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I know rekabu.ru does because I was looking for Russian-language instances and found that, what else uses it??

Hi,

i want to explore the various way we can highlight content.

Currently, on the threadiverse, we use vote to show our approval, discontent...and we can couple it with a bot for moderation. Or hide post below a certain score...

Some instance completly removed downvote as Beehaw. Piefed is experimenting private vote. On other fediverse software, mastodon, iceshrimp, there is no downvote and we use emojis to express our feelings.

You also have website as https://slashdot.org/ where you can tell that comment was insightfull or a troll, or funny...

There is also also website that compare software or video as https://tournesol.app/

• Do you think vote sould be private ? Public ? And why ?
• Are you sastified with the current voting system ? And why ?
• What other interesting software/website that tried something different do you know ?
• What way do you imagine to highlight content and improve search, discoverability ?

cross-posted from: https://video.fedihost.co/videos/watch/6749fe45-dec9-430c-b8e2-b3d703fdf221

Bridgy is so easy to use you may find yourself accidentally going down the wrong path instead of just following the bot, but it's really that simple. > > Activity Pub users, follow: @[email protected] > BlueSky users, follow: https://bsky.app/profile/ap.brid.gy > > Written version: https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/how-to-bridge-to-bluesky

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/4595091

Check out their news post about reaching stretch goal number 3 here!

As of posting this, it sits at €61,437 - which means they met their first 3 stretch goals, which gives us these features for the coming mobile App:

• Play videos in background
• Cast your videos to your TV
• Get notified of newly released content
• Change the video definition
• Manage all channels of your account
• Edit video chapters, subtitles, info, etc.
• Get detailed stats of your content
• Upload new videos from your mobile
• Set up & manage livestream
• Use device cameras & connection
• Stream live from your hand
• No more need for a secondary mobile app dedicated to live streams

With all stretch goals that give "rewards" met, why is it still good to reach their final stretch target? To further help everything they do in providing a free (as in freedom and as in beer in this case) alternative to common internet services. In their own words, from their blog post about reaching 55k:

🫶 Next goal: Support Framasoft

We can imagine many of you have questions about this goal.

If you didn't know, PeerTube is developed by a small french non-profit called Framasoft (yeah, this is us!). Our mission is to raise awareness about digital issues and cultural commons: to help people all around the world (even if we mostly work in France) to have a critical look on our digital society by sharing keys to understanding.

However, we define ourselves as being an organization "that does". We like to think but above all we seek to build solutions that enable everyone to take ownership on these issues and become emancipated.

That is why we built PeerTube: to allow everyone to get back control on their videos.

That is also why we have been running the "De-google-ify" campaign for the past 11 years, providing alternative services to those offered by Big Tech. These services, which are free and accessible to all, are among the largest non-commercial services in the world!

Finally, we opened Framaspace for the same reason: to provide a free collaborative space (based on Nextcloud) for small non-profits and collectives.

We seek to equip those who wish to build a fairer and more equitable world.

Of course, even though all of our services are free, they still have a cost. We have to pay each month for our 10 employees and the whole infrastructure we maintain. To do so, our business model is based on solidarity: that's donations from thousands of people (mostly based in France) that fund us! That's thanks to all these people that PeerTube was born, that 2,000 collectives can enjoy Framaspace today or that more than 2,000,000 of people can freely use our services each month!

So, if you still have some money lying around and haven't donated yet, check out the link to help them meet the final goal. As a motivation, I like to think about where closed source software and proprietary services basically blackmailed me into giving them money through subscription services - and how even a fraction of that money given here can help them and others far more in the long run.

I tried to enter chachara.club but it didn't work. When I went to my account, the account he showed me was that of lemmy.ml. It says that I have no posts or comments on my account and I know that I have posts. What's going on?

I'm looking to subscribe to some peertube channels and not go to youtube for entertainment.

Which ones do you recommend? Thanks in advance

Edit It can be for anything. For example gardening, news, tech, etc.

I have a Kbin account just to try it, which I normally use, and I have a community there, but I can’t figure out how to change the photo? Thanks! 🙏

You might've heard that search sucks on software X... maybe software Y... definitely on software Z. The default one kind of sucks on NodeBB too, admittedly.

But why? It's because search is really frickin' hard to get right, and expensive to get good at.

Remember that Google started as a search company, and they became king because they got really good at it, and it was their only product (at the time, anyway!)

The easiest type of search is "full text" search. It matches words exactly based on what you type in. For example if you search lemmy it would match posts that include the word lemmy but depending on how the content was indexed, might not match lemmy.world, lemmy.ca, lemmyverse, etc.

From there you start adding complexity like supporting AND and OR. You support partial matches (lem returns posts containing lemmy and lemmings).

Add more logic to remove stop words and articles like a, the, etc.

Put in some sorting logic to rank stuff higher (what's your algo? Recency? Votes? etc.)

That's just the tip of the iceberg... this problem domain is so vast that entire companies have been built around just providing searching as a service (e.g. Algolia), and it isn't cheap!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31718711

Always wanted to selfhost your Fediverse instance but were always worried about system administration trauma?

Do you ever have to run around your flat, picking up all the leftover parentheses from yesterday's party with your hosting coop coworkers?

Then you are probably the right person, check out this post about fearless Bonfire hosting on a Guix System. You'll learn that taking care of a community is much more manageable when you let computer do the boring work for you.

Set up HTTPS, automatic backups, automatic nightly upgrades and join the awesome Bonfire community without a single worry on losing data from your instance.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40087740

Happy ruleversary

I'm a fan of wafrn (wafrn.net), its a tumblr-like thing.

Found these funky looking stat graphs on fedidb, anyone knows what caused this?

This applies to any of the microblogging software. Akkoma, IceShrimp, etc. I go to any Lemmy instance, big or small, and the up/downvote data and replies are basically all the same. The same goes for Peertube, and most services that aren't Mastodon and the gang. Why is this? Is it because of older design? Unexpected issues cropping up with scale? It seems to be such a big struggle over there, but for everyone else, it's whatevs.

I would love to permanently reside on a smaller Mastodon instance or host my own, but I often find that many posts are unavailable and a lot of replies I want to reply to don't exist. It is an incredibly frustrating experience.

"This video is a colorful introduction to the Fediverse, guided by filmmaker & Fediverse advocate Elena Rossini. Watch now to discover a whole new world of social media, one where privacy is respected, users are empowered, and Big Tech has no say."

I want to join the Fediverse. I don’t have a computer or anything to make something like a Lemmy instance, and I found that NodeBB will easily allow you to make a forum quickly, but I have to pay to do so. Should I just pay when I can or is there a free way to make a federated instance on a software?

the most similar one so far i can find would be piefed.