Fediverse

I've heard you can do a google search and append say kbin.social to get results just from kbin, but if I wanted to treat the fediverse's content like reddit's, is there a way to do the google search on just everything that's on the fediverse?

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I've been hearing people will want to make search tools to help us search the fediverse, and in the future even give us options on our servers to opt out of being indexed if we want.

Also this is a search site someone else recommended where you can choose which search engine to search the fediverse: https://fedi-search.com

Hello, #fediverse from /Kbin!

Edit: Thanks for all the great feedback and suggestions. I decided to create a new #VM in #Proxmox and install #Yunohost so I can try a few different options and see which ones I like and end up using to migrate my current accounts.

Edit 2:
Having #Yunohost behind #Pfsense #Haproxy is giving me trouble, not sure how to proxy_pass on it to avoid issues with double reverse proxy. I will try to run my instances directly from Docker and see if that goes better.

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I am fairly new to the Fediverse, but have been in IT and homelab for over a decade, I am thinking or migrating from my current instances and just creating my own instances of Kbin and Mastodon for my personal use only.

Any suggestions or ideas?
Any reasons you would not recommend it?
Security concerns?

Besides Mastodon and Kbin, any other fediverses I should self-host (I thought of Lemmy but it seems I'd be able to subscribe and interact with it just fine through kbin. Also thought of peertube, but unsure or pros/cons since I have not yet even signed up on one of their instances).

Also, 1 shared VM for all of the instances, or 1 for each? I am considering if full VM or LXC, the LXC would be faster and consume less resources but I'm concerned with the security of the host.

Anyway, those are my thoughts, would like some feedback.

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If you host an instance and allow people to sign up and post, what is preventing bad actors from filling your storage with cp and other illegal shit?

Are you just signed up for permanent content moderation assisted by some tooling?

That liability sounds absolutely terrifying to me…

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I mean between tools, no instances.

I want to share pictures (pixelfed) and videos (peertube), do have to create an account on one instance of each tool that I want to use? Is there a single point of entry somewhere?

Is there any good way to search for magazines/communities accross different federated sites?
I was trying to search for communities, but ended up trying to type out the names for said communities in links because it was quite a bit faster.

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I think it's worth suggesting that because it gives more diversity in moderation styles it'd be good to have a list of all the kbin servers (public or with approval) so that we can see where else might be good.

Is this an existing thread? I can only easily find the three main ones in the primary website, perhaps this can be a git repository or even a google doc... I personally would prefer smaller niche instances when people make one that fits my interests.

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So, I'm new to the Fediverse as it seems that Reddit is a sinking ship. I've been trying to figure out how to customize my feed so I only see content from the Magazines that I subscribe. Like how you can customize your feed on Reddit to only show posts from subreddits that you were in.

Is there a way to do that here? Also, my apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place or using the wrong function... I'm really new. :(

So, I've been trying to utilize other instances of kbin and every single other instance I go to requires a different and unique login. I could somebody explain what I'm doing wrong? I assumed that my identity would be federated and so I could use other instances without a new sign in for each one.

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Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but is there some kind of Fediverse dashboard program (kind of like tweetdeck) where I could connect my Pixelfed, Kbin, Mastadon accounts, for example, and post to each of them from the one dashboard? I read a post somewhere of someone using Feedly to gather in all the feeds, but I don't think you can post with that.

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Is Tildes a fediverse instance? I swear I read that they are, but I don't seem to see them federating.

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I've been exploring and comparison-shopping fediverse server projects recently. I'd like to do some tech blogging for some personal software/hosting projects. The Fediverse feels like a natural fit for tech blogging, considering how relatively tech-savvy the userbase is.

Strangely, though, I've noticed that there isn't much of a presence for macro blogging among all these server projects. Some platforms support relatively feature-rich markup languages, and post size limit is apparently configurable on the instance level for a lot of them, but none of the platforms I've looked at have a UI designed with macro blogging in mind.

Does anyone know of any server projects, either in development or with active running servers, that are designed to support macro blogging?

I've got a list of some of the basic features I'm looking for:

• Draft posts
• List view of posts
• Sorting and filtering posts at the user level
• An editing UI that isn't a 150px by 200px rectangle in the center of the screen
• Content previews
• Decent NSFW content filtering
• Threaded replies/comments
• Federation (obviously)

A portal for new users to join Mastodon, exiting users to enrich accounts with more follows, and for organizing to help #TakeBackSocial and spread the open social web and the Fediverse.

https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/110550824230711531

Okay, so, I've just done a review of the #moderation features in both #Lemmy and #kbin. I've written up a fuller report on the IFTAS matrix, but the tl;dr is: if you care about user safety, do not deploy either of these. They do not feature comprehensive or well built moderation tools, and you will not be able to effectively moderate instances running this software. You are better off waiting to deploy these once they mature more. Edit: removed user mentions to stop spamming them.

Hello, I'm new and I would like to know if there is a place to consult which instances have defederated which ones and if possible even with the reason for doing so, I had seen something similar in mastodon and it was very useful

So.. I get this on some of my subscribed communities on other instances. I get some of the content, but nowhere near all. Is there a ranking which preferences synching of other instances communities? The more popular ones never seem to have this problem.. Or is there just 'lag' between instances and it's something that will have to be dealt with in the infancy of the fediverse?

Provocative title, yeah?

There has been a lot of discussion about what different instances should strive to be. I see a lot of posts and comments wanting instances to become subreddits, e.g. a gaming instance, a politics instance, etc. That kind of thinking is too restrictive for my taste.

To be clear, I am not a tankie, nor do I support tankie ideology. I DO believe, however, that the concept of Lemmygrad is what I would like to see the fediverse become.

Lemmygrad is an unapologetically tankie instance. For fuck’s sake, its name is a play on Leningrad. However, the instance is not restricted to discussions of communist ideology. Lemmygrad contains communities about gaming, food, shitposting, and everything else you might associate with a link aggregator. This is what they get right.

In my ideal virtual future, or “vuture”, the fediverse would be comprised of instances each geared toward a specific topical focus, with a wide variety of community posts and discussion. The majority of my IRL friends and I initially bonded over technology and gaming, but we like to discuss a wide variety of topics when we get together. Why should the fediverse be any different? I imagine instances that are gaming focused where m/politics is filled with Bioshock-themed shitposts and discussions about laws that influence the way we handle technology. Sports-focused instances share pictures in m/food of what they are making for Super Bowl Sunday. If I’m a gamer that is also really into militant communist politics, I might sign up for a gaming instance but subscribe to c/politics on Lemmygrad as well.

We don’t need subreddits in the traditional sense. Let’s turn instances into our little neighborhoods, our cul de sacs, and make the fediverse our town hall meetings, our sports arenas and our bars.

I’m very new to all of this federated stuff. One question I have is what happens to communities if a server is just taken offline without notice, indefinitely? Say the owner dies or something and they were the sole manager.

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As some subreddits continue blackouts to protest Reddit's plans to charge high prices for its API, Reddit has informed the moderators of those...

TL;DR: We should bring blogs (self-publishing) back instead of putting all our knowledge into other people's websites.

For years, people have posted their anecdotal or technical useful information on reddit because it was the most popular centralised but community-based website. So much that, this created the "<search query> + reddit" phenomenon.

We shouldn't have put all of our eggs in one basket: with the slow and painful downfall of the centralised network, we suddenly realised that most of our cumulative knowledge has been hosted on someone else's website of which owners don't give a damn about its users.

reddit is a link aggregator, it was meant to be used to discover other websites but in time, it turned into the website. This was a massive problem. Now that we've got the threadiverse, it makes me worry that we'll repeat the same mistake all over again.

Normally, I would've posted this on my blog and link it here but for years we've gotten accustomed to not "self-promote". This behaviour caused all traffic and engagement to stay in one place. There was nothing wrong with self-publishing; we left, spammers stayed.

Yes, there will always be that person with a bloated Wordpress blog with articles that sound like it was written by AI but, honestly, it's easy to block a domain, we've got the tools. We can fight off the spam and find gems on the internet.

The threadiverse is a beautiful thing, but accessing information shouldn't depend on it. Thanks for reading my blog post.

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

1. Can you find/interact with a kbin magazine from a lemmy instance (i.e lemmy.ml)? If so, how?

I have been able to find lemmy communities from kbin but not the other way around for some reason

2. How do "Reputation Points" work?

For some reason I'm sitting at -29 Reputation points and it appears to be mostly from someone who went and downvoted a bunch of my threads all at once in the @NFL magazine (for seemly no reason). Regardless though, most of the threads still have more upvotes than downvotes so should I not be in the positive?

I guess at the end of the day question 2 doesn't really matter, but I'm just curious.

I can actually feel the lack of bots, AI replies and chatGPT comments in the threads. I cant exactly pin point it to a specific trait or writing style but you can feel the humans behind these comments.

There is no toxicity, no "in conclusion", no stupid summaries.

Amazing. Although I want this to take over Reddit at some point, the small community and lack of publicity we have at the moment is amazing.

Did you ever wanna have a username but it was taken? Us early adopters to the fediverse can now freely choose nice, untaken usernames!

Let that sink in. We have the luxury and freedom to nearly choose any username we want. without having to add unnecessary underscores or numbers.

Thats nice.

I do love the fediverse but man...what I wouldn't do to live in the fetaverse