if you access through the Mastodon UI.

    Also I can't find the way to follow people from Lemmy and bookmark/save their posts.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Well, early days I suppose. Now they're both receiving a lot more attention I hope that these sorts of issues will get addressed. If you enjoy the pain I hope you've checked out how it all works with kbin too!

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago

    @mykl Right now I think that I'll leave the ActivityPub for now.
    Is easier just to make an account in lemmy.ca and in kbin.social than trying to reply comments/toots, find a way make the comment in first place, to try to follow someone and also to find a way to save content from another social network.

    Also ActivityPub allows me to make a post on Lemmy from Mastodon on any of their "subreddits/communities".
    The issue I can only post and reply 500 characters. Which is very annoying.

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