So i was earlier at mainstream social media apps, by it was very shitty(dumb people), then I went to reddit, after some while I realised it’s also shit(clown people and dumb mods, like no freedom). So now I found this. I have few queries- 1.How does fediverse and lemmy work, couldn’t find much on the Internet and AI wasn’t much help either. 2.Whats the environment here? 3.What all words and how freedom is allowed here? 4.What are some general rules/unspoken tradition to follow if any? 5.Anything else u wanna tell about
People are stupid everywhere, but there are fewer people overall here and that makes a surprisingly big difference.
Fediverse is a large network of servers which are allowed to communicate with each other. Some fediverse servers refuse to communicate with some others referred to as “Defederation”. Each “instance” as we call them has its own hosts, owners, admins, and rules.
The major flavors of fediverse instances are Piefed, Lemmy, and Kbin/mbin. They’re open source frameworks used to build the instances.
I strongly strongly strongly advice against instances which are still federated with Hexbear, a Chinese propoganda botnet, such as Lemmy ML or Lemmy Today, and I actually advise against all lemmy instances in general because their codebase maintainers are anti-trans, pro-genocide, pro-Trump, and pro-Russian invasion of Ukraine.
and I actually advise against all lemmy instances in general because their codebase maintainers
I don’t think they applied their politics to their software yet though, right? Unlike the Piefed dev.
Well, regardless I’m glad I chose to go with a software that isn’t tied to politics at all.
Please read the other replies. They regularly put up a funding banner and have a long history of pushing extreme propaganda and silencing dissent, and they’ve also been known to use their homepage to promote instances which align with their views rather than by any merit.
Please cite source on the piefed dev.
Wait, whaa? You mean lemmy.world, too? Can you please point me to a source for this? I joined on lemmy.world just as a reddit refugee when they killed all the 3rd party apps and I’m still only partway familiar with how the fediverse works haha (why I opened this thread)… I’ve had a good experience on lemmy.world so far, I obviously don’t want to inadvertently support those initiatives, though…
So the Lemmy framework developers only officially host the Lemmy ML instance themselves but they are responsible for all the feature pushes and merges in the code. They use this authority to throw up a banner asking for donations on every Lemmy instance, and when asked why the Lemmy World team hadn’t taken the banner down they said they explicitly do support them including with their own donations.
You can find more information on the Lemmy developer’s extremism on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works in the post “Documentation of Lemmy.ml’s Extremism”
Oooooof. Guess I gotta learn how to move myself to another instance now, and if my fave app will even work with that instance. Heh. Sigh. How disappointing. Really appreciate you calling it out, explaining it, and sharing the source.
There isn’t any mechanism for migrating your accounts, you would just make an account elsewhere and abandon this one.
I’m not sure how much it matters that you’re using Lemmy software when you’re on an instance that isn’t the the devs’, but money talks I suppose. Generally instance owners pay attention to changes and keep things configured in a sane way
But just the same, the same team that runs lemmy.world also run piefed.world if you still think you feel you need to switch to different software. It’s what I did. But you can move to piefed.social if you’d rather ditch the team entirely
I’m betting a week before you crash out at a communist.
Is that like a standardized thing in the culture here?
There are a lot of communists and anarchists here, they are certainly ingrained in the culture. Typically when someone new shows up from reddit complaining about reddit censorship of language its because they said something bigoted and will naturally end up butting heads with leftists.
I think I’m seeing the pattern. On the other hand exploring the modlog things look pretty hostile even between the old guard here.
We call em’ tankies 'round these parts.
One thing it’s easy to miss about the fediverse is that it’s not just lemmy users here. You’ll see folks from friendica (which is like facebook) or pixelfed (which is like instagram) or mastodon (which is like twitter) or one of a dozen other services in the comments. Each one of them has a different culture and different ways of interacting, so assuming everyone is gonna act like you’re used to from reddit is going to serve you poorly. My best advice is to always be actively kind to other people, and try not to complain too much about the mods or the admins – no-one’s get paid to be here (and many of us are actively paying for server fees) and no-one can stop you from saying anything you want, because you can always start your own community or stand up your own instance.
so I’m curious about the other platforms being here - how do I tell who they are?
How can I interact with those platforms from my lemmy instance?
Its something I don’t understand but think would be awesome and improve my lemmy experience greatly if I had those as part of my lemmy feed if thats possible?
Thanks in advance
You’ll start to recognize the larger instances after a bit. The domain/instance name sometimes has a hint as to what kind of platform it is.
Lemmy gets along well with “Threadiverse” (Reddit-like) instances: Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin. Searching for Communities (subreddits) will automatically fetch the community list from the other platforms and you can join/subscribe like you would on Reddit. So, it should be easy for you to access those.
If you’re on PieFed, they take it a little further and allow you to combine similar communities across platforms into a single “Feed”. A few 3rd party apps for Lemmy allow you to do something similar. Just keep in mind that different instances will usually have slightly different rules/mods for similar communities.
Lemmy doesn’t interact too well with Mastodon (Twitter-like) instances. But those users can see our activity and comment on posts at will. You can reply to them just like any other user once they’ve commented on a post that you can see.
Mbin instances support a little bit of peeking into the Mastodon side, and PieFed supports it a bit more. For instance, following users will pull their posts into a catch-all “Microblogs” community that other users on the threadiverse can interact with. Ex:
!microblogs@piefed.socialThere are even some “bridge” accounts that have the potential to link up Mastodon and BlueSky users… But as far as I’ve seen on the threadiverse side, only PieFed users have recently been able to take advantage of that.
You likely won’t see too many users from Threads. A decent number of instances block Meta and any Threads user would also need to enable something in their account settings to see outside of their bubble.
That’s cool. If I wanted to see Bluesky posts from piefed, how could I do that?
It should be just as easy as following this account here: @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy
I’m having some issues with my account (likely an issue with requiring users to have a profile picture uploaded before following). I can at least see one other PieFed.zip user who was able to get it working successfully.
