Banned on local instances, is the same as being deleted. Banned by another instance means you won’t show up on that instance.

Atop all this there’s defederation.

My instance for example won’t count votes or show comments from users with accounts on lemmynsfw, because we defederate porn. This happens even if I go look at posts in a community on another instance that does federate with lemmynsfw.

•If a community is hosted on instance A and a user that’s on instance B creates a post in this community, is the post hosted on A, B? Or are individual comments hosted on the instance of their respective authors?

Content is controlled by the instance on which a community was created (through the instance admin, local and off-instance mod accounts, as well as individual content authors). Posts and comments get mirrored to other instances with subscribers, and kept in sync by federation events. (Every time someone comments, votes, posts)

•what happens when your account gets deleted? Are all my messages deleted? Does this happen to all instances (it syncs the deletion?)

Your instance will delete all local content, and attempt to delete all content from other instances, as well. This may fail, for example if an instance has gone offline.

•do instances cache posts and comments posted on other instances? If so, RAM or disk?

All content in a community is mirrored to every instance with subscribers. Images may be cached, but are hosted primarily by the instance they were posted from.

•will having too many instances increase the load of all instances? (If they all have to sync?)

No. Instances only mirror content from off-instance communities which have at least one local subscriber. Instances do not need to host everything from every other instance.

•if I want to check the comments of a post, does my client ask this to my instance of to the instance of the author or to the community’s instance?

Your instance. Assuming no federation issues, your instance will have a complete copy of the content.

Mastodon

ActivityPub unfortunately does need some work, and there’s drama about properly following the protocol and not extending it with non-standard stuff that then breaks things when federating with stuff outside the given application.

I’m optimistic, but I’m also making sure not to put too much of a stake in it, as it may eventually become an inferior system when compared to some future hypothetical standard.

And other standards like diaspora and ATProto, are around, and seeing use.

Oh hell yeah!

What? It’s a great umbrella term term for exactly this type of federated social media. Lemmy is just one application, and currently the biggest, but it already federates quite swimmingly with mbin and pixelfed.

What else would you even them all together?

Not that I’m aware.

But there are web UIs you can run that allow you to run a lemmy instance more like a forum, and that could of course be federated with other fediverse instances, including other forum instances.

But not existing forum systems. That’s something they have to implement, not lemmy.

Behind the scenes Lemmy speaks a protocol called ActivityPub. It can’t just talk to any other similar arbitrary service if it doesn’t also support the protocol.

Edit: Apparently the forum systems you mention do/will indeed support ActivityPub. There would certainly be potential for interpretability with the threadiverse, then.

I know that Thunder lets you “label” users so you can recongize them more easily, and I think you can find a list of labeled users somewhere in the app, too.

It doesn’t.

The limit is set by the people hosting your specific instance, as they’re the ones who then have to host that image.

Different instances have different limits.

You can use other image hosts, tho, as long as they give you a direct image link. Just plop it into the url field/use it in a markdown image, instead of uploading to lemmy.

It would be madness!

And !moomin@sopuli.xyz!

Nice, 250 posts and comments a year, on average more than one of either each day when combined! That seems like a normal amount that no sane person would exceed.

This does seem like a regression, though.

I’ve definitely made changes from off-instance accounts before.

You can also do it manually. If you copy the URL of a post (not the URL to the post, but the URL the post is linking to, like the article or image being shared) and use that in a new post, it gets detected as a cross-post.

Just passed 7K posts…

I’m fine.

Chiming in to say the Thunder app at the very least supports advanced search.

Not all apps provide access to all the available filter options.

Haha.

Ha.

Edit: Did no-one get the joke?

You can mark them read, at which point they won’t appear with the default “unread” filter on.

If they’re offensive, you can block the user, which will make them disappear completely until you deliberately unblock them.

this platform really is not well put together

investment in better planning

Do people not realise that a software application does not just pop into existence with every conceivable feature implemented on day one?

Each dev only has so much effort they can put in, and being volunteers they have every right to prioritise working on whatever parts they care about most.

That’s not the part that had be confused. Their account literally has the “bot” badge enabled. People enable that accidentally on human user accounts sometimes.