With the fuckery around Reddit APIs, I'm peeking in at Lemmy again.
I wonder if it would be worthwhile setting up my own instance to use as sort of a personal pinboard alternative for link sharing and also to host an account from which I can comment on other instances' links?
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Les Orchard
in reply to Les Orchard • • •Got Lemmy running in some Docker containers to play with. In terms of being a personal pinboard alternative for link sharing, it's missing tagging or hash tags. So, that might keep it from being handy for me, since I use tags as a way to find things later
Could just be that I'm aiming for a use case not intended to be addressed by Lemmy 🤷♂️
Les Orchard
in reply to Les Orchard • • •So this Lemmy thing isn't exactly what I wanted for personal link sharing, but it's been pretty neat to have an instance up and see federated groups & comment threads working.
Still got some troubleshooting to do, though, since posts on my new server don't seem to be recognized by Mastodon instances (but they do from other Lemmy servers)
Les Orchard
in reply to Les Orchard • • •I think there's an interesting instance-as-gateway thing going on here that we kinda lost with centralized services.
Like, I have a Lemmy instance and through that I can read & respond to threads in communities on other instances.
It's a lot like FidoNet back in the day, where your local dial-up BBS was your gateway to the federated echoes with discussion coming in from elsewhere
Mastodon has this too, of course, but Mastodon is less group / topic / community centered
Les Orchard
in reply to Les Orchard • • •Of course "activitypub as fidonet" is not a new idea. I'm just thinking about it again.
https://l33t.codes/2023/02/04/ActivityPub-is-the-new-FidoNet/
ActivityPub is the new FidoNet
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