Yeah, but it was empty for me. Might require login or something. Or maybe there are just no related communities?
Eh, either way - not a big deal lol
After hosting RetroLemmy.com for close to 3 years, we are proud to announce we now have also opened up a PieFed instance called Retrofed.
This is not meant to replace RetroLemmy, but instead give retro-minded people a choice.
Also, Retrofed is available and fully functional on http as well as https. Meaning old hardware should be able to connect and interact with retrofed if people so wish.
Your home away from modern life.
Welcome to the nostalgia-filled piefed instance of yesteryear.
Open Registration with Application questionnaire.
You’ve got the idea. Retro, or retro inspired. Our piefed doesn’t have any retro communities as of writing this, but our lemmy has retro magazines, antique radios, adventure games, pixel art, ms-Dos and more. Not everything is retro, but the things that aren’t are retro inspired.
The instance itself is fully compatible and federated with the entire threadiverse, so only the local feed will be 100% retro/retro-inspired. Also we’re working on retro feeds for easy access to topics of interest.
Just saw this. Awesome to see! Would’ve opted for this when creating the pixel art comm, as then reports would federate to my instance too (a very nice perk of Piefed), and I wouldn’t need to log into the local account to check every so often.
Great option for any potential new relevant comms too :)
Idk, it might be old news to everyone.
I just discovered that we can follow the magazines the profiles publish, like !brasil-dw_brasil@flipboard.com that turns into a community, or follow them directly like @dw_brasil@flipboard.com, turning all of their posts into a microblog feed (on mbin, mastodon, etc).
Might be interesting to people, if they want to see some different type of posts, news, articles or cultural analysis.
I see this as a win-win, they get their “someone entered your website through flipboard and the fediverse” (the links come with only this tracking) and we get different “content”.
Thanks for sharing the method! Will take a look!
Great info, cheers! 🚀
Hi there! So I understand that federated systems can speak to one another and interact. My question I guess is should I be using my Mastodon account to log into PieFed, and PixelFed, and Bookwyrm? Or do I need to create specific accounts for all these services, just as I did before?
I understand that someone on Mastodon could potentially follow my PixelFed account and see my posts. But wouldn’t it make sense to have one single identity (if one wished) so it collected all of my stuff in one place? Just wondering if I am missing the point?
Sorry if I sound like an idiot here. I really love the idea of federated services, just want to make sure I am “doing it right” so to speak.
Can mbin browse Lemmy/piefed? I would love to only use one app/login if possible. If one application can correctly view/post to each service - then it would seem logical to just use the one. I might switch to mbin If it can browse Lemmy content.
For sure !piefed_meta@piefed.social is in the list of “magazines” (communities as they are known on mbin) and more communities too.
Ok, that’s good news! Also, I checked the activitypub.space, and see they have a related communities section, but it wasn’t clickable for me (maybe it just requires login, or some other simple issue inm missing) - regardless that is a great feature and might be a good way to pull content into the forum without muddying the content within my primary categories. :)
Thank you!
Thank you. 1. I’ll definitely check out Anubis and your configuration to see if it will work for my scenario. 2. Ok, good to know - if it’s simply a bug then that that’s fine, mostly I wanted to make sure it wasn’t an indicator that something deeper was broken or getting blocked in the communication. 3. Sorry, I used the term instance when I meant community. But it sounds like the federation is more so to bring traffic into the forum, rather then out. Did I understand that correctly? If that is the case, then I may not opt to use it - as I was originally hoping for a way to push forum content into communities. I’ll explore this further I guess - because I’m unfamiliar with relays and fedibuzz.
Overall, I appreciate the detailed response :)
So I decided to set up a nodeBB server on a VPS and am trying to get everything set up - and I am trying to get the fediverse working. I have a couple of questions for anyone who might have some experience.
I am using cloudflare for the domain host, and it seems that I need to turn off bot fighting in order for the federation to work. Is this actually the case, or is there something I am doing wrong? If it is the case, is it that big of a deal? Will I get a lot of spam or bot traffic? Is there a custom rule I can make that night not be as good as bot fighting, but mitigate it slightly? (Without paying for additional cloudflare services) I’m not sure what I’m doing with cloudflare tbh, I’ve just been asking an LLM to help me correctly set it up.
I think I have it working, but I followed my piefed account within my nodeBB profile to test it - and while my profile shows that I am following the piefed account, the actual indicator that shows number of people following remains at 0. (See photos. On mobile atm, but it’s the same on the desktop.)
How does the federation actually work - I’m new to the fediverse, but I’m curious of how to actually use nodeBB with the fediverse. Is /world for people to simply use the forum as a hub to browse their other feeds? Is there also a way to set up each category posting to specific instances? What is the “standard” or “expected” way to integrate the forum into the fediverse - and can it be used to help bring new members to the forum?
Sorry if some of this is trivial, slowly trying to navigate and wrap my head around things. Hopefully someone on here has some experience with this?
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I tried googling it, but no results listed any contact info.
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