Robert Anton Wilson breadcrumbs metic • 1 year ago • 100%

Seems the social media giants are committing seppuku. Will the fediverse and Discord be the next wave?

New Communities metic • 1 year ago • 100%

A community for onboarding new users. [New Users](/c/newusers@lemmy.world) !newusers@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/newusers

# Fediverse Short for “federated universe”. In the first decades of the Internet, it was decentralized. In the 00’s the Web became increasingly commercialized and centralized, largely thanks to social media websites. Fediverse users and services seek to combine the social elements of the modern Web with the dencentralization of the old days. # Threadiverse This is the subset of the fediverse which uses platforms similar to webforums or sites like Reddit and Digg. These services host threaded discussions in various communities. The two main services in the threadiverse are Lemmy and KBin. # Lemmy and KBin Properly speaking, these refer to the entirety of their respective projects; the codebase, all instances, and userbases. To avoid ambiguity, refer to an instance by its entire URL (kbin.*social*, lemmy.*ml*, lemmy.*world*, etc.) # instance Fediverse projects have multiple independent installations on different servers accessible at different URLs. These instances federate with one another, allowing users to read and post to other instances. # home instance The instance on which a user has registered an account. Users posting to a community on their home instance will simply have their username displayed, users posting from another instance will have their username followed by the URL of that instance. # federation and defederation Federation refers to the connections between instances that allow users to read and post to other instances. Federation also occurs between projects such that Lemmy users can post to KBin and vice versa. Mastodon users can also post to Lemmy and KBin. Some instances choose to defederate from others. If Instance A defederates from Instance B, users of B will still be able to view posts from A, and even can post comments on its threads, but these comments and anything else posted by users of B will not be seen by those of A. # community or magazine Communities and magazines are topical forums on an instance, comparable to subreddits. “Magazine” is the KBin-specific term. # devs, admins, and mods Devs maintain the Lemmy and KBin projects. Admins maintain an entire instance and usually one or more also maintain its server. Mods maintain communities. Some instance admins may mod most or all of their instance’s communities, others may take a more hands-off approach. Devs maintain their own instances: lemmy.ml and kbin.social . # Mastodon One of the oldest and most widely-used fediverse projects. It is a microblogging service similar to Twitter.

- [Quick-start Guide to Lemmy and KBin](https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/16414) - [Join-lemmy.org guide](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html) - [dbzer0.com New User’s Guide](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/2212) - [Lemmy.world starting guide](https://lemmy.world/post/37906) - [Lemmy guide and F.A.Q.](https://lemm.ee/post/37715) - [Welcome all new users and Reddit refugees!](https://lemmy.world/post/975361) - [A Beginners Guide to Lemmy](https://lemmy.wtf/post/20204) - [What is the Fediverse? (video)](https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD) - [Fedi.tips Quick Guide](https://fedi.tips/)

# Fediverse - !fediverse@lemmy.world - !fediverse@lemmy.ml - !fediverse@kbin.social - !fediversenews@kbin.social - !fediversede@feddit.de - https://www.fediverse.to/ # Lemmy & KBin - https://join-lemmy.org/ - https://kbin.pub/ - !lemmy@lemmy.ml - !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml - !kbin@kbin.social - !kbinMeta@kbin.social # Instance-specific - !meta@lemmy.ml - !lemmyworld@lemmy.world - !support@lemmy.world - !main@lemmy.ca - !lemmy_ca_support@lemmy.ca - !meta@sopuli.xyz - !support@beehaw.org - !mander@mander.xyz # Find Communities - https://browse.feddit.de/ - !findacommunity@lemmy.ml - !wowthislemmyexists@lemmy.ca - !FindAKbin@kbin.social - !newcommunities@lemmy.world - !new_communities@mander.xyz - https://lemmyverse.net/ - https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/ # Ask & Tips - !lemmy411@lemmy.ca - !asklemmy@lemmy.ml - !asklemmy@lemmy.world - !AskKbin@kbin.social - !youshouldknow@lemmy.world - !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world # Apps - !lemmyapps@lemmy.world - !jerboa@lemmy.ml - !thunder_app@lemmy.world - !liftoff@lemmy.world - !summit@lemmy.world - !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca - !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world - !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world - !lemming_app@lemmy.world - !lemmotif@lemmy.world - !ArtemisApp@kbin.social - !slide@feddit.uk - !memmy@lemmy.ml - !mlemapp@lemmy.ml - !olympusapp@sh.itjust.works # Rexxit - !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml - !reddit@lemmy.ml - !RedditMigration@kbin.social - !reddit@kbin.social - !redditwasfun@lemmy.world - https://sub.rehab/ - https://redditmigration.com/ - https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html#1-million-subscribers # Code - https://github.com/LemmyNet - https://github.com/ernestwisniewski/kbin # Other Resources - https://joinfediverse.wiki/ - https://www.search-lemmy.com/

RetroGaming metic • 1 year ago • 98%

I could list a bunch of general YTers that cover retro games among other gaming topics, but for those who mainly cover retro games I like Big Ole Words, Hungry Goriya, and Video Works.

New Communities metic • 1 year ago • 100%

[Long Reads](/c/longreads@lemmy.world) !longreads@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/longreads Long-form, in-depth, thought-provoking articles about various topics

Religion metic • 1 year ago • 40%

I’ve added some basic rules for the community. They can be viewed on the sidebar. Mainly I hope to encourage some nuanced discussion. I’d like another mod or two. If interested , send me a DM with your timezone or general part of the world and any experience you have modding internet communities or background in interfaith spaces.

RetroGaming metic • 1 year ago • 100%

I’ll go first. When I was a kid my family had a TI-99/4A. The 99 series was Texas Instruments’ only real foray into the PC and video game market, and it failed to be competitive with Commodore, Atari, and Amiga. Most games were booted from cartridges. My favorites were Hunt the Wumpus, a sort of early survival-horror with a turn-based grid system, and Alpiner, a mountain-climbing game with various hazards, kind of a reverse SkiFree. It also had the ability to read data from cassette tapes to load text-based games. The one I remember is Hammurabi, a sim/strategy game which I didn’t really get as a kid. Now that I’ve gotten into strategy games like Civilization and Romance of the Three Kingdoms it would be interesting to revisit.

Reddit Migration metic • 1 year ago • 100%

Does federation have a bit of a learning curve? No doubt. Is Lemmy buggy as heck? Absolutely. But I don’t think that really justifies a lot of the comments I’m seeing in Reddit alternatives threads that it’s hard to figure out. The front page feed and sort options are very similar to Reddit. Searching for same-instance communities is not too difficult. Posting, commenting, and voting are all quite intuitive. What’s the problem? Edit: I do think terminology is a bit of an issue. I can tell a lot of people don’t understand “instance” vs. “community” at first. “Magazine” is the biggest offender here. That’s a very unintuitive term.