We’re not that far out, probably another year or two. It keeps getting easier and easier to join. Piefed looks like a good avenue to recommend because it’s easier to use than lemmy. They say they’re ran by a non-profit.
I am not all that Savvy and I almost gave up trying to join Lemmy here. The first instance I tried to join did not accept my application for whatever reason and two days time, this one did within just a few hours but I almost did not bother trying a second one. Is this pie fed and instance of the Federated Lemmy here? I’m not entirely certain how all this works but the idea I wholeheartedly support and think is the future for online communication of people that are not tools.
Think of federation like the Hawaii Islands. It’s a group of types of social media, and they’re kind of similar.
Each island has its own flavor and way of traveling to other islands though. Meaning, some have commercial airplanes and some don’t, so you have to travel with your own personal boat to certain islands. Same with federation, you have the twitter style of Mastodon where they can post on the reddit style of Lemmy, but lemmy can’t really post on Mastodon.
Piefed is a reddit style and you can’t really tell the difference to lemmy, other than Piefed seems to have a better user interface. I haven’t personally tried Piefed, but the features they brag about seem great.
There are all kinds of other types of federation (or islands) that are similar to other social media types. There’s youtube, tumbler, instagram types, etc. They may or may not be able to communicate with lemmy back and forth easily.
An instance is just a computer (or many computers) someone has set up to handle all of the traffic and data, that’s it. That’s why some instances don’t get back to you, that instance owner may have had something personally come up, or they’re not really working on the project anymore. Some may be owned by big corporations as well, we just don’t know.
I hope this doesn’t confuse you more, but feel free to ask any questions and I’ll try my best to answer them quickly.
We’re not that far out, probably another year or two. It keeps getting easier and easier to join. Piefed looks like a good avenue to recommend because it’s easier to use than lemmy. They say they’re ran by a non-profit.
I am not all that Savvy and I almost gave up trying to join Lemmy here. The first instance I tried to join did not accept my application for whatever reason and two days time, this one did within just a few hours but I almost did not bother trying a second one. Is this pie fed and instance of the Federated Lemmy here? I’m not entirely certain how all this works but the idea I wholeheartedly support and think is the future for online communication of people that are not tools.
Think of federation like the Hawaii Islands. It’s a group of types of social media, and they’re kind of similar.
Each island has its own flavor and way of traveling to other islands though. Meaning, some have commercial airplanes and some don’t, so you have to travel with your own personal boat to certain islands. Same with federation, you have the twitter style of Mastodon where they can post on the reddit style of Lemmy, but lemmy can’t really post on Mastodon.
Piefed is a reddit style and you can’t really tell the difference to lemmy, other than Piefed seems to have a better user interface. I haven’t personally tried Piefed, but the features they brag about seem great.
There are all kinds of other types of federation (or islands) that are similar to other social media types. There’s youtube, tumbler, instagram types, etc. They may or may not be able to communicate with lemmy back and forth easily.
An instance is just a computer (or many computers) someone has set up to handle all of the traffic and data, that’s it. That’s why some instances don’t get back to you, that instance owner may have had something personally come up, or they’re not really working on the project anymore. Some may be owned by big corporations as well, we just don’t know.
I hope this doesn’t confuse you more, but feel free to ask any questions and I’ll try my best to answer them quickly.
Also isn’t piefed a fork so that we don’t have to use an interface coded by transphobic tankies?
It’s actually not a fork, it’s all brand new code in a different programming language and everything