At the moment the internet is flawed, do you think the fediverse is the solution?
@Bicyclejohn I don’t know about “replace”, but popular social media could JOIN the fediverse.
I don’t blame new users to be late on news. But to make a quick recap, the people interested in implementing ActivityPub include:
- Meta (insta/twt replacement)
- Tumblr
- Wordpress.com
- Medium (currently only running mastodon)
- Discourse
- Flarum
Last time I check those were a few popular social media.
Discourse and Flarum in particular are relevant to Lemmy
We are still missing basic tools, like the ability to import full history from one instance to another. To import posts and comments, not just followers and those we follow, or lists (which often isn’t functional as on my current instance). Frankly we should be able to import history from non-fediverse social media too, if one has output files from them. Nobody I’m aware of has built a single tool to help them navigate those histories, let alone import them.
Some people are working on that. Calckey will soon be able to import posts from twitter (can alerady import from mastodon). Pixelfed can already import from instagram right now!!
Kbin and lemmy are very late in that regard. You can’t even migrate your social graph.
I’m unable to do that on pixel.infosec.exchange which is the pixelfed instance I’m on. Is there some trick to it or is it just not universally available yet?
This kind of import is something that I would absolutely love to see, but some backend stuff has to be figured out. Unfortunately, importing and creating thousands and thousands of posts can absolutely hammer a server, and it gets amplified if everybody’s doing it at the same time.
I had some ideas for a tool a while back that could import your posts first, help you sift through what your “Greatest Hits” were in terms of big life events or lots of conversation, and help you import those into another platform. The downside is, though, that you still wouldn’t be able to reconstruct the threads for people who haven’t moved over to the fediverse yet.
