Was reading through the thread and holy shit I swear half the comments are anti fediverse propaganda.

Some comments are suspiciously skeptical. If they were this skeptical of Reddit before joining then they never would’ve joined Reddit lol. Someone just tried to tell me that the report button on Lemmy doesn’t do anything.

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i6rp3o/decentralized_social_media_is_the_only/m8i99k6/?context=9

And people talking about bots too lol Reddit will literally repost a 1 year old post with identical title and copy-paste the top 100 comments from the original too, talk about bots! And they aren’t labeled as bots! At least bots here are labeled and you can hide them all instantly.

And then they ask for extreme details on how everything works and try to become a master at it before even signing up. Is that how they signed up for Reddit and Discord? I doubt it.

No way these people were that closed-minded and stubborn when they were signing up for Reddit.

I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

I still see the comment on Spaduf’s profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

it seems like copying Spaduf’s comment to r/fediverse worked, but in r/technology it got deleted for me too

for me it seems like join-lemmy.org, lemm.ee, and even lemmy.world are safe but some of the others will get your comment deleted

I’m not sure what motivated their selection because lemmy.world is the biggest one so I thought that would be the banned one

actually I think it was mander.xyz for some reason? and it doesn’t seem to happen in r/fediverse

no wait, something else is also doing it, midwest.social is also doing it, lemmy.world is clear, infosec.pub is clear, ttrpg.network is not allowed

no idea how Reddit or r/technology chose which instances to ban lol

Sonic 3, these movies are actually good lol

@[email protected] idk if you saw my post about this in https://programming.dev/post/24371441

I think the join-lemmy.org link was fine, it seemed to get deleted when you edited in links to specific lemmy instances?

omg the top comment just got deleted with over 500 upvotes

I think it was when it was edited to include specific links to Lemmy instances, instead of the join-lemmy.org website

I still see the comment on Spaduf’s profile, but it shows as deleted in the post

I think maybe the link to lemmy.world is what triggered their filter? because that was edited in

On another note, don’t you think it’s a little weird that someone from world is saying to not follow small instances?

Where is that comment? I didn’t see it. Maybe they’re thinking back when it was really hard to get new communities federated, but it’s not so bad these days, and even the medium sizes instances already have tons of communities already federated.

anyways I think we should’ve give people too much trouble as long as they’re joining the Fediverse lol, they can move instances as they get a feel for it

also what’s the best alternative for Mastodon? a lot of people there already tried Mastodon and didn’t like it due to UX/UI issues

I would be good to list Mastodon as well as an alternative, and also listing Mbin might be good too? but then maybe you’re putting too many choices lol

yea it should just be a matter of searching your username, but you need to be logged in to search remote instances (they don’t want anonymous requests spamming the network)

what’s your Pixelfed username? I can pull it up if you want

the bridge is pretty nice, I would recommend everyone on compatible platforms to use it (Bluesky, and probably any AP microblogging platform, but I’ve only tried it with Mastodon)

Does Lemmy allow hyphens in community names? I know it allows underscores

both sides need approval from the instance owner

correct, that’s basically what https://lemmy-federate.com/ does, it just subscribes for each instance

Communities in Lemmy/Mbin are not federated by default. So when you create a new community, it will only be available to your instance. At least 1 person from all other instances must follow it in order to make it available. This tool does that. It follows your community from all remote instances until at least 1 other person follows it.

I think that requires the instance owner to approve, and the approval process probably won’t work with NodeBB?

the search should work, but give it time

I know it says no results found when the local search finishes even though it’s still doing the remote search

also some apps may not yet support hyphens in community names, but at least it works for me in the web browser

if the direct link to the announcement wasn’t loading for you, then their server was probably having issues (it was earlier too)

their server is down right now, but it did federate with lemmy.ml before going down https://lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]

https://programming.dev/c/[email protected]

also you can read their announcement from their Mastodon profile @[email protected]

edit: it’s back up, to see the announcement post in Lemmy format, put this in your Lemmy’s search: https://community.nodebb.org/post/102756

it’s from [email protected]

some forums that use NodeBB, will be interesting to see if they enable federation

https://nodebb.org/showcase/

oh you let it autocomplete, check the source of your post

at least on Lemmy, it works better if you don’t let it autocomplete… kinda silly, but there’s a bug report for that on the Lemmy side, idk about Mbin

because you used /m/ instead of /c/, but really the format !communityname@instancename.com should be used instead of trying to manually make URLs