@Bfordham @jerry #Lemmy and other Reddit clones have multilevel concept. If you think of Reddit like this:

Reddit
- subreddit1
- subreddit2

But on the fediverse, you have:

LemmyInstance1
- Community1
- Community2
LemmyInstance2
- Community1
- Community2

Hopefully that helps. If not, here's a pretty good beginners guide:
https://lemmy.world/post/37906

OK, I am a bit confused by #lemmy. I mean, I get the idea. But I'm unclear on how posts are propogated, I guess.

I use https://infosec.pub/

But what shows there my the running channel: https://infosec.pub/c/running@lemmy.world is very different from what I see if I go to the source: https://lemmy.world/c/running

Why is that? Is it something admins set? (Hi, @jerry )

THEODORE ROOSEVELT SHOT BY CRANK IN MILWAUKEE STREET

#content_review #unix_surrealism #fediverse #loops #mastodon #lemmy #art #mastoart #javascript #cats #snac

Alt...

Funhole Content Review FEDIVERSE I HAVE A DREAM 'you need to enable javascript to run this this app.' How to make it big? You don't @mmtmm pls sponsor me How to get more boosts? Cats. so many rabbits LOOPY CONSPIRACY - Who is behind the manufactured fame of a tiktok clone nobody asked for? THE C BANSHEE: What is snac and should you be worried? FEDIVERSE MENACE: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN? hackers.town: Is nowhere safe? ONE FREE ANTI-SLOP KITTO THE LIST: 50.000 mastodon addresses to avoid if you don't like illegal content.

Private groups

Lately, I've been seeing various people claiming that fediverse doesn't have private groups. They often point to some task force at w3c that is supposedly working to fill the gap.

However, fediverse has had private groups for a very long time:

- Hubzilla channels. This project probably had private groups before ActivityPub. The implementation was later adapted for ActivityPub and refined in subsequent forks, Streams and Forte. It is now partially documented in FEP-171b: Conversation Containers.
- Smithereen groups. This implementation is documented in FEP-400e: Publicly-appendable ActivityPub collections (published in 2021) and FEP-db0e: Authentication mechanism for non-public groups.
- Lemmy communities. Private groups were proposed in Lemmy RFC 0005 and have been implemented in the development version. There is a test instance running this version (Lemmy v1.0b) at https://voyager.lemmy.ml/

There are probably other implementations that I am not aware of.

#Hubzilla #Smithereen #Lemmy

"In light of the dev silently blacklisting blahaj.zone, many of its users and several other instances, we have removed tesseract from the available lemmy front ends we offer."
https://sh.itjust.works/post/63861930

Agreed, if people don't want to see certain content, it should be blocked by their account, as their choice. No authoritarian bullshit, please. It's why many of us are here.

#tesseract #lemmy #piefed #mastodon #blahaj #db0

Check your instances and blocklists, y'all.

#mastodon #lemmy #tesseract #selfhosting #authoritarianism #lemmy #piefed

Let's see what platforms are responding to this year's Social Web survey, the annual questionnaire to see how #FediAdmin and #FediMod folks are doing:

#Mastodon 54
#Matrix 17
#PeerTube 15
#WordPress 10
#Pixelfed 9
#ATProto platform 8
#Lemmy 8
#Pleroma 8
#Bookwyrm 6
#GoToSocial 5
#Bonfire 4
#Gancio 4
#Sharkey 4
#Writefreely 4
#Akkoma 3
#Friendica 3
#Ghost 3
#Mobilizon 3
#Nostr platform 3
#Funkwhale 2
#Hometown 2
#Misskey 2
#NodeBB 2
#Hubzilla 1

Alt...

Social Web Survey cover page "2026 Social Web Operations Survey IFTAS' annual environment scan and needs assessment for the platform admins, moderators, and social web community builders safeguarding the open web."

Switched to FOSS, Linux, and decentralized social media (Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube) a few months ago and honestly? it's been life-changing.

no more doom-scrolling Instagram or Facebook. no more anxiety about missing out. no more comparing myself to people's highlight reels. the constant itch to check Snapchat? gone.

using tools that respect my privacy and attention—instead of mining them—has made me feel genuinely awake again. less envy, less FOMO, less addiction pulling at my brain.

turns out when you're not being algorithmically manipulated, you actually feel better. who knew? 🙃

#FOSS #Linux #Mastodon #Lemmy #PeerTube #degoogle #decentralized #Linux_mint

I am seriously considering creating a #lemmy community for "Sunken Castles, Evil Poodles", my project for translating German folk tales. But I am not sure that my current instance, ttrpg.network, is the best thematic fit. Thus, a few questions:

1. What lemmy instance _would_ be a good thematic fit, which also (a) keeps its software up to date and (b) is fast?

2. Is the instance migration process for accounts as painless as with Mastodon?

3. Bonus question: Is there a way of integrating the feed from a lemmy community into external websites (such as a #WordPress site)? I always like to showcase the Fediverse elsewhere, when I can.

#FediHelp

@energisch_ @jwildeboer

...ignore them?

Do we need them? Did we ever? They don't own my domain or server. Do they own yours? We can build our own, have been, the communities at play never stopped. The internet is more than what they claim to scare us with.

#mastodon
#pixelfed
#pleroma
#akkoma
#lemmy
#yggdrasil
#i2p
#gemini
#gopher
#twtxt
#nostr

Take it back. Tools are there.