General

Following up on the 2 July post, the different federation issues around Lemmy seem to have been fixed and digipres.cafe has been upgraded.

While it wasn't the best timing for federation to stop entirely some positives were learning more about ActivityPub and this time the upgrade went smoothly!

Hopefully the Lemmy team have good tests in place to avoid some of the more fundamental issues in future.

Back to digipres.cafe?

Hopefully folks haven't been too put off by the experience. I see some people active on here, thanks @[email protected] @[email protected] and @[email protected] for plugging away!!

How to use digipres.cafe

A small guide has been written up here. Hopefully that's a good starting point for folk.

One way you can think about federation via Lemmy and digipres.cafe is like a hashtag (except with an '@') that allows your post from another ActivityPub instance to be indexed here and then interacted with from other ActivityPub instances. As a link aggregator it may attract different audiences and different interactions that you may not get through a single ActivityPub instance on its own. The best thing is folks interacting with your posts in the original ActivityPub instance, here on Lemmy, and on their own instance! It has the potential to broaden the reach of all of the interesting and useful links that you're looking at today!!