IIRC there is an open source project for forums communities.

It’s called SMF I think.

I was the cool guy with all the chats in one place: Pidgin.

At this point Microsoft could use the .odf standard and people won’t notice that and they will be using MSOffice anyways.

Only a fraction of us would use LO or OO or anything compatible.

They even use System 76 hardware.

Cold french fries.

Friendica has the RSS feature and it is compatible with most Activity Pub services.

Ya no les creo 🥲

Whatever you put after the ‘@’ mention in the first line of your message to a Lemmy community becomes the post title. Anything below it becomes part of the body text.

Finally I understand this.

I miss the old OpenID way.

We need a very, very simple ID server that everybody should be able to install, even as an app for smartphones and ActivityPub (and others) able to communicate to.

To me, this option works much better than “Active”, “Hot” and others.

Jami

It is peer to peer, no need to register any number nor email and username isn’t mandatory.

Just install, configure and share QR codes to add your contacts.

The privacy part of Lemmy/Mastodon is them not collecting data on what you look at to sell it.

Nor requesting your real name and ID, phone number…

That’s why this is disgusting.

Data collection doesn’t bother me too much. I’m not going to install their client and all of the behavior trackers that come with it, and my activity pub content is already freely available to query on the internet. If they want it, they already have access to it. Everyone does.

I will be able to follow and see friends’ posts and sports teams’ posts through Mastodon without needing a Meta account nor install their shitty apps.

All I posted via fediverse is public already, traveling into some obscure instances, so I don’t care if Meta uses or shares my public posts.

That was me with my ex girlfriend.

That’s my use.

Also when I want to watch some YouTube video but not to fuck my watchlist history.

The idea behind federation is, that individuals host their own instance and connect (federate) with others individual’s instances.

But that’s not easy for less tech savvy people.

Most likely the new internet. That, where every website was created with money in mind.

Just like the good old times of internet. When every kid had a hobby and installed a forum software into a shared hosting to spend time with others. “If you build it, he/they will come.”