Because they made this thing and Fediverse is per se open. If you question whether they belong, I wonder why you are posting on .ml?
You didn’t post which community you posted that into so it’s a but hard to evaluate how legitimate the removal is.
Mastodon where you can’t use the letter “e”: https://www.vice.com/en/article/its-like-tweeting-but-you-cant-use-the-letter-e/ ( oulipo.social )
Oh wow, I didn’t notice the date! Apparently the edit put it up in my feed - probably because this instance wasn’t there when the post was created.
It’s there, some apps and show the link very prominent if there’s some text as well. Do you see the preview?
I think they have different use cases. OL may have a more consistent library, but Bookwyrm has the (social) features im looking for in a book app.
Personally I add books to OL and then import to BW.
Exactly - but since they seem to open the beta to their customers already I’d assume there won’t be that many breaking changes, but I wouldn’t rely on it already. Considering using it on a testdomain
It is, but it’s not recommended for productive use yet. Quote from their newsletter March 2nd:
What about self-hosting?
Several people have asked about using ActivityPub if you’re hosting Ghost elsewhere. Some quick notes about that:
Importantly, Ghost’s ActivityPub service is already out in the wild, open source, and released under the MIT license. We build in public, and all our work is up on GitHub for anyone to download, fork, run or deploy if they want to.
What’s missing right now, mainly, is documentation. You could already self-host ActivityPub if you really wanted to, but there’s a lot you’d need to figure out to get it running properly.
So the question is less “when will it be possible” and more “when will it be easy”?
At the moment we’re moving quickly and making many breaking changes each week which aren’t backwards compatible (like switching to a new DB) – so the app isn’t stable. Even if we did document everything, if you self-hosted then it would just break constantly — so it doesn’t make much sense for us to try to document and promote self-hosting, because it won’t be a good experience for anyone.
Right now we’re prioritising developing the app and building features, deployed in a single location, so we can make progress. Once the app is stable, then we’ll start documenting (and optimizing) the process of deploying it and hosting it elsewhere.
We’re hoping to get to that work some time this summer, and we’ll share details of that here, as we go. Our first priority is just getting ActivityPub working and stable with a base feature set.
Search currently includes OpenLibrary and Inventaire, plus some more I think but I’m not sure right now.
That doesn’t mean a Browser plug-in couldn’t be useful ofc, but Bookwyrm is not limited to what it’s users manually add - even though, through federation, that’s quite a lot already.
OL reviews are not pulled, just the book data
Ghost Activitypub support is still in the making unfortunately. You can selfhost ghost already and if you check out the latest version you also have AP, but they said it’s not stable yet and might break. Eagerly waiting for them to finish.
I think the biggest instance, lemmy.world, not being operated by the Lemmy devs is also a good health indicator - on every other Fedi service I can think of, the server run by the devs is the biggest by far.
If you find one, keep up updated! It’s one of the things where you really need a critical mass already for it to be useful so it’s hard to kick off.
If an instance decides to not federate with another one they don’t see each other anymore. You can’t subscribe to their communities and vice versa, you don’t see their users posts in third instance communities. From your perspective it stops existing.
It’s sometimes necessary e.g. if an instance doesn’t do moderation by itself and hoards of trolls are coming from one instance spamming in many communities so you don’t have to ban each of their trolls. It can also be a tool if moderation goals differ too strongly from each other, and some instances have decided to defederate from lemmy.ml and more vocal tankie instances like lemmygrad and hexbear.