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The ActivityPub protocol makes it possible, but most apps only make use of the pieces of ActivityPub that suit them. For example, in Lemmy they lean heavily on the Group actor type as the basis for Communities, which Mastodon doesn’t use at all. Peertube creates content using the Video activity type, while Mastodon only creates content in the form of a Note activity. Lemmy produces a lot of Link activities, which get rendered into a Note when viewed in Mastodon. And so on.

It’s all a work in progress and I’m confident integration will get better over time. The framework is there.

Kbin has limited support for Mastodon posts but it’s UI is still very much focused on the reddit-style functionality.

https://cloudisland.nz/about is a paid Mastodon server.

You could use it as part of your infrastructure. E.g. DNS server, database server, redis server, file server. But running the whole stack will be too much unless you upgrade the RAM. 1 GB minimum, preferably 2.

Yup. You need to use a third party service like https://lemmyverse.net/communities and then subscribe.

There’s no reason why this functionality can’t be built into lemmy/kbin in future. It’s on the feature wishlist for the lemmy/kbin clone that I’m building.

You got it.

This is a limitation of the ActivityPub protocol so similar kinds of behaviour / problems shows up in mastodon, etc as well. Until someone subscribes, it doesn’t exist locally and posts don’t start to flow unless there is a subscriber.

If you have trouble where the email you send gets binned as spam by recipients, set up a SMTP server using aws SES and send through there instead.

Yeah, true, although it’ll be a lot worse for the mods on nsfw instances where they need to make a judgement call about what crossed which line or not. That’s 10x more difficult than just deleting everything that gets reported enough times.

Surely keeping the csam out means someone on every nsfw instance needs to look at a whooole lotta porn, including sick stuff they really really don’t want to see. For no pay. I can’t see a way for that to last long so either an instance bans porn or stops moderating and gets defederated.

Instances with

more than one admin
clear policies and active moderation
engaged user base
regular backups
no porn

…will stand a better chance than most.

Firefish is federated so you’re not limited to content and people on Firefish. You can see Mastodon (and Akkoma, and Lemmy, etc etc) content inside Firefish.

It was one guy until recently. But now if you look at the Kbin commits, it looks like 3 or 4 people. It’s growing.

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/commits/branch/develop

FYI discussion on lemmy.ml about it

https://lemmy.ml/post/2286939

Lemmy downvotes are ignored by Mastodon and Kbin.

There are browser extensions that solve this for Mastodon instances. I’m sure the Lemmy and Kbin equivalents will arrive in due course.

One reason why people need to join smaller instances.

The Mastodon Covenant is for exactly this problem (as well as a baseline level of moderation).

If you are the first person from your instance to subscribe then there won’t have been any content sent to your instance yet. Could that be it?

I was a bit nervous about this too but I just set up a kbin instance on ARM (nginx, php, postgres, redis, and more) and didn’t notice any difference. Totally straightforward. And the VPS costs half as much as the x86 equivalent from the same host.

Oh, yes, the chattiness of the ActivityPub protocol could very well become a problem and some sort of network topology will need to be designed. Without a fediverse-wide governance structure, that could be difficult!

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