poVoqMar 7

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse

https://slrpnk.net/post/34991662

Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse - SLRPNK

Lemmy

Show threadDJ Putler

It’s incredible how much ActivityPub sabotages itself. This author speaks on the deliberately dysfunctional aspects of Mastodon as being a result of “open source software having to suck” when in fact the devs here chose to make it suck because they decided it was better, like removing quote tweets etc. Misskey variants do all this stuff perfectly fine, far more features than Twitter actually, although the base version is incredibly buggy and inhabited by pedophiles. There is no reason why Lemmy and its forks can’t connect to these sites either. People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

Big fan of Movim by the way.

Mar 7 at 10:39amWeb
Show threadchrisMar 7
Mastodon has quotes now. They chose to make quotes controllable and added a standard for it. That’s why it took so long.
Show threadDJ PutlerMar 7
That’s nice for them, but I’m using good software now
Show thread73msMar 7
That’s why it took so long after they got convinced to do it but not really why it took so long overall.
Show threadchrisMar 7
I think the founder didn’t like the idea of talking about each other instead of with each other. After enough people said they really wanted it they wanted to give people at least control. And don’t necessarily am thinking that was the right decision but it came from a good place.
Show thread73msMar 7
That’s true, you may or may not agree with the motivation but it was certainly because Mastodon is trying to find ways to not repeat the destructive patterns of other social media.
Show threadProdigalFrogMar 7

Related to Movim; it just received Discord-like spaces a couple days ago! So it’s now a pretty effective decentralized Discord that can do group audio/video calls, screen share, and even has blogging built in.

Highly recommend anyone thinking about ditching Discord to give it a shot. It doesn’t even require an email to use, just a username and password :)

Movim – Responsive web-based cross-platform XMPP client

Movim is a kickass distributed blogging and messaging platform built on the industry-standard XMPP protocol

Show threadP03 LockeMar 7

People are just incredibly confused on here and do not see their own potential.

The internet doesn’t run on potential. It runs on actual fucking features.

Show threadProdigalFrogMar 8
From what I understand, Piefed instances will have better support for Mastodon posts, and I believe it supports subscribing to Peertube channels already (something that Lemmy still doesn’t support…) Edit: It does support Peertube!
Show threadNutomicMar 8
You can subscribe to Peertube channels from Lemmy since a very long time. Recently there has been a problem with federation on the Peertube side, but that will be fixed soon.
Show threadProdigalFrogMar 8
Ah, my bad. Thanks for letting me know! Edited my other comment to reflect that.