Nice

People interested in actual federation would probably never use ATProto anyway

Nice article

How applicable the concepts of decentralisation and federation are to the ATmosphere is debatable, but they are used as an approximation for the core question: how is power distributed in the network? And Bluesky and the ATmosphere make it clear that technological architecture can only help so much here: Sure, you can be completely independent of Bluesky PBC on the ATmosphere, as everything is open. But in the end, 99% of users are exclusively on infrastructure owned by Bluesky PBC. No technological architecture can compensate for that kind of the power distribution.

There’s a balance to be made. Ultimate defederation is everyone on their own 1-user community.

At the moment, there are plenty of similar communities which coexist, struggling to stay active on their own, and could join just to have more activity. Note that I’m against the current LW-centralization trend, that’s another topic: https://lemm.ee/post/30444527

Example

• !android@lemmy.world and !android@lemdro.id
• !movies@lemmy.world and !movies@lemm.ee

Hide the instance communities.

Instance users are still visible.

For ways to block all users from an instance: https://lemmy.ml/post/22078632

Nice article. Hopefully other universities follow.

Seems quite active, they release every few weeks.

Fedia.io if you want to have a look

Good to hear!

Good news, well done @flamingos@feddit.uk

Cool concept!

Sharkey allows it

can import your exported posts from Mastodon and most of its forks, Pleroma / Akkoma, Misskey / Firefish and forks, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, including attachments (threading may not work perfectly, and other people’s replies to your posts may not get imported)

https://docs.joinsharkey.org/docs/comparison/misskey/

Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of a few memes on !fedimemes@feddit.uk with their fake federation

@gabe@literature.cafe , @Arthur@literature.cafe , how are you guys doing over there?

with lots of empty zones of nothingness.

Indeed. Trying to solve this with !fedigrow@lemm.ee, but it takes time

I agree with you, but not sure if that’s what the person above meant.

But yeah, centralization should happen. We could probably close 95% of the existing communities and regroup on the last 5%

!football@lemmy.world for instance covers most of the needs for that sport

Subscription list, blocking list (users, communities and instances). Could be other stuff too, but that’s the most important when migrating

Thanks, I wasn’t aware. Microblogs seems to be easier to manage than threads, so it might be more difficult for Lemmy

can import your exported posts from Mastodon and most of its forks, Pleroma / Akkoma, Misskey / Firefish and forks, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, including attachments (threading may not work perfectly, and other people’s replies to your posts may not get imported)

https://docs.joinsharkey.org/docs/comparison/misskey/

You can achieve that by adding a link to your old profile from the new and vice versa.

To my knowledge, this is not possible at the moment.

Indeed, and probably never going to happen. Even Mastodon do not support actual migration, they just add a redirection to your new profile from the old and vice versa.

I’d still be starting from scratch posting-history-wise.

Why is that an issue? Lemmy has no karma, and if you want to keep you “reputation”, you can use the same username and picture on both sides, people will recognize you.

Go to your settings, export your settings, then import them on the new account.

That’s it. If you want to be fancy, you can add your new account on your old bio and vice-versa, but that’s mostly it.

If you want to keep your “reputation”, use the same username on both sides, people will recognize you.