Fediverse

The Problem with the Fediverse

I have no issues with the way it is implemented, I have no issues with it at all. For context, I left Twitter to join the Fedi, and it has been great so far! I use Misskey for microblogging, PeerTube for uploading videos, and Lemmy for Reddit-style discussions. The Fediverse is amazing!

Except, idk, for the fact that it is too fragmented? I hope I am using the right words. Like, the current instance I am on does not have support for communities, so i have to do it the hard way and mention @fediverse@lemmy.world so that I can post here. It's a good workaround, considering it doesn't have built-in support for communities.
But my point still stands. It's not a Lemmy/PieFed problem. It's mostly a fediverse problem. Implementing communities for every platform would help the Fediverse. Not only does it solve discoverability/algorithm issues of the Fediverse (since now when you follow a community, you get all posts from that community), but also it would interconnect every platform (Misskey, PeerTube, Mastodon, etc.)

Imagine you don't have to use your Lemmy account to check everything on Lemmy. Instead of creating channels in PeerTube, just post to an existing channel/community, and people subscribed to that channel/community can find you easily. I see this as an absolute win for everyone.

I understand this would require collaboration between all developers of all software. But hopefully, this is possible?
Or am I asking for too much?

If I am wrong, then is there any way in which we can solve this issue?

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I tried to find a graph about activity levels but I think I found only Lemmy's first 1-2 years.
Can we gather data to get the big picture?

After 5 years of foot-dragging they finally close the ticket to community protest:

This feature request is being closed as our current focus isn't in this area.

We appreciate your input and contribution to improving our product. While this feature may have merit, we need to prioritize our efforts elsewhere at this time.

If you'd like to provide additional context about why this feature is important, please feel free to leave a comment on this issue. This will help us better evaluate the feature if we revisit this area in the future.

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Let's say:

• I am on instance A.
• I browse on a community that is on instance B
• a user from instance C post something on that community B.

Now i want to share a link to this post. Which instance should i pick?

• A my home instance
• B the community
• C the post author

I thought Activity Pub enables you to connect to all Federated servers. Why am I having difficulty subscribing to Mastodon feeds?

I'm genuinely interested in people thoughts about the Fediverse because here in the UK it has massively stalled in 2025, like a lot of things. I am seeing way less posts from UK people and way less interaction and general use in fact. Most seem to have stopped social media use to be fair, and I know a lot of that is to do with my age (old fart here, 56 laps round sun and counting) but the numbers game look poor from my point of view. Do we think the Fediverse has a future now after useage appears to be going downwards? Is it a UK thing? (well I know the UK is weird but hey)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/5573430

Text version: https://fedihost.co/blog/slug/nothing-showing-up-on-my-mastodon-instance

Call it something like greentext or confessions or something. Anyone posting is automatically set to Anonymous with no link whatsoever to the original account for admin or users to track or in the logs/activity pub etc. Like the person will not get replies, notifications on their account for the post, or the ability to reply as Anon. Simply streamline creation of a throw away account using the existing credentials of an existing account for post access and to give automod a chance to act. Maybe bar new accounts or below a certain threshold of engagement.

The Fediverse Passport would be the central account for all users on the Fediverse.

How it would work

a. Upon signing up for the a platform on the Fediverse the user would be redirected to the "Create your Passport" You would create your unique username. Once signed up you would then have an account on every platform connected to the Fediverse.

b. If someone friends/follows you on one platform they would automatically follow you on all platforms. Insuring that communities and friends could stay connected across platforms.

c. The passport for the user would show your feed on all platforms and allow you to selected which platform you want to see your feed from, also allowing you to directly search your content so you could find a post for whatever reason you need.

d. For the subscriber it would show them your feed and allow them to easily find your content.

e. Tons of customization options including the ability to monetize and or set a subscription fee for the video, blogging, and other "arts" platforms.

Safe Guards

You would be allowed to set your privacy setting to, Public, Subscribers Only, Approve Subscribers, Mutual Friends only, Private (Requires link)

Benefit

Would allow stream less interaction across the whole Fediverse and really get it going. No more having to create a different account on each platform and now you can claim an identity and keep track of your communities, also each site would directly help "advertise" the others.

Article emphasizes the concept of "middleware". BlueSky inevitably gets more attention than the "Mastodon protocol" but there are some decent theoretical observations.

I started to notice that my posts get no interactions at all and that a lot of communities seem to be empty. At first I thought that it's just the effect of Lemme. ee shutting down, but after checking some of the communities from my current alt account I started to notice that .Dev does not pull the latest posts and does not federate my posts.

one of the Fchannel0 forks is still getting updated, and has an instance running.

link to instance, but visit only if you are completely degenerate

https://usagi.reisen/

But it seems to be an isolated instance, as the federation appears to have been broken:
https://github.com/anomalous69/FChannel/issues/9
https://usagi.reisen/followers

more info:
https://fediverse.wiki/wiki/FChan

You can still see lemm.ee for example on search results since the metadata was saved by it, you can see a snippet and the topic title but of course upon clicking you will hit a dead end since its been shutdown.

Is there something like Serpia Search use case for browsing content from PeerTube instances to be used to search such topics we can still see on search engine results to find them without necessarily using an instance? I was wondering if there was and had an API maybe it could be used like on SearX to gather an alternative link for such cases when clicking in a result from a closed instance

Source.

The livestream is happening now Tue July 1 https://stream.firesidefedi.live/

i'm currently using tesseract to view and post things, i've also heard of photon. are there any else?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28228514

website is up, you can see a handful of posts but you cannot login and mostly just errors out.

you can request some in the replies too and i can find some!! please also let me know if there is more that you know of to add!!

from what i can find and only some:

mandarin - fasheng.ing

portuguese - lemmy.eco.br

lemmy.teuto.icu

forum.ayom.media

lemmy.pt

lemmy.plaureano.nohost.me

spanish - mujico.org

feddit.cl

chachara.club

russian - rekabu.ru

shibanu.app

japanese - lm.korako.me

philosophy.cafe

fenmou.cyou

lem.ph3j.com

polish - szmer.info

fedit.pl

tech.pr0n.pl

lemmy.sieprawski.pl

german -

stammtisch.hallertau.social

rollenspiel.forum

lemmy.fedifriends.social

feddit.org

lemmy.klein.ruhr

zonenranslite.de

lemmy.hogru.ch

linz.city

french - social.ggbox.fr

jlai.lu

links.gayfr.online

kourjetez.bzh?

lemmy.coupou.fr

danish - feddit.dk

slangenettet.pyjam.as

swedish - aggregatet.org

feddit.nu

lemmy.ahall.se

italian - feddit.it

l.posterdati.it

diggita.com

lemmy.casasnow.noho.st