We already have sites that offer small communities; what we needed was a replacement for Reddit.

The thing is neither Lemmy not kbin were made to be Reddit replacements.

The reason Reddit/Facebook/et al are so huge is because people want to have a single community to talk with

They’re also centralised and their respective servers can tolerate much more content being shared/posted onto them than a fediverse server can. Having different communities allows for a given server not to be saturated.

Idk why there are so many general use instances when the threadiverse would be a great place for themed instances to exist. But even with thematic instances you can’t avoid similar communities existing (because multiples servers could exist for the same topic/fandom/etc.

Something that connects communities about the same topic from different servers into a “macro-community”, so everything posted in any of the communities can be read when you click one of them, without putting to much pressure into a sole server, would be cool. But I don’t think is posible with AP alone.

Because they’re two different communities/magazines hosted in two different servers from two different platforms

Federation makes it posible for you to participate in both

Could it be a problem due to the newest Lemmy software upgrade?

For what I read it’s a complete mess.

It denies access from non-en-us browsers, for example.

It wouldn’t surprise me if it messed with federation too.

But, they’re the devs. They did this mess. Why would they present a software upgrade that clearly had a lot of issues is beyond me…

On the Fediverse no, there isn’t. The closest thing would be Matrix (as someone mentioned above). But Matrix, while, decentralised, it’s not truly part of the fediverse.

So a chat platform is something the fediverse is lacking, but idk how posible it is as federation = less security and less privacy. For example, it wouldn’t be able to add end-to-end encryption.

Matrix is decentralised but not part of the fediverse as it doesn’t make use of ActivityPub or any other federated protocol. It’s isolated in its own protocol.

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• In the case of describing flags or objects that may contain stripes of different colours, you can do so by going left-to-right or right-to-left (for vertical stripes), top-to-bottom or bottom-to-top (for horizontal stripes). Mention also the width of the stripes.

Let say someone wants. to upload a image of the Canadian flag and needs to add a description. it could be this way:

“An image of the Canadian flag. It contains three vertical stripes, its colours from left-to-right are: red, white, red. The white stripe is twice as long in wide and contains a read maple leaf in its centre”

• When describing images containing text or emojis, explain the placement of the text/emojis. Add colours, differences on case, and fonts if necessary. Establish the reading order/direction of the text.

Three rules:

• Be concise: Only describe objects and details that are essential to understanding the image.

As it can be seeing in my first example, there’s no mention of the sky, the ground, the type of phone, etc. as they’re not relevant information. The main objects there a squirrel, tree and person.

• Try to give a complete description: Explain in detail the the important visual information.

• Add the context of the image when necessary: where does it come from? What relation it has to the context it was in? Often context isn’t necessary. Only add it when it’s important to understand the image you’re describing.