Reading an image, page refreshes, lose image. I wish I could turn off the auto-refresh or reduce the interval.
If you go to the next page, it stops doing that. Also doesn’t do it on the Jerboa app.
oh damn, I hope it uses the browser cache to speed up image reloading
Yes, this is so annoying!
They’re working on removing this. When you read about the dev “stripping out websockets” that’s part of what’s changing.
Where did you see this? GitHub?
Yes I forget exactly where but it was on GitHub
I just joined .world because it sounded the most logical
“Oh it says world, that probably means i can see things all over the world”
I’m not disappointed
World here too on the Jerboa app, I’m subscribed to a BUNCH of communities in other instances and can browse and comment on them all with my world profile. Still kinda confused how it all works but I’m liking it so far
I have yet to figure out how to discover communities on other servers on jerboa. I currently just subscribe to communities on the browser which I then can see in the app.
Home screen, menu at upper left, click “All”. I also recommend changing the filter option to “Hot”, which is one of the buttons on the top right.
This will die down eventually: at the moment there are many different independent ideas of how to build federated reddit alternatives that have yet to really be tested for how the underlying systems and moderation tools scale. In due time there’s going to be a standard application or at least standard exchange format between the different services, that just doesn’t happen right now since all methods are really new and now get “suprise load tested”.
That’s also why you experience outages and Beehaw explicitly asking people not to join: everything went from “fringe techdemo” to “the internet is moving off of reddit” in a matter of less than a week (same thing is true with app support) and everything is at its breaking point: from the underlying technology to new communities appearing in a matter of hours to days (usually with less experienced moderators).
Beehaw told me not to join unless I could say specific groups I wanted to join. Nah from me.
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You can follow any lemmy or kbin community from one account on any instance
Except comms from beehaw if you’re on .world; leave those and join another similar comm if you are.
Why doesn’t it work between beehaw and lemmy world?
Beehaw recently defederated lemmy.world out of concern for not being able to moderate such a huge user base with current mod tools. Learn more here
Tldr: beehaw comms are gonna be dead soon when viewed through lemmy.world
Way to kill a good thing… Back to reddit I guess.
Why instantly back to reddit? There are many more alternatives.
People these days be like: 1 sign of trouble: give up
I guess it was a joke (of questionable humor/quality)
Because it’s a systematic problem. It’s not something that can be fixed somehow by better tech or something. So at best we will eventually get one central instance of Lemmy… which is essentially a worse version of Reddit with only Communists and Techy people.
Beehaw admins literally said that they only defederated because existing mod tools weren’t fine-grained enough to address the issue otherwise. Mastodon already has those tools, and in fact went through a similar temporary defederation issue.
So, yes, it can definitely be solved by better tech, and already has… just not on lemmy.
Oi, I’m moderate af and am only techy to people who don’t know the difference between a laptop and… the larger one!
I do like a community that values a free, open and decentralised Internet, Reddit used to, but seems to have lost that.
In my opinion, getting one central instance of Lemmy would just turn it into reddit. Eventually some tyrant would get power over it and we would be right back to the problems reddit is currently facing. The federation is a feature that prevents all that shit because tyrants can only take down small portions of the network.
Yes it adds some struggles, but you get what you fight for. Unless things change for reddit, it doesn’t look good. Most people will have more self respect to stick around and the content is going to suffer as a result.
That all being said, if this is a deal breaker for you, I understand, but I request that you give others a chance to see if Lemmy is right for them.
Because it’s a systematic problem. It’s not something that can be fixed somehow by better tech or something. So at best we will eventually get one central instance of Lemmy… which is essentially a worse version of Reddit with only Communists and Techy people.
Please go back to reddit.
Man, you sure sound like you’re fun at parties…
It’s a new age, lemmy is a new-ish platform.
Reddit is owned by a company, heck, it IS a company. Lemmy on the other side is a federated network. No one really owns Lemmy. It’s like torrents in a way.
Reddit is also almost 20 years old. Lemmy’s like what, maybe two? Reddit wasn’t super great in 2006 either.
It is something that can be fixed by simply developing mod tools. Lemmy as a whole is still in alpha, and the apps have a few bugs. These will be resolved over time.
Why doesn’t it work between beehaw and lemmy world
Beehaw just announced yesterday that they will be defederating (removing) lemmy world from view because they think lemmy world has too many troll posts. Lol
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Lol I have no idea either really
it’s more of a the tools available to combat it are lackluster, so instead of trying they gave up. It’s the sledgehammer approach but honestly it will lower growth of the instance, but that’s exactally what the admins of the instance wanted
i was confused for a little while too, created a few accounts and was floundering. the setup will be different for everyone but currently i have a tab open with mastodon and i’m following a few seperate instances there. then i have lemmy.world also open and i have stuff from different lemmy instances and kbin coming in to my feed.
I need a damn explain it to me like I’m five for how all this works. My brain can wrapped it up into neighborhoods or space fleets but the in an out communications are the part I’m missing.
The Fediverse is like a group of interconnected neighborhoods, each representing a different social platform or community. Just as you might have neighbors on your street who interact and share things over time, these communities can communicate and exchange ideas. These neighborhoods may differ in size or focus, but they all exist within a larger universe - just like planets orbiting around a sun. In this case, think of our star system as something like Friendica (the first step towards the modern fediverse) and Diaspora* (itself originally based on Friendica). And just as there might be traffic or communication issues between planetary systems, there could be friction between distinct Fediverse networks. But ultimately, we’re still talking about a united whole here! Finally, imagine spaceships zipping back and forth through space linking up these distinct points of interest - say hello to the protocols bridging connections between decentralized nodes known as “federation” today. It’s all connected!
It’s the defederation I’m still confused. That ship (Beehaw) left the fleet and locked down it’s ship. What are the communication rules?
It’s up to the individual server who they federate with.
If you want a gated community, or you want to cut ties with an instance that is full of spam or unwanted content, that’s still possible.
In the swarm of starships, you aren’t obligated to dock with everyone.
Ok. But we can still see their feeds ie beehaw games, so is that the people on that server won’t see comments from people outside their instance?
Yeah, it’s read-only.
IMO that’s still better than other sites, where they don’t federate at all.
On Reddit, you can screencap something, and paste a static image. You can’t see the comments underneath at all.
I expect instances that don’t fully federate will grow slower, so it won’t matter, most content will be on instances that are open to fully connecting with others.
From my understanding, posts on beehaw won’t populate on defederated instances. And defederated instance posts wont show on beehaw. There’s also no requests sent or received from beehaw to update the beehaw posts with defederated data.
Defederated instance users can still go to posts directly on beehaw and they might be able to comment, but no one on beehaw will see it. It’s basically “read-only” for defederated instances.
Hopefully someone will correct me if I’m wrong.
You don’t need to do all that, you only need one account as they are all federated, meaning they can talk to each other.
The exemption is beehaw, because they are defederating temporarily to put less strain on the servers
It’s not about the servers, it’s about moderation. They have a clear vision of what their instance should be like but they don’t have the tools not moderators to make it so while getting traffic from other big instances
in the future when they possibly have more moderators and the influx of users has slowed down on lemmy.world, would it be easy to federate again? i know many instances defederate from others that go against their beliefs or how they want to run the community, but ive not heard of any that have re-federated
Not to be too much of a pedant, but I think the messaging is important: it’s not about how many moderators, it’s about moderation tools. Lemmy’s are a little too rudimentary for what they want.
Anyway, refederation would entail taking lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works off their blocklist. That would allow users on those instances to subscribe again and comment/post. That part would be user-initiated. Then on the Beehaw side, they’d have to subscribe again to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works communities. That part would also be user-initiated.
This is hearsay, but I believe it is temporary until better moderation features are developed and user influx shows down.
I saw a post by one of the lemmy.world admins who said they had a discussion with the beehaw admins and their ideals align enough that they think they will federate again once moderation has gotten under control.
Edit: it was actually the sh.itjust.works admin
Edit 2: here’s the link to the post: https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725
Anyone have a link for the curious?
Found it again: https://sh.itjust.works/post/129725
Who said you need an account on each one?
Something something multiple instances (if you register with Beehaw, you can’t access threads to Lemmy/lemmy.ml)…
just means screw beehaw, everything else seems accessible no point in catering to a single instance
Just create an account on an instamce that federates both lemmy.world and beehaw, like the one I’m currently on.
Also lemmy.fmhy.ml
Doesn’t bother me.
just pick one, you only need one, and you see posts from the other 3 from that one source. hi from kbin, viewing and commenting from kbin right now
Why have more than one? For more pleasure!
If OPs only account was on Beehaw, we wouldn’t see this post or am I missing something?
We would not, because Beehaw users cannot access the lemmy.world instance.
You don’t need multiple accounts, one account can access all different instances, including subscribing to remote communities. You just have to click “All” in the communities or post list to see them, instead of “Local”.
Except for beehaw.org defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, and I think some defederated from lemmygrad.ml.
Also it should be said that edited comments don’t seem to pass across the instances. I think they only sync when the comment has been made.
You don’t need multiple accounts, one account can access all different instances
You need a kbin account to find out if you find kbin better than lemmy.
Did beehaw.org defederate from lemmy.world ? I’m on Lemmy world and see posts from beehaw. Is there a way to check who is federated with who like some kind of map?
If I’m not mistaken, you can see the posts and can even comment, but only people on lemmy.world will see your comment. People from beehaw and other instances won’t see it. That’s because lemmy.world haven’t defederated from beehaw.
More info here: https://kbin.social/m/lemmyworld@lemmy.world/t/24341/How-the-beehaw-defederation-affects-us
You can see which instances are blocked here: https://beehaw.org/instances. It’s in the bottom of the page of every instance home page or just add ‘/instance’ after the instance’s address.
I’m new to this. I have one question. Imagine the following setup:
- Instance A federates with instances B and C
- Instance B only federates with instance C
- Instance C federates with instance A and B
Following scenario:
- Someone on instance B posts something and writes a comment to the post
- I’m on instance A and I comment on his comment
- Now someone from instance C comments on my comment
What does a person from instance B see now? I assume he won’t see my comment as instance B defederated instance A. But he should see the comment from the instance C guy. But how can he see the reply when the original comment is not visible?
Honestly I’m not sure, I’m also quite new to the fediverse. My guess is that being a parent comment, B wouldn’t see it, but if C was the parent and A the child comment, B would see only C.
Someone else explained this pretty well in an answer. If that guy is correct neither users from instance B nor C will see the comment from the A instance user. This is because the post is hosted on instance B. And A-B are not federated (because of the block from B’s side). This causes the comments from A to not be synched with B and therefore also not with C by proxy.
Good question!
I think if you do that the little red light would stop blinking and you’d break the internet.
Federation is by definition a union, a mutual agreement. A and B are either federated or they aren’t, there is no “A is federated with B but B is not federated with A”.
So if A and B are federated and B and C are federated but not A and C, and your scenario happens, the person on B sees your comment but the person on C doesn’t see it and can’t reply to it.
undefined> A is either federated with B or it isn’t, there is no “A is federated with B but B is not federated with A”
Maybe I used the word “federated” wrong here. I thought it meant “being linked to another instance”. To give an example of what I meant: the instance “lemmy.world” is linked to the instance “beehaw.org” while the instance “lemmy.world” is blocked on “beehaw.org”.
Yeah, that’s federation. In terms of the principle in government as well as its application in the lemmy protocol.
lemmy.world and beehaw.org are defederated. However, this doesn’t mean that you can’t see beehaw posts as a lemmy.world user, or vice versa. But (let’s say you’re a lemmy.world user) if you comment on a beehaw post, you’re commenting on a replicated version of the post that is hosted on lemmy.world. It is not synced with the original post hosted on beehaw, and you will only be able to see comments from other lemmy.world users and comments from before beehaw defederated.
Thanks that makes sense. I understand that if I’m on a third instance that is federated with both lemmy.world and beehaw.org, and I click on a beehaw.org post then I would not be able to see comments from lemmy.world users. But I would be able to see comments from beehaw.org users and they would see comments from my instance.
That’s actually a really clever approach
When were they posted? You should see ones from before.
I’m loving it honestly. I’ve gotten myself into a complete fankle with I think five different logins, but it’s great. I’ve made a couple of posts even. Having always been a lurker, I now feel more like a participant rather than a consumer. I don’t want a monolith, I like the neighborhood feel, having to figure things out, knit up the threads myself.
I’m liking the UI, experience on mobile could be a bit better though
Couldn’t agree more! I tried out mastodon and both versions, web and mobile, are friendlier than Lemmy. But I couldn’t get behind the twitter thing. Never liked the twitter format and wasn’t really getting through. Lemmy has a better format for me, but a bit clunkier. Sure it will get better soon
I’m just sticking to lemmy.world for now. It doesn’t have all the communities I want yet but it seems more open than the others. I don’t like walled gardens or gated communities. If I wanted a platform with power hungry, elitist moderators creating circle jerk in-groups, I would have stayed on Reddit.
Preach
Same. I joined .world randomly because I didn’t understand Lemmy when I joined, but I made the right decision!
Same with me and I’m ultimately super happy with my Lemmy experience so far. I’ve been on since the 11th and the experience gets better every day.
Yeah same. I did shop around a bit on other instances but i decided the general purpose one here was the most sensible for me.
I just like that the image previews don’t look like flat rectangles the way they do on kbin.
You know you can connect to any community on another server regardless of your instance right?
Not necessarily. As someone else pointed out in this thread, beehaw is currently set up so that Lemmy.world users can view and comment on posts on beehaw communities, but those comments can only be seen by other lemmy.world users. Individual instances can restrict what users from other instances can do.
5 Accounts are still unnecessary. And it sounded like he created an account on every server that contained an interesting community for him
5 Accounts are still unnecessary.
That’s true.
I really hope that some of the reddit clients switch over to lemmy
Or even better, start offering both
Like NewPipe for YouTube. It pulls YouTube videos but also other PeerTube federated instances
