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is anyone else exploring the wider fediverse?

I know of a few users who were originally from kbin/mastodon, I've heard some mentions of peertube, and I'm currently posting this from calckey.

@[email protected] #redditmigration

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm everywhere on the fediverse. Mastodon, peertube, Lemmy, even Matrix and xmpp and nostr.

I realized a couple years back that we can't trust big tech even to do the basics like send messages from point a to point b, at that point I have no use for them anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly no, I'm waiting for it to come to me. I was promised eventual inter-operability with a lot of it from my one account, and I like the simple format of Lemmy, so I'm waiting until I can access stuff like Mastodon content from here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

unfortunately, it seems a feature request to add microblogging functionality to lemmy was rejected by the devs: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3402

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'll cave to pressure eventually. I understand them not prioritizing adding the functionality early in the development, when there are about a billion things potentially more important.

Once those billion things get whittled down though, the situation changes. If they haven't added it in 3 years, I'll probably just switch to kbin. Probably along with many others, due to overall integration being pretty integral to the Fediverse as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So I assume it'd be like posting in /u/yourname back in spezland? Now it feels weird to think leddit also had microblogging features of some sort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Went to Mastodon after Twitter got bought by Elon. Don't really care for the whole "He's a Nazi" stuff, mainly intrigued that corporate-free social media even existed. I was attracted by the no ad policy 😜 Since then I wouldn't say I was e erywhere, but I have embraced #IndieWeb principles by making sure I was on platforms I can easily switch from. For eg, moved my website from Squarespace to WordPress.com cos it can connect with the Fediverse. (comments on my Mastodon can appear on the related blog post for eg).

In the future it is said that WordPress and Tumblr will connect to Activity Pub. Still waiting 😆

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haven't yet, because this format is what i tend to prefer when choosing social media. Pixelfed got me interest tho

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Stumbled exploring fediverse (\lemmy.ml account interacting \monyet.cc alternate universe).

Anyway, how to make everything visible to my this \lemmy.ml account? (From here, sleep walking into more alternate universe)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@zn Vulcan did, years ago during first #TwitterMigration

Those platforms are #Mastodon and #PeerTube

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

here's a link that may help, I am using a similar method to post to lemmy from calckey.

@[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wow, calckey has one of the best GUIs I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so....wait. is mastodon also lemmy? I’m real fuckin confused here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is its own thing. It's a microblogging platform like Twitter. Lemmy is an aggregator and discussion platform like Reddit. Kbin is a mix of both.

But they all can talk with each other as they're using a set of communication protocols that everyone understands, called ActivityPub. This protocol is the foundation that made the fediverse possible. It means content can be spread across many servers, and interactions can happen the same way.