• m_f@discuss.onlineEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      It does technically federate a little, @dansup@loops.video exists. Not real federation, but I enjoy being technically correct 🤓 I do wish dansup open sourced it already so people could get a better picture of what’s going on with it, but he did say he’s actively working on federation this weekend.

      It does allow third party apps like Loopy, where are you seeing that it doesn’t?

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        51·
        3 months ago

        i just saw a couple places where he shit on people building 3rd party apps against its undocumented public api. hes not exactly the greatest person based on his public comments.

      • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
        3·
        3 months ago

        right so theyve said for _ 8_+ months now.

        im sick of seeing it included in fediverse projects when it still doesnt actually do any federating and everyone keeps sayin, ‘just wait, theyre working on it!’.

        bullshit. ill believe it when i see it, and it shouldnt be included in any fediverse topics until it does so… not because ‘it might’

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Ofc the reason for this is that TikTok is so popular and was very nearly banned from the USA (and still might be unless they hand >=50% of their stock shares over to the leader of the USA), so having even the hope of a promise of a prayer of a thought of a dream of a “federated” alternative is of great interest to many people.

          Even if the dream hasn’t been realized yet.

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              3 months ago

              This seems different than the situation with Bluesky though, where there is no hope of it ever becoming open source. I concede that eventually if the code to Loops is never released you’ll end up being right, it’s just that it still seems early enough in its development that people haven’t given up all hope for that yet.

              • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
                2·
                3 months ago

                i agree on bluesky. its just another walled garden with a few extra features.

                as for loops… id say its too early in its development, then, to be included in infographics depicting federating platforms. its lying to new users about what its capable now. if/when he ever gets federation implemented, then we can update literature.

                im very confused why everyone wants to market a product that cant yet do the core thing we are all here for. there is zero reason to include it right now.

  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    FYI, join-lemmy is known to recommend unmanaged or slow instances: https://lemmy.world/post/24220536

    I usually go with

    "Lemmy has 42k monthly active users

    Feel free if you have any questions"

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    For anyone in the USA, I highly recommend the Discuss.Online instance - it has a great server and admin team, as evidenced by its fantastic uptime stats, plus is quite welcoming to casual discussions. I bounced around a couple of different instances before making this one my primary home and have had zero regrets since.

    Also if anyone wants to see a peek of what’s coming up in the future, while it’s just shy of being fully ready for the masses yet, PieFed is an amazing project that will soon enough overtake Lemmy. It already has tons of features that Lemmy lacks - like Categories of Communities, hashtags, YouTube embedding, an absolute ton of customization options, and much more - even if there are a few still missing in reverse (like “searching” for content, user account tagging, the ability to preview a message prior to sending, receipt of notifications is quite buggy… - for early adopters though, it’s almost fully functional, especially for someone experienced in knowing how to fall back to Lemmy when necessary).

    There are lots of exciting things happening on the Fediverse lately!:-)

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      I don’t like the idea of saying this federated thing will overtake/be more important than that federated thing. If Piefed is doing it right, Piefed users will be able to see everything on Lemmy and Lemmy users will be able to see everything on Piefed.

      User’s choice should grant access to everything.

      Federated networks are not competing with each other, they’re cooperating with each other against silo’d, closed networks run by corporations. Or at least that’s how it should be.