Yeah unfortunately I can’t because I’m on Friendica and Lemmy is annoying in that it treats images differently from the rest of the Fediverse.

This link should work: files.catbox.moe/stvn1w.jpg

Sure thing, here you go:

nerdica.net/photos/masimatutu/…

No complaints so far. I’m not using many new features, but I really like the new user interface.

For some weird reason in the implementation of the AP protocol, lemmy posts are seems as just a link on mastodon, the replies are complete though.

ActivityPub allows two post formats, Notes and Articles. Articles support titles and therefore posts on Lemmy and threads on /kbin use them, while notes do not and are therefore used for microblogging and commenting. Currently Mastodon’s article federation only goes so far as linking the post for content, and to be honest I’m doubtful whether Threads will federate Articles at all given their carefulness with federation.

You’re confusing defederation with Lemmy’s instance blocking. Defederation means that none of a server’s content is federated. Lemmy’s new instance blocking feature, however, only blocks communities and not users.

That’s not how federation works. If you’re on an instance that doesn’t allow Threads, you won’t see them at all, even when viewing posts coming from other instances.

You know that if you actively blocked the instances that are federated with Threads you wouldn’t have seen this post, right (lemmy.world/instances)? I’m also only active on instances that block Threads, but blocking those who don’t is an excessive measure.

But they won’t. Seeing how little even the relatively federation-conscious Mastodonians interact with Lemmy, from Threads it will be close to zero (especially since the devs are very “careful” with federation and probably won’t display article-formatted posts anytime soon).

No, that’s just Lemmy. On Masto it blocks all interactions from users (including prohibiting them from following you and therefore fetching your posts).

I’m just saying that even on federated instances the users can choose to block Threads, and that that gives the same result for them. There’s no need to force the hand of the user; there are more than enough corpo-critical people on Fedi for it not to be taken over by Meta.

Edit: And I understand that allowing interaction with Meta is very risky business. Which is why I like the approach of instances like social.coop which restrict interaction from Threads but still give the user a choice.

By all means, fuck Meta to the moon and back, but for goodness’ sake, users on federated servers can choose to block the domain with the same result, not to mention that admins can simply restrict it (see social.coop/@eloquence/1115888…). It just isn’t so black and white as people are making it seem.

Federation with a bigger platform is realistically the only way for Fedi to become mainstream, and at the moment Meta seems at least to be trying to be communicative. And with their quite unvaluable userbase they really don’t have enough leverage against the privacy-concious Fediverse to turn AP into MetaPub. For now.

Thing about the Fediverse is that software is just software; what you should care about is the instances. There are a whole bunch of Mastodon instances that have already defederated long ago. A few big ones include mas.to, mstdn.social and troet.cafe; you can find the rest here: fedipact.veganism.social/.

Content isn’t cached unless someone follows it anyways.

And I’m not sure what you mean with that latter part; what difference would this make in what content admins can see before they cast their judgement on a server?

Thanks a lot for this list! My only comment is that I prefer Mull over Fennec because it’s a lot more hardened.

@clgoh They haven’t even embraced yet and they’re extending already. Nice.

@ttmrichter
Well it’s not an actual issue; it’s just my ideas of what would be better. If only I think it, why should they do anything? What I’m really trying to do is to see what people think and spark some thoughts.

I’d like to add that the developers’ communication channels is a very inappropriate place to complain for someone who is uninvolved with the project.

(And you can tell that this is primarily directed at Mastodonians because the title is also the first line, because of the seemingly excessive explanation of how this place works and because of the hashtags and the mentions in the end of the post. Also, why would I specifically write to fedi tips if this was just a Lemmy post?)

Developing is not for everyone.

And I posted this in microblog format via Friendica specifically so that it would also (primarily) reach Mastodon. It’s got 27 boosts, which is quite alright for such a long post!

@ttmrichter
Yes, donating helps them develop the project, which is great and I encourage everyone who can to do so, but it doesn’t change the direction of the development. Mastodon is ultimately people powered, making spreading sentiments a reasonable way to change this, if you’re not going to develop the project yourself.

Writing this from Friendica. I have never used Facebook, so I’m not entirely sure how people use it. BUt if you want to use a ethical platform to organise events, the best option is probably Mobilizon. If it is for general information and entertainment, I recommend Friendica (or Mastodon, which is smoother, but less flexible).