To Any Curious User browsing "Lemmy Social" or "Reddit alternative"
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Feel free if you have any questions"
Specific reason for recommending sopuli? I quite like them but isn’t it more of a hobby project run by a single person? As we saw with kbin and feddit.de the single person run instances can disappear quick.
sopuli
Not the person you replied to, but:
Because they are Finnish...
...Finnished with the tankie bullshit that they are defederated from the 2 big tankie instances.
Also, Sopuli spells almost like Scopuli, which is the name of a Ship in The Expanse, one of my favorite TV series.
sopuli.xyz is also one of my top 3 recommended ones, the others being, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.ca
loops doesnt federate with anything. doesnt even allow 3rd party apps. its marketing dept is more capable (re annoying) than its devs.
It does technically federate a little, @dansup@loops.video exists. Not real federation, but I enjoy being technically correct 🤓 I do wish dansup open sourced it already so people could get a better picture of what's going on with it, but he did say he's actively working on federation this weekend.
It does allow third party apps like Loopy, where are you seeing that it doesn't?
i just saw a couple places where he shit on people building 3rd party apps against its undocumented public api. hes not exactly the greatest person based on his public comments.
...Yet
right so theyve said for _ 8_+ months now.
im sick of seeing it included in fediverse projects when it still doesnt actually do any federating and everyone keeps sayin, 'just wait, theyre working on it!'.
bullshit. ill believe it when i see it, and it shouldnt be included in any fediverse topics until it does so... not because 'it might'
For anyone in the USA, I highly recommend the Discuss.Online instance - it has a great server and admin team, as evidenced by its fantastic uptime stats, plus is quite welcoming to casual discussions. I bounced around a couple of different instances before making this one my primary home and have had zero regrets since.
Also if anyone wants to see a peek of what's coming up in the future, while it's just shy of being fully ready for the masses yet, PieFed is an amazing project that will soon enough overtake Lemmy. It already has tons of features that Lemmy lacks - like Categories of Communities, hashtags, YouTube embedding, an absolute ton of customization options, and much more - even if there are a few still missing in reverse (like "searching" for content, user account tagging, the ability to preview a message prior to sending, receipt of notifications is quite buggy... - for early adopters though, it's almost fully functional, especially for someone experienced in knowing how to fall back to Lemmy when necessary).
There are lots of exciting things happening on the Fediverse lately!:-)
I know Element is somekind of chat but does it use activitypub?
Element uses matrix, a federated protocol for chatting. It's federated just not with us.
It’s a corporate built frontend for a decentralised FOSS messaging protocol (Matrix) ~~that has activitypub federation~~
A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).
If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!
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