KDE Social - Friendly lemmy instance for the KDE community
lemmy.kde.social
      • carlschwanOPMEnglish
        27·
        1 year ago

        So full disclosure, the instance is not 100% official since it is not hosted on kde infrastructure, as this would create too much work on KDE’s sysadmin to maintain another service.

        But I manage it, and I’m a long-term KDE contributor (5 years now), maintaining most user-facing websites and various applications (Kalendar, Tokodon, NeoChat, Kontrast, …). I’m part of the KDE Promo team (I have access to all the existing kde social media accounts) and of the fundraising team. And in the past, I was moderating r/kde, but I deleted my account a while ago already. And finally, I already maintain https://kde.social, which hosts the mastodon accounts of a few kde applications as well as of a few other contributors. (all that in my free time)

        Hopefully, this is legit enough :) And I will add the link to the Lemmy instance in the footer of kde.org

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        Before you had to fiddle with the markdown link manually. As of v18, you can just type out the name of a community in the !name@instan.ce format, in plain-text, and it will become a working link.

      • gadgetzombie@feddit.nlEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I believe links like this will be sorted automatically in Lemmy 0.18 but until then links are like this without the space between ] (

        [!community@instance] (/c/community@instance)

        !kde@lemmy.kde.social

        Currently if the community hasn’t been discovered by your instance then you’ll get a 404 error like I just did, apparently it’s a known thing and you need to search for the community before accessing it, see here - https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1335

    • jfreax@feddit.deEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Do they need to approve each and every instance manually? I thought it would happen automatically as soon as someone is trying to subscribe to a “channel” of another instance. No?

      • Lemmchen@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’m not familiar with the exact process yet. But doesn’t that mean if you wanted to run an unfederated instance, you’d need to manually block every other instance there is?

        • jfreax@feddit.deEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          That’s how I understood it. There is maybe a way to blacklist everything (like using a wildcard) or disable federation? I don’t know. Maybe I will try to run my own personal instance just to learn how it works :)

        • Bilb!English
          3·
          1 year ago

          By default, lemmy will federate openly with any other instance. You can then block specific instances. (Disallow-list)

          You can additionally disable federation altogether, or only federate with a specified list. (Allow-list).

  • const_voidEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Why start a new one? We already have tons of users and content here.

    • carlschwanOPMEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Because it’s better in term of health of the fediverse if we don’t end up with only a few big instances like lemmy.ml. Also people can interact with lemmy.kde.social while not being on that instance

  • fugepeEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    I mean it requires a validation from the mods to be accepted. Makes it slow for people to join in tbh.

    • carlschwanOPMEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m trying to keep the size in check and limit the possibility for users of this instance to spam other instances.