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So, how does the fediverse work? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I want to take a crash course in Fediverse. I was browsing stuff on Mastadon and voila! I found these communities on Mastadon but I wasn't able to post anything, but I was however able to reply to stuff. I don't know how this works. I won't be reading it now, but I want to know more about Fediverse, so a book or documentary, something really detailed would help (just don't send me a website please :')

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Per rule #3, this community isn't meant for support questions. Please take a look at the sidebar for suggestions on better places for your question.

[–] Hiru 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are trying to interact with Lemmy communities, you’d be better off using a Lemmy account instead of Mastodon.

Up to some degree Mastodon and Lemmy can interact between them, but that will certainly makes things a lot harder for you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is ironically is the biggest problem with the fediverse in my opinion, eveything is connected and interoperable in some way but also not fully. It's confusing and probably puts a lot of people off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

100% this. I've worked in tech for over a decade now and feel like a damn boomer trying to figure out how to make lemmy and kbin work together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's easy to find very oversimplified information or excessively complex info. Pretty hard to learn without someone that knows a lot answering specific questions after you learn the basics. Hopefully someone gives a nice clear mid level explanation for ya.

[–] fubo 2 points 1 year ago

If you're up for reading Internet standards documents, start here with the official standard for ActivityPub, the protocol that it's all built on.

[–] shrugal 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an in-depth technical explaination video.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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