The Problem with the Fediverse

I have no issues with the way it is implemented, I have no issues with it at all. For context, I left Twitter to join the Fedi, and it has been great so far! I use Misskey for microblogging, PeerTube for uploading videos, and Lemmy for Reddit-style discussions. The Fediverse is amazing!

Except, idk, for the fact that it is too fragmented? I hope I am using the right words. Like, the current instance I am on does not have support for communities, so i have to do it the hard way and mention @fediverse@lemmy.world so that I can post here. It's a good workaround, considering it doesn't have built-in support for communities.
But my point still stands. It's not a Lemmy/PieFed problem. It's mostly a fediverse problem. Implementing communities for every platform would help the Fediverse. Not only does it solve discoverability/algorithm issues of the Fediverse (since now when you follow a community, you get all posts from that community), but also it would interconnect every platform (Misskey, PeerTube, Mastodon, etc.)

Imagine you don't have to use your Lemmy account to check everything on Lemmy. Instead of creating channels in PeerTube, just post to an existing channel/community, and people subscribed to that channel/community can find you easily. I see this as an absolute win for everyone.

I understand this would require collaboration between all developers of all software. But hopefully, this is possible?
Or am I asking for too much?

If I am wrong, then is there any way in which we can solve this issue?

#fediverse #problems #fediverseproblems

in reply to ZnatGD

I think what will eventually happen is much like what happened to email, it too was very fragmented feeling early on but more and more adopted it and more servers kept developing and popping up and then at some point more service providers became more similar than alike and then it became what it is now.

The tricky part is that the concept and usefulness of a federated network mostly only grows in the long run and looks like its not going anywhere in the short term much like email and that is always what makes people question its efficacy.

Participation in any and all forms is what establishes it more and more.

in reply to ZnatGD

For me and the clients and fwiends I talk to the issue with the fediverse for them is the decentralised nature. Most of them are NOT tech inclined and the suggestion that they would have to choose a server and that choice will influence the experience is a deal breaker - pure and simple. To follow up then if they do join, the sheer lack of numbers baffles them and they quit
in reply to 3dcadmin

its 2025, and people still dont know how to use email?! And they are using the internet?!!! Its clearly not the fediverse's fault...

My parents barely know how to use a computer, let alone use social media. And they STILL understand how email works! Our family grew up with email.

I am very much worried about the future of the tech world, if this continues...
Sorry to appear disrespectful to you, i truly understand what you're saying. But, i truly dont get people like them...

@fediverse@lemmy.world

๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Vs ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
"I love United States and its allies"

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ธ Vs ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
"Fuck United States and it's allies"

This is the drama that every brainless, politically ignorant, moron has been facing in their daily lives for the last few years.

Stupidity is unbeatable, tho

in reply to Emmanuel Florac

Je n'ai pas regardรฉ (comme d'hab' c'est beaucoup trop long), mais en repensant ร  Isaac Asimov, notamment la sรฉrie des ยซ Robots ยป, je me dis que la ville idรฉale laisserait la place en surface pour la nature et l'agriculture en s'enterrant complรจtement, avec quelques dรดmes pour laisser passer de la lumiรจre.
D'ailleurs que peut-รชtre, si la vitesse de rotation augmente, c'est qu'on ne cesse d'extraire des ressources pour les placer au-delร  de la surface et qu'on crรฉe de ce fait un รฉnorme volant d'inertie.
in reply to Robert R.

Going back to the system as it functioned in 1900 would solve a LOT of problems. Feds have to collect taxes from state governments, and state governments appoint senators.

Whoever you put in congress, they have no reason not to spend more and more money. Go back to that system and now whenever the feds want to spend, that's money out of the budget of the states - who call the senators and say "WTF is this?!"

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ORG's new report exposes Metaโ€™s intrusive profiling of its users.

With the introduction of Generative AI to Metaโ€™s ad tools, existing problems with opacity will get worse.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Anna Dent, author of 'Profiling by Proxy'.

Read more โžก๏ธ openrightsgroup.org/publicatioโ€ฆ

#StopStalkerAds

#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #AI

in reply to Open Rights Group

By further automating ad audience selection on Meta with GenAI, we'll have less chance of understanding why certain people are seeing which ads.

It may also make it even harder to detect the use of proxy data that let advertisers dodge anti-discrimination or data processing laws.

#StopStalkerAds

#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #AI

in reply to Open Rights Group

Privacy over profits!

We're fighting back against Meta's use of personal data to sell ads.

Meta should give us options for opting-out of stalker ads. Until they do, you can use our tool to make this request.

Act now to #StopStalkerAds โฌ‡๏ธ

action.openrightsgroup.org/metโ€ฆ

#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #AI

#Zionist deep state connections banned the group from any event or concert.
But #BobVylan hit will keep them alive.
We need voices to remind us who the innocent victims are and who is committing #Genocide.
Let's not let Zionists wipe out the voices that oppose them.

YOU KNOW THE DRILL
DEATH DEATH TO THE ITF

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For 30 years I've been experimenting with ways to see & use the online collections of libraries, archives & museums. I've made useful things, playful things, & weird things. Here's a big list of them for you to explore! wraggelabs.com #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities

Will Meet The Press ask random other white politicians to condemn Trump's antisemitic language this weekend? Or does that only apply to Mamdani?
RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4usmsโ€ฆ


"No death tax, no estate tax, no going to the banks and borrowing from, in some cases, a fine banker. And in some cases, shylocks and bad people."

Boeing....

Japan Airlines Flight Plunges 26,000 Feet: Why Flying Feels Scary Right Now | Vantage | Palki Sharma

youtube.com/watch?v=SYhMz8jOczโ€ฆ

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@bquirky
Which is why the airlines shouldn't begrudge some passengers bringing alcohol on the plane... ๐Ÿคฃ

I just watched this via Redacted about U.S. airlines... different issue, but interesting. In this case, this lady thinks it's a push for pilot-less planes.

youtube.com/watch?v=QUrKlToVzlโ€ฆ

Last night's America First Show with Nick Fuentes (Begins at 3:15:46)

rumble.com/v6vou7v-america-firโ€ฆ

Israel, the US and Iran: the war has only just begun


#geopolitics #imperialism #war

An excellent summary.

thomasfazi.com/p/israel-the-usโ€ฆ

The Swiss government tries to fuck us over with a new "agreement" with the EU ๐Ÿ˜ก

archive.ph/Nlu7V
Among others, the EU wants that Switzerland gives EU citizens (which includes all their 3rd world migrants who received papers after 5 years) a permanent residency status after just 5 years.

So people from the EU who work in Switzerland for 3.5 years, lose their job and collect unemployment insurance for 1.5 years would automatically be entitled to live on Swiss Social Security.

The official estimate is 3000 to 4000 more social security recipients immediately ๐Ÿ˜ก

Based on all the bullshit they said previously, we can expect 200K social security recipients within 10 years.

I really hope that this agreement will be rejected by the people.

And fuck those sell-outs in the government โ˜ ๏ธ

nzz.ch/schweiz/migrations-chefโ€ฆ

archive.ph/Nlu7V

Why does a narcissist build metaphorical "mirror rooms" where only his opinions matter? ๐Ÿชž

Narcissists often create echo chambers โ€” or "mirror rooms" โ€” to surround themselves with reflections of their own beliefs and ideas. This serves to boost their fragile self-esteem and control the narrative around them. In these spaces, dissenting opinions are dismissed or punished, reinforcing their sense of superiority and validating their distorted self-image. Understanding this can help those affected see the patterns and reclaim their own voice. ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ’ก #NarcissisticAbuse #MentalHealthAwareness #SelfCare

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Gaza Doctors Under Attack

A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza. The film also examines allegations of the targeting and abuse of doctors and healthcare workers in Gaza.

Documentary that the BBC refuses to broadcast.

Free to view in the UK until end July.

channel4.com/programmes/gaza-dโ€ฆ

#Gaza #Israel #war #BBC

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in reply to Matthew Malthouse

Outside the UK either VPN or by subscription from Zeteo.

zeteo.com/p/watch-now-gaza-docโ€ฆ

#Gaza #Israel #war #BBC

in reply to Matthew Malthouse

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> Rule 28. Medical units exclusively assigned to medical purposes must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They lose their protection if they are being used, outside their humanitarian function, to commit acts harmful to the enemy.

> According to the Commentary on the First Geneva Convention, examples of acts harmful to the enemy include the use of medical units to shelter able-bodied combatants, to store arms or munitions, as a military observation post or as a shield for military action.

I've heard it said that Israel gives some idea of what Germany might have become, if the Nazis had more time and unstinting support from their allies.
youtube.com/watch?v=Wrqp6rMEV9โ€ฆ
@palestine

#indoctrination
#Israel

Wow. The EPA has placed 144 employees on administrative leave after the workers signed a public letter criticizing EPA leadership for disregarding scientific expertise and rolling back environmental and public health protections. This is an unacceptable censorship of scientists!
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Klare Bestandsaufnahme von @nadia_z, bislang nur bei Meta:

Der Juli 2025 stellt eine weitere Zรคsur im deutschen Nahost-Diskurs dar.

Eine neue um zentrale Bausteine erweiterte Analyse und Prognose darรผber, weshalb ab jetzt

๐Ÿ”ด in Medien, Politik und Gesellschaft anders und unerbittlicher diskutiert wird,
๐Ÿ”ต welche verbindenden Muster sich hierbei erkennen lassen,
๐ŸŸก welche Auswirkungen dies auf die deliberative Debatte nach sich zieht und

instagram.com/p/DLrSDshMTHb/?iโ€ฆ

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials youโ€™re shaping, that teaches you about what youโ€™re making โ€“ its qualities, tolerances, and limits โ€“ even as you make it. You know the least about what youโ€™re making the moment before you actually start making it. Thatโ€™s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; itโ€™s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didnโ€™t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning thatโ€™s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI #VibeCoding #design #development #making #creation #artiface #craft #coding #programming #technology #humanity

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Trump-Triumph fรผr sein "Big Beautiful Bill' โ€“ US-Kongress verabschiedet neues Steuergesetz de.rt.com/nordamerika/249779-tโ€ฆ Am 3. Juli verabschiedete der US-Kongress das kontrovers diskutierte Steuergesetz der Trump-Administration, das sogenannte "Big Beautiful Bill". Gleich nach der Abstimmung รผbermittelten die Reprรคsentanten den Beschluss dem Prรคsidenten zur Unterzeichnung. #news #press

The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history | Semafor


#geopolitics #imperialism #finance

A lot will happen this week with the BRICS summit in Rio...

semafor.com/article/07/03/2025โ€ฆ

Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciรจncies del Mar


#environnement #climate

Dynamic systems don't evolve linearly. Brace for rapid, uncontrolled, unpredictable change.

icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reveโ€ฆ

Was die #Islamisten den #Jesiden im #Irak angetan haben, war viel schlimmer als das, was im #Gazastreifen geschah.


ร„ltere Frauen werden #lebendig #begraben, weil sie zu alt sind, um als #Sexsklavinnen zu arbeiten.
#Mรผtter werden gezwungen, ihre eigenen #Babys zu essen.
Junge #Mรคdchen wurden in #Eisenkรคfige gesperrt und verbrannt.
Doch kein einziger Protest! Alle, die jetzt fรผr #Gaza protestieren, waren vรถllig still. Warum?
Anders als die Menschen im Gazastreifen haben die #Jesiden nie einen #Krieg begonnen!

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gรคste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gรคsten an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration #Remigration #Bevรถlkerungsaustausch

Very sad to see that Diogo Jota died... A great footballer.

Also yesterday Muhannad al-Lili, a Palestinian footballer, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.

Of course, Jota is on the front page of every newspaper. Al-Lili is not visible on any UK newspapers at all.

tribune.com.pk/story/2554139/pโ€ฆ

#palestine

m.youtube.com/watch?v=FBpPSVQHโ€ฆ

Probability of unarmed black person being killed by police less than one in a million in a year

Black woman tries to make it sound like a lot

Pourquoi lโ€™avion est moins cher que le train en Europe, alors qu'il est 20 ร  50x plus polluant ? Et surtout, comment y remรฉdier ?
Voici des rรฉponses concrรจtes pour limiter les รฉmissions de gaz ร  effet de serre et rendre la mobilitรฉ en Europe plus accessible : bonpote.com/pourquoi-lavion-esโ€ฆ

Lโ€™union ? Quelle union ?, par Frรฉdรฉric Lordon (Les blogs du Diplo, 30 juin 2025)


#politique #trahison

Cโ€™est un fรฉtiche et cโ€™est une jรฉrรฉmiade : ยซ lโ€™union ยป. Pour quoi faire ? On ne sait pas. Lโ€™essentiel est dโ€™รชtre ยซ unis ยป. Tous ensemble vers le talus โ€” on finira sur le toit mais on sera restรฉs soudรฉs. Le gros bon sens qui tache proteste cependant : ยซ unis, on est plus fort que divisรฉs ; divisรฉs on nโ€™arrivera ร  rien ยป. Mais tellement. En matiรจre syndicale, les prodiges de ยซ lโ€™union ยป sont encore trรจs frais dans nos esprits, et offerts ร  (ne pas) รชtre mรฉditรฉs : cโ€™รฉtait en 2023, ร  lโ€™occasion des retraites. Pas dโ€™erreur, on a รฉtรฉ bien unis. Avec la CFDT. La preuve, on nโ€™est pas ยซ arrivรฉs ร  rien ยป : puisquโ€™on a mis des millions de personnes dans la rue pendant deux mois. Pour, ร  la fin, perdre lโ€™imperdable. Par alignement de ยซ lโ€™union ยป sur la mollesse politique, lโ€™incomprรฉhension des situations historiques et la nullitรฉ stratรฉgique. Tous ensemble โ€” dans la dรฉfaite. Attention, pas nโ€™importe laquelle : une dรฉfaite triomphale, unanimement cรฉlรฉbrรฉe. Par la bourgeoisie โ€“ et sa presse, admirative : voilร  de la bonne union, celle qui ne nous fera jamais aucun mal.


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Fortuna ยท Hermann Hesse ยท Glรผck ยท Macht des Schicksals


#fortuna #hermann-hesse #glรผck #macht #schicksal #aventin-storys

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So apparently this professor did not write his own tests but used tests provided by a company in effect cheating the academic process

For all we know this professor could not get the correct answer on his own

He then lectures the students for cheating for getting a hold of the same answer key that he cheated to get

m.youtube.com/watch?v=rbzJTTDOโ€ฆ

U Principinu : Le Petit Prince en sicilien dans la vitrine d'une librairie ร  Palerme
The Little Prince in Sicilian in a Palermo bookshop window

#maphoto #myphoto #palerme #palermo #bookstore #librairie #lecture #reading #vendredilecture #Saint-Exupรฉry #LittlePrince #LePetitPrince

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