the follow-up is also a great read

https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/

tldr;

bluesky is neither federating nor decentralized, but is a great twitter replacement (not that theres anything wrong with that)

e. also, the longer it exists, the less incentive they have for ever federating or decentralizing. so it will for, all intents and purposes, never do those things regardless of what the board that runs it professes.

mastodon is essentially ‘twitter’. also called ‘microblogging’. people post things that other people can see because they subscribe to ‘people’

the hashtags are supposed to be used to aggregate posts between all those different people to help find common posts.

lemmy does none of it, as it is not capable of ‘microblogging’

there are a few platforms that can do both the ‘forum based’ stuff (threadiverse) and the ‘twitter based stuff’ (microblog) like mbin

on my instance for example, you can follow people on mastodon and interact with all the lemmy content

its them fuckers from iowa you have to watch out for

e. i meant ohio. they all look the same to me

crazy crackers makin fun of themselves isnt racist

we damn well should be able to celebrate our differences, including race. even if it melts a few snowflakes

https://cdn.catsweat.com/bf/3c/bf3cd52144aaced400b2a25fcceb7e0c4df3e92d0f7d9123cf33f81a36a96da0.jpg

im tellin ya. make a product that participates and attributes the content back to its source, or dont bother. those are your options.

as it is you are monetizing other sites content with no attribution.

i would say youre running before you can walk.

you have an unfinished product, and you say youre in no hurry… then why do you insist on scraping the fediverse?

finish your product, or dont. if you cant, there are plenty of open source platforms you could implement today. but youre not. why not?

if you insist on building a new wheel, finish it already or stop asking why people dont want to interact with you.

sure. its pretty simple… dont put out a product that cannot participate fully. there are many unfinished platforms, but they dont scrape the fediverse content because, ya know, theyre unfinished.

as soon as you get full federation implemented (or even basic linkbacks to the original content), youre welcome to let everyone know so they stop blocking your scraping mechanism.

until then your unfinished product will likely be blocked.

no one said suicide except you

we used to do a lot of ‘adult camping’ (week long partying)… on sundays ‘church’ was a mix of pink floyd and the doors

preach

shes more likely to die at the end of that gun than a drone. but only if you go by reality, statistics, etc.

well, i use a bot to pre-subscribe my instance to all new advertised communities in the places others users have already mentioned.

many people just browse the /all/newest feed which is an aggregate of all subscriptions on the instance, and then you can subscribe from those posts

yes, its true. this man has no penis

are you using the full domain? ‘!community @ instancedomain’? ie ‘!fediverse @ lemmy.world’? minus the spacing of course

ha, i knew this was coming

this looks awwwesome. i would like to see where they were going with this project

ya got my vote

meh. not viewable via embedded fediverse links. its just tiktok with rss.

pass

i generally only block for spam or technical/legal reasons.

blocked for technical reason: scraper.