If I post a picture of a pet or something, I’d mention a community.

It doesn’t really surprise me that pixelfed is buggy ngl. It is still polished to the end user.

Thats literally what I said.

I meant as a user.

feddit.online, iirc. check join.piefed.social

I can add a piefed account as a mod to a community I mod right now.

If only activitypub c2s didn’t suck.

Thanks.

Yep! We should probably move some comms to piefed, so that .world doesn’t control too much, but not to piefed specifically.

This comm is much bigger, and I happened to be on my .ee account at the time.

e: And I’ve used this account for longer, so I don’t want to abandon it.

There’s more than that.
Stuff like feeds, topics and better onboarding.

again, the apps are the killer.

iirc, piefed’s api is very similar to lemmy’s, so apps could support both.

Its written in python, but I don’t think the overhead is too much because the bottleneck is DB performance.
It has support for lemmy’s protocol, so the network effect really isn’t an issue.

As I said, it has a lot more polish. Its easier to discover communities, and it has feeds.

I mean, discoverability is hard, sure, but add a few hashtags and you can get a lot of people to see your posts. also, mentioning a lemmy group as a user posts your post to the community.

Mastodon really is the internet explorer of the fediverse.
In any case, I don’t think its that bad. I would compare it to an email provider accidentially leaking messages. Still bad, but its not a reason to abandon email as a means of communication.
We should encrypt posts, like diaspora does. Like how we should pgp encrypt emails, but no one will.

also, I just checked myself, a random “private” post I made isn’t accessible over AP if I curl it unauthenticated. Running curl.exe https://calckey.world/notes/a63slz8j6l -H "Accept: application/activity+json" returns nothing, but replacing the uri with a public post does show it.
An insecure server’s copy of the post isn’t accessible over AP, only the original post’s link should return anything.

Maybe I’m wrong, but shouldn’t posts only be insecure if they’re propagated to the insecure instance? Is any private post visible to people on servers that the poster doesn’t have followers on?
Could I curl the uri of a post thats “private” and get the post’s content?

You cannot use a mastodon app as a lemmy client, but you can view lemmy communities by opening them as if they are profiles. For example, open @fediverse@lemmy.world and it will show up as a user, but it will be the communitiy’s posts.

You can mention it in a post to forward the post to the community as well.

We are tiny in comparison to the rest of the fediverse.

Sharkey’s mastodon api implementation lets you ddos the server.