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There’s actually shoot.

Isn’t lemm.ee dead? I remember reading it died, and trying the URL now, I just get sent to join-lemmy.

Edit: Also, lemmy.one has a sticky saying it’s shutting down, though it seems it’s still up 8 months later. Not sure what to make of that, but it’s probably not the best idea to send people their way.

I’m having a great time here on kbin.earth.

I think any Mbin (kbin’s new name btw, though some instances are still named after kbin) instance is going to be in the category of smaller than lemmy.world, seeing as there’s only 1.4k active Mbin users total.

kbin.earth is the instance of the dev of the Interstellar app.

Piefed has only 2k too and it has 6 apps on this list.

Mbin is at 1.4k according to fedidb.

Shame there’s still only one for Mbin after all this time.

the nordic countries are single-branch

According to this official government page Norway at least does have separation of powers into multiple branches. I haven’t looked into the other nordic countries, but it’s hard to believe that they don’t at least separate out the judiciary (courts) from the rest.

Power in Norway is divided into three branches:

• the Storting – the legislative branch
• the Government – the executive branch
• the courts – the judicial branch

Your list doesn’t look complete in regards to Mbin. For example, tags seem to have RSS feeds.

AFAIK, content-centric networks are only lemmy and piefed as of today, modeled after Reddit.

There’s also Mbin, which I’m using. And NodeBB and Discourse if we go beyond Reddit-inspired and include forums.

Funkwhale is a fediverse music platform.

I do think that some direct democracy would be good, but there’s a reason why Switzerland still has representatives too.

Having to vote on every single moderation action would be a pain to deal with. Not just in terms of fatigueing users and causing only few to actually participate, but also because it’ll slow down the process and empower bad actors to cause more damage.

What should be a thing imo is what Switzerland has: the ability for regular users to propose new rules and then vote on approving them, and the ability to undo any moderation action through a democratic vote. Both of those being binding.

Also of course the ability to vote a mod out if they’re abusing their power. That’s something we’re lacking IRL too.

Edit: On your other point:

It gets a bit tricky with technology. Ideally we could do things like democratically decide to have a voice chat (if that’s what people want) and somehow 3 months later the platform has a voice chat… But it’s not that easy, software development doesn’t work this way.

I think one thing that’s possible is to copy the GOG model. Have a wishlist of features that people can add to and vote on. The highest voted features you prioritize in development.

I think posting to a group (like a lemmy community) is a good idea because they act like relays. On Mastodon, your posts are only sent to your followers and people you mention. If you’re not followed by anyone and don’t mention anyone, your post won’t be federated anywhere. Lemmy communities however will share your post with all their followers, allowing it to reach a larger audience. So unless you already have a huge audience, I think microblogging users that want to be heard can benefit greatly from interacting with groups.

To make microblog posts more appealing to Lemmy users, do consider separating out a plaintext line at the start to act as a title. Lemmy iirc takes the first paragraph of the body as the title if there’s no actual title given, and that can look awkward when that first paragraph is your entire post. This title pragraph shouldn’t include formatting or mentions or hashtags.

They don’t just use office from the web, via Linux? You can access excel, word, …, all of that in a browser.

Web office has barely any features compared to the desktop thing, iirc.

ActivityPub (the model that the fediverse uses for federation) is publishing-based, as the name implies. Like email, you’re sending messages to a list of recipients. Usually that’s your followers, people you mention, and the person you’re replying to.
If the recipient list is empty, then your message won’t leave your instance.

Threadiverse users don’t really have to worry about this too much because communities act as relays, sending your posts to all of the community’s followers as well. But microblogging instances don’t have that luxury. If they don’t have any followers, aren’t writing a reply, and don’t mention anyone… their post isn’t federated anywhere.

It’s also worth considering that only public data is federated. For example I wouldn’t be able to recover my bookmarks from another instance, and it doesn’t seem like Lemmy federates your list of subscriptions. Your posts may still exist elsewhere even when your instance goes down, but that’s not necessarily the data people want to be able to recover.

Oh, and the instance actually does return an error page saying “This instance is under maintenance.”, so it’s remotely possible that this Friendica message is based on misinformation, and that the instance being “down” may be only temporary? (I have no idea)

For some reason Piefed is removing the title of the post, which links to a Reddit thread as a source. That thread clarifies: “I emailed the address given on the page and was told the instance service was cancelled by the instance owner and it’s unknown whether there was a plan to migrate or just shut down completely”.

Looking at the under maintenance page myself, the email seems to be the server host’s, so this isn’t the instance owner being unsure about their future plans yet, it means the hosting relationship is cancelled and the host doesn’t know about things beyond that.

This is the fediverse, where many different software intersect. You should expect the possibility of incompatibilities with users from instances other than your own. When a post looks like something is missing, always open it on its origin instance before complaining. It’s likely your own instance is at fault for the issue, not the author.

In this case it looks like Piefed deleted the post’s title.

Not using Lemmy myself, but I assume this is about the name in the url vs the name in the UI. Displayname is probably how Lemmy itself displays the community, but name is what’s in the URL and in the fediverse handle.

Theoretically they did. Lemmy not complying isn’t their problem. Lemmy does fit the definition they use.

According to the legal text, under Part 4A, Division 1, 63C, the requirements for a service to count as an age-restricted social media service are:

• the sole purpose, or a significant purpose, of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end‑users
• the service allows end‑users to link to, or interact with, some or all of the other end‑users
• the service allows end‑users to post material on the service

Additionally, it’s specified that additional legislative rules can be defined by the minister. So there seems to be exceptions for certain types of services added here:

• services that have the sole or primary purpose of enabling end‑users to communicate by means of messaging, email, voice calling or video calling
• services that have the sole or primary purpose of enabling end‑users to play online games with other end‑users
• services that have the sole or primary purpose of enabling end‑users to share information (such as reviews, technical support or advice) about products or services
• services that have the sole or primary purpose of enabling end‑users to engage in professional networking or professional development
• services that have the sole or primary purpose of supporting the education of end‑users
• services that have the sole or primary purpose of supporting the health of end‑users
• services that have a significant purpose of facilitating communication between educational institutions and students or students’ families
• services that have a significant purpose of facilitating communication between providers of health care and people using those providers’ services

I don’t see an exclusion for small platforms or requirement for the platform to be major. So Lemmy definitely is affected by this too. Australia just can’t enforce it outside their country, so they can only go after Lemmy admins operating out of Australia. And they probably won’t unless someone reports the instance.

What if there were a way to do this with multiple fediverse services? What if you have an article, and the comments are 1 lemmy user, 1 mastodon user, 1 misskey user, 1 friendica user, ect ect ect? Basically start making ANY fediverse service a viable way to leave a comment, which can be replied to by any other fediverse user, regardless of service?

That’s just the base promise of ActivityPub, the basis of the fediverse. It’s not a hypothetical, but rather reality.

That scenario you mentioned, it’s not only Lemmy users that could reply there. All the ones you mentioned would have had access to that blog’s comment section and been able to leave replies.

So if you have user@lemmy.world, and you go to his community, you see a thread, you comment…your comment is now in the comments section of his blog.

That’s just literally the same as me looking at this Lemmy thread from Mbin, leaving a comment, and it appearing on Lemmy.

Not sure if you’re already aware, but that relative link there is broken in Lemmy, Mbin, and Piefed.

If you used it manually, I’d suggest not using relative links in posts targeted at users from software that hasn’t implemented them yet.

If it’s some automated feature, I don’t think it should be in the source property of the federated JSON in the first place.

There are others, yeah. But they’re not threadiverse. They’re quite different types of social media from Lemmy. Since OP is using Lemmy, that’s why I’m recommending Mbin, not one of those.