Fediverse

Just passing on a tip from FediTips I didn't know about. Using the format

(server)/tags/(hashtag without the #).rss

Your RSS Reader can follow hashtags e.g.

https://mstdn.social/tags/dogs.rss

You can see everything with the hashtag 'dogs' on mstd.social and every instance mstdn.social can see.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/5198221

You guys have been so awesome providing a list of Fedi clients. I will update the list based on you guys feedback. I ask for assistance once again. I want to make a running list of Fediverse projects. There are so many interesting projects that deserve attention and devs that deserve recognition. I will start off with some that I use and find to be beneficial and awesome. • ActivityPods: https://activitypods.org/ • Fediview: https://fediview.com/ • Fed bridgy : https://fed.brid.gy • Combine.social : https://combine.social/ • Instances.social: https://instances.social/ • Audon: https://audon.space/login • Fediverse Report: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/ • Wedistribute : https://wedistribute.org/ • privacy nexus today: https://privacy.thenexus.today/ • Artisans coop: https://artisans.coop/ • join Fediverse : https://jointhefediverse.net/ • Alt Text HOF: https://alttexthalloffame.org/ • Sefan Fediverse : https://stefanbohacek.com/tag/fediverse/ • Stefan bots : https://stefanbohacek.com/tag/bots/ • Fediverse connections: https://data.stefanbohacek.dev/projects/fediverse • Fedidb : https://fedidb.org/network • Pubkit : https://pubkit.net/ • Sup : https://github.com/theSupApp

From the Average Lemmy Servers Online by Day graph

• 18th September: 1224
• 19th September: 1002

Does anyone know more about this? Seems a bit strange to have all of them going down on the same day

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/5674368

The number of subscribers listed in the sidebar is only the number of users from YOUR instance that are subscribed. This might make you feel like a community is 'small' or 'dead' when it actually isn't.

I also started to forget this till I was playing with the shields.io badges earlier and the numbers didn't match up.

Here are some examples:

!fediverse@lemmy.world

• My instance will see 310 subscribers
• This instance will see 22.6K subscribers

!canada@lemmy.ca

• My instance will see 6.03K subscribers
• This instance will see 1.49K subscribers

Now my question is, what's an accurate way to see the total number of subscribers? Is it in the home instance for a particular community?

If so, it might be worth adding the badges to the sidebars.

(!fediverse@lemmy.world)

(!asklemmy@lemmy.ml)

(!games@sh.itjust.works)

(!canada@lemmy.ca)

(!communitypromo@lemmy.ca)

(!houseplants@mander.xyz)

To do this quickly, go to https://shields.io/badges/lemmy and enter:

• myCommunity@example.com for community
• lemmy for logo
• Total Subscribers for label
• modify the colors and style as you like

You can also modify the community and instance here and paste it in:

![](https://img.shields.io/lemmy/fediverse%40lemmy.world?logo=lemmy&label=Total%20Subscribers)

swap the fediverse%40lemmy.world portion

The Fediverse is growing rapidly. There are now tens of thousands of independently hosted servers, many new apps are appearing, and some big companies (like Meta) have announced they will implement ActivityPub and join the network. What decentralized future will we build, and how do we ensure it serves everybody?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5157579

This would push users toward local posts (especially on smaller instances) while still supporting a better distribution of user engagement over the threadiverse. And if you don’t trust that it was implemented correctly – you can simply check it by counting the amounts of posts against your chosen probabilities.

Edit: Changed feed's name from explore to mixed

Integration between WordPress and ActivityPub has been a long time coming. It's existed in several different iterations over the years, but the latest attempt is directly sponsored by Automattic, the owners of WordPress. This article covers some basic how-tos and explains some various quirks in the integration.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5110168

As a moderator of a Lemmy instance, you currently have two options to take: pushing users first to your local content or content from all instances you federate with. These options come with the costs seen in the picture. The moderator of another instance has the same choice. However, in this scenario, they will both always switch to promoting the local-feed. I don't want to say its wrong - it's just the most sensible way to act on Lemmy currently. However, if everybody does it, it is bad for the overall discussion quality of the Threadiverse.

Its a classical prisoner's dilemma from game theory, which sometimes happen in society, for example with supply shortage during lockdowns. A way to solve it is by making action B more positive and option A more negative. This would lead to more moderators choosing Action B over A.

Mastodon solved this with an Explore-Feed, which consolidates the Local- and All-Feed. I think this could also be a solution for Lemmy. It would result in less engagement decrease AND an overall positive effect on discussion quality.

Additionally, a general acknowledgement that instance protectionism is a problem and should be avoided could help to make A more negative. In other words: increasing the pressure by the community. This would put a negative social effect on option A. So: start talking about it with your moderators.

Do you think these two measure would do (additionally to more powerful moderation tools, which would only enable a working explore-feed in the first place)? Is this a problem on other services on the Fediverse too (at least Mastodon seems to have handled it quite well)?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5038153

The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed (which they currently do), people will only stay on their instance and overall discussion quality declines.

So, to truly overcome instance protectionism, we need a new feed, in which an instance can find a good balance between showing content from other instances and its own.

(Imagef by fona2, https://www.istockphoto.com/de/vektor/haus-und-baum-auf-fliegenden-felsen-wo-wohnt-gott-nach-hause-auf-den-himmeln-gm848184716-139497255?phrase=bridge+between+islands&searchscope=image%2Cfilm)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4977520

(Scope for agency loss means that its comes at low cost to switch to an alternative and intensity of potential harm means the amount of harm that is inflicted on the individuum if the algorithm is bad (e.g. for lethal automatic weapons it would be very high))

An article, which explains the risk categorizes and actions to ensure their save usage: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/233726/1/rego.12369.pdf

Based on the categorizes by Katharina Zweig, I would argue that algorithmic curation systems belong to category 0 (as long as there are different algorithms to chose from, which would be the case due to the federated-nature of services in the Fediverse). This would mean that they would not need to provide transparency.

Centrally managed algorithms on the other hand would belong to category 1 or 2 in my opinion and would require different control-mechanisms.

Therefore, in my opinion, the Fediverse could actually enable a healthy usage of social-media-algorithms.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.ch/post/1019586

Official press release in german (via admin.ch)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/4937038

In a world shrouded in mystery and enchantment, nestled amidst rolling hills and dense forests, there existed a small city. This quaint settlement was unlike any other, for it was enveloped by a mighty castle, its towering spires reaching for the heavens. And within those stone walls, a mad king reigned, his iron grip extending to every corner of the city, as he sought to control the very essence of life itself.

Inside the city's walls, a young boy named Larry grew up. Half-bird, half-human, he had feathers the color of twilight and wings that shimmered with iridescent hues. Larry's daily life was a testament to the supressive nature of the world he inhabited. He lived his days beneath the watchful eyes of the castle's sentinels, easily recognizable by their gasthly hooks, which they proudly wore on their belts as if they where trophies, their presence an ever-present reminder of the king's power.

Larry often wondered about the world beyond the city's walls, about the lands and peoples that lay hidden from view. He dreamt of adventure and freedom, his heart yearning for the unknown.

One fateful day, Larry decided he could no longer be content with the confines of his tiny city. With wings unfurled and determination in his heart, he set out on a journey, leaving behind the castle and its oppressive shadow. As he ventured farther from his home, he discovered a vast and wondrous land, teeming with diversity. But little did Larry know that the mad king harbored a dark secret, one that made him perceive Larry as a threat.

But Larry carried on without a clue of the dark schemes formed against him from afar. In the realms beyond, Larry encountered communities unlike any he had ever imagined. In one village, he met a benevolent queen who ruled with compassion and wisdom, her people living in harmony with the natural world and holding reguarly but notheless excessive bird parties. In another, he crossed paths with a society of scholars who valued knowledge above all else, and they shared their ancient books and wisdom with him.

Each community he encountered was unique, with its own customs, traditions, and ways of life. There were those who celebrated art and creativity, while others prized courage and valor. Some places were ruled by elected councils, some good, some bad, most in between, while others were led by wise elders who had earned the respect of their people over centuries.

As Larry traveled, he realized that the land was interconnected, a tapestry woven from the threads of countless communities, each contributing to the richness of the whole. It was a world where diversity was cherished, and the pursuit of individuality celebrated. In this vast and varied realm, the mad king's influence seemed distant and insignificant.

And with each new encounter, each new community he visited, Larry's understanding of the world deepened, and his heart swelled with a sense of belonging. He came to know the true essence of freedom — the freedom to be oneself and to choose one's own path. The Fediverse, as he would later come to know it, was a place of boundless possibilities, where people could live according to their own values and aspirations, if they chose the right place for them.

But unbeknownst to Larry, the mad king, driven by fear of losing his grip on power, had dispatched his enforcers to hunt him down and eliminate the perceived threat. The enforcers pursued Larry relentlessly, their dark intentions casting a shadow over his journey.

As Larry's journey continued, he remained vigilant, always one step ahead of the mad king's enforcers. He explored the far reaches of the Fediverse, forging bonds with kindred spirits and learning the wisdom of the diverse communities that thrived beyond his tiny city. He carried the stories of these lands with him, like precious feathers, and as he did, the mad king's grip on his heart loosened, replaced by a profound sense of wonder and connection.

And even if the King's men eventually found and killed him, his stories live on until today and will never die, as long as they are continued to being told across the wide lands of the Fediverse.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.basedcount.com/post/225787

I have built an AutoMod bot for my instance, lemmy.basedcount.com. The bot covers the following features:

• Automated removal
  • of posts, based on their title, content or link
  • of comments, based on their content
  • configurable with either regular expressions or substrings
• User whitelisting and exceptions for moderators to selectively lift some or all of the aforementioned rules for certain users.
• Mention based pinning and locking of a post, through commands exclusively available to the mod team
• Discord notifications for new registration applications through a webhook. [only for admins]

Naturally, the bot is completely open source. I have also written a rather comprehensive (albeit long-winded) documentation and some examples.

This project is mainly targeted towards admins of small instances, however anyone can spin up their own AutoMod instance for their favourite community (provided they are a moderator there).
The automoderator is also available as a Docker image, for ease of installation.

Feel free to suggest any additional features that you might want to see added to this bot.

I've created a Fediseer frontend that's easy to use!

URL: https://fediseer.lemmings.world Source: https://github.com/RikudouSage/FediseerGUI

If you don't know what Fediseer is:

The Fediseer is a service for the Fediverse which attempts to provide a crowd-sourced human-curated spam/ham classification of Fediverse instances as well as provide a public space to specify approval/disapproval of other instances.

In simple terms, using the Fediseer, we attempt to figure out whether an instance is spam or not, through a human-driven system called the "chain of trust".

The Mixtape is an ongoing feature highlighting the musicians whose tracks are broadcast on Radio Free Fedi. For this edition, we've decided to put together a blended mix of songs to accompany you on a drive!

I just read up on it and it seems good, at least in theory. How does it compare to Lemmy, would you say?