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I mean, the Fediverse already has Lemmy, KBin, and MBin.

So there's already an ecosystem of pre-built communities out there.

/kbin is dead. Has been since last year. The last instances that haven't moved to Mbin are withering away.

However, in the "Lemmy clone" category, there's also PieFed, and Sublinks is still in development.

Also, the Facebook alternative Friendica ("Facebook alternative" not as in "Facebook clone", but as in "better than Facebook") has had groups since its launch in, 2010, five and a half years before Mastodon. Hubzilla has had groups since 2012 when it still was a Friendica fork named Red. (streams) (2021) and Forte (2024) have groups, too. All four are part of the same software family, created by the same developer. And interacting with their groups from Mastodon is somewhat smoother than interacting with a Lemmy community.

On Friendica, a group is simply another user account, but with different settings: In "Mastodon speak", it automatically boosts any DM sent to it to all its followers. In reality, it's a little more complicated because, unlike Mastodon, Friendica has a concept of threaded conversations. (No, seriously, Mastodon doesn't have it. If you think Mastodon has it, use Friendica for a year or two as your only daily driver, and then think again.)

Likewise, on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, it's another channel with similar settings.

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tl;dr — how do PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin handle cross-posting?

Currently, when a NodeBB admin moves a topic from the uncategorized pseudo-category into a local category, we federate out an as:Announce, people typically think of that as a "boost" or "share".

That worked fine when the entirety of the category list was your local categories plus the "uncategorized" pseudo-category. However, now that NodeBB is moving towards supporting remote categories (via group actors), this UX makes less sense. We wouldn't want to "move" a topic out of the category it is supposed to be in, just for visibility to other local users. Additionally, topic moving was limited to administrators, and from the get-go we knew it would eventually cause issues because people other than admins would want to share topics to other local users.

This is where the "cross-post" functionality comes in, which is entirely new to NodeBB. I don't think this is new to other AP-enabled threaded discussion software. The idea would be that if a new topic comes in, whether it's uncategorized or not, any user could "cross-post" that topic to a local category, where it would be visible to other users on that instance. On the ActivityPub side, we would then federate out an as:Announce as we already do.

Is this what PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin already do, if they support cross-posting? What other alternative solutions would there be to this problem?

cc @rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz @andrew_s@piefed.social @nutomic@lemmy.ml @bentigorlich@wehavecookies.social

PieFed crosspost and comment

PieFed masque les posts en doublon et maintenant le crosspost est activé. Le crosspost ne fonctionne que pour les posts avec des liens et le bouton ne s'affiche que sur le post et non la timeline principale.

Neanmoins, le résultat est cool, c'est un début. Ya encore quelque polissage à faire mais voilà :
1) on aura plus de post en doublon sur notre timeline
2) tous nos commentaires seront regroupés.

On se rapproche de lemmy en terme de parité. La vue scaled a été ajouté hier. Plus que quelque polissage, les apps mobiles, themes, vue commentaire + modo et on y est. 😊

https://piefed.social/post/555259

What do you notice about the comments on this post? https://piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in !technology@lemmy.world and in !askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in the timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in one place.

The fragmentation problem is solved.

piefed.socialUS appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creatorI’ll take whatever good news we can get.

What do you notice about the comments on this post?

piefed.social/post/555259

The post was made in the news@lemmy.world #Lemmy community and other posts linking to the same news article were made in technology@lemmy.world and in askusa@discuss.online. 3 different posts in 3 different communities.

#PieFed de-duplicates them and only shows the post once in your timeline and when viewing the post all the comments on those 3 posts are shown in the same list.

Fedi fragmentation = solved

piefed.socialUS appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking 'human' creatorI’ll take whatever good news we can get.

Hi @andrew_s@piefed.social/@freamon and @nutomic@lemmy.ml —I'm working (not-so-secretly) on refactoring NodeBB so that it is able to "browse" remote audiences/group actors, and that would include things like PieFed and Lemmy communities.

N.B. Given varied nomenclature (group/category/community/subforum), the ForumWG calls this structure an "audience".

Where I am at now is working through the logic for slotting an object into a category.

The most obvious choice here would be to look at as:audience. It's even specified in 1b12, and the majority of threaded implementations follow 1b12.

I am making this post because nutomic explicitly removed the audience from being served in Lemmy (as of January this year), so I don't think relying on that property would be wise.

I asked in that issue whether Lemmy finds community via to/cc (it does). Does PieFed do the same?

Would this also open up the possibility of a topic/context being part of multiple audiences/communities? Interesting...

NodeBB Communityfreamon

#Piefed has a great new feature. When you search for a community, it doesn't just look for communities that your server knows about, but it also looks through the #Lemmy index, via LemmyVerse.net, to find Lemmy communities that you can then bring into the Piefed instance you're on.

piefed.social/post/531611

Want to join the #threadiverse? I use Piefed. It's new but powerful. You can find an instance to join here: join.piefed.social/try/

piefed.socialEasier community discovery - PieFed knows all the communities alreadyFinding communities to join can be hard because each fediverse server only knows about a community after someone has joined it before. It's a chick…

#Piefed (#Reddit alternative), and #Lemmy and #MBIN alternative too, has added a nice new feature called "Feeds" which is like multi-reddit. You can create your own public feeds by combining a number of communities together. People on any other Piefed instance can subscribe to your feed.

If you're interested in using Piefed as a Reddit alternative, or checking out this feature, I run a public instance, feddit.online. You can see all Piefed server choices at join.piefed.social/try/

piefed.social/post/500805

feddit.onlineFeddit.online - Explore Anything, Discuss EverythingThis is a public PieFed instance. We are administrated in the Boston, MA, area but open to everybody in the galaxy.Prohibited behavior:Religious in…

#PieFed just added a multi-reddit feature, which we're calling "Feeds". It combines multiple Communities (actors of type "Group" in ActivityPub) into one.

Feeds can be followed from other PieFed instances, which will subscribe the follower to all the communities in the feed.

Try it out at piefed.social/feeds

It's similar to PieFed's concept of a Topic piefed.social/topics, except topics are maintained by the instance admins. Feeds are crowdsourced and federated topics.

piefed.socialPieFed

One thing that prevented me from jumping on the Lemmy bandwagon was the UI that I found underwhelming and a bit unpractical (and I'm someone who prefers the "old Reddit" UI and who doesn't mind the vanilla Mastodon).

That was until I discovered Piefed! Very similary to Lemmy (I assume it's a fork - update: I'm being told that it's not a fork, my bad) but with a much nicer UI. It also has a great onboarding except for the part where it automatically signed me up to too many topics.

(thanks
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org for putting it on my radar)

#Reddit #Lemmy #Piefed #Fediverse