NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

omega Honestly, I don't think the basics of federation are that big of a problem for people. The idea is simple enough, it's just that it's kind of unthinkable for most folks in the current internet paradigm.

"Imagine if you could follow stuff on Twitter, and talk to Twitter users, from Facebook".

That captures the whole promise. The whole idea. And it's aided by the fact that Facebook and Twitter are so very obviously different things. Different companies. Different websites. Different apps. Different services.

They look different, they're labelled different, their apps are different, etc. And it would be understandable that if they did communicate between them, that there might be some rough edges.

Now look at mastodon.social, mstdn.social, and mstdn.ca.

They look the same.

Try lemmy.ml, lemm.ee, and startrek.website.

They look the same.

The fediverse has adopted "make every website look like a dumb terminal" as a design aesthetic, and "the website you use doesn't matter" as a recruitment philosophy. And it just doesn't work.

omega said in Explaining the fediverse is a hard problem.:
> never understood the implication here as in the how they've been trained otherwise.

What I was saying is that the internet has become incredibly centralized, and compartmentalized, to the point where people now think that the idea of a network seems foreign. People struggle with federated services because they see the website they're using as a dumb terminal to access "Mastodon" or "Lemmy" or whatever, viewing it as a centralized resource that exists in a singular, concrete place.

That's how Facebook works. That's how Twitter works. Their phones and laptops are simple pass-throughs. It's all they know, and because of this, peoples imaginations have been limited.

Sociologists call this habitus.

@rynach@mstdn.io Lemmy isn't a forum, though. There's much more to being a forum than just having topics. Basic moderation tools (like post splitting, merging) etc. are lacking, and more advanced features that have been longtime standards on forums are totally absent.

The UX is that of Reddit, and Reddit is as much a forum as Twitter is a blog.

And LemmyBB hasn't been updated in iver 2 years. Does it even work with the current back end?