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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Something tells me this isn’t the last word on the issue. If the fediverse concept is to succeed, then its two (current) largest players need to have some cross-functionality.

    I strongly disagree here. They might be using the same protocol, but the user expectations are something completely different. I’ve tried mastodon and really don’t get the appeal, just like I never understood why people want something like Twitter. And I’m sure there are some Mastodon users out there who can’t be bothered about Lemmy.

    Forcing them into one common framework feels like alienating both to me.


  • The idea of a non-profit holding sounds great, but what about collateral damage if shit really hit the fan? Would it not be smarter to have a separate entity for each platform? They could all have essentially the same statutes, boards, directors etc. etc., so in case if one really got under heavy fire, the others wouldn’t be affected? I know it means more admin work and probably also requires some governing policies with regards to the funding distribution, but might be cleaner in the end.













  • Issue:

    So, I’ve created !childfree as a local community, seemingly normal. Only, it doesn’t seem to be accessible to anyone locally.

    Meaning, https://lemmy.world/c/childfree gives me a 404. Instead, I have to open it as https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - initially I thought maybe I had made an error creating the community and added the instance, but trying to replicate it shows that @ is not a permitted character, so the problem must have come from elsewhere.

    From other instances now I can access it just fine: https://latte.isnot.coffee/c/[email protected] or https://feddit.de/c/[email protected] (where the @instance is the default behaviour). Locally however, that should not have happened.

    Even if I enter the community locally, and click on the !childfree just below the name of the community, it gives me a local 404 (see below).

    Any idea what’s going on here, and how to resolve the problem? Since we are redirecting users from our sub here, it’s creating quite some headaches… And apparently users trying to subscribe from other instances also don’t see any posts for up to 48h (tried that myself).

    Edit: Apparently I cannot access the community via feddit.de. The other one works fine though - I do have accounts on either instance.