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klu9@piefed.social 3 days ago
First I’ve ever heard of Soundstorm, which apparently hasn’t been updated in 7 years.
Lady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com 3 days ago
Lemmy really is growing and I love that we’re part of that
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CoconutLove@lemmy.today 2 days ago
Where do you see evidence of that? I thought monthly active users has only dropped since peaking after the Reddit API debacle.
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als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Unlike X (formerly Twitter) or Facebook, which remain in business by profiting from consumers’ personal information, the fediverse aims to give users privacy and an ad-free interface.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
How is the fediverse different from traditional social media?
The fediverse is a decentralized network of social media platforms that freely interact, unlike traditional social media.
I have a bit of a problem with the term “traditional social media”.
The earliest popular form of social media was Usenet. The first one I ever used was web forums (run on phpBB or similar software). Those have a lot more “tradition” than Facebook or Twitter or TikTok, so why are they calling the latter three (deviations from the decentralized “tradition” of the Internet) “traditional social media”?! Is it just that they’re the first form of social media that the authors of that article ever used?
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9point6@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Those were not considered social media in their heyday as the term was created after them specifically for sites where a user would maintain a non-anonymous profile and post content about themselves and curating a feed based on other profiles followed.
Forums and Usenet could be considered proto-social-media perhaps given they were clear precursors to it
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Of course. I find “social media” a suboptimal term anyway. A good term for the concept is the “participatory Internet”.
But if we are going to use it, then it’s just media that is produced by society at large as opposed to paid journalists or authors. Meaning Usenet is social media.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 days ago
Meta’s Threads is also working toward ActivityPub compatibility, which would significantly expand the fediverse user base.
Um… fuck no, please and thank you!
CombatWombat@feddit.online 4 days ago
The bad news is: you can already follow accounts bidirectionally between Threads and Mastodon. The good news is: Meta did the bare minimum and seems to have stopped development.
Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Back when they started on that, we were worried they were going to kill ActivityPub like how Netscape got killed by IE durring the browser wars. EEE (Embrace, Expande, Eliminate), adopt the protocol, expand its capabilities while including propriatary portions of code, and lock the competition out when market saturation is achieved.
The issue is that fedivers residents are a bunch of tech-literate weirdos and called this bullshit the second the news dropped, and are 100% the type of people who make forks as soon as something like that would actually happen. Piefed being the perfect example, this part of the internet is perfectly fine just picking up their things and making something else (and we love it here for that).
OpenStars@discuss.online 3 days ago
You can but iirc it takes quite a bit of bidirectional effort to enable that. Thankfully!
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Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
fediverse, decentralized group of social media platforms in which each independent platform can interact freely with any other platform that is part of the group.
Great that they have an article on it, though their formatting the start of each article like a dictionary entry is a bit odd compared to Wikipedia.
bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Tbh I never understood the Lemmy users can interact with all other platforms that share the same protocol.
It’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
INeedMana@piefed.zip 3 days ago
Lemmy and history, no. On Lemmy you can see comments from Mastodon and posts (toot with a Lemmy community pinged inside. Which is rarely done but happens). But not the toots themselves
Piefed now allows to directly follow accounts (similar to Mastodon, Friendica, etc) and you can start getting the new toots after following an account https://piefed.zip/c/microblogs
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majster@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
From mastodon viewing lemmy stuff is nice enough. It would be great if you could seamlessly crosspost and share between platforms.
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hexagonwin@lemmy.today 4 days ago
It’s not like I can view a Mastodon user’s history on Lemny, right?
afaik you can
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rumba@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Man, that “can” is doing a fuck of a lot of heavy lifting. lemmy, piefed are 100% when you start going pixelfed or loops, or mastodon the compatibility matrix stops looking like that nice spiderweb.
you’re lucky if you can even finger a user between systems
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 days ago
you’re lucky if you can even finger a user between systems
I’m sure the gals at the blahaj zone are up for it