The fediverse, explained
www.theverge.com
It’s Mastodon, it’s Threads, it’s the future, and it’s extremely confusing
      • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Been test running various Lemmy apps, I think Voyager is nice but for some reason it bothers me that I can’t see the user name that submitted a post when looking at the feed. Doesn’t seem to be any settings to correct that.

        I seem to be at a stalemate where I like features for various apps, but just still haven’t found my all in one favorite.

              • 0xCAFe@feddit.deEnglish
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                7 months ago

                Suuuuper late answer, sorry. It is working perfectly for me (FF 122), I’m using Firefox exclusivery. It can be slow sometimes though and take several (tens of) seconds for the web application to load.

                • AlexisFR@jlai.luEnglish
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                  7 months ago

                  Yeah it was officially adopted by my instance, and our page works really well, but thanks anyway for the update!

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Memmy is worth a look. Memmy has that option and it’s got a UI that was also heavily influenced by Apollo.

        • aeharding@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          8 months ago

          You should make an issue on Voyager’s Github! I don’t think anyone’s requested that feature yet.

          Edit: Added to github

      • RNASpaceKoala@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I’m using Sync. Makes me feel like I’m using the Relay for Reddit app back before Reddit forced them to charge for it.

        • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          8 months ago

          If you liked Relay, try Thunder. It has the dismiss read feature that made Relay my go-to. It’s the only app I’ve seen that has it, maybe because I joined the dev team to add it.

  • Toldry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I still haven’t figured out how to get content posted on Mastadon in my Lemmy feed. I’m using Thunder for Android as my client

        • flamingos-cant@ukfli.ukEnglish
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          8 months ago

          No, they’re asking about getting stuff posted on Mastodon to appear on their Lemmy feed. You’ve got the platforms the wrong way round.

    • nasi_goreng@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 months ago

      You can subscribe them manually via search.

      I follow several Lemmy communities on my Masotodon and Misskey account.

      • Toldry@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        But i wanna do the other way around–i wanna get Mastadon content on my Lemmy client

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The fediverse is as if you took X, TikTok, Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook and made them all interoperable so you could post anything from anywhere, and all your followers would be guaranteed to see it.

    I think the one thing that still confuses people is the concept of instances with platforms like Lemmy and Masto. It’s like there are multiple Reddits and Multiple Twitters, and what differentiates them confuses newbies.

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      What I don’t understand is why I only see Lemmy content when browsing through Sync. If Mastodon is connected to the fediverse, how do I find that content?

      Also, as far as I can tell, most of the fediverse is basically more like Reddit than anything else.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        8 months ago

        ATM, you can’t. Normal mastodon posts are not understood by lemmy servers. They don’t know how to handle content that is not associated with a community.

        Most of the fediverse is like twitter. Users making posts to their own “microblogs”/profiles, following each other or browsing a timeline of all posts by everyone. That’s mastodon, and it has by far the most activity.

        Lemmy doesn’t support profile posts, and you can’t follow users, only communities.

        Basically, all content on Lemmy is posted to groups, while all content on Mastodon is posted to the users own profiles. While the networks are technically connected, the content type is not compatible.

        I hear mastodon is getting support for groups, though, which might be something that can be interoperable with lemmy communities. Then they could look at communities as if they were user groups, and post to them, and we could sub to mastodon user groups, and see their posts and feeds as if they were communities.

        But until Lemmy implements support for “user” posts and “user” following, we won’t see the majority of content of that type, coming from mastodon.

        There’s already some funky interoperability that comes from the underlying structure of communities kind of being user accounts, where mastodon users can follow Lemmy communities, and post to communities by mentioning them. But it’s not pretty.

      • Contramuffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        To be clear, the Fediverse doesn’t mean that everything is interconnected. It means that everything can be interconnected, but most sites will only do a very minimal form of interconnectivity. And that’s mainly due to personal choice. You wouldn’t want to have Instagram posts on your Reddit feed, and you wouldn’t want Tumblr posts on YouTube. You can do that, but why would you?

        So most sites will only interconnect with other sites that they deem to be similar enough in content style. Lemmy interconnects with Kbin because both are Reddit clones. Kbin interconnects with Lemmy, but it also interconnects with Mastodon. Apparently the developer of Kbin thought that Mastodon is similar enough in content style that people would appreciate having Mastodon posts appear on Kbin. And this happens for all the other sites. The Fediverse is less like a tightly connected network, and more like a loose connection of sites that could operate together, if they ever chose to do so. Like a federation, if you will

        Basically, if you’re on Lemmy (which you are), you’re only going to see Reddit-like content

  • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    It bothers me how rose-tinted this article is. It pours praise onto the fediverse while glossing over all the major problems. They also keep saying “everything is available everywhere”, which it isn’t, or “you can take your account anywhere” which isn’t a thing on most fediverse sites, and where it is it’s limited.

    I dunno, it’s good to be positive, but I feel this article over-promises and fails to explain what is is trying to. If anything, it muddies some of the basics and sets people up to leave as soon as they realise the experience isn’t all that or that instances don’t work how they think.