Wikipedia is usually a good place for descriptions and definitions
Check out this article about Lemmy and feel free to make improvements to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy_(social_network)
this is just one of the instances
there are many more instances according to https://farside.link/ (which is a thing that will automatically redirect you to one of them: https://farside.link/teddit/ )
so by using this, you help reduce the load on individual instance, resulting in less “too many requests” errors for everyone.
This article makes it look like EU CVP defines “metaverse” as “lol connected stuff I guess” and not as “VRChat by Zucc”.
Which is good.
Still, I wonder if they will take (and contribute to) ThirdRoom or Mozilla Hubs instead of reinventing the wheel when they come to the VR part of their plan.
or, even better, get Lemmy to integrate this functionality and let users opt-in.
if I recall correctly, I have seen some Lemmy instance that made Youtube videos embed through the usage of farside.link
actually, each Lemmy instance could double as a Farside instance, so that whole network doesn’t pressure (and rely on) developer’s instance
having something like this would be very awesome
well, first thing would be to open a feature request in Lemmy’s issue tracker and start the debate about what is the best way to implement this
this proxy does not seem to be working for me
but then again, the LibRedirect extension automatically sent me to this site, where I was able to read the article just fine:
https://scribe.rip/@doctorow/let-the-platforms-burn-6fb3e6c0d980
This is related to the problem that I have with these alternative frontends.
Instances might go down and suddenly all the links that you shared around are now dead.
Which is why I am extremely grateful to the developer and maintainer of Farside.link
It’s a thing that has a list of frontend instances and redirects to one of them.
So links stay alive even if specific frontend instance goes down.
But it still doesn’t fully solve this problem.
What if farside.link goes down? making a redirect between different Farside intances (lol I am not aware of any other instances, just developer’s one) just moves the issue one layer up.
Solution here is most likely something decentralized. Not sure if blockchain or not, but probably blockchain.
Something that will keep the top-level redirecting service always working.
Is it some Ethereum smart contract? Is it something on IPFS? I don’t know. Someone smarter than me will have to figure this out.
lol I don’t think that Bender would be the best moderator
most people on the internet have way too smooth brain to comprehend this
therefore Lemmy is complex and scary
this was suggested quite a few times already, both here and in Github issues.
question is, how do we get interested people to start implementing it
Developers said in the latest news post that they are aware of community wanting this, but they are way too busy working on some core Lemmy issues, so someone else will have to step up in order to get this to be implemented sooner
post it to Mastodon with LemmyDev account
there are already few relevant issues open on GitHub about this. Go in there and voice your suggestions there as well.
nice milestone
and now I wonder if there should be a kilomiterstone as well
wait, what about if you have two communities where mods and admins are fine. Are there any options to federate those communities?
all this time I was under impression that communities already federate