cm0002 is the worst with this..I've blocked like five or six of their accounts but another one just pops up in my feed the next day. It's so annoying and makes the threadiverse seem like it's full of spam.
I believe this is something being worked on through Mastodon as well as a few other people are working on it but yes it would be amazing to see some E2EE for the Fediverse
username changing . Back wen had mastodon account (we don't talk about that !) , didn't see option to change it any where , so assumed wasn't possible technicly
Account migration . Unhappy with lemmy.word's administration , would like to migrate (post|comment) history to another instance (preferably mbin one if one I like eventually shows up + gꚙd mobile client)
It is technically possible, it is just extremely difficult, you'll need an admin to do it for you (many won't know how, and many will be unwilling), and it will 100% cause problems down the line. I wish it wasn't too, though, I usually change my online name every few years, and having to restart is a little annoying.
Account migration
It's possible on most fedi platforms, seems Lemmy doesn't offer it though. Not surprising, given it's not really the same kind of platform as the broader fediverse is.
you'll need an admin to do it for
you (many won't know how, and many will be unwilling)
It's 202fuckin6 , should be beyond possible for username changes on user level , fact AP platforms do them this way in current year's archaic . Some technical limitation ? Oar just nobody figured out how to implement it yet ?
Afaik it's a limit of how the protocol works. (This is speculation) They tie your whole account to your username, instead of some back end identifier, so it's not as easy as making account number 7826457(at)domain.com present as a different name, it would have to change the whole account, and copy all of the information over, and then delete the old account
You are following topics here, not users. Your username is not really imporant, as you can't have followers (but you can follow lemmy users in other platforms, but it's just the side effect of fedration)
Most other fedi platforms are built around following users
Some of those changes like Account Migration with posts and stuff is coming to AP in the future. I know @[email protected] was working on this at some point but unsure how far they got. This would make it easier to change your username but I'm pretty sure it's like that to be consistent for servers that are offline temporarily or not updating quickly as they could get confused on who they are actually following.
An LI alternative wouldn't be super helpful, you would need mainstream and companies to want to use it, and any open alternative would fail to meet that goal. The wants of the employee and the wants of the employer don't mix, thats why LinkedIn looks so bad to the employee. It's not meant to be for the employee, its meant to be for the employer. If it was the other way around the employers wouldn't use it.
don't take me wrong. I would love an alternative as well! I just think that the personality of the fediverse as a whole goes against what companies are actually looking for in partners
I hate LinkedIn, but having a way to keep in contact with former co-workers is good from a networking perspective for finding a new job. Someone I hadn't talked to in 10 years reached out with a position they were hiring for, and that's not something I would have been looking for or known about.
The useful parts of LinkedIn are managing business acquaintances, and it'd be cool if there were a decentralized privacy preserving way to be able to maintain that contact list of people, without it being used to harvest data for some data broker somewhere.
More national diversity. Lemmy is dominated by Americans and Germans, then a handful of worldwide Anglosphere, and Europeans. Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, Latin Americans, Indians, etc. are practically nonexistent.
Spirituality and religion are barely talked about.
I am a American citizen but I'm was born in China and I feel like my anecdotes just stand out so much lol... like remember being in a US classroom and I was the only Asian there... that's how I kinda feel like... The only other ethnic Chinese here are like 2 HongKongers and like 1 Mainlander in Europe and like 1 Taiwanese
The Asian Diaspora comm has like checks notes yea it's in the single digits... like 3 members of the diaspora I think. (shameless promo: [email protected])
As for spirituality... sometimes I mention the idea of reincarnation as a hypothetical and feel like some atheist is gonna be like "ur stupid"
I mean I'm not gonna wait for help if there's a flood, not gonna be that guy that "waits for god to save him", but I still think about reincarnation a lot... it's kinda just part of the philosophy of the environment/culture I grew up in... its like I grew up with a weird mix of Chinese culture stuff at home... (like... as a kid I used to watch a lot of Cantonese and Mandarin tv shows...), then also the western (American, to be specific) stuff outside of home and on the internet.
But I'm so glad the fediverse doen't have the bullshit like "Omg u don't have enough karma / your account too new / we find your account doesn't meet our requirements, your post has been automatically removed"
I 100% agree here, it feels like a microcosm of Reddit which already leans quite left, but even more radical. I left numerous times on the fediverse due to it’s huge political echo chamber, it’s something really frustrating as the platform is meant to be for everyone but it seems to be mostly populated by one viewpoint and nearly always Americans or Europeans.
Most mainstream platforms do have these sorts of demographics and politics yes, but even they have quite sizeable communities for ethnic, political and religious minorities where they can have their own space. The fediverse doesn’t really have that and it kinda sucks.
I really feel you with the lack of religious talk here, Reddit has tons of it for every major rellgion out there, and Lemmy has.. nothing? As a Indian Muslim on here, I’d like to have a space to talk about my beliefs with others, but the Islamic communities on here are all ghost towns. Reddit on the other hand, is very populated with Muslims and has discussions daily on those sub reddits.
Categories for the communities so that you can filter out large swaths of communities based on what they are aimed at, something like sports, or politics, or music, or art, or AI, should all be a single tick box that you can completely eliminate because you have no interest in it. It's just wasting bandwidth to even show you the community when you don't care about it.
And a shop for person to person sales so that we can establish our own capitalism with black jack and hookers.
The communities could even take a cut for hosting the show and I would be okay with that. It would be a great way for them to fund the server.
From what I can gather the Government is waiting for the community / public to move across, the public has to wait for the sources of Information so news, reporters and creators and those are waiting for both there community and the government / people they have to interact with to keep going.
It's kinda a big circle that everyone is waiting for the next person to move across.
And this is sort of the annoying part for me, if you want something that respects your privacy better than mainstream social media, you have to put up with way less people, posts, comments and communities. I really wish there was some major platform which was as big as the mainstream but was it’s own thing, I know mastodon is the biggest but it’s still not big enough meanwhile something like bluesky which came way after is even more popular than it
@[email protected] It is what's upsetting about it at the moment, It's also what ActivityPub and The Fediverse is here to solve into the Future, the main issue is we need platforms to adopt it and grow alongside each other. It's one of the things I've been trying to do with creating banners and little digital adverts for the Fediverse.
Soon I hope to push into other sections that could help push people to move across, in the end people can't move unless they learn about it, The only way to learn about is to be educated by the people using it.
Yeah exactly, but the issue is how do we spread the word about it and get a lot more people on it? We’d need to have big celebrities get on it, the same strategies that MySpace, Twitter, and Discord used to grow their popularity when they first were growing. Also, where we would put these adverts? Most people use the same sort of social media nowadays, so it’s kinda redundant telling them on there, it’s like someone saying to move to twitter while posting on mastodon.
Yeah I get that, when it comes to Celebs I'm not sure how to solve that but I know I'm planning on making posters to plaster up and advertise the Fediverse as a whole. I'm also looking to sell these sorts of posters to people using the Fediverse so we can get more advertisement out there.
When it comes to digital advertisement it's a bit of posting on normal social media but also educating people through Videos, Comments and more. It's trying to show we are a great place for people to go and it's not as complex as people think.
That would be cool. I think it’s more that people don’t know about it, I only really found out once I started getting into the whole privacy and Linux niche, I think if they just had more funding for adverts they really could do something great.
Genuinely I think creating the community, using it and trying to actually get it growing is a huge thing and could bring others to the table and realize there are people like yourself out there.
This may be unpopular to some, but I think there should be more interoperability between Lemmy and Mastadon. I know from Mastadon you can @mention Lemmy communities, but most users don't know about that. Maybe depending on the privacy settings of a Mastadon post, if that could be "forwarded" to a Lemmy community as a post, and it would be useful for many who follow a community in Lemmy but not the author or hashtag in Mastadon. It'd also be nice to be able to follow people who use Mastadon and have that show up in your feed on Lemmy.
There was a mirror at one point, the main reason most people didn't enjoy it is due to the replies and feedback kinda being non-existent as the users can't see your comment and it just get's put on this random bot instance.
That and I think it sort of ruins the whole experience, Lemmy is supposed to be its own thing, it feels kind of lazy to just copy a question from Reddit knowing the original author of it won’t see it
I wish they’d implement that idea where signing up for one “sub” (or whatever we call it) signs you up for equivalent subs across the different instances. I also wish something would be done about the amount of content getting repeated as I scroll.
I think that sort of thing would end up being closer to Ebay or Facebook Marketplace rather than Amazon but yet a marketplace or a way to have people advertise things even with a tag on Mastodon like #Marketplace and maybe a few marketplace lemmy communities.
That could be a good start till people build out Fediverse Software that would help people find items in there local area or business' can sell things directly on here.
I wish it felt populated.
I recently moved from Reddit almost entirety and even in this short time it feels like it's getting more crowded. The fedivers will rule them all.
cm0002 is the worst with this..I've blocked like five or six of their accounts but another one just pops up in my feed the next day. It's so annoying and makes the threadiverse seem like it's full of spam.
I know I do this I'm open to suggestions on how to ensure things go to the correct places but arnt "spamming".
I could try to crosspost less.
There are some softwares that offer it, I know Friendica has regex-based filtering. Idk I'd any of the lemmy-likes do, though
I believe this is something being worked on through Mastodon as well as a few other people are working on it but yes it would be amazing to see some E2EE for the Fediverse
That would be amazing to see, I can't wait to see things like that come about and hopefully integrate into each other properly through open protocols
It is certainly possible as there is E2EE through some Email Providers and Email is a Decentralized system as well.
I mean, you can use GPG.
As far's AP fediverse ?
(we don't talk about that !), didn't see option to change it any where , so assumed wasn't possible techniclyI feel like a bunch of trolls would abuse account migration tools by instance hopping before they get banned.
If their posts are deleted I don’t see this being any worse than the same troll just making two different accounts
I thought the point of migrating an account here would be to automatically migrate the post history too.
Yeah but wouldn’t a removed post not show in the history anyway? Genuine question, I don’t post a lot and haven’t had any removed lol
I suppose I mean they'd account hop before they got caught and their posts removed.
Also, plenty of instances would like to restrict it. Ie I doubt lemmy.blahaj would really appreciate lemmy.world accounts hopping over.
It is technically possible, it is just extremely difficult, you'll need an admin to do it for you (many won't know how, and many will be unwilling), and it will 100% cause problems down the line. I wish it wasn't too, though, I usually change my online name every few years, and having to restart is a little annoying.
It's possible on most fedi platforms, seems Lemmy doesn't offer it though. Not surprising, given it's not really the same kind of platform as the broader fediverse is.
It's 202fuckin6 , should be beyond possible for username changes on user level , fact AP platforms do them this way in current year's archaic . Some technical limitation ? Oar just nobody figured out how to implement it yet ?
Afaik it's a limit of how the protocol works. (This is speculation) They tie your whole account to your username, instead of some back end identifier, so it's not as easy as making account number 7826457(at)domain.com present as a different name, it would have to change the whole account, and copy all of the information over, and then delete the old account
You are following topics here, not users. Your username is not really imporant, as you can't have followers (but you can follow lemmy users in other platforms, but it's just the side effect of fedration)
Most other fedi platforms are built around following users
This. There's not really a big reason to pull your post history, or bring followers over, because you aren't the point
Some of those changes like Account Migration with posts and stuff is coming to AP in the future. I know @[email protected] was working on this at some point but unsure how far they got. This would make it easier to change your username but I'm pretty sure it's like that to be consistent for servers that are offline temporarily or not updating quickly as they could get confused on who they are actually following.
A LinkedIn alternative. LinkedIn is the worst.
An LI alternative wouldn't be super helpful, you would need mainstream and companies to want to use it, and any open alternative would fail to meet that goal. The wants of the employee and the wants of the employer don't mix, thats why LinkedIn looks so bad to the employee. It's not meant to be for the employee, its meant to be for the employer. If it was the other way around the employers wouldn't use it.
Yeah I suppose that makes sense. At least Indeed does what I need.
don't take me wrong. I would love an alternative as well! I just think that the personality of the fediverse as a whole goes against what companies are actually looking for in partners
That actually makes a lot of sense. I didn’t even think of that. Thanks for the insight!
What would the use of a LinkedIn Alternative be? Isn't it just a circle jerk for business'
I haven’t been on LI in so long. I only used it to network and find work. I couldn’t stand the insufferable posts and talks about B2B nonsense.
So would it not be better to have communities in Lemmy for that or hashtags for Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse for finding work / networking?
Actually, that’s a good idea. I never considered that.
I hate LinkedIn, but having a way to keep in contact with former co-workers is good from a networking perspective for finding a new job. Someone I hadn't talked to in 10 years reached out with a position they were hiring for, and that's not something I would have been looking for or known about.
The useful parts of LinkedIn are managing business acquaintances, and it'd be cool if there were a decentralized privacy preserving way to be able to maintain that contact list of people, without it being used to harvest data for some data broker somewhere.
Actual, literal, real sorcery.
More diversity of opinion.
More national diversity. Lemmy is dominated by Americans and Germans, then a handful of worldwide Anglosphere, and Europeans. Asians, Middle Easterners, Africans, Latin Americans, Indians, etc. are practically nonexistent.
Spirituality and religion are barely talked about.
I feel like I stand out so much lmao.
I am a American citizen but I'm was born in China and I feel like my anecdotes just stand out so much lol... like remember being in a US classroom and I was the only Asian there... that's how I kinda feel like... The only other ethnic Chinese here are like 2 HongKongers and like 1 Mainlander in Europe and like 1 Taiwanese
The Asian Diaspora comm has like checks notes yea it's in the single digits... like 3 members of the diaspora I think. (shameless promo: [email protected])
As for spirituality... sometimes I mention the idea of reincarnation as a hypothetical and feel like some atheist is gonna be like "ur stupid"
I mean I'm not gonna wait for help if there's a flood, not gonna be that guy that "waits for god to save him", but I still think about reincarnation a lot... it's kinda just part of the philosophy of the environment/culture I grew up in... its like I grew up with a weird mix of Chinese culture stuff at home... (like... as a kid I used to watch a lot of Cantonese and Mandarin tv shows...), then also the western (American, to be specific) stuff outside of home and on the internet.
But I'm so glad the fediverse doen't have the bullshit like "Omg u don't have enough karma / your account too new / we find your account doesn't meet our requirements, your post has been automatically removed"
You do to me, lol
Every time I see your flag I immediately recognise you
I‘m happy you are here.
I 100% agree here, it feels like a microcosm of Reddit which already leans quite left, but even more radical. I left numerous times on the fediverse due to it’s huge political echo chamber, it’s something really frustrating as the platform is meant to be for everyone but it seems to be mostly populated by one viewpoint and nearly always Americans or Europeans.
Most mainstream platforms do have these sorts of demographics and politics yes, but even they have quite sizeable communities for ethnic, political and religious minorities where they can have their own space. The fediverse doesn’t really have that and it kinda sucks.
I really feel you with the lack of religious talk here, Reddit has tons of it for every major rellgion out there, and Lemmy has.. nothing? As a Indian Muslim on here, I’d like to have a space to talk about my beliefs with others, but the Islamic communities on here are all ghost towns. Reddit on the other hand, is very populated with Muslims and has discussions daily on those sub reddits.
As a Romanian, I'm doing my part!
More sports content. It's incredibly sparse for sports and leagues in general, and absolutely nothing for local teams.
Bringing Local Teams and groups into the Fediverse, This is something that I'd love to actually see even as a person that isn't much into Sports.
I have 2:
Categories for the communities so that you can filter out large swaths of communities based on what they are aimed at, something like sports, or politics, or music, or art, or AI, should all be a single tick box that you can completely eliminate because you have no interest in it. It's just wasting bandwidth to even show you the community when you don't care about it.
And a shop for person to person sales so that we can establish our own capitalism with black jack and hookers.
The communities could even take a cut for hosting the show and I would be okay with that. It would be a great way for them to fund the server.
Piefed already has an extensive feed system for this btw
Government. I don't understand how they are still using the hellsites and that social app.
"You have been defederated by trump.social
Please submit to the nearest ICE Re-Education/Deportation camp for processing, be prepared to learn the El Salavdorian Language"
"You have been defederated by chairmanxi.ccp
Please write 'NOTHING HAPPENED ON JUNE 4 1989 IN TIANANMEN SQUARE' 1,000,000 times during your stay at Laogai"
"Your instance has been defenestrated by putin.kremlin
Suck on the Polonium, сука блять!"
From what I can gather the Government is waiting for the community / public to move across, the public has to wait for the sources of Information so news, reporters and creators and those are waiting for both there community and the government / people they have to interact with to keep going.
It's kinda a big circle that everyone is waiting for the next person to move across.
And this is sort of the annoying part for me, if you want something that respects your privacy better than mainstream social media, you have to put up with way less people, posts, comments and communities. I really wish there was some major platform which was as big as the mainstream but was it’s own thing, I know mastodon is the biggest but it’s still not big enough meanwhile something like bluesky which came way after is even more popular than it
@[email protected] It is what's upsetting about it at the moment, It's also what ActivityPub and The Fediverse is here to solve into the Future, the main issue is we need platforms to adopt it and grow alongside each other. It's one of the things I've been trying to do with creating banners and little digital adverts for the Fediverse.
Soon I hope to push into other sections that could help push people to move across, in the end people can't move unless they learn about it, The only way to learn about is to be educated by the people using it.
Yeah exactly, but the issue is how do we spread the word about it and get a lot more people on it? We’d need to have big celebrities get on it, the same strategies that MySpace, Twitter, and Discord used to grow their popularity when they first were growing. Also, where we would put these adverts? Most people use the same sort of social media nowadays, so it’s kinda redundant telling them on there, it’s like someone saying to move to twitter while posting on mastodon.
Yeah I get that, when it comes to Celebs I'm not sure how to solve that but I know I'm planning on making posters to plaster up and advertise the Fediverse as a whole. I'm also looking to sell these sorts of posters to people using the Fediverse so we can get more advertisement out there.
When it comes to digital advertisement it's a bit of posting on normal social media but also educating people through Videos, Comments and more. It's trying to show we are a great place for people to go and it's not as complex as people think.
That would be cool. I think it’s more that people don’t know about it, I only really found out once I started getting into the whole privacy and Linux niche, I think if they just had more funding for adverts they really could do something great.
@[email protected] This is something that I hope to solve in the near future
Governments will always use products that make oligarchs richer because they are owned by the oligarchs.
Genuinely I think creating the community, using it and trying to actually get it growing is a huge thing and could bring others to the table and realize there are people like yourself out there.
This may be unpopular to some, but I think there should be more interoperability between Lemmy and Mastadon. I know from Mastadon you can @mention Lemmy communities, but most users don't know about that. Maybe depending on the privacy settings of a Mastadon post, if that could be "forwarded" to a Lemmy community as a post, and it would be useful for many who follow a community in Lemmy but not the author or hashtag in Mastadon. It'd also be nice to be able to follow people who use Mastadon and have that show up in your feed on Lemmy.
Why wouldn't you just use mbin?
I actually think that would really help for a lot of people
More people who are into sports.
@sam Transfer of posts when migrating to a different Mastodon instance.
@asklemmy
@sam @asklemmy All the sensible people in the world.
The majority of social media users, so basically everyone get off of the standard crap and move here
That is the dream, It would be amazing to see the Fediverse grow and maintain a larger userbase.
That does sound really good, I know someone that does Leather work and I would get that into that so fast.
Less tolerance to genocides and occupations apologists
Gonna have to agree on which genocides count first.
All of them counts
Well everyone thinks they think that.
Let's stsrt with the obvious ones Gaza, ukrsine and sudan
A communally-constructed Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story or stories, with or without RPG elements.
But it looks like I'mma have to make it myself.
really just A REDDIT MIRROR.
There was a mirror at one point, the main reason most people didn't enjoy it is due to the replies and feedback kinda being non-existent as the users can't see your comment and it just get's put on this random bot instance.
I know lemmit damn well
just so that lemmy here feels empty…
That and I think it sort of ruins the whole experience, Lemmy is supposed to be its own thing, it feels kind of lazy to just copy a question from Reddit knowing the original author of it won’t see it
I wish they’d implement that idea where signing up for one “sub” (or whatever we call it) signs you up for equivalent subs across the different instances. I also wish something would be done about the amount of content getting repeated as I scroll.
I’d like to see store fronts/marketplaces. It could put a run at Amazon.
I think that sort of thing would end up being closer to Ebay or Facebook Marketplace rather than Amazon but yet a marketplace or a way to have people advertise things even with a tag on Mastodon like #Marketplace and maybe a few marketplace lemmy communities.
That could be a good start till people build out Fediverse Software that would help people find items in there local area or business' can sell things directly on here.
Freedom of speech