Kurzgesagt's video about opioids - must watch!
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We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
Nothing to see here, just happy I finally beat Chromatic Création in #Expedition33.
The fediverse just got way easier to join:
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On August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31
For all you Linux gamers out there, Steam will halt support for Steam on distributions with old glibc.
To check if you're affected, run ldd --version in the Terminal.
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Friendica performance?
I just registered on friendica.world and the performance is, sad to say, abysmal. Takes around 1 minute for ANY page to open and the site throws internal servers errors left and right.
Anyone's had any better luck with Friendica, or is this what's expected?
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It's always cool encountering people you know in different places!
I will have to try out the smaller instances. However there are not as many options.
My observations on Friendica:
- The platform looks much more approachable with the Bookface theme.
- Creating groups is a really complicated as you have to make a separate profile and tick certain settings to convert the account type to group.
- I really wish Friendica had a way to toggle only friendica posts on the global view, as it I would like to see what the other instances are posting using the same kind of format.
- The platform could also really use an iphone app.
- There may be issues with finding your friends profiles.
- Friendica supports 4 apis.
- Friendica existed years before activitypub.
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100% on everything! 😀
I haven't even consider an app not existing (currently only using this on my PC). They really need that - or a website that works SUPER SMOOTH on a phone.
(but, judging by how the website itself work, that's not a thing)
There's also a couple of other slightly annoying things - for example, I have a couple of PixelFed profiles followed here, which is amazing. Unfortunately, if I Like or Comment on their posts here, it's only showing up HERE, they don't get anything on Pixelfed. Not great, because - in the case of artists - it "fragments engagement" which could hinder their careers.
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Gabriel Pettier
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in reply to Gabriel Pettier • • •@tshirtman
"nice! small bug report,"
Got really excited about this for a moment
Gabriel Pettier
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •benni
in reply to dansup • • •kopio
in reply to dansup • • •Suggestion 1: "Asia" is too broad of a category. Might want to break it up.
Suggestion 2: Maybe add one more filter for the server's default/recommended language?
M. Grégoire
in reply to kopio • • •@kopio
Yes, language is an important criterion, even more so than size of instance.
Other suggestions:
1. Maybe add a comment that it's not so important which instance you choose, since you can easily switch later.
2. Some people have received harassment when they create an account, because their instance federates with instances full of harassers. I know people are working on a long-term solution, but at present maybe the best thing would be to exclude some instances.
🇨🇦 Maverick ✊🇲🇲🇺🇦
in reply to dansup • • •Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to dansup • • •@Daniel Supernault Unfortunately, there is no possibility to sort instances based on the number of active users, a criterion that was well present in the old fedidb.org interface. In fact, this criterion is much more important than the one related to the total number of users. In fact, there are very old instances with a mortality rate higher than 90% that are very numerous, but in reality are not very active.
PS: why are my poliverso.org instance and Ruud's friendica.world friendica.world instance still missing? 😭
fedidb.com/software/friendica
ThePfromtheO
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •@notizie
poliverso.org is there
Ruud?
It isn't
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to ThePfromtheO • • •@ThePfromtheO Thanks for the good news. I hope friendica.world will come back soon too, it is currently the most active Friendica instance
@Daniel Supernault
ThePfromtheO
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •Do you mean this? If yes, it "came back"
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to ThePfromtheO • • •ThePfromtheO
in reply to Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂ • • •Sorry, but…
What was the problem? 🗯️
Why weren't you able to find them? Was that a "quick fix" from @dansup?
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to ThePfromtheO • • •@ThePfromtheO I couldn't find them because they weren't there 😅
It's already happened other times that they disappeared from fedidb.org
It's probably because of the robosts.txt file and some policies that we had to take to block the damned Meta bots
@Daniel Supernault
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in reply to dansup • • •@Daniel Supernault Great, thanks! ♥️
PS: If you think we need to fix some configuration issues, let us know what we need to do to fix it
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in reply to dansup • • •Frej 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇵🇸
in reply to dansup • • •Lea de Groot TZ+10
in reply to dansup • • •I dont think this works as is: step 2 is "choose platform". The naive user has _no idea_ on platforms. How are they supposed to choose here?
I would suggest that as a _last_ step, with preselecting all as the default
IMHO 😀
(why would anyone be selecting by technology anyway?!?!)
(and, definitely, if you get only one choice in step 2 it should be skipped completely. I picked 'photography" when experimenting, and got only pixelfed and assumed it meant the main pixedfed instance, not the technology...)
but love the concept!!!!! 😀
André Menrath
in reply to dansup • • •Legit_Spaghetti
in reply to dansup • • •There's no native support for this via ActivityPub as far as I'm aware, but do you know what'd be REALLY cool for people interested in joining?
Subject matter interests.
Like a list of tags like "Politics" or "Cats" or "Furry" or "Tabletop Gaming" or "Crafting" etc., and then you could pick tags to include or exclude ("show me results that have Cats and Crafting but no Tabletop Gaming") and generate recommendations based on that.
Then prompt folks to pick 10 tags to include/exclude.
readbeanicecream
in reply to dansup • • •I like it. I would suggest to change the word "servers" to "communities" just because some people (non-technical) start to panic when they hear "technical" words.
Great job!
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to readbeanicecream • • •@readbeanicecream Server instead seems to me the best compromise: "server" is more usable and understandable than "instance". Be careful not to underestimate the fact that the term communities already exists in the Fediverse: in fact, the term "communities" is happily used by all Lemmy and Piefed users, to indicate in their platform the "Activitypub Groups", exactly like the Mbin "magazines", the BBCode "categories" and the Friendica "groups". Now since Lemmy represents one of the most used software in the Fediverse, it would not be wise to call the instances with the name of communities, but would instead create a bit of confusion
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in reply to dansup • • •the most important thing a wise newbe should consider when picking is: who runs the instance? What kind of philosophies guide their mod decisions? What is the hosting setup (for reliability, regeonality and jurisdiction)? Do they block federation to anyone?
would be cool if this enabled insight to that stuff.
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in reply to Gabriel Pettier • • •Dan Bocain
in reply to dansup • • •Bolt
in reply to dansup • • •It should definitely have a little addition to the "Choose your platform" page that compares to existing sites.
Normal users don't know what the heck the difference is between Mastodon or Pixelfed, nor do they always realize that "photo sharing" is what you'd describe something like Instagram as.
I believe there should be some kind of comparison. (e.g. Mastodon - description - Similar to: Twitter/X, Bluesky)
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
in reply to dansup • • •@mastodonmigration
Yeah we need a lot more knuckle dragging tool users on here.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to Gabriel Pettier • • •This is a nice small bug report.
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in reply to dansup • • •@aspensmonster Something to consider: I solved a similar question of how to balance "quality" vs improved discoverability for more obscure entries (in a different domain) by doing:
- "featured + ~5% random shuffle/mix chance per entry"
This way there is plenty at the top of what many people may be looking for. Along with giving more obscure entries a better chance at visibility that may just pay off if the right person sees it.
Poliverso - notizie dal Fediverso ⁂
in reply to Preston Maness ☭ • • •- some small instances would not be able to handle the crowding
- some of those users would find themselves in poorly managed instances, with discontinuity of service and poorly connected to the rest of the Fediverse. In fact, some small instances are little gems, but a part of the small instances is burdened by a very high mortality and is poorly managed both in terms of reliability and in terms of privacy
flo
in reply to Preston Maness ☭ • • •@aspensmonsterThe listings are purely decreasing by numbers, I suppose.
No idea, if there would be any other way to show the results in a "fair" way.
@dansup
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in reply to flo • • •flo
in reply to prince lucija • • •Don't know that term, please elaborate.
@dansup@aspensmonster
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in other words, why not promote servers that are mid-sized which have a higher chance that they are handling moderation successfully then servers with highest number of accounts where moderation is possibly overwhelmed by sheer number of users.