Cheers! Looks like a great fediverse platform. So sad that the choice of English-speaking servers seems somewhat limited - for now.

What’s Misskey? Never heard of! Time to check.

Just wanted to applaud the fact that you’ve come here asking people, rather than asking some large language model.

Agree 110%! It’s sad because it pushes back those people who were curious about alternatives and were willing to try. Hopefully things will improve with time…

I’ve tried different clients: Element web, desktop, and android, and FluffyChat desktop and android. The problems seems to come, as other have written, when the matrix.org server is involved: it’s people from their handle there which experience glitches joining rooms in other servers. It seems this “part” of the fediverse still needs a lot of development.

Looks very promising! thank you for sharing. Seems worth trying and supporting.

I didn’t know about !matrix, cheers!!

The summary I just read sounds great, thanks for the tip!

Thank you for the great help, I hope it’ll be useful to others too :)

Thank you for the info! As I’m completely new to Matrix I was indeed wondering. Probably the spam problem will increase as it becomes more popular…

Thank you! I checked it. From what I understand I should use a link like https://matrix.to/#/@[user]:[server.zzz]. Then from there they are redirected to use their own Matrix app, if they have one.

Not hostile at all, thank you :) Indeed I asked this question because I suspected I was misunderstanding how to use the site. Here’s an example. A comment in this post:

https://lemmy.world/comment/960056

gives a link to a Mastodon post. The link I see is https://mastodon.world/@mwadmin/110654590632768079

If I click that link, I do see the Mastodon post, but it’s on a Mastodon instance different from mine (https://c.im/). If I wanted to boost, favour, or reply, I have to open another tab/window, go to my Mastodon account on my instance, search for that post, and then I can boost etc. Let me know if this is unclear.

Maybe it’s just because I use Mastodon via browser and not a 3rd-party app, as some comments here have suggested.

It has helped me invaluably, thank you!

By the way, the “trigger search” button at the moment leads to a search with text

community!community@instance.etc

but the first community should be dropped. OK this is not the place for tracking issues, sorry!

Had never heard about it, cheers!

Edit: unfortunately it looks like it’s not open-source. I have some trust issues with close-source projects that handle my browsing.

I believe that https://browse.feddit.de/ shows the total number of subscribers, but I’d be happy if someone else confirmed this as well.

Thank you for the recommendation, I’ll try it out. To be honest I second the “don’t move fast if you have to break things” attitude…

Glad to see my question wasn’t so dumb, cheers :)

Cheers, didn’t know about this possibility!

Agree on all your points. I just don’t want to bother fiddling with adobe etc. I’ll buy a paper copy – why didn’t I think of that!

Does anyone know if any seller/publisher of this book sells it without DRM?

I just bought Permutation City on Kobo, where I usually buy all my ebooks. …And what a let-down: the book is DRM-protected, so I can’t simply download the purchased ebook and read it on my laptop or phone, without having Adobe breaking my privacy.

So I returned the book.

I’ve happily bought the brilliant Mistborn, “Wax and Wayne”, and Stormlight Archive full collections by Brandon Sanderson without DRM on his books. I think it’s thanks to the Tor Publishers. Here’s what Sanderson says about DRM:

This isn’t even getting into DRM, which is a practice that punishes only those who want to do what is right by supporting the release, rather than pirating. There hasn’t been as much talk of this lately, but I haven’t forgotten. I think people should be able to move their ebooks between devices, and store them locally in case their chosen platform vanishes. (To their credit, Tor Books has released DRM-free ebooks. That is not the case at my other publishers.)