I honestly don’t see a reason why anybody would want something like that

Famous last words.

I feel similarly, except I wish more users were interacted with my sports communities too. Guess it’s a “have your cake and eat it too” kind of problem.

I added a user story to the site to reflect this idea! I can’t promise we’ll ship it, but I can promise we’ll think about it.

I’m trying to get a team together to do something similar which you can join if you’re interested: https://dougs-digital-garden.netlify.app/notes/trailsapp/

The fediverse is less like Twitter and more like email. You sign up for email through a provider, like Gmail or Outlook, and they have control over your access to the other users and pay the costs of running your hardware, the same way you sign up with a particular domain on Lemmy or Mastodon. Like email, you have an inbox that receives messages, and communities are like email groups you join and send messages to. And, like email, it’s based on standards that everyone has agreed on through a group called the w3 consortium.

3, 4 and 5 are all legit problems, but the community is working on it, and they’ll get better. 1 and 2 are features, not bugs.

Nice! I have neither; how much’ll it run me?

Part of it is figuring out how to pay for all the servers. If we have 1000 instances instead of 100, more people pay a smaller amount for server maintenance. If everyone uses a single instance, who pays for it?

We’re working on it! Here’s the spec-in-progress: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

These things take time. We’ll get there.

Yeah. I’m part of !mls@lemmy.ml and !mls@lemmy.world – the one on the world tld seems to be the more active of the two.

And !soundersfc@lemmy.world isn’t even the most obscure Seattle soccer community on here – we also have !reign_fc@lemmy.world for our !nwsl@lemmy.world side, and !ballard_fc@lemmy.world for our USL2 side.

I follow my favorite Lemmy users on Mastodon – since they’re both on activitypub, you can use the one from the other. I like it much better because that’s kinda Mastodon’s whole jam, following users. Here’s what it looks like from Mastodon looking at my account

Cool. So not only were you sassy, you were wrong. Tough look my guy.

Fine, I’ll bite. Where’s the guide to linking my Lemmy account to my mastodon account so I can use a single sign-on for both. I can’t find one anywhere.

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I don’t think “you can host your own instance” is a very realistic solution for the vast majority of social media users. “Just learn to be a sysadmin so you can post memes” is pretty user-hostile.

You can run a bot to tail your RSS feed and post new entries to Lemmy, yeah: https://github.com/Ategon/Lemmy-Mega-Bot

https://w3c.github.io/did-core/

This was the great promise of the fediverse – that you would own your profile, and that you would have one profile across the entire fediverse, and that you could migrate that profile from instance to instance if you had disagreements with the admins of your instance – but it seems to have fallen by the wayside with real implementations, which is disappointing.

I’m doing my best! This is my first time modding, and I’m not sure how to run a good community. Feel free to stop by any of my communities and suggest better sidebar content and I promise I’ll update it.

There totally is – you could toot a bunch about the stuff you want to see on the platform!