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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny... Let's have it!

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  • Yrtree.me - it's still early days for me in the Fediverse, so bear with me

  • Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea!

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  • Reading the post, I found what I really want right now: a federated review platform.

    !neodb@lemmy.zip is a general review site. It currently covers media but, if you can get the data in (SKUs?) I can't see a reason it couldn't cover other products.

  • Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet

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  • I'm largely still on Reddit to direct people towards the fire exits.

    I did have a chat with someone about getting off Facebook and they reckoned they could get the majority of friends and family off Facebook onto Friendica but would struggle to give up Messenger and Marketplace. I pointed them to Matrix and Flohmarkt but also appreciated that it might not be possible to make a clean break but the important thing was to get at least one foot out of the Big Web even if they aren't fully out yet.

  • The best instance to host a big community in Finnish?

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  • I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned.

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  • You're very welcome. Have a lovely rest of your day.

  • Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption

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  • I've said it before but join-fediverse needs to ask a few simple questions to walk new users through a decision tree that offers them a couple of instances at the end of the process:

    • What service are you looking for?
    • Where are you located?
    • What languages do you speak?
    • What are your interests?

    This is just what I'd do if someone asked.me about joining the Fediverse and should help minimise decision paralysis.

  • What are some examples of original fediverse software, not emulating existing platforms?

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  • That's my take on it too.

    Late Web 1.0/early Web 2.0 we had a diverse ecosystem of forums, wikis, blogs (micro and macro), etc. The next logically step would have been to invent a protocol to get them talking to each other. Instead, the Big Web offered everyone convenience as long as they were happy living inside their walled garden, which was fine until it wasn't.

    We're now just trying to fix the mistake of trusting the Big Web and get back to where we were before it all went wrong.

    See also: !webrevival@lemm.ee.

  • Lemmy is so ez, btw

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  • Yeah, I've spoken to a few people on Reddit who have got themselves bogged down doing background reading where they just need to make the jump and learn as they go. Which is what most of us did.

  • I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned.

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  • You don't have to start big. Come up with a simple idea, figure out how you can make it in an accessible language (like Python or PHP), grab some tutorials and get cracking.

  • I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned.

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  • And thank you for being so supportive in their endeavours to make the Small Web kinder. 👍👍

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  • Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction.

    I'd rather join-lemmy (and join-fediverse) were smarter.

    Have a series of questions (for join-fediverse add "what service do you want?"):

    • Where are you?
    • What languages do you speak?
    • Select your hobbies from the list below:

    And it then spits out 2 or 3 instances.

    It's what I'd do if someone asked me directly for a recommendation and should be relatively easy to do.

    As we say with someone posting a link to db0 on r/piracy, if you just say to people "this is the instance for you" and it seems relevant then they make the jump. I'm tempted to go to the main subs for Canada, Australia, the UK, etc and just post a link to the relevant instance.

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  • It's something I've raised with the other Admins and we may see if our users would be up for swapping the default frontend to one of the others.

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  • I know I favour this, but I may be biased.

    My main tip for picking an instance is go for a region or topic specific instance so your local feed is manageable and relevant.

  • What are some of the non-technical parts of the fediverse that appeal to you?

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  • Run by us, for us.

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  • Thanks, didn't realise some were unlimited. I've only just moved to peertube.wtf and I'll stay there for now. Any sign of pixelfed.wtf?

    I'll see how Tumblr federation goes as I do fancy trying to find ways to take advantage of their storage capacity. However, well see...

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  • Now that is Interesting.

    I had some thoughts about getting public domain short films into the Fediverse but you'd rapidly exhaust the allowance on most instances. However, this might just be the ticket. Time to brush off my Tumblr password...

    Maybe PeerTube can already do that, haven’t played with it enough to know.

    You'd think Peertube would be able to.

  • NeoDB is committed to creating a free, open, and interconnected space for collecting and reviewing books, movies, music, games, and podcasts.

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  • Pixelfed's first plateau in progress

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  • There has definitely been an uptick in sign-ups - first around the Inauguration (despite being a UK instance) and then with Reddit's pornmaggedon. In between it didn't drop back down to the old rate in between. db0 have seen a.massive spike recently too.

  • The /r/piracy link to lemmy /c/piracy hit the reddit frontpage with 7K+ updoots!

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  • A lot of people are.

  • Is there a mmo equivalent of the fediverse?

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  • Creedy Defence Force, prowling the zombie filled streets living on the edge. Good times.