Jun Bird

@ajsadauskas Take a look at this: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/first-release-of-lemmybb-a-federated-bulletin-board-written-in-rust/2629

@jackalope @pingveno I think that Friendica’s UI was literally inspired by early Facebook’s. It’s not slick, but it has its charm, it’s kind of nostalgic.

@SrEstegosaurio A bit OT, but what’s not to like about Matrix? I’m curious as I was seriously considering to try it out.

@nom_nom Btw, here’s a good article on the Fediverse https://axbom.com/fediverse/
It also explains that the Fediverse isn’t really made of just one protocol: ActivityPub is the most popular one by far (mainly thanks to Mastodon, which has been widely adopted), but there are also a few others (the most notable one is Matrix, which allows private and decentralized instant messaging).

@nom_nom That’s basically it. There are many kinds of AP servers floating around, and while most of them overlap quite a bit (what the Fediverse is mostly about is microblogging), there’s also stuff like ForgeFed, which is an extension to the protocol that will eventually allow Gitea (a Github alternative) instances and similiar Forge servers to federate with each other. Of course, you won’t be able to commit code through Mastodon, but you might be able to comment existing issues on a project.

@nom_nom Different servers realize different services, or at the very least they realize them in different ways. What’s new is that these services are at least somewhat interoperable with each other: I can comment on this Lemmy thread via Mastodon, altough I cannot start threads in a Lemmy community. Other AP servers work much better with Lemmy. For example, Friendica (a Facebook clone) allows for the publishing of posts in groups (which is what Lemmy communities basically are).

@nom_nom They both comply to the ActivityPub protocol, but they do very different things, as one is a microblogging platform while the other is basically an image board. You could say that what’s different about them is simply their front-ends, but that wouldn’t be correct, as each AP server allows their users to do different things. For example, you cannot publish standalone posts in communities (or groups) via Mastodon, while Lemmy doesn’t let you publish posts without specifying a community.

@garret @Tiuku It’s what is hosting both of your profiles, and mine too. It’s a server which complies to the ActivityPub protocol https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/
This is the standard that powers the Fediverse, allowing servers and their users to speak to each other. Mastodon, Lemmy and so on implement it so that they can easily interoperate. The SW that OP linked to is simply another implementation of this protocol

@Sal @imgprojts I’ve been wondering the same thing for a while, as apparently that’s also the reason for Mastodon (and others too, I guess) not allowing users to search for posts if not by hashtag. I can’t really figure out what’s the problem that this decision aims to solve.

@jaskot @Ephera @DepressedDove That’s basically it. As I said before, there are alternatives to a Lemmy account. I use my Friendica (it’s more or less the Fediverse counterpart to Facebook, so it has “groups” and so it is able to fully interoperate with Lemmy’s “communities”) profile to post on Lemmy, and there are probably a few other alternatives which you could consider. But if you just want the Reddit experience but in the Fediverse, just become a Lemmy user.

@jaskot @Ephera @DepressedDove You literally just did. However, you should know that Mastodon is not really made for interacting with “groups” (or “communities”, as Lemmy calls them), they’re kind of an afterthought. You can just follow them and comment someone else’s posts (as you did and as I’m doing right now), but you can’t create them or even post in them. I’d advise you to register to a Lemmy or even a Friendica instance, if you want group functionalities.

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@yogthos @Suoko Btw, this is a brilliant feature that Mastodon came up with and I’d wish it was adopted by all ActivityPub implementations. I wonder if you could even verify the ownership of other fediverse profiles in a similiar matter. Every once in a while, talks about unified identities across the fediverse re-emerge and that just might be an extremely simple way of going about it.

@liaizon @yogthos Yeah, I know about those (if you read the proposal I linked, it says that it was inspired by that same feature in Misskey), I was talking about standardized implementations of that kind of feature, which would be able to work federation-wide.

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@oblivion_comes @yogthos Integrating this kind of stuff in ActivityPub is actually a work in progress https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-e232-object-links/2536
To be seen if it will be implemented by Mastodon, though.

@poVoq So, basically if it is unable to generate a button with the OStatus follow APIs, it just gives you a button which simply links to your profile? Pretty cool.