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My instance takes a very strict moderation stance to give our users a very tailored experience of the rest of the fediverse. We don’t allow any generative AI, any slurs, any authoritarian propaganda, or any ads for Elon’s website. We also believe mods and admins should be held to a higher standard than regular users, because with great power there must also come great responsibility.
Right now: communick members get an account on Matrix, Mastodon and Funkwhale, where they can upload up to 250GB.
Coming soon ™:
- account at an ADAPT instance, with a custom client that can let people interact with any type of server.
- XMPP integration to integrate movim.
- Custom Voyager client to get read-only Reddit access.
Under consideration:
- Bridging with ATProto
ATProto is what Bluesky is built on, right? How does it differ from Activity Pub? Are there difficulties with bridging the two protocols?
Correct. ATProto is the protocol used by Bluesky. There is one bridge already
@speedythefirst@lemmy.zip AT Protocol uses relays instead of direct communication - think two devices talking over bluetooth (ActivityPub) vs talking through the router on a same network (AT Protocol).
AT Protocol is better for content distribution, but its relay system is more centralized. ActivityPub is better for decentralization, but contents and to a smaller degree servers need to be found first.
Also there is the Nostrr protocol, but to my knowledge it’s dwarfed in comparison to ActivityPub and AT Protocol, is also relay-based, and the only instance that uses it that I know is minds.com, which also uses ActivityPub.
And talking about instances with multiple protocols used, alternative to bridging through Bridgy Fed, Wafrn uses both AT Protocol and ActivityPub natively, and NeoDB (for cross-posting afaik) and Friendica (for normal use) allow connecting to your Bluesky account if you have one.
Some thing that I think should be more widely adopted (de facto mostly a list of features that Lemmy lacks relative to Piefed):
- Instance URL redirection; not only a Piefed thing, also done by Voyager
- Merged comments for the same post URL
- Post flair and to a lesser extent tags, Post flair is really helpful for if you manage a community
I was really surprised when I saw that flairs weren’t widely adopted yet. They’re super useful for community filtering.
Closest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an <include> type of filter, not also an <exclude> one.
What do you mean by instance url redirection?
We discussed about merged comments for same post url, but there was no clear support for it. Many people dont care or warn that it could have unwanted side effects.
- Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
- Default UI is not Lemmy UI
- PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)
Would you mind elaborating on the Peertube instance? How does it integrate/what benefits are there to integration?
It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.
The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.
Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
This. Maybe it’s a general problem with more niche platforms, but it is hard to recommend the fediverse when there are so many communities that are filled with extremist views, propaganda, and reality deniers. Like, I’ve gotten used to it, and I purposefully don’t filter out those communities because I want to see things outside of my bubble. But it can get maddening sometimes, especially when those views aren’t supported by proper arguments, but instead by empty zingers, brigading and insults.
XMPP chat account integration.
That sounds interesting, is it actually integrated into the UI? Or a separate thing?
No, just the accounts are integrated, not the UI. It wouldn’t be a huge issue to add some basic webclient to the UI, but I don’t think anyone would use that when there are much better dedicated clients.
Lots of pictures of anime girls…
Monthly reports on !home@lemmy.zip , providing updates about both the Piefed and Lemmy instance
Mbin has mixed feeds (microblogging + threads), is very responsive to Ublock Origin so I can simulate a better post hiding than Lemmy or Mastodon’s, its RSS picks both threads and microblog posts from communities (but thankfully not comments from users, unlike Misskey), and UI has very little visual noise.
I’m only here for the gamgbangs.
