Yes with ActivityPub there’s always failed federation. But Lemmy will send the delete request out when you delete your account. Other software or instances might not honour it, but the intent is there.
As opposed to reddit who do not remove comments when an account is deleted, only mark it as a comment from a deleted account.
I’m not against Lemmy’s implementation, but it does require you to collect information you need at the time not assume it will always be there.
Bookmarks won’t help if the content gets removed. You’ve got to copy the important information elsewhere.
I tend to use either a note app (Joplin) or a self-hosted wiki for that.
Deleting your account deletes your content, unlike deleting your Reddit account. Hence the linkrot.
I learnt pretty early on that saving posts using the save button was not a good way to save the information 😮💨
Many of the .ee communities are in the process of migrating, so hopefully the list can be updated with their new homes.
2 years for me as well!
It’s not that Lemmy couldn’t allow you to follow Mastodon users, the technology allows it. It’s just not high on the priority list to actually develop.
Only a single person on the instance needs to subscribe, then the instance with the community knows about it and will start pushing the content to that instance.
You’re on Lemmy.world, so it wouldn’t take long for someone to subscribe (if you’re the first person, just looking also pulls a handful of posts, but no further updates until someone subscribes).
Might be talking about https://lemmy-federate.com/?
You can add the community, and the other instances that have signed up will have their follower account subscribe to your new community. Communities are only federated to instances that have at least one subscriber to the community, so it won’t show in All on instances with no subscribers to your community. That website is a way to help get around that.
Logins aren’t federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
Huh, we have had users signing up at a higher rate than usual, but we go through bursts and we are generally pretty low volume so I thought nothing of it. Amazing to see you make the front page!
My biggest issue with Friendica is that the very top thing I want social media for is to share photos and videos in a private way with friends and family. Of you have to upload your video to YouTube before posting the URLthen that is a terrible experience.
Facebook lets you just grab your photos and vidros and upload them to your post. It automatically converts them from the 200MB+ per minute file your phone made into a 40MB per minute file, so people watching on their phones don’t chew through their data allowance or be unable to play it due to slow internet. It shows the photos in a seamless galley.
I would be willing to put up with almost any other issues if this part was a seamless and user friendly experience, of which no self-hosted Facebook replacement (federated or not) that I have seen can do.
Regardless of the team dynamics, what I was getting at is simply that a CEO runs the company, and is generally not involved in minor decisions. But he is moving into a product strategy role, one that by definition is focused on what the product (mastodon) does.
He is stepping away from the CEO role to focus on the product. That means you are not getting anything he doesn’t want, if anything he has more control over the functionality of Mastodon.
The beautiful thing about decentralisation is that if an instance tries to as ads, then you can go to a different instance and see the same content.
If an instance creates as posts, your instance admin can block the whole instance.
Interestingly, the big instances seem to easily get enough donations to cover costs. I think that’s the great thing about this model, people are willing to donate when they know it’s not some big corporate making profit for shareholders.
No that’s expected, as part of your profile info. But if the original authors delete the comments, then they will also be deleted in your saved items.