Average familiarity
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Reposting to the threadiverse
Original credit @lucaswerkmeister@wikis.world
Even more original credit: https://xkcd.com/2501/
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wait....what?
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I've been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it's a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don't even know what to call it; I think I've made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller
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wait....what?
Yeah, no way does the average person not know what Lemmy and Voyager are....
....once they've finished a conversation with me
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I've been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it's a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don't even know what to call it; I think I've made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller
You are here and that's what is important. Doesn't matter if you understand the nuts and bolts of Activitypub. We are glad to have you and need more people. Bring your friends!....(by any means necessary)
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I've been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it's a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don't even know what to call it; I think I've made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller
Most of the stuff we use is beyond our understanding. No one is supposed to be an expert on everything, so chill and just enjoy it!
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Most of the stuff we use is beyond our understanding. No one is supposed to be an expert on everything, so chill and just enjoy it!
agreed. figure out the stuff you enjoy, figure out the depth to which you want to explore it and then just enjoy yourself. fuck having to do everything perfect. we are creatures of wisp and whimsy and i'll be damned if i have to stretch a perfectly round 15 inch pizza dough. no like really all of mine are wonky and oblong and bubbly and delicious and end up as triangular calzones anyways
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I've been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it's a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don't even know what to call it; I think I've made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller
Not to make you dig even deeper into your skull with that baller, but in case anyone else wants to understand… Piefed.social is the website you’re on. Piefed is also the software that is running at that web address so that you’re able to chat to me, who is currently on the website Lemmy.world, which is using the software Lemmy to run.
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I've been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it's a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don't even know what to call it; I think I've made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller
Basically like e-mail, if that helps.
You sign up on Protonmail, your buddy signs up on GMail. You can send mail to yourbuddy@gmail.com from youremail@protonmail.com. Proton Mail sees the address and sends the message over to GMail/Google. Despite there being 100s or 1000s of EMail services they all work together to form a singular service we call "email".
That's a lot of how it works basically. I'd add on community subscriptions to make it more complete. For example a user on piefed.social subscribes to !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. Once the first piefed.social user subscribes, lemmy.ml will begin sending piefed.social a message every time something happens on !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. So let's say a lemmy.world user upvotes a comment in !asklemmy@lemmy.ml. lemmy.world sends that message to lemmy.ml, the host of the community. lemmy.ml then sends a message about the upvote to all servers with someone subscribed to the community, including piefed.social. In this way all servers show the same thing.
But yeah, the important part is that it works. How it works isn't always something the end user needs to know.
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What do you mean you don’t know what win+ctrl+shift+B does?!
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Ok but I genuinely wish Misskey/Sharkey was more popular than Mastodon cause it just looks better in every way and has more features imo. If half the instances didn't shut out non-JP accounts I'd use it more, but you can't sign up with VPN on I think.
In my dreams Wafrn could gain more popularity than Masto and be the english equivalent of Misskey.
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wtf is Friendica?
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wtf is Friendica?
Fedi Facebook alternative. Never felt any need to look into it
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I mean mastadon is popular enough that many non techies know about it, other than that I cant really think of any fediverse platform that a normal person would know about
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I don't know what most of this means
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We can solve this entire issue by having portable actors.
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I mean mastadon is popular enough that many non techies know about it, other than that I cant really think of any fediverse platform that a normal person would know about
Yeah, my mother who is like 70 knows mastodon.
The rest would make her annoyed at me to ramble about. I'd love to get her into something better than threads, but I doubt it's as active as she'd want.
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Honestly, I don't understand any of that.
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I've been on the fediverse for a good while now. I understand that it's a bunch of small user owned servers rather than a few monolithic corporate owned servers, but beyond that I have no idea how this place runs. I don't even know what to call it; I think I've made a fool of myself before by referring to piefed as a website. I am glad other people understand it/work on it, trying to learn networking or consumer software stuff myself makes me want to gouge my eyes out with a melon baller
Other people have explained it mostly, but piefed is the software your server (called an instance in the fediverse) is running. Confusingly, your instance is piefed.social, but that's just an address, like any other address. It could theoretically be anything.
Piefed uses a protocol called Activitypub, which allows other software the implements Activitypub to understand each other. Often they can be interoperable. For example, I'm on an instance running Lemmy, which is different from piefed, but we can interact. They happen to be similar enough (Piefed being created from Lemmy) that it's basically seemless. However, both of these also can interact with Mastadon too, but it's less seemless. If you see someone starting a comment with an @[user] then they're probably from Mastadon, which works like Twitter.
As for what to call this? Your home is called piefed.social. The larger thing I call Lemmy, but at this point it's Lemmy and Piefed. Sometimes it has Mastadon mixed in. At large, all federated services are called The Fediverse, but that includes ones not interoperable with ours too. Just this set of interoperable software should probably get a name, but I don't know of one.
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What do you mean you don’t know what win+ctrl+shift+B does?!
What is this "win" key you speak of?
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