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Defederation of various forms would appear to make this a difficult thing to do.

There was a situation the other day where a post was called out for being a repost, but it was entirely possible that the OP couldn’t see the original because their instance (let’s say “A”) had defederated the instance (“B”) where the original poster was based. And all this was (or at least could have been) in a group on a different instance entirely (“C”).

I won’t say this makes it impossible, but it’s clearly non-trivial.

Webrings need to make a comeback.

I reckon there’s a few of us about on here.

Tangential advice: Many people use YouTube (and formerly Twitch until they nixed it) as a place to store videos. As in the only copy of a video is hosted there.

If your videos are precious to you (or you think they’re going to be), make arrangements for them to be at least stored elsewhere, if not hosted. That’s not going to be cheap what with hardware prices going through the roof, personally or third-party, but it is necessary because no host is both trustworthy and permanent.

Actually not even self-storage is as trustworthy and permanent as we’d like, but it’s still better than any alternative for data retention.

Also, donate to your chosen Fediverse host(s) if you can.

Where are their communications? Who visits a government website without needing to?

To me it makes sense that they should cover as much ground as possible and have accounts on all major platforms as well as making announcements on TV and radio.

And in order to do so they should have their own accounts on there in order that their message gets across directly without having to go through a third party that has an account on there.

Now, when that site starts espousing “free speech” of the sort that only they like, then it might be a good idea to not use that particular platform any more, because that brings in the third party interference that wasn’t there in the first place, even if the site was technically third party.

But hey whatever, now let’s make, say, the BBC the mouthpiece of the government - it’s not like the Tories didn’t try really hard to do that when they were in power - and have everyone report on that. Far better.

Government creates announcement feed. No-one knows about it because they can only advertise it on their own announcement feed.

What now?

@rglullis@communick.news @abeorch@friendica.ginestes.es

It may not be a public place per se, but it is a place where a very large cohort of the general public go.

Perhaps my analogy should have been “This is bit like saying that governments shouldn’t make announcements on television and radio stations not under government control.”

The same logic applies there. Of course they should. A large cohort of the general public watch television and listen to the radio (less so these days in the age of the Internet, but people do still watch and listen there.).

This is a bit like saying that governments shouldn’t post notices in public places.

Surely you’re not saying they shouldn’t have had a Twitter presence?

Or is this more of a “they should have left when Elon took over” kind of thing? In which case, they probably thought that the majority of people who follow(ed) them on there wouldn’t have left immediately - not least because there weren’t any good alternatives* at the time - so it would have made sense to maintain a presence, which I think is what’s actually going on.

* Yes, Mastodon existed, but you’ve got to think about the average person here. There’s a reason the first people on there were academics and tech folks.

Two. kbin.social and kbin.run (which was actually an Mbin by the time it vanished).

The posts that I’ve seen so far seem to be lacking context that’s available when visiting the original on the home instance.

That is, these posts look like the first comment made by the OP in a thread below their main submission, but the main submission isn’t visible.

Very disorienting. I hope there’s a fix on the way.

“Mbin” literally stands for “magazine bin” though. The use of “magazine” is a gun pun carried over from kbin. Kbin was named after the karabiner rifle, which, somewhat ironically, doesn’t use magazines, but it’s still a gun thing.

The true format-agnostic platform would be named something like “gbin” because ActivityPub calls communities/magazines “groups”. That could be a throwback to Usenet, but it’s a fairly generic term.

… although that being an anagram of “bing” might raise a few eyebrows at Microsoft legal.

You don’t have to use it for both if you don’t want to. ¯\_(ツ)\_/¯

You want a website and software that does Lemmy and Mastodon at the same time? That’d be kbin / mbin.

In part because of the kbin creator’s real world struggles, it hasn’t really taken off quite as well as Lemmy has, but its successor mbin is in use in a few places. I’m currently on fedia.io which is an mbin instance, for example.

The Fediverse is also a sewer of both overt and covert Antisemitism

Is this a problem unique to the Fediverse, or is this a case that it’s more rampant here? Or does it only seem like it?

My feeds are fairly well curated, or perhaps you might say “blinkered”, so I don’t see a lot of it. Or maybe I don’t see what’s right in front of me, which is why I ask, since you definitely see it better than I can.

(This is not an attempt at a bad faith argument; I’m firmly anti-anti-Semitism, and I’m not saying it’s not there. Frankly, I’d be surprised if there wasn’t any. Anywhere there’s people, their prejudices generally follow.)

Me: “Oh no, that wtf means it’s gonna be a LiveLeak site isn’t it?”

platform for general use

Me: “Ah, so maybe not so bad then.”

Every topic is welcome.

Me: “… and yet…”

Seriously though, I’m all for the Fediverse in all its many forms, and without people like you it wouldn’t exist. Thank you.

“Instagram” is, at least in my opinion, about as awkward as “Friendica” to say, and has millions of users. It wins marginally on spelling, but how often does the average user write or type the full name of a site anyway?

Someone or something has clearly hurt you and you appear to want to hurt others in turn. I’m not the brick wall you’re going to run into one day, but I can tell you that if you keep this up you’re going to hit it sooner rather than later.

It’s a lot easier to complain than it is to make the world a better place. And before you think that that’s a complete agreement with your reasoning, note that 1) Your comment is also an easy complaint and 2) Does this mean that people who can’t produce quality content shouldn’t be allowed to complain when there’s a lack of it?

The big irony here is that OP actually went to the effort of creating content, even if it was “only” a complaint.

I can only speak to the topics I followed on another account, but it provided plenty of reading for those topics. Whether it covered all possible posts and whether it works well for all topics, I couldn’t say.

It does kind of rely on people tagging things properly, which people might not do if they’re on a Mastodon instance specific to that topic. But then, they ought to know that those posts wouldn’t Federate well, and indeed, might not want them to.