The Harry Potter franchise is pretty expansive, so even if this next series is a major flop, I have my doubts the series will alone be able to burn all the goodwill in the franchise, leaving plenty still to be discussed.

Also, I like the idea of forums focused on specific niches, but having seen isolated ones multiple times shrink into irrelevance, being federated should help give it a bigger life span. Also wouldn’t be the first focused instance I see around. So on this point, I also defend the creation of a Harry Potter instance.

Just don’t know how protective the companies involved with the Harry Potter brand are towards it, so hopefully a site that presents itself as purely a discussion forum among fans won’t be stepping in anyone’s toes.

And about the fediverse not liking Harry Potter as someone commented, such perception feels awfully like centralization, in this case on ideas. So another reason to have a focused forum, so people may be more comfortable enjoying and discussing what they want, instead of falling into a silence spiral to not be the perceived majority’s enemies. And as you proposed, those that don’t like are free to block/defederate.

And about software, might I suggest an hybrid one, so people on both threadiverse and microblog platforms may be able to interact? Dunno how Piefed fares on that front (I keep forgetting to check) and Lemmy is kinda isolated by their design philosophy.

But back on creating an instance, now that at the end I reread the other comments, it’s a task, requiring resources, interest and time someone may not have. So if asking for one to be created by others is likely be a short-lived idea.

So good luck on finding anyone then.

Or maybe also you’d be interested in reading the responses to a question I made in a self-hosting community, if you want to do it yourself but don’t know where to start:
https://thebrainbin.org/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/1513112/What-to-study-to-be-able-to-host-a-site

I think you forgot the link? That or my instance didn’t pull it.

Only upside I can think of federating with Threads is to try to pull people into the wider fediverse, but indeed it’s a major risk that Facebook the company’s grip is stronger in case people don’t defederate.

Closest in other engines afaik are tags, but they are only an <include> type of filter, not also an <exclude> one.

@speedythefirst@lemmy.zip AT Protocol uses relays instead of direct communication - think two devices talking over bluetooth (ActivityPub) vs talking through the router on a same network (AT Protocol).

AT Protocol is better for content distribution, but its relay system is more centralized. ActivityPub is better for decentralization, but contents and to a smaller degree servers need to be found first.

Also there is the Nostrr protocol, but to my knowledge it’s dwarfed in comparison to ActivityPub and AT Protocol, is also relay-based, and the only instance that uses it that I know is minds.com, which also uses ActivityPub.

And talking about instances with multiple protocols used, alternative to bridging through Bridgy Fed, Wafrn uses both AT Protocol and ActivityPub natively, and NeoDB (for cross-posting afaik) and Friendica (for normal use) allow connecting to your Bluesky account if you have one.

Mbin has mixed feeds (microblogging + threads), is very responsive to Ublock Origin so I can simulate a better post hiding than Lemmy or Mastodon’s, its RSS picks both threads and microblog posts from communities (but thankfully not comments from users, unlike Misskey), and UI has very little visual noise.

LLM shoehorning aside, holy shit, mobile-oriented site designs never fail to negatively impress me. Dunno if it’s the poor use of space, way too many pre-made categories shoved in the sidebar, text elements not being as clearly differentiated making them be ADHD triggers/inducers, or something else, but the beta forum for Stack Overflow feels like it ticks each problem I can think of.

Please give the jank. At least jank is usable, predictable and doesn’t make you feel like you need to take focus drugs/meds.

So… Is it an article to promote/defend the actions of the Big Brother State?

Whenever I see “regulating social medias”, I get a cold sweat, reminded of what the current Brazilian government’s been insisting on for years, in practice internet censorship.

@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com It doesn’t have SMS. It was just a comparison.

And aggregator is something or someone that aggregates, that brings things together. The fediverse network is one, for example, as it brings together the several sites you see in users’ IDs, such as Divisions by Zero, The/Brain/Bin, Blåhaj Zone, Mastodon Social, etc.

@codewizard@hear-me.social In a sense of groups, as mentioned in other comments, there are 5 to my knowledge:

• Lemmy, created pretty much as a Reddit alternative
• Mbin, meant as a hybrid of Reddit and Twitter’s post styles
• Friendica, similar to Mbin but with a design philosophy inspired on Facebook
• Piefed, which launched with a similar purpose as Lemmy, and dunno how it is now, but in the original roadmap it was meant to have microblogging support too
• Bonfire, which I heard about and that apparently has community-adjacent features, but yet to test.

@ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com also, in this line of comparison, someone thought it was a good idea to include SMS support in the email software he was developing, and after dropping the whole project due to health reasons, someone else picked the project to maintain it: enter Mbin

The original project, Kbin, was more designed with Reddit/Lemmy in mind, but had support for microblogging, e.g. Twitter/Mastodon. Since the original developer had to leave development, someone forked it, named it Mbin, and keeps adding features since.

Dunno if it’s related, but the instance seems to be having issues receiving federated contents from some instances for nearly 2 months now.

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Going by experience, it helps greatly to block news communities, or at least the domains or users that have a predilection for sharing misery, fear, envy, and all the doom “goodness”. Also requires being able to identify such places and people, but I’d imagine a small pain at the moment is much better than to have your filter polluted and grinding your gears slowly enough that when you get to have enough, you’re at the verge of snapping. And if using RSS feeds, since those usually don’t have custom feeds applied¹, Ublock Origin for hiding the whole post based on who posted or what site it links to helps too.

¹Lemmy has RSS feeds for any given user’s feed btw.

Can’t check if it is or at least seem legit rn, but going by the premise it is legit, I’d imagine there are better places to post it.

Iirc NodeBB with ActivityPub active federates subforums as communities to thread-oriented forums, so once the forum is live, you could link the subforums with !subforum_name@instance.name, e.g. !fediverse@lemmy.world for !fediverse@lemmy.world.

NY Times

Nuff said

Checking out of morbid curiosity, but before that, I can’t help but to think, did some government commission the article?

Didn’t mean the first part as something negative. Being usually the one that in my social circles that knows the nicher stuff, algorithms help me a bunch to find new things as asking around can be a quest.

And for clarity, to me the algorithms would be a type of middleman, whose job is to better distribute the nicher stuff, and thus why I interpreted your script as one (sorry if I got it wrong though).

But also, if I’m misinterpreting, feel free to ignore the weight idea if it leads the script to the wrong direction, as the idea is based on my definition of algorithm from above.

edit: engrish

So kinda like an algorithm but open. Can’t check yours in depth now, but having done local algorithms before, it’s great for transparency and predictability, so congrats on the idea. 👌

Also from what I could skim on the code, I didn’t notice anything on the sort, so I wonder if there’s weights for this chain of trust in the code, like someone followed both by someone I follow and someone I blocked (iirc Peertube allows blocking? Pls correct me if I’m wrong) would be less relevant to the script.