Fediverse

Disclaimer: I'm no IT expert/man. I'm just wondering what structure these instances should be.

Because as a new user:

1. Communites catalog is messy: Redundant communities, Difficult to search for communities and tags and posts, No verifying way if a community does exist or not.
2. I have still no idea to the idea (just one account could travel in any instances/servers). But I have a Mastodon, Lemmy and Kbin account.
3. What if all other creators/mods establish communities/instances/forums in a same majority website (so might become Reddit Copycat eventually funnily, the essence of "Fediverse" left the chat---seems doesn't work at all).

So I ended up wondering ideas, just sharing, might help. May call me stupid of these already in advance, of course I have 0 IT knowledge.

BTW, why is the image of my post "stored" in archive.org anyway? Could I see the image in archive.org? (cause I know archive.org where I borrow tons of books.)

So, I noticed something interesting while writing and testing a script.

The intent of the script is to connect to the API of your home instance, then list all of the communities for all instances that the home instance is federated with, sorted by number of subscribers.

The API endpoint to do this is "/api/v3/community/list"

My understanding is as follows:

• The argument "sort=TopAll" indicates that it should sort by number of subscribers
• The argument "type=All" indicates that it should show communities from the local instance and all federated instances.
• The argument "limit" indicates how many results to return (up to 50)
• The argument "page" indicates which page of "limit" items to return

So I should get more or less the same results if I run the same request against lemmy.world or lemmy.ml So I ran these two requests:

• https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type=All&sort=TopAll&limit=50&page=1

• https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/community/list?type=All&sort=TopAll&limit=50&page=1

With the first one, I get a mix mostly of lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and beehaw.org communities. That's what I'd expect. However, with the second, it's all lemmy.ml communities.

So, like, what's the deal?

Edit 2023-06-14T16:03Z

Seems something similar when I request for the endpoint on breehaw.org. The first page is a mix of breehaw.org and lemmy.ml results, but no other instances.

Edit 2023-06-14T16:12Z

It's like they're all different and all seem to favor their home instance? Some more than others, though.

• Lemmy.world is pretty well balanced.
• Lemmy.ml is all Lemmy.ml
• Beehaw.org is mostly Beehaw.org and Lemmy.ml
• Lemmy.ca is mostly lemmy.ca and lemmy.ml, with some beehaw.org mixed in
• Midwest.social is mostly midwest.social, lemmy.ml, and a little beehaw.org

Hi! I'm dropping by from another corner of the #Fediverse to say hello & welcome to everyone in the #RedditMigration.

I came over in the #TwitterMigration last November. Overall it's been a really positive experience the last 6 months, much less outrage, much more solutions. I am constantly finding new cool things about this liberated social web. I hope you all enjoy it as well.

I've mostly been knocking around in Calckey, Mastodon & Pixelfed, but a lot of the general Fediverse knowledge applies to all platforms, including Lemmy. I wrote a short condensed thread of my key learnings as a primer here in case anyone finds it useful. https://calckey.social/notes/9er7rlxy6r

This page on my personal site is a curated list of information about Mastodon and the Fediverse. There's a form at the bottom to submit other (not-yet-listed items).

This page on my personal site is a curated list of information about Mastodon and the Fediverse. There's a form at the bottom to submit other (not-yet-listed items).

First off if there is a better place for this question please let me know.

I am wondering if there is a discord (ironic i know if there is something equvialent let me know) where I can get into contact with people developing in this space.

I am hoping to get some questions answered such as:

How does a different architecture like kbin@social ui (and possible backend) communicate with posts from lemmy? Is it through ActivityPub?

Could someone from lemmy login to mastodon with their same account? Why or why not?

Could two different fediverse apps technically do all the same things if they used the exact protocol to do the same things with a different ui?

If someone wanted to go about making their own fediverse app where is a good first learning step?

This server isn't the only one I'm running in the Fediverse :-) I'm currently running these:

https://lemmy.world: You're looking at it.

https://mastodon.world: My largest server, over 160.000 users.

https://musicworld.social: Another Mastodon server about 1 of my hobbies

https://pool.social: Another Mastodon server about another hobby of mine

https://fotofed.nl: A Pixelfed instance

https://calckey.world: A Calckey server. A bit different from Mastodon.

https://fediland.nl: A Misskey server. Calckey is forked from Misskey, personally I like calckey better.

https://play-my.video: A Peertube server

https://akkoma.nl: An Akkoma server (kind of lightweight but fully featured Mastodon)

https://ruud.social: Akkoma server just for me

https://blog.mastodon.world: My writefreely server, yes that federates too.

More to come probably...

Trying out Lemmy. It seems to work, e-mail and federation fixed now