I use Lemmy and like it, but I still have no idea what the fediverse is. Lemmy seems to work fine for me without this knowledge.
Tbh, I don't think federation is a good selling point. It's difficult to explain and understand for a general audience
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2024
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The good thing about Fediverse is the decentralization.
There's no one Lemmy instance, or Mastodon instance. You could use any server, or even selfhost your own, if you wanted to, and have pretty much the same potential for reach.
That's all anyone needs to know about the Fediverse.
The hard thing is authenticity. Particularly for public figures, celebrities, social media personalities, businesses, etc. People who want or need an online personality that corresponds to their real one. I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.
For me the issue is privacy.
At any point anyone who wants to train an AI (or something else data-scrapey) they can just get the whole of everything ever posted on Lemmy.
it's not like centralized services in any way prevent this, at best they can make it inconvenient but on the flipside you can be 100% certain they are themselves selling off all your data and doing so with your permission (you did real the TOS right?)
Depends on a few things. Instance admin can rate limit requests. Pretty easy to identify a bot that's scraping traffic.
That's also one thing I try not to worry about. I don't generally say anything online I wouldn't feel comfortable saying on a soapbox in town square (generalized anxiety disorder aside). As a nerdy 90s kid, I learned anything you put on the public internet is public domain unless stated otherwise, and will probably exist forever (if only I could remember any of my GeoCities addresses).
I really don't know what the method is for "proving" yourself on the Fediverse.
Isn’t it as simple as posting a photo of oneself holding a sign with your username/instance?
With how good image generators are getting these days...
Perhaps the Fediverse needs a helpful paperclip like mascot to help with on-boarding.
"Hi, I'm Freddy Verse your friendly guide to the Fediverse, let me help you pick your new home. Please answer these questions:"
What type of service are you looking for?
- Micro-blogging
- Blogging
- Image sharing
- Long-form video
- Short-form video
- Social network
- Jack-of-all-trades
- Dick pics
Where do you live?
- America, fuck yeah!
- UK
- German speaking countries
- France
- Australia
What are you interested in?
- Books
- Films
- Gaming
- Star Wars
- Star Trek
- Harry Potter
- Porn
- Just the dick pics
My friend is asking what the dick pic instance is.
I think the first rule of dick pic instance is: don't talk about the dick pic instance.
So long as everyone has to have the Germans in their feed I’m ok with it. Everyone needs to understand what a Stör is.
Just looked it up - a sturgeon?
So around the time that the Reddit migration to Lemmy happened ich_iel had a bunch of sturgeon memes that confused us anglophones
To slightly unconfuse people: those were based around the pun that while Stör means sturgeon, stören means to disturb/annoy.
I was hoping for a \end{meme} in the text description 😢
Best I can offer is an overfull \hbox
Are there LaTeX haters? Why?
I'd say anyone who has ever tried to use it hates it a little, even if they also love it
I remember having my fair share of grievences when I was learning it lol
Everytime you are forced to actually look at the log and try to understand the error, I hate that. But I love LaTeX still.
I wouldn't say hater, more like "each tool for its job"
LaTeX can be quite cumbersome for certain tasks, same as Word is cumbersome for other tasks. It all depends what the tool is made for, and what you try to use it for.
It has a learning curve and it is better suited for technical work IMO. I wouldn't tell a grandparent to write a letter using LaTeX for example.
I WOULD trust a grandparent to be able to download Mastodon and make an account, but still I think the analogy works nicely lol
I think anything involving PDF generation is cursed because PDF is a cursed format. And if I remember correctly, error messages for LaTeX tend to be shitty. But I don’t think anyone can dispute it’s the standard for a reason.
Markdown is expressive enough with better syntax.
may I ask what typst is then?
But...Bluesky is federated, at least in principle. If it stays single-instance for more than a year or so following the current uptick in popularity, then I'll accept that it's de facto not federated.
i feel like being federated in principle is very much equivalent to not being federated in any sense of the word whatsoever at all
they can claim whatever they want, it doesn't make any of it true.
There's documentation on how to set up your own server for each of the components involved, and there are example servers running. It will take time for an organization to decide to run another major instance, though.
See also https://lemmy.world/comment/13555889
@remindme@mstdn.social in 1 year
This right here is why federation is so cool.
It's a beautiful thing.
You can also add LaTex code in Word documents.
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