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What the fediverse needs is....CIRCLES! (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I was thinking that I joined Lemmy.World because Lemmy had more users than MBin. But today I was looking at https://mbin.cocopoops.com/ and started seeing MY posts. I knew Mbin could have different instances. I knew Lemmy could have different instances. And I knew they all federated together.

But I didn't know Mbin could federate with Lemmy. But I'm sure Lemmy/Mbin probably won't federate with Pixelfed, or Peertube.

Mbin, piefed, and Lemmy are essentially reddit replacements. So they should be in a circle. It doesn't matter how many users Mbin has, or piefed has, or Lemmy has. It matters how many the full circle of federated reddit replacements have. Because thats the true circle of users that you can interact with.

So what we need is a website that you enter an instance, and it tells you how big your circle would be on that platform, and a list of federated, and defederated instances with it.

So Lemmy.World would have a pretty high circle. While hexbear would have only itself, if I understand right.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think it's fair to say nothing we do here is particularly well known in a broader sense. You're lucky if people have heard of Mastodon - if they know that it's decentralised that's incredible, and if they understand what that means you've basically encountered an expert.

It's a bit of a challenge that people looking at these sites from the outside will struggle to immediately understand what is really going on here. It just redefines the internet to a point where people cannot really understand it without having it explained.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

if they know that it’s decentralised that’s incredible

Do you mind if I wear that as a title now ? Pseudo Curious, expert of the fediverse. It sounds very nice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'll print you a diploma!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Then you're the rector of fedicademia !