Misskey has a more similar UI to Twitter, and it can’t even get noticed by fediverse users.

I mean, it’s a network of indeoendent websites. I’m not sure what kind of solution to this people want.

People seem to be able to choose which wrbsite they’re signing up for when looking at Twitter, BlueSky, and Threads. It’s not like it’t that weird of an idea.

They even grok the idea that different Wordpress-based websites are different from each other!

Maybe if we stopped treating “Mastodon” as a space, and talked about it like the webhost software it is, people would understand.

The fact that the fediverse has been mentally limited to “Mastodon and Lemmy” is so sad. The features many people complained weren’t on Mastodon were right there on Akkoma, Misskey, Friendica, Hometown, and others. But nobody would even look at them.

Even on the fediverse nobody wants to discuss the sea of alternative services.

I cry a little bit every time someone acts like Misskey and its forks don’t exist

There’s a lot of that. A ton of FOSS software is somewhat exclusionary because it’s made for the people who make it.

But a lot of the UX issues on Mastodon have nothing to do with the tech, nor the UI. They’re social in nature.The existing userbase skews technical, which affects what people discuss, and people looking for help are met with a deluge of tech savy people giving tech savy advice.

Oh, and there’s the mass of very vocal users on niche sites that have strong feelings about having their niche safe space invaded by “normies”, and who let it be known that new users should learn and adhere to “the rules” and respect the unlisted, unagreed upon nettiquite of social outcast “progressive” fedi or GTFO.

And then, on top of the social, there’s just the fact that most Internet users don’t really grok the Internet these days. Twitter or BlueSky aren’t websites to them/ they’re “apps”. The very nature of federation on the Fediverse runs counter to how they understand how thir “apps” work.

They don’t want to have to know about it, but they can’t avoid people talking about it, making judgements around it, and having to confront it when edge cases crop up or when admins decide they don’t like or trust the new crop of fedi websites that have sprung up this month or last.

On Twiiter or BlueSky, they don’t have to think about any of it.

Market lovers don’t love markets. They love power. And if you can’t exercise power over someone as worthless as the homeless, who can you?

As if development teams choose their projects in publisher owned studios.

It’s auto-complete. It knows that “4” is the most common substring to follow “2 + 2” in its training. It’s not actually doing addition.

What’s the claim about federation that overcomes the bullshit of social media usage?

Let me talk to you about a little hidden gem known as Skyrim…

Running from one platform backed by people who supported Trump, right into another one. Gotta love controlled opposition and the illusion of choice.

Fancy!

What did you search for? It’s, regrettably, a little specific. Try searching for [email protected] It took 15 seconds or so, but it ended up showing up for me:

Unfortunately, it doesn’t return any videos when I actually check out the ‘community’. Lemmy doesn’t seem to fetch older content from PeerTube like it does from other Lemmy sites. But if I search for the video using the URL you’ve provided above, and set the search to ‘posts’, it shows up:

The video doesn’t appear as embedded media, though, so while you can interact with the video comments, you still end up sent off to the PeerTube site to watch the video itself.

Right. So, no software ever, then. Even if you have a license that grants you perpetual usage rights, that doesn’t extend to anyone else shouldering the responsibility of perpetual hosting.

Your right to use software does not give you the right to expect others to store your digital junk for you.

If you search for the PeerTube channel URL in the BZ search bar, it should pull in the channel as Lemmy community. I don’t know if PeerTube and Lemmy are totally working right with each other yet or not, though. They’ve had issues in the past.

A big issue with the 2022 signup wave was the influx of new Masto websites, run by new admins. The subscription model of ActivityPub meant they were mostly contentless, and they weren’t seeded by knowledgeable users. People needed to understand the basics of federation to find anything because nothing was being syndicated on those sites.

And then a bunch of them shut down when admins who were ok hosting hundreds of like-minded users suddenly had thousands of generalist users flooding their sites.

It was major human infrastructure failure.

And that was as a whole bunch of tenured users started getting hostile over people not adopting the idiosyncratic nettiquite of the was-niche-only-yesterday space. The server blocks started rolling out, and people needed to understand the idea of “federation” (and, apparently, “the Internet”) to understand why they were being “denied access” to the cranky people, trolls, and unmoderated spaces.

The truth is, most people don’t like the internet. They like the simple, streamlined process of just being owned by corporate interests. Walles gardens work for them in a way public parks never will.

No, ActivityPub doesn’t share your login credentials with other websites, nor is it a single-sign-in service.

It’s a content sharing protocol that lets websites syndicate content. AP will let you see content from PeerTube channels on blahja zone, as if it were originally posted there, if BZ is currently sharing content with the PeerTube site you’re interested in.

AP is why you can see content from lemmy.world on BZ. It’s why I can reply to you from lemmy.ca. But it won’t let you sign in to a PeerTube website, or even other Lemmy-bases websites, any more than it will let you sign in to Facebook.

Uh, probably the default web interface. And Masto servers still lack quite a bit of functionality found on other fedi services.

That is not moderation. Moderation involves removing bad actors from the site, not underground black lists that let you pretend the Nazis aren’t living next door.

Mastodon has local and global feeds, and has for years. Did you just sit in your home feed and wonder where all the stuff you haven’t subscribed to was?