I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where others were from, then sit there in awe. "HONEY, I'm talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!"
I was on usenet in the 90s. It was WILD. I remember trying to explain it to my mom, and she just didn’t quite grasp it. When I told her I was talking to someone from Germany, she asked if she was gonna have to pay for that, because it was long distance. Bless her heart.
I saw "Blackberry" yesterday and it was a really good experience putting you in the context of those times.
There is one scene where they type a message and wait for it to show up on another device. After a few seconds, it is there and every engineer in the room celebrates.
Then, management/sales guy comes in and they tell about what they've just done. He goes yeah, nice, but we do it already, it's called SMS.
The engineers then say that he is not getting the point. It was a message sent through the network using data, 0 dollars and all and salesman's eye get brighter.
Bro, could you help me set one up ._. I tried docker, ansible, from scratch using rust, and I kept running into an error. I tried all three methods several times on Debian 11, Debian 12, and Ubuntu 20.
Was there a guide outside of the official docs or am I just too inexperienced? Like with the from scratch setup, had all dependencies listed installed, but every time rust starts opening crates after a minute it just throws some error.
Interesting to see lol. I know little of mastodon. Would seeing @ at the start of comments be a sign of users from it or is that only when replying to comments?
You can follow an entire Lemmy community. If you do that, every COMMENT will show up in your Mastodon feed. If you see a comment you are interested in, clicking on it will give the post and the context for that comment!
The best part is this huge spike just means more devs coming to the platform! Kbin is good, but maybe someone comes out with a new application that can easily do all of this even better!
Woah, so the big 3 (Mastodon, Kbin, and Lemmy) of the fediverse text/discussion-based social media can all used from a single account/feed. That's awesome!
Saying hey from over here on kbin.social, which picked this up as a Microblog (their feature for viewing Mastodon posts). If you're looking to be active on both Lemmy and Mastodon, Kbin is the best platform I've found thus far for navigating the Fediverse.
Kbin combines Lemmy and Mastodon right out of the box - no setup needed.
Kbin is new and undergoing development, so the documentation is lacking, but it's pretty easy to use. It combines posts from the Fediverse (including lemmy) under its Threads section, and posts from Mastodon and other similar federated services in its Microblog section.
It also allows you to post in both formats, which is pretty fun. It also has search capacity for tags across instances (kbin.social/tag/cat) and domains (kbin.social/d/lemmy.world), the latter of which allows you to subscribe to or block those domains as you chose. I've posted more detail on a couple of threads here and here.
@Squiglet Neither have I until now😂. Was a redditor for 10 years until the API change and never could get into Twitter.
I’m assuming the @ from Mastodon is just because it’s the default way for it to display in posts. Lemmy uses the @ for replies but doesn’t display it in the comment.
So is fediverse basically a bunch of servers, and Lemmy and Mastodon are like, different interfaces to access those servers? (I'm not sure I understand how fediverse works)
It's like in real life how people talk, to simplify e.g. we're all speaking english here. Where as facebook speaks only facebook, twitter speaks only twitter, and reddit speaks only reddit... these instances all speak ActivityPub.
Think of a banana split. Lemmy is the chocolate ice cream, mastodon is the vanilla, kbin is the strawberry, etc., etc. they are all different flavors. However, they are all in one “dish” that is the Fediverse.
Doesn’t matter what flavor of ice cream you are eating, it’s still ice cream at its base and thus they speak a common language underneath it all.
103 Comments
AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 3y
I wonder if the first days of SMTP were like this—people sending emails to each other in amazement that messages could reach people on other servers.
Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml · 42 pts · 3y
I remember the early days of instant messaging where people would just jump in a chatroom and ask where others were from, then sit there in awe. "HONEY, I'm talking to someone from Ireland! HONEY! Come look!"
ProfessorLupinstein@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3y
And here I am in Ireland reading your message now
Flax_vert@feddit.uk · 14 pts · 3y
Go to bed
REdOG@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
I made my honey look.
acupofcoffee@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
a/s/l - the classic first message from anyone in 2001.
Interesting times we’re are coming to, folks!
TheRealBob@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3y
I was on usenet in the 90s. It was WILD. I remember trying to explain it to my mom, and she just didn’t quite grasp it. When I told her I was talking to someone from Germany, she asked if she was gonna have to pay for that, because it was long distance. Bless her heart.
RomanRoy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
I saw "Blackberry" yesterday and it was a really good experience putting you in the context of those times.
There is one scene where they type a message and wait for it to show up on another device. After a few seconds, it is there and every engineer in the room celebrates.
Then, management/sales guy comes in and they tell about what they've just done. He goes yeah, nice, but we do it already, it's called SMS.
The engineers then say that he is not getting the point. It was a message sent through the network using data, 0 dollars and all and salesman's eye get brighter.
So yes, I think the sensation was alike.
Captain_Jimmy_T_Kirk@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
snailwizard@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 3y
Hi from Lemmyworld 👍
G_Wash1776@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y
We were here for history
ToastyBanana@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
I was lounging in my recliner when it happened!
Kaliax@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Laying on me couch!
pyreneer94@lemmy.public.ismaelrh.com · 34 pts · 3y
Hi from my personal instance!!!
R51@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Bro, could you help me set one up ._. I tried docker, ansible, from scratch using rust, and I kept running into an error. I tried all three methods several times on Debian 11, Debian 12, and Ubuntu 20.
Was there a guide outside of the official docs or am I just too inexperienced? Like with the from scratch setup, had all dependencies listed installed, but every time rust starts opening crates after a minute it just throws some error.
BadlyHunt@lemmy.pwzle.com · 10 pts · 3y
I was up and running in about 5 minutes with Lemmy Easy Deploy. I can’t recommend it enough.
R51@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Dude where's you find this! Finally I have an instance lol. Thousand thanks.
kemsat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Replying so I can check this out later
Shardikprime@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
I also was interested. Thank you
Arsaille@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 3y
How interesting! It's nice to see the Fediverse in action.
urda@mastodon.social · 21 pts · 3y
Xylight@mastodon.social · 16 pts · 3y
@urda @Arsaille like this
Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 3y
Interesting to see lol. I know little of mastodon. Would seeing @ at the start of comments be a sign of users from it or is that only when replying to comments?
Hopefully that makes sense to you.
acupofcoffee@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
It’s basically a default action when replying to someone in Mastodon. It puts their username at the front.
Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y
Thanks for explaining!
I should give mastodon a try too one day.
acupofcoffee@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Technically, you ARE on Mastodon now! Your comments are showing up here!
https://mastodon.social/@Xylight/110663560049633006
Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 3y
Woooo fediverse!
Love how this is all connected and each have their own identity/features still.
rustyfish@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Test 1, 2?
Edit: It worked! I'm on TV!
Alessi_io@feddit.it · 1 pts · 3y
That's so cool!
urda@mastodon.social · 9 pts · 3y
acupofcoffee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
You can follow an entire Lemmy community. If you do that, every COMMENT will show up in your Mastodon feed. If you see a comment you are interested in, clicking on it will give the post and the context for that comment!
urda@mastodon.social · 6 pts · 3y
acupofcoffee@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
The best part is this huge spike just means more devs coming to the platform! Kbin is good, but maybe someone comes out with a new application that can easily do all of this even better!
frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz · 26 pts · 3y
Hello from my personal instance!
KluEvo@wirebase.org · 22 pts · 3y
Woah, so the big 3 (Mastodon, Kbin, and Lemmy) of the fediverse text/discussion-based social media can all used from a single account/feed. That's awesome!
Maggi_Man@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
How can i learn more about how all of that works? Do you have any experience yet?
Neirin_D@feddit.uk · 19 pts · 3y
Hello from feddit.uk!
toof@fedi.toofie.net · 19 pts · 3y
@Xylight@mastodon.social @fediverse@lemmy.world Greetings from my personal Calckey instance!
pannacotta__@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
Absolutely wild that this works lmao, ActivityPub is crazy
balls_expert@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 3y
NatoBoram@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Oh wow, it actually works!
NatoBoram@mastodon.social · 11 pts · 3y
It's wild that you can communicate like this across websites
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Across systems even. A front page that looks like half content aggregation, half microblogging, that's mad. That's awesome!
Mpeach45@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
I’d love to get an explanation of how you made this work, because when I attempt to even follow my Mastodon account from Lemmy, it does not work.
TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml · 13 pts · 3y
Hi from lemmy.ml. The fediverse is so awesome!
admin@lemmy.devils.house · 11 pts · 3y
Hello from the devil’s house on Lemmy!
Arotrios@kbin.social · 11 pts · 3y
Saying hey from over here on kbin.social, which picked this up as a Microblog (their feature for viewing Mastodon posts). If you're looking to be active on both Lemmy and Mastodon, Kbin is the best platform I've found thus far for navigating the Fediverse.
brainfreeze@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Hey! I've been trying to get the hang of the fedi stuff. Is there a good source for how to combine Lemmy and Mastodon at kbin?
Arotrios@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y
Kbin combines Lemmy and Mastodon right out of the box - no setup needed.
Kbin is new and undergoing development, so the documentation is lacking, but it's pretty easy to use. It combines posts from the Fediverse (including lemmy) under its Threads section, and posts from Mastodon and other similar federated services in its Microblog section.
It also allows you to post in both formats, which is pretty fun. It also has search capacity for tags across instances (kbin.social/tag/cat) and domains (kbin.social/d/lemmy.world), the latter of which allows you to subscribe to or block those domains as you chose. I've posted more detail on a couple of threads here and here.
brainfreeze@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Awesome, thanks for this!
astraeus@programming.dev · 10 pts · 3y
That’s how the fediverse works isn’t it?
NeonWoofGenesis@l.henlo.fi · 19 pts · 3y
Yeah but the different platforms still have to implement translation between the different data structures if I understand correctly.
Like peertube federation became available in May 2022
infinitepcg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3y
Interesting, this is the same post on Mastodon.
R51@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Neat!
Jimbo@yiffit.net · 10 pts · 3y
Helloo from yiffit.net (browse cautiously)
mihnt@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
Krompus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
fewociouswy uwu
AlternActive@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y
Heya form lemmy.world (and Portugal!)
Jerosh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
I WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT. Hi. Hello. Seriously cool this is possible though!
Ginjutsu@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3y
what a time to be alive
youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 3y
Hi there from lemmy!
haroldstork@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
Howdy from lemm.ee!
xeekei@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
Here is a response from lemm.ee
Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev · 7 pts · 3y
It did! That's impressive
vera@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Someone posts "fediverse posts are federated" gets 400 up votes.
_hauf@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Welcome! So glad to have you!
SomeOtherUsername@lemmynsfw.com · 7 pts · 3y
All your server are belong to us 🤖
PolarBone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
This land is your land, this land is my land, from Lemmy Shitposts, to Lemmy World News
Squiglet@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
How'd you do that?!
Xylight@mastodon.social · 7 pts · 3y
@Squiglet just the power of the fediverse, I guess. Also posting this reply from mastodon.
Squiglet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
To post from Mastodont to lemmy you just need to use "@" followed by community name?
khazram@mastodon.social · 6 pts · 3y
@Squiglet @Xylight Pretty much, although you’ll want to differentiate between @fediverse@lemmy.world and other instances (i.e. @fediverse@lemmy.ml)
Squiglet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Interesting that I can reply to you without "@". Forgive my ignorance, I never used Twitter or Mastodon.
khazram@mastodon.social · 5 pts · 3y
@Squiglet Neither have I until now😂. Was a redditor for 10 years until the API change and never could get into Twitter.
I’m assuming the @ from Mastodon is just because it’s the default way for it to display in posts. Lemmy uses the @ for replies but doesn’t display it in the comment.
R51@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
pretty much like /u/ on reddit
@ always looked wierd to me tho, it's more of a surname if that makes sense
khazram@mastodon.social · 2 pts · 3y
kevtav@mastodon.social · 6 pts · 3y
@Xylight @fediverse 1, 2, 1, 2
esty@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3y
hello from Lemmy!
brainfreeze@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
It's so nice to see people excited about this! It feels like forever since something has come along that shook things up (in a good way).
Jaxia@toast.ooo · 6 pts · 3y
I see you from toast.ooo
Linuturk@lemmy.onitato.com · 6 pts · 3y
Congrats!
Marxine@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
It is indeed amazing! Hello from lemmy.world o/
PseudoSpock@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 5 pts · 3y
Whadyaknow!?! The new FidoNet works!
SteveCC@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Cool Would love to hear the method since it apparently worked
Phegan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
s4if@lemmy.my.id · 5 pts · 3y
It works.. I can see your post.
gentoo_biscuit@thelemmy.club · 5 pts · 3y
👋 hi from thelemmy.club
PapaJWade@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Hello from my phone.
AlternActive@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Hello from the other siiiiide
RepentedAlex@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev · 4 pts · 3y
OP here, why tf did this get so many upvotes
Squiglet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
So in mastodon you need to ping the /c/ with @ to post on it? Like @ufos or something?
trambe@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
So is fediverse basically a bunch of servers, and Lemmy and Mastodon are like, different interfaces to access those servers? (I'm not sure I understand how fediverse works)
R51@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
It's like in real life how people talk, to simplify e.g. we're all speaking english here. Where as facebook speaks only facebook, twitter speaks only twitter, and reddit speaks only reddit... these instances all speak ActivityPub.
acupofcoffee@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Think of a banana split. Lemmy is the chocolate ice cream, mastodon is the vanilla, kbin is the strawberry, etc., etc. they are all different flavors. However, they are all in one “dish” that is the Fediverse.
Doesn’t matter what flavor of ice cream you are eating, it’s still ice cream at its base and thus they speak a common language underneath it all.
rouxdoo@kbin.social · 4 pts · 3y
@Xylight Hello from kbin.social!
illumi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
hello hello :3
hemmes@mas.to · 4 pts · 3y
@Xylight @fediverse I saw your post on VLemmy but replying using my mas.to account to see what happens.
FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Wizardry!
Cynicivity@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
So happy to see this in action! It’s all uphill from here.
sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 3y
Goddamn! I love the fediverse :)
Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I have to say, this is quite neat. Looking forward to seeing where it all goes!
Lukecis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
yea it worked
Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev · 2 pts · 3y
OP here, why tf did this get so many upvotes
blueskies@lemmy.fmhy.ml · 2 pts · 3y
Interesting, I wonder if communicating with pixelfed works?
andellor@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 3y
Hello from mander.xyz! We see you!
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.astaluk.icu · 1 pts · 2y
Yep! It should work in reverse too!