NebLem @ neblem @lemmy.world

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If its long-form is it still microblogging or just plain blogging?

There are activity pub bots that have that feature, for example https://mstdn.social/@remindme

Major software foundations like Mozilla, and other large institutions, should be hosting their own instance and have official communities. Even on silos like Reddit, you'd have several alternate subs for the same topic. Before multis were a thing, it was in the same boat.

I would like to see instance features like "see this story in x other communities" links for reposted link posts though.

My understanding is that they migrated most of their political stuff to lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml is a mostly a general instance with some pro-china tendencies. I have zero concerns for developer political ideologies on open source licensed projects with good licenses as long as they stay professional.

Nothing is stopping you from defederating from lemmy.ml on your own instance and/or creating a fork and doing nothing but rebranding it with proper attribution if it really bothers you that much (or use an alternate tool like kbin), but you should realize almost every software you use had at least someone with political ideologies you would disagree with make contributions somewhere in the stack.

I haven't hooked up posting from my domain yet, but I understand this is an alternative to using an AP plugin or https://fed.brid.gy/ . Seems pretty slick if you want to tie your primary identity into a mastodon server, though I guess in theory this approach could work with any AP platform that has a similar API. Probably the best use case would be if you don't fully self-host your own blog.

Where does ChatGPT fall into this meme?

I think your best options are mlmym or alexandrite installed as a PWA from your browser. I think Liftoff also has a native app for Windows but I've only tried it on Android.

Teddit is an open source privacy focused read only front-end to public Reddit (like Nitter for Twitter) that ensures your browser never gives them a hit. Its styled like old.reddit and there an alternate called Libreddit that follows the new style. They directly hit Reddit instead of the API so they aren't affected by the recent drama. You can also self host them if you want even more protection.

https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit

https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

There are niche communities that haven't migrated that I'm okay with using a crappy platform to stay in contact with. That being said I've been using teddit until I need to post.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2959 got closed. From what I gather it seemed like too large of a task to tackle right now. They are recommending to use pinned posts with links to other posts if that gets too large as a workaround.

I don't usually watch that genre but I'd totally watch that video.

Nothing either :(

That's a good idea that I'd really like that to be a norm in news communities.

How do you prevent that? I think that might simply be inherent of unrestricted news communities, not necessarily the platform itself. You can have a more restricted news community that disallows click bait or polarizing titles or only allow posts by approved users (or go further and lock to instance like beehaw).

Piggybacking on your comment to lessen spam at top. @remindme@mstdn.social in 1 minute DM

I think Lemmy being decentralized and not having user karma by design already gets a pretty good base. With the concerns of censorship, admin drama, and protecting marginalized groups, the rest has to come from your instance admins and moderators of communities you follow. With the nature of the platform, you can create toxic places but those are easily defederated and/or blocked.

Think of email as people sending letters over the phone. When it first came out, mail carriers only took their specific-sized paper, which couldn't fit into mailboxes provided by other carriers. People could only mail each other if they used the same carrier. For example, kids wanted to send letters to grandmas, but the grandmas used different carriers. Eventually, some carriers got together and decided to use the same size of paper and mailbox size. The standardization became the email protocol.

However, with the new ease of sending letters, some mean people started sending messages to the grandmas, so grandmas stopped allowing all the carriers to deliver to them. This is how ban lists were made.

Grandmas can be very different, and each has their own things they are okay with. Eventually, this led to many bans making it hard to keep up except for the largest carriers that could hire staff to ensure compliance. They bought out the smaller carriers as more people switched to them. This is called centralization.

Some grandmas thought it would be neat to find and share recipes together. They sent their collections to recipe magazines and asked the magazines to send the completed magazines back to themselves, the other grandmas, and their grandkids. These became the first media forums, blogs, and websites. Eventually, people wanted to get their blogs about different topics all in one place. This became social media.

It was really messy at first because the magazines/websites created were in the order that the stories were received. They could be about anything, and some of the stories were from that yucky kid in class that talks about bugs and poop all day. To solve that, they started voting on what topics were the best and only showing the good ones to everyone but allowing those that really wanted to hear about bugs and poop still read and talk about that. This became link aggregation.

The rules for how that voting worked were decided by the website owners. Sometimes they would cheat to get their stories put to the top, for example, their choice of who Superman or Batman was the best superhero. People started wondering why they had to listen to those people, so they started making their own websites. All these small splits ended up with the main website everyone went to and mostly empty websites about whatever topic the small website wanted to discuss. Since that didn't solve the situation, they came up with the idea that maybe the small websites should talk to each other, and as long as they didn't talk about the one issue, they split from the big website. They could all stop being on the big website. This was called federation.

Lemmy is federation for link aggregators.

Edit: formatting / grammar fixes

If you open the community on our host (so it will read https://lemmy.world/c/communtityname@somewhereelse on the address bar for the communityname community owned by the somewhereelese instance) there should be a "Join" button on the sidebar.