zenyet

took a while for me to figure out that you were referring to lemmy.world being down, instead of lemmy as a whole.

any reason you don't just get a monyet account?

@rakyat tagging so this gets to monyet too instead of just kbin

has anyone tried tagging through direct url, something like this:
https://monyet.cc/u/Annoyed_Crabby
https://monyet.cc/u/truckdrifter2

my current theory is that lemmy scans the comments for urls that look like a user profile, then visits it to trigger a mention notification.

>If a server moved their domain they had to have a way to broadcast the name change to all the other instances.

even if lemmy had a way to do this, doing it for all the users at lemmy.ml would create a large load of federated network traffic between instances, and at the level of a single instance it would cause a lot of database changes (I've heard that the sql schema for lemmy isn't very optimized).

also, as activitypub doesn't prioritize synchronization (unlike git and matrix), there could be a lot of desynchronized state, with the name change of users reaching some instance but not others.

it would be interesting if lemmy.ml really went the clean slate way (and I think the original intention of the devs in running that instance was just to test their code, not to have it become a "flagship" instance), it would sure showcase a valuable lesson in the fediverse…that you shouldn't rely too much on big instances (there is no huge facebook/twitter/reddit-like thing here).

from what I heard, it won't me easy, but it would be one real stress test for federation. hopefully, we don't have to block them out while they're migrating. I wonder if perhaps it would be better for them to just start over with a clean slate.

@cendawanita not all is well with firefish.

I really hope we do not see a repeat of that phoenix ➡️ firebird ➡️ firefox saga that mozilla had.

wow! the fediverse is so dahsyat la. I posted something in !cafe from my calckey account to test if cross posting works.

my original intention was for you all to see it, but within half an hour, it has already collected 10 comments from the rest of the lemmyverse!

#fediversenewbie

today's theme for me is alt frontends and fediverse software:

1. https://libredirect.github.io/ is a web extension for firefox and chrome that auto-redirects to alt frontends (as an aside, don't you find it interesting that there are redirects for tiktok and bilibili, but none for zuck's networks?)
2. use https://farside.link/ if you don't want to install anything (so instead of https://reddit.com/r/popular, you modify the url to https://farside.link/reddit.com/r/popular and farside redirects you to a random alt frontend instance)
3. last but not least, https://fedi.builders/ is a huge list of fediverse software for building a real alternative internet, because alt frontends are more of a stopgap measure, and sooner or later they will be taken down