Context: I made a poll on PieFed about the new post flairs (so if you are one of the few hundred people who have a PieFed account, follow that link and answer there). Unfortunately Lemmy has neither polls nor post flairs, so this post is to open up the discussion to the wider Fediverse, or rather the subset of it that encompasses Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, which is called… what exactly?

Is Threadiverse too traumatic & tainted by association with Meta’s (all but entirely defunct) Threads? Is The Verse too cool/poetic/nerdy (but niche) to be understood? I highly advise against Lemmyverse bc mainstream normal people are far less tolerant of tankies than we who are here are willing to put up with. Simply listing the software available sometimes is the best option - like the Interstellar app supports all of Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed, but most support at best 1 or 2 of those - but usually is too long to say and does not roll off the tongue, plus will just keep growing as time goes on. Is Forumverse thus the least bad of the available options, or perhaps you have a better idea? 💡

Anyway, the start to a listing:

  1. Threadiverse
  2. Forumverse
  3. (The) Verse
  4. Lemmy + Mbin + PieFed
  5. Something else?

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  • can@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    It’s run by an instance admin. I wanna say lemy.lol?

    even though next to it the status says “disabled”.

    I believe that just means piefed.social isn’t participating in the service.

    Edit: is that right, @iso@lemy.lol?

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      Yes, it is just disabled. Lemmy Federate supports every threadiverse software and Piefed is one of them.

      Currently Piefed communities can be followed by Lemmy instances but not the other way around.

      In general, every fediverse software that support FEP-1b12 and can receive Lemmy-like PM’s can register to Lemmy Federate.

      /cc @OpenStars@discuss.online @rimu@piefed.social @julian@community.nodebb.org

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        Yeah something is screwy - PieFed.social is most definitely aware of lemy.lol (see this at https://piefed.social/instance/lemy.lol), but the last post it has from your own account seems to be nine months ago, and the second link on that page I linked, to “Posts” yields an error.

        Nor does this portion of the conversation appear in this version of the OP (see here, which should have all of these responses below it but they are lacking there).

        So apologies, I guess it’s not just the tool, rather the issue is wider than that: either your instance lemy.lol or PieFed.social (or both) are not communicating in the standard manner with one another. Fwiw, PieFed.social seems to have no trouble federating with (any? at least the vast majority?) of other Lemmy instances? But I will leave that to you and rimu to work out:-).

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          32 minutes ago

          Interesting. I didn’t realize my instance wasn’t federated with Piefed. I’ll contact the Piefed admins about this.

          However, this issue is probably not related to Lemmy Federate because Piefed.social doesn’t even use it.

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        4 hours ago

        Currently Piefed communities can be followed by Lemmy instances but not the other way around.

        You mean using your tool, or overall?

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            3 hours ago

            Thought so, but there does seem to be some confusion surrounding this so clarity always helps.

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              29 minutes ago

              Absolutely. Sometimes I can be hard to understand (since English is not my native language), thanks for the clarity :)

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          IIRC Lemmy and Mastodon PMs are different and incompatible. If you can receive PMs from Lemmy users then you should be able to receive auth codes. Currently @rikudou@lemmings.world is adding both Lemmy and Mastodon PMs here: https://github.com/ismailkarsli/lemmy-federate/pull/33

          Also software other than Lemmy and Mbin needs to add ‘roleName: Administrator’ to their user webfinger requests. This is because ActivityPub doesn’t have a standard way to expose user roles.

          I’m thinking of adding another ways of verifying like DNS based verification but still not sure. Any recommendations are welcome :)