Fediverse

Looking for a Lemmy instance with the following :

• free speech friendly
• federated with all instances except csam
• allows bot majority communities

Edit: I would define free speech as speech that doesn't make an actionable call for violence. If some one the extremist instances have defederated then that's fine.

I saw a few videos shared on PeerTube recently, and created an account on an instance. However, unlike Mastodon and Lemmy I'm struggling to discover channels to subscribe to. When I use the search functions on my instance, most results are either interesting channels which haven't been updated in years, or random foreign language TV shows and episodes.

Just for example, if I'm trying to find videos on "Gaming" on one of the largest instances, the most recent video is over 1 year ago: https://tilvids.com/search?categoryOneOf=7

Is discoverability on PeerTube bad, or are there barely any active channels?

Edit: BTW one very active creator on PeerTube is https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos and his videos are excellent. But can there really only be a handful of active creators to follow on the whole platform?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25243870

I recently started messing around with ActivityPub, Mastodon and Lemmy and created LemmyLink, an open-source bot that seamlessly bridges Reddit and Lemmy. Triggered by the phrase “LemmyLink!” in a Reddit post title, body, or comment, the bot automatically creates a corresponding post on your chosen Lemmy instance. This allows Bidirectional post and comments between Reddit and Lemmy by triggering a Reddit bot.

Feel free to play around with it on r/LemmyLink. Simply include "LemmyLink!" anywhere in your post title, body or comment on the LemmyLink sub. This is setup on my own Lemmy instance lemmylink.com currently not federated and marked as a bot to avoid spamming the Fediverse.

There are some pros and cons to bridging communities but I think if done with transparency and user opt-in it could serve as an interesting way to bring more users in to the Fediverse. But, I'm curious what others think.

How LemmyLink Works

Only works for Subreddits and Lemmy communities specified in the code Reddit users include "LemmyLink!" in their Reddit post or comment LemmyLink posts the Reddit comment or post to Lemmy LemmyLink responds to the Reddit post or comment with link back to the Lemmy post The code is rough so go easy on me but it is available on GitHub: https://github.com/ateames/LemmyLink

Feel free to fork it, suggest improvements, or simply try it out.

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Aujourd'hui, nous quittons X, ex-Twitter. Vive le #fediverse ! Bienvenue sur #Mastodon !

As a result, our instance https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ got 625 new user registrations (of which 536 where accepted) in the past 24 hours! And the registrations are not abating even now. We still get like 10 new ones per hour!

I suspect this is probably the largest advertisement, for lemmy specifically, since the main reddit blackouts 1.5 years ago.

Have your own instances also seen an influx of new users?

The first social app that lets you scroll through messages with sideways scrolling! Raccon for Friendica (and Mastodon) does this too

This is a feature already implemented by apps for Lemmy (and for Reddit) or email clients, but for Social apps it represents a unique and innovative feature.

If you want to try the new feature, you can download the apk file directly from github

github.com/LiveFastEatTrashRac…

#RaccoonForFriendica #RaccoonForMastodon

@fediverse

Noticed this drop and would love to know the reason behind it.

Never tried before, want to automatically crosspost posts with locked comments to [email protected], wondering if it's even possible and what direction I need to head in. Just going off lemmy settings allowing bot accounts.

I have some programming and webdev knowledge so I'm not compeltely clueless, just fairly clueless wheen it comes to bots.

If you are not aware, sportbots is a project that mirrors Twitter accounts from popular sport reporters, players and the leagues themselves. These bots are presented as regular ActivityPub actors, which means that they can be followed from Mastodon and any other AP service that is oriented towards microblogging.

With my work on Fediverser and the ActivityPub Toolkit, I'm realizing that we could do something similar for Lemmy. The Fediverser system could keep a database of these bots accounts and then map them to the relevant Lemmy instances/communities.

I'd like to get some opinions on how best to do this. Here are some of my ideas, in order of preference:

1. Reach out to the developer behind sportbots.xyz and ask them to add this integration directly, to make sure that the bots post not just to Mastodon-like systems, but to groups as well.

   Pros: it can be very straightforward. No new bots being created on the Fediverse.

   Cons: the code seems to be closed, so we have to rely on the dev to implement this.

2. Add the functionality to Fediverser to map mastodon/twitter/bluesky accounts to Lemmy mirror bots, and also map these accounts to the specific communities where they should be posting.

   Pros: Accounts could be eventually be used by the real owner. Open source.

   Cons: More bots in the Fediverse (not at alien.top scale, though). Not that many Lemmy admins seem interested in deploying Fediverser so far.

3. Create a separate project from Fediverser that does what sportbots is doing, but focused on Lemmy.

   Pros: most flexible. Could be easier for other people to run it if interested. I would be sure to open source it.

   Cons: It's yet-another project that I would be taking on, and I don't have any more bandwidth for new projects unless they are guaranteed to bring some revenue.

Please, let's avoid any "who cares about sports?" or "I only want organic content here" type of discussion. We need content here if we want to get more people to stay active and if you don't care about sports or the bots, just feel free to block them.

What do we need to change about how we operate, now that the political environment is darkening?

The overall goals would be to safeguard user identities, ensure communication privacy, and protect against censorship and state surveillance.

User Anonymity and Privacy

• End-to-end encryption: Encrypt all user communications, private messages, and sensitive data
• Anonymous accounts: Allow users to create accounts without requiring personally identifiable information (PII), such as email or phone numbers. How can we balance this with the need to combat spam?
• Tor and VPN Integration: Ensure compatibility with privacy tools like Tor, and provide guidance on using VPNs.

Data Storage

• Remove or minimize data collection, including IP addresses, geolocation, and device information. No web server logs.
• Ephemeral content: auto-deleting posts, messages, etc after a set period.
• Instance chooser that flags which instances are in unsafe countries.
• Defederate from instances in unsafe countries?

Communities

• Private communities - currently all are public
• Communities where every post is encrypted
• Approval process to join some communities
• Better opsec around instance owners, admins and moderators

What else?

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Do you know Fediverse bots/accounts boosting posts in other languages than English?
My personal feed is heavily English-centred, I’d like to possibly get posts in other languages and have a wider perspective
@[email protected]

Mastadon? Lemmy? It would probably have to be standalone so people would't be turned off from the content from the rest of the fediverse unless there's a way to prevent federated content from showing on the instance. Just a place to post local news and discussions, maybe a place to sell secondhand. I live near a huge college with a major cs program, so I should be able to get users.

FediOnFire, a Fediverse project similar to Firesky, which offers an IRC-like view of the global firehose, has shut down after a misunderstanding led to community backlash.

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113936446648546612