Don't trust your chat, video, and voice to the big companies.. Run your own #Matrix server, add your friends and family, and #federate to the world. It's #opensource, #selfhosted, and runs on #Linux, #Windows, #MacOS, #iOS, #Android. https://youtu.be/TFDFR6EBG3k

@SubwayTooter @greycat @uxintro

I always #follow when I find a new and unfamiliar #instance, because I want my instance to #federate more and show more #koontent

in case you’re wondering why I’m here

Anyone looking for a small #Lemmy instance with almost 100% uptime, feel free to check out my instance, https://lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz. I run both Lemmy Community Seeder and Lemmony to automatically #federate with the most popular content, so even though it's small, it has a big window into the #fediverse.

I'm limiting total user count since I'm the only admin, but sign-ups are open at the moment.

So what is #meansofproduction?

MoP is open source software being designed to power libraries. It has two key features - the ability to create a #distributedlibrary, and the ability to #federate between many different libraries.

We'll handle each of these items separately, then dive into the tech stack, status, and later features!

If you'd like to get involved, please let me know!

I hope Threads succeeds in gaining mind and market share – and fills its promise to #federate as part of Activity Pub. There are a lot of people (most everyone) who need an easy way to onboard and find relevant accounts. AND I think all major organizations should have their own Activity Pub instances to share information quickly and easily without relying on a single private company. Twitter proved the value of publishing publicly and the downside of when that relies on a single instance.

Remember the world around 2007, where you used @pidgin so that you could be logged into AIM to talk to your US friends, ICQ for your European friends, and YIM and MSN to talk to those 3 weirdos all at the same time? Eventually, folks like AOL and GTalk added XMPP support. #XMPP let you "#Federate" between services but the promise of XMPP never really became a reality (example: https://superuser.com/questions/717272/is-it-possible-to-talk-to-aim-users-with-any-jabber-client-via-any-jabber-accoun).

I have hope that #ActivityPub does what it couldn't. You can already follow #PIxelfed, etc.

Waiting for Threads to #federate so that I can follow the onion
https://www.theonion.com/popular-instagram-dog-s-dms-filled-with-unsolicited-dic-1850621072

People are debating whether or not to #federate with #Threads, but I don't think #Meta is going to allow most instances to do so even if they wanted.

Only the biggest instances that are the most stringently moderated will appeal to them, since they will have to manage all the content that comes from it.

If they actually implement #ActivityPub, I assume they'll be allow-listing some of those that are signed onto the Mastodon Server Covenant and not much else.

@peter It's going to be quite some time before #Meta will be able to use #threads to #federate. As it stands, they haven't even implemented #activitypub yet.

Which other small instance admins use this sort of tool? https://github.com/Anthchirp/mastodon-defederate

#mastodon #instance #federate

Lol tried to post a video on #facebook for the first time in forever. I refuse to use their spyware app but they intentionally broke functionality on phone web users so I couldn't even post in 'desktop mode'

Legacy media. #enshittification

And people want to #federate with #meta or some shit? Get real those death cult capitalists are trying to remake legitimate but sorry, it's over. #mastadon and #lemmy prove when the users own the means of production, it's *WAY LESS SHITTY*

@jamie

Threads is "opened up" right now

Click on Zuck's links and noodle around clicking on links for a while

It's a wide-open web site

Only thing you can't do is Post or Reply

Why does the #Fediverse need to #Federate with #Threads again?

https://www.threads.net/@zuck

@OutOnTheMoors I’m with you on this issue. Fedi tends to go for the isolationist instead of connectionist approach. It might be needed for minorities to feel at home, but it also makes less people able to discover that better communities are possible.

Everyone starts out using the most popular app (except if you’re very lucky). This is why I would #federate.

Just for the chance of those in the mainstream to discover there is more than what Meta touts as ”safe”.

People who want to #federate with #Meta, I'm struggling with understanding why. Why is it so important to use your #Mastodon software to talk to them. Doesn't #Instagram and #Facebook have a by far superior native user experience? And it can be already used today.

If the goal is to connect all the surveillance-capitalism social networks with one protocol, isn't #bluesky a far superior alternative to do that?

I make this personal pledge not to #federate with #Meta. Under no circumstances shall I extend any olive branch to that company, even if it should attempt to make amends for its past behavior. Meta has caused real and tangible harm to too many people all in the name of revenue at any cost. There is no forgiveness to be given.

opens #Mastodon

Sees the back and forth over federating or not with #Meta / large networks.

I’m not going to argue the philosophy of whether federating with a large data ingesting corporation run network is good or bad. But clearly there’s a design flaw in all of this if a person is at the mercy of an #admin as to whether or not you get access to an entire #server. Even if the default setting is to not #federate, if there’s no override button for you personally, something is broken.

With all this current talk of who should or should not #federate with whom, I have a very basic question:

What is the mechanism for a random Mastodon user to figure out which instances their instance (or any other instance) has #federated or #defederated with? Is there any interface or public data to expose that information? Or is it all a matter of rumor, side channels, and insider knowledge?

@cstross

Frankly, I can't see a whole lot of the private instance admins wanting to #federate with #Facebook. Maybe whats-his-name's big one (mastodon.social?).

So I'm guessing Meta would start offering to #pay instances to federate with them, at least at first, until they can get the network effects going.

It'll be interesting to see if it happens, and which admins are susceptible to the #bribe.

#NetworkEffects

Now looking into #Friendica, it seems it can #federate with pretty much everything else, not sure about the Facebook kind of UI, but there seem to be different templates.

Anyone has experience with it? Pros or cons?

It just dawned on me while reading about the conflict that is apparently going on on #hachyderm

Instance A who demand Instance B follow Instance A's rules or Instance A will defederate from Instance B

...is a whole hell of a lot like the way the US expects other countries to follow US rules, even to follow US LAWS

...or the US imposes #sanctions.

P.S. It's not ok in any case.

#federation #federate #fediverse #conflict #moderate #privilege #moderation #admin #admins