Oh hey you made a community on my instance. Try advertising it on /c/[email protected].

If anyone on a larger instance is reading this, could you help out by putting [email protected] in your instance’s search bar?

Right now the way it works is that for a community to show up in another instance’s list is just ONE user needs to search for it like this. The devs are working on making this more automatic though.

Well I’m not sure how you expect that to work… especially moderation/rules wise.

Yeah it would be cool if we didn’t have to see the instance name but I don’t think it’s too big a deal. Just subscribe to the better one and never worry about it.

It’s all managed through ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers)

https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/register-domain-name-2017-06-20-en

Are more simple explanation: https://www.thesitewizard.com/domain/register-with-icann-sans-middlemen.shtml

Oh I don’t think it’s quite ready for everyday use, it works okay for a bit of scrolling. But the dev is updating it pretty often and wants to get everything working (at least the basics) by the end of the month

You’d be surprised how fast Mlem is coming along.

But for now just open the home page of your instance in Safari, hit “share” then “add to Home Screen” works okay

By moderating it, as I said some is necessary obviously.

I just don’t like the “police” comparison. There are ways to motivate people to keep order without sending armed state goons to kill or imprison you.

I know your comment isn’t really about the metaphorical “village”, but police as we know them today are a far more modern conception than we think. Plenty of societies/villages/whatever did fine without such a force.

I don’t think we need the police comparison…

Some moderation is necessary, but if things get out of hand your instance will just be defederated. So it is more self regulating than you suggest.

Especially since “villages” can completely block an entire other “village”.

Keeps communities that don’t want to be isolated more reasonable without having hardline rules

Eh. You can find a cozy little community on another instance and have it feel like home. Especially if you have a “display name” which will make it hard for anyone to even see you’re from another instance unless they actually check

/c/[email protected]

Messages/Notifications aren’t implemented yet, FYI. But the dev is working hard to get at least all the basics up by July 1

Eh. Eventually one will become the “de facto” place to go, same way /r/technology won out over /r/tech.

Give it some time for people to figure it out. This “fragmentation” problem, IMO, is overblown.

Have you heard of Mlem? It’s in beta, and not really quite ready for everyday usage yet, but it’s inspired by Apollo and the dev is working hard.

https://github.com/buresdv/Mlem

Join the beta: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xQfmkJhc

To be fair, in some countries they are.

And especially in younger age groups, in certain countries, the vast majority are on iPhone.

I think in the US iPhone is up to 70% of people 18-30… and for teens something crazy like 90%.

I’m not defending Apple’s practices here but you must understand for some, the vast majority of people they know and actually talk to are iPhone users.

The way activitypub works is that each community has a list of every server that has at least one subscriber to that community.

Every time someone does something in that community, the community sends all those servers a message that tells them what just happened.

So instead of a few hundred servers it might have to inform of your one upvote of a post, it would have to basically inform every user (every user’s server)

It would be bad, it’s not designed to do that.

Gopher? Now there’s something I haven’t heard about in a long time