Do you know any Lemmy instances not federated with other ones, living by themselves? Do you know any interesting or creative use case for a not federated instance?
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There are some but they are filled with zoos and pedos
Oof.
Hexbear was the only instance with a sizable user base that used to do this, but these days they federate too
Do you know why they were not federated and then changed to federation?
I believe they forked from Lemmy before federation existed close to 4 years ago, added things like custom emojis and then only re-merged after federation was implemented then turned it on.
Ah, that explains why their custom emojis don’t render correctly anywhere else. I wish that piece of code would get merged into the main version so it’d be less annoying.
I wish they would merge in the pronoun support too, one of the better hexbear features imo.
I’m not a fan of forced pronoun badges as an Agender person. Allowing people to have pronoun badges is good but only if it is optional. When it isn’t it creates a dilemma where a person has to choose between outing themself, or lying if they don’t want to out themselves.
As it is though, their implementation of it simply uses (or rather commandeers) the display-name feature Lemmy has, so in a way we already do have an optional implementation of it for people who want it. It’s just not mandated. The way they did it was to replace display names with Pronoun tags and have them be mandatory.
The display names option does limit your actual name length combined with pronouns, hexbear it’s a separate field. I do appreciate the arguments against having it mandatory/integrated into the main lemmy. Here’s the github post about it, the lemmy.ml admins agree with your line.
That said, on hexbear I see plenty of people keep none/use name and they’ve also got specifically agender ones like null/void, undecided, any.
Yeah the big issue with Hexbear’s way of doing it is that it’s kind of forced and can cause discomfort to people who don’t want to out themselves yet. I wasn’t aware they have undecided or any as options, I’ve never tried to sign up there and have little desire to considering among other things how isolated it is. Even so I don’t think their way of doing it is very good since it heavily limits the options people can use, and locks people out of using display names, which are extremely useful. I think a better solution would just be to increase the length of usernames and display names to accommodate users who might want to use pronouns.
Also just want to point out, it does annoy me a bit when people say Agender pronouns, since Agender people don’t have a universal set of pronouns. We all have very widely varied preferences and experiences among us. I don’t blame you for that by the way, it’s a common misconception about Agender and Nonbinary people.
https://beehaw.org/ doesn’t federate with lemmy.world which cuts them off from most of Lemmy-space.
Yeah. I mean 100% isolated instances.
they do federate with others though… so not stand-alone as op is describing
Those using lemmybb maybe
It’s neat, but is anyone a really using it?
It’s been broken for a while, the devs haven’t really worked on it. It may be fixed in the future but it’s likely it won’t ever be touched again.
Truth Social.
I thought that was mastadon, not lemmy.
Aren’t they basically different interfaces for the same thing?
No, they can sort of interact with each other, but the data structure and the functions of the sites are different. Mastodon is Microblogging like Twitter, and Lemmy is a Link-aggregator/Forum type platform.
No. Mastadon is a microblog/twitter platform. While lemmy is a link aggregator/reddit.
do you mean basically any forum not based on federation? like 99% of other communities?
Yes, but using Lemmy and not federated.
why use Lemmy instead of just being a normal forum if you aren’t going to federate?
Reddit
