Am I understanding right there will be no remote user following, only remote community following?
There will be remote user following too, but this comes after community federation. I also still have to think of the best way to show user posts / status updates in your feed. These would be similar to the reddit self posts on your own user page you can do now.
I was under impression there’s no user following on Reddit, but have just discovered there is. Do you know how it’s implemented on Reddit?
Its in the form of “self posts” :
I think, but I’m not totally 100% sure because no one uses it on reddit, is that anyone you have friended, their self posts show up on your feed.
I still don’t get the idea of self posts. Does it mean I shall go to my profile page and this will be the only place to see their posts (apart from their profiles of course)?
Looking from another perspective, I would say I would like to see someone’s posts/comments in my feed in case I have subscribed to him/her. Let’s say I’ve subscribed to user1 and user2, and to community1, community2, community3. The user1 has subscribed to community4, and the user2 to community5. I’m not subscribed to the communities 4 and 5. After this point and assuming the users 1 and 2 haven’t created any posts/comments, I shall see posts from communities 1, 2, and 3 in my feed.
Then, let’s say the user1 has created a post named “post1” in the community4, and the user2 has commented another post named “post2” in the community5. Now my feed should contain posts from the communities 1, 2 and 3, AND the posts “post1” @ community4 and “post2” @ community5.
The above is maybe the approach I personally would be happy with, but I’m open to experimenting, and I’m aware it’s more Facebook-like than Reddit-like. Opinions are welcome.
Ya I was thinking similar, that if you follow / subscribe to a user, your feed has their “community-less” / self posts (which is what mastodon and all the others have), as well as their posts to any community.
By self-posts, do you mean just a feed of personal posts a user has on Mastodon, Facebook etc?
A mastodon toot is basically a self post. Your mastodon feed is a listing of everyone’s posts that you follow.
Got you. Well, if Lemmy can become not only a discussion platform, but also an expression platform, that’d be good.
Not a dev, but since there is no local user following currently, what makes you think there would be remote?
Let me explain. I’ve been looking for a software to maintain a community (mostly my local one but it’s still a bit distributed). One key thing for me, apart from discussions (which is the core feature I need), is to be able to organise events. And then I encountered this https://github.com/lowercasename/gathio/wiki/Fediverse-Instructions. You can see, technically, subscribing to an event is subscribing to a remote user, and RSVPing to an event is voting in a poll. So here comes my question. Though anyway I’m looking for any events provider, not specifically the Gath.io. FYI /u/dessalines
I think there are already some event focused ActivityPub services which have a bit better abstractions than Event = Person and RSVPing = Voting. Mobilizon is one such service, from the french company Framasoft, but I’m not a fan of patreon/kickstarter for open source software. :)
The good thing of the fediverse is that you can (theoretically) use a user account on one service to interact with others.
I think Mobilizon is not ready yet. There’s also Gancio, but seems their federation model is a bit weird, correct me if I’m wrong.
Yeah, seem that they are fine sacrificing spec compliance for interoperability with obviously broken implementations (namely Mastodon). It drives me a bit bonkers to see devs doing this.
Do you know if Mobilizon is planning to use a proper federation approach?
Nope, I am not affiliated with them in any way.
Btw, what’s wrong with Patreon/Kickstarter for open source?
Nothing’s wrong. I just don’t like it.
