Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!
Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!
Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.
So, how’s it going?
Oh that’s good to hear :)
Just skimmed through the issue, and there seems to be a lot of interesting discussion around it.
Pretty cool, really feels like we’re at the infancy of something, hopefully growing into something great.
For sure! The great thing with federation is you can like the idea but not the implementation, and decide to do it better but get to interact with all the users still.
So we end up with a bunch of similar software that can interact: lemmy, kbin, mbin, sublinks, piefed. No single point of failure, so even if lemmy development was completely abandoned we could just switch software to something else and continue.
Oh okay - I didn’t know about the interaction with different software. Had heard of Kbin before (haven’t yet heard of any of the others), and just assumed it was a completely different type of thing like Mastodon.
That’s pretty cool. How does the interaction with (for example Kbin) work? Can we see their communities, and interact with their posts and vice-versa?
Interesting you mention Mastodon, that uses the same protocol as Lemmy. So people on Mastodon can actually participate in Lemmy discussions (though things look and work a little different, you can often spot them because their replies to comments start with @user because that’s how it works on Mastodon). Currently Lemmy users can’t interact with Mastodon, but this isn’t because it’s not possible, just not implemented in Lemmy (yet).
Kbin has both micro-blog style (like Mastodon/Twitter) and thread style (like Lemmy/Reddit), and largely Kbin keeps them separate so they are more natural than a Mastodon user interacting with Lemmy.
But yes, we can see the Kbin communities (they call them Magazines), and they can interact with us pretty seamlessly (you know, when bugs in Kbin aren’t causing lemmy to DDOS itself). Here’s the Kbin.social meta community: https://lemmy.nz/c/[email protected]
Oh haha! When I was writing down Mastodon, I had a feeling you were going to say they were compatible with eachother haha.
That’s interesting how they can interact with eacother etc. Have you tried Kbin? if so, hows that experience?
I’ve only briefly tried Kbin. I’m not really into microblogging so it doesn’t interest me too much. Many Kbin users are opposed to lemmy because the lemmy devs can be dicks and have some controversial political views, but largely I think the community is similar to Lemmy as it’s also largely reddit refugees.
I understand that Lemmy is Open Source, but are those “dick” devs something to be concerned about?
Some people think yes, some think no. Personally I don’t think so.
The devs have ultimate control, but there are many other people contributing. If people really don’t like the direction, they can fork it and build the stuff we want.
Sublinks is an example of this, where a group of people are building a Lemmy a compatible platform that focuses on things the devs don’t seem interested in such as moderation tools. Kbin has an equivalent Mbin, as the Kbin Dev seems unable to keep up and unwilling to delegate.
But ultimately, open source means we don’t have to worry about this stuff until it actually becomes a problem. Also, sometimes you come across as a dick because running an open source is demanding, unforgiving, and you regularly face people who feel they are entitled to have you do they thing they want you to do. So it’s hard to judge, really.
If a group were to go and fork it, and start developing independent from the original devs, they would still be able to interact with Lemmy right? (unless they can block eachtother?), but if any existing communities wanted to move over, they would basically have to start again from scratch because the fork isn’t Lemmy anymore
edit: or is every server/instance a fork?
They mostly fit into the “insufferable Internet communist” category, so nothing to be too worried about.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Lol I’m not sure what this bot is referring to 😆