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e0qdk

@e0qdk@kbin.social

I write code and play games and stuff. My old username from reddit and HN was already taken and I couldn't think of anything else I wanted to be called so I just picked some random characters like this:

>>> import random
>>> ''.join([random.choice("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789") for x in range(5)])
'e0qdk'

My avatar is a quick doodle made in KolourPaint. I might replace it later. Maybe.

日本語が少し分かるけど、下手です。

Alt: e0qdk@reddthat.com

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Does federation connect to a single lemmy network, or can there be multiple?

When a lemmy instance federates, does it connect to one big lemmy network, or can there be multiple disconnected, yet locally federated instances? What I’d like to know is, can I simply join any Lemmy server and choose “All” to view everything Lemmy has to offer, or is there still hidden content?...

e0qdk,
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You could crawl the Fediverse looking for instances and communities of the sort that your instance understands, but new servers and communities can show up whenever, so you'd have to keep looking continuously. Stuff also gets interesting because different servers have different views of content.

I've seen posts from users on two different servers talking in a thread on a 3rd server asking other users to help proxy messages manually between them because one of the servers was defederated from another and the messages were only going one way between the two users... I'm not sure in that case what the communication pattern was between the three servers (never mind me on kbin.social -- which isn't a Lemmy server at all -- also able to see the conversation), but it seemed like a big headache.

I've manually gone to different instances to make sure my posts show up when I make them; kbin is often pretty bad at getting new photo threads to federate out and sometimes needs a bit of coaxing... Looking at my profile on those instances though shows wildly different thread and comment counts sometimes. As of the time of writing this (before posting this comment) I have 30 threads and 85 comments listed in my profile on kbin.social. lemmy.world shows me as having 30 "posts" (threads) and 78 comments. lemmy.mindoki.com (your instance) shows 0 posts and just 10 comments!

There's also users on Mastodon and Misskey which show up for me as part of the regular experience of using kbin but which are a bit more awkward to interact with from Lemmy, I think? If I manually put in a mastodon.social user's account into lemmy.world's user lookup, for example, I can see some of their posts, but I'm not sure if they would ever actually show up anywhere on Lemmy without manually looking for a user?

Nevermind the other parts of the Fediverse like Peertube and AP-enabled Wordpress blogs and whatever else is out there... You can probably get a decent view of most of the Lemmy/kbin-like communities if you have a good list of servers to scrape community lists from and subscribe to everything you find regularly, but I think you'll still have some problems in practice.

e0qdk, (edited )
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I'm currently regularly posting to:

I'm mostly posting screenshots and other people are mostly posting fan art when they post.

It's not very active, but I've also been posting (when I have content) to:

I'm following with interest and occasionally commenting on:

There are some really fun images being generated over there lately with a lot of variety!

I like random art popping up in the sidebar from time to time on kbin. I'm not actively following but have seen some fun imagery occasionally pop-up from:

So maybe take a look at those as well if they sound interesting.

I'm also subbed to a bunch of other communities, but not interacting with them very much; no content of my own to post right now and they're either (mostly) dormant or the people who are posting are not posting the sorts of content I'm interested in engaging with currently (but I might be interested in the future, so I subbed):

I joined that last one to hopefully find other interesting communities as well.

Occasionally I'll interact with other communities when they pop-up in the newest threads feed on kbin.social -- e.g. https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/196 or other meme communities. Sometimes people post things like technical problems they're struggling with in https://programming.dev/c/cpp or wherever and if I see the threads and have time I try to answer them.

If you find a community that looks interesting but is dormant, start posting regularly (like maybe once a day). If you get upvotes or comments, there are still people around who just don't have content to interact with!

Edit: I should also add for the off kbin/lemmy part, I'm also on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) under a different username -- although that has a tendency to piss me off, so I'm cutting back on reading it.

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