cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

I know this isn't directly Fediverse related but in these unprecedented times it's important to use our platforms to protect the countless innocents getting kidnapped by the government.

It's also important people on Bluesky are aware of the best place to renort ICE activity.

This map is run by a nonprofit & oderators verifying reports 24/7

The ice map now allows for notifications to be set up around a user selected location.

This is helpful not only for people at risk but also for good samaritans trying to intervene.

You will be alerted to any reports within the radius you select.

Please spread the word and stay strong!

I’ve been thinking about discovering underappreciated Lemmy instances. GitHub’s awesome-lemmy-instances used to serve a similar purpose, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time, and I haven’t found anything else like it.

I got the idea from this post about finding decentralized communities in the Fediverse. I’m thinking of a Lemmy bot that tracks Lemmy instances, calculates the average number of active users and standard deviation, and identifies instances with activity below the average plus two standard deviations. It would then rank these underutilized instances by performance metrics like uptime and response time, and periodically update a curated list on Lemmy to guide users toward instances that could use more participation.

I'd love feedback on how you would go about doing something like this. And specifically how to rank by performance.

I have a need to create a new account on mastodon, but I am not familiar with the different instances and servers.

I'm looking for an up-to-date, comprehensive list of all ActivityPub federated platforms, sorted by the total number of monthly active users across all instances. Similar to Fediverse Observer’s list but for platforms instead of instances using the platform. Does anyone know of one?

For those seeking out a federated and open alternative to Tumblr, Wafrn is looking extremely promising. It can speak both ActivityPub and AT Protocol, offers a ton of interesting features and customization, and focuses on making an incredibly fun experience.

I had a random idea I wanted to throw out there and see what people think:

Imagine a federated platform that works kind of like Discord, but in the sense of Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc.—with different instances hosted by different people.

The twist is that none of the instances would be connected to each other.

Each instance would function like a regular Discord server: channels, chats, roles, and all the usual stuff, but the instances themselves wouldn’t federate with each other.

The interesting part is that these instances could still federate with other platforms—like Mastodon, Lemmy, Peertube, Pixelfed, Loops, etc.—just not with each other.

It seems like it could be a way to have smaller, self-contained communities while still integrating with the wider Fediverse in some ways.

My only sticking point is figuring out signup/login mechanics—how would a user navigate multiple isolated instances efficiently without it becoming a nightmare?

Would love to hear thoughts, improvements, or whether anyone thinks this is a terrible idea.

I recently re-tried NOSTR (I technically have an old account I rarely ever use), specifically on Primal and the Fountain Podcasts app, and I really enjoyed how simple it was: just sign in, and BAM—you’re in.

No fuss, no extra steps.

It got me wondering—why doesn’t the Fediverse work like that? I know that using special login codes might be too complex for most people, but why not allow usernames and passwords instead?

Imagine a single sign-in for the entire Fediverse. You wouldn’t need to worry about instances, and onboarding could be much simpler.

Has this idea been considered, or is there a technical reason why it wouldn’t work?

It stroke me that saying things like "First, you have to choose a comunity to join the fediverse" might be a better way to ease onboarding nwecommers than "First, you have to choose a server".

Although the latter might be technically more accurate, the former is what people might

• understand better;
• ends up being what they're really doing;
• frighten them less;
• reinforce the "community" contribution aspect;
• lead them to better understand the federated aspect as they realize that communities are not isolated and can talk to eachother.

What do you think?

"Let me know in the comments bellow..." - just kidding!

I know that this will most likely get me a ton of downvotes, but I’m genuinely curious: should ActivityPub and ATProtocol potentially be merged into one unified protocol?

If they were combined, Fediverse users and ATmosphere users could enjoy the benefits of each other’s ecosystems—like richer content interaction, better moderation tools, and more seamless identity management.

Bluesky and Mastodon users could interact natively without relying on bridging bots like Bridgy Fed.

Would merging the protocols strengthen decentralized social media, or would it create more complexity and friction between communities?

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

[Derek] When Watts dug deeper, he realized that the network structure did matter. In the more clustered networks, people were more likely
30:27 to copy each other. So if by chance someone started out cooperating, then everyone would cooperate.
30:34 But it was equally likely that someone would start out by defecting, in which case everyone else would defect.
30:40 And over all the games they played, these two effects canceled each other out, which is why it seemed like
30:46 the network structure didn't matter. - [Duncan] It's sort of on a knife edge, right? Where like one person does something selfish
30:54 and everything goes south. In another world, everybody kind of holds it together
31:00 and everything goes well. It's crazy that the world could be like on a knife edge like that, you know,
31:06 could tip one way or the other, kind of just depends on how someone gets out of bed that day.
31:11 But then Watts realized something. See, in real life, you can choose who you hang out with.
31:17 So he reran the experiment allowing players to change who they were playing with. And this time he used the prisoner's dilemma
31:23 so that players could easily identify the defectors. - [Derek] And the finding was clear, the more you allowed players
31:30 to choose who they were playing with, the more likely they were to cooperate

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/6162015

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This was a really great interview we had with the team from A New Social. We talked about bridging, being able to migrate data across different protocols, some of the team’s latest ongoing efforts, and a long rant about where the network is, and where we hope it will go.

Seeing some push back here on the idea of confusing things with more terms than just "fediverse". I get that. The problem is that that cat is very much out of the bag. Surely, for the vast majority of people that have any awareness of the fediverse, they think it's just Mastodon.

Either way, "Mastodon" is a much larger "brand" than "fediverse" or anything else on the fediverse. So trying to get some conceptual branding going makes sense. It make things more clear, as the idea of the fediverse itself is kinda fuzzy and complex and probably best left out at the beginning. It's a little bit like the matrix, you have to see it with your own eyes, IMO.

So, my lame contribution ... ****Threadiverse!**: "Social media, but woven into threads, like Reddit or Forums, not like the chaos of Twitter, but all on the Fediverse so you can find anyone else doing anything else too."

cross-posted from: https://community.nodebb.org/post/105743

This past June, I put together a write-up about two major approaches to backfilling conversations. The ability to properly backfill conversations means we will be able to make major inroads toward solving the feeling that the fediverse is quiet.

I, alongside several other members of the SWICG Forums and Threaded Discussions Task Force (ForumWG) have been working toward building implementor support for Conversational Contexts — the ability to explicitly classify a set of objects as belonging to a conversation, whether that be a topic, reply tree, or similar.

I am happy to report that we have made some wonderful inroads this past few months!

• jesseplusplus@mastodon.social has been working closely with the Mastodon team to allow software to backfill from Mastodon — this pull request has now been approved!
• I have been working with both nutomic@lemmy.ml and rimu@piefed.social to allow software to backfill from Lemmy and Piefed, respectively. (Lemmy PR, Piefed issue)

This marks a major milestone in the adoption of conversational contexts. With Mastodon on board backfill will be possible with the majority of the microblogiverse. With Lemmy and Piefed on board, backfill will be possible with the majority of the threadiverse.

Remember that pfefferle@mastodon.social was an early adopter of conversational contexts, and we have been able to backfill from WordPress blogs for quite awhile now (so that's the blogiverse too)

I for one, am eagerly awaiting the next version of all of these softwares!!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35533537

I setup a Mastodon relay - anyone want to help me test by adding it to their instance? Would help me know if the "Recent jobs" stat is working (I think it requires 2 instances at minimum to show jobs) and if adding to instances (outside of my own) is working properly and how traffic looks.

I wrote about my motivations and thoughts on switching away from centralized social media and to the Fediverse with some thoughts on self-hosting.

The Social Web Foundation has been experimenting with the lesser-known other half of the ActivityPub protocol. Here's what they're up to.

I think this warrants a fediverse wide boycott of all piefed/fedia instances until this is rectified.