eeh fuck it

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Cake day: July 6th, 2023

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  • Well, the “how” is technically simple. You paste the URL to the search box and you hit subscribe. You can do that right now with:

    • Lemmy communities
    • Kbin communities
    • PeerTube channels
    • Mayyyyybe a.gup.pe / chirp.social groups??? idk how well those would work

    Lemmy itself only let you subscribe to ActivityPub Group actors though, so it’s quite restrictive in that regard. kbin adds user follows and microblogging into the mix, but you can’t do those through Lemmy yet (or perhaps ever).

    However, the real “problem” is presentation. While you can, say, follow a Lemmy group from Mastodon. Mastodon is not intended for groups so it kinda breaks and ends up spamming your home timeline with all the posts and comments. Other implementations such as Akkoma or Misskey or Calckey (pending rename) might end up interacting better (because Mastodon will try to convert everything it gets into Notes in a “lossy” fashion).

    While the protocol does allow you the freedom to interact between services, you will not get the best experience if you’re not on a “similar enough” service. Although that does not stop you from following a PixelFed account from Misskey, or a Mastodon user accidentally finding their way into the Lemmy comments section. (You can tell because they’ll be the only comments that end up tagging people when replying)


  • There are signing keys involved, so if someone puts up a new server but uses different keys then all sorts of federation trouble will await them.

    That said it shouldn’t affect the general network, just that individual server (both the communities and the users of it)

    Edit: As for switching domains on an existing server, that would be equally troublesome as ActivityPub kinda relies on domains for all sorts of IDs.


  • People aren’t against companies, people are against Meta. In the wider fediverse, anyway.

    A while back there was talk of Tumblr potentially joining the fediverse, and it was met with neutral to positive reactions. No idea what happened there, maybe they’re still working on it, but I do not expect a “fedipact against tumblr” to gain as much steam (if any) when they decide to announce they’re ready to flip the ActivityPub switch.

    (no idea if my other comment got sent out, this may be a duplicate)