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Pawb.Social Announcements

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Official announcements from the admin team of Pawb.Social

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

After quite a while, @crashdoom has finally found something to do with pawb.social -- Introducing, Lemmy!

Lemmy is a selfhosted, federated social link aggregation and discussion forum, similar to Reddit, but using ActivityPub just like Mastodon.

This instance will serve as Pawb.Social's foot-in-the-door and an expansion of our services beyond Mastodon, but we won't be restricting usage to just users from furry.engineer and pawb.fun -- Anyone is free to join!

Any user can create their own community within the instance, share it with other instances, and create a conversation around their favorite topics.

Though, if you have a Mastodon account already, you don't need an account to post here! Just take the community name to the right (e.g. pawbsocial_announcements, remove the !) and mention it in a post:

@pawbsocial_[email protected] Hey, I can post to Lemmy from Mastodon!

You can also follow the community group account to get new posts straight on your existing Mastodon feed!

We'll be utilizing two communities for official purposes: Pawb.Social Announcements for news and info about Pawb.Social services and Pawb.Social Feedback to receive feedback, issues, and comments on policy from our users.

We hope you'll enjoy and help us create yet another amazing community together!

-Crash

Pawb.Social Network Owner


Mobile Apps

If you'd like to browse on your phone, take a look at the list of apps on the Join Lemmy website! There's both a client for iOS and Android, so no one should be left out!

Popular Communities

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Formerly Reddit Communities

You can find official and unofficial Reddit communities that moved to the Fediverse with the awesome tool over at https://sub.rehab/!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Admits joining because I thought you were a Welsh instance and "pawb" meant everyone. I am a disaster. That said, hello!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone to me, in a year: "so how did you become a furry, exactly?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's honestly a better story than those of us who stumbled on the weird cringe compilations, or even something spicy lmao

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Agreed. Most wholesome furry conversion story ever.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh my goodness, this is cute :)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Awoo fellow furs!

Best of luck on the instance and the Lemmy fork!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Heyyyy! Thanks for firing this up. Looking forward to seeing if this takes off. I like what I see so far. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Howdy doo little gay people on my computer

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Hello fluffy friends! (And Welsh friend!) Reddit gave me a blackout for my cake day, so I decided I'd try to figure out how all this federated stuff works before they pull the plug on my lunch break reading material too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is pretty cool. I should suggest Lemmy to the cryptography nerds I hang out with :3

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Please do! Would love this to become an awesome way to bring up and discuss topics in more detail than is possible on Mastodon itself!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Henlo Lemmy ^-^

I'm a Reddit Refugee who's been exploring federated social media after the recent chaos on corporate sites. Slowly learning all of the jargon for how all this works, but it looks like a neat concept that will foster a nice cozy community :3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I wish the cozy community was the biggest reason for my involvement, but honestly the feeling of having hundreds of people using the server hardware I tinker with is really exciting!

I handle the local hardware and crashdoom handles the software. Honestly he does the hard part IMO.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Hello o/ I'm just having a look around and trying to figure out how this all works.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Seem to be unable to reply to my mastodon account from my lemmy account. Looks interesting though! Neat seeing replies from the communities I follow pop up on the other timeline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Capydeev This is a test reply from my mastodon account.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Test reply with ~~undefined ~~ English language. Have I really been here a whole week already?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm glad to be here on a furry instance!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Hey, thanks for setting this nice little server up.

Just wondering if it is just me or that most non-local communities seem to have no replies / votes, but when viewed from their home instance I can see them. Is this because viewing comments and votes across instances is not yet possible?

I say most non-local communities because the posts on the All page seem to work fine, but when I want to check a non-local niche community it looks dead - even though there is activity that's viewable from their instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

As far as I'm aware, posts (and I guess replies) only start being received when at least one person is subscribed to it. So if it's a community you are interested in and you subscribe, pawb.social should start receiving all comments and replies from that point on.

You can also put a direct link to a thread (but not a comment) in the search box, and it will be fetched if it is not already available.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Giving this a shot, hi all. :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Howdy all! Happy to be here :D

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Heyo!

Thanks for hosting this! Is it worth creating an account on Mastodon too? Still trying to wrap my head around the whole fediverse thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’d say so, they do serve different purposes and it isn’t yet possible to follow Mastodon accounts from Lemmy.

Mastodon is to Twitter, as Lemmy is to Reddit. :3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah gotcha. Have to admit I hadn't actually looked into Mastodon until now, just assumed it was the same concept as lemmy and kbin. But yeah it's essentially Twitter, UI-wise at least. Never been much of a Twitter user myself though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I find they have different use cases. Masto is really good for more immediate conversion, especially with the really responsive home feed.

Not my thing (Reddit refugee turned lemmy host here), but it definitely has its place!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Were you ever able to get your Lemmy replies to show up in your Mastodon notifications? I can’t seem to get them to show up in Masto for the life of me, despite it all working fine in Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Very excited to be here! Can't wait to watch this community grow and thrive!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Still trying to wrap my head around Lemmy and Mlem. Hopefully I can figure it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hello world!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello! This community is visible from lemmy.ml but not yet the rest.

Maybe it'd be useful to have a list of communities so that they can be discovered more easily.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Still trying to figure out how the discoverability works, haha. Will add a few of the communities from here to the post!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for all the work. That discoverability is what led me here. 👍 Just learned about Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Hello world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Good to see ya

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

excited to be here! thank you for all of your work in setting up the community and hosting the instance :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks @[email protected] for letting me in here and hosting that furry lemmy instance :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@crashdoom Cool!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Thks for hosting this! The mobile app are cool too :3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is awesome, thank you so much for putting this together :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

@crashdoom welcome to the Fediverse! Good luck to you!