this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
209 points (95.2% liked)

Fediverse

28748 readers
38 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
ruud@lemmy.world
Xylinna@lemmy.world
MrCenny@lemmy.world
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
automodbeta@lemmy.world
woelkchen@lemmy.world
209
Your explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstood (transfem.social)
submitted 4 weeks ago by CyberTailor@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
139 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The linked post shows how most non-tech people's understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Long story short, there is no ideal generalist instance. If you open the top 20 instances (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/)

  • Lemmy.world is too big
  • Lemm.ee is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad, something that is not very welcoming to new users (see this thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/28798607/15305964 )
  • sh.itjust.works names contains "shit", which can deter users
  • lemmy.ca is Canadian-centric
  • feddit.org, as you mentioned, is German-centric, but technically English speaking too
  • dbzer0 federated hexbear
  • programming.dev is topic-centric (and has a database corruption for the last month https://programming.dev/post/20515601?scrollToComments=true)
  • blahaj is queer-focused
  • discuss.tchncs.de has a difficult name
  • lemmy.sdf.org does not defederate anyone
  • lemmy.zip is federated with hexbear and lemmygrad
  • sopuli.xyz doesn't have "lemmy" or "feddit" in its name
  • beehaw is way outdated
  • infosec.pub is topic-centric
  • aussie.zone is country-centric
  • midwest.social is region-centric

The next page has reddthat.com which is known to have federation issues with LW due to its location in Australia, and lemmy.today which does not defederate anyone

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honestly I'd say lemmy.world is probably the ideal for redditors, I agree it's too big, but it's probably the safest option for people without a lot of knowledge. sh.itjustworks is also IMO fine if you know the person isn't offended by language.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I agree it’s too big

That's the main issue. Its size creates 5-days delay with some instances

The issues have been here for months, are not going to be fixed any time soon as the latest Lemmy version still has issues like the pictures one: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5196

Some additional details: