XSF Communications Team - 2024-08-09

edhelas: I think I must have a basic misunderstanding as I cannot really find an rss to atom converter

https://github.com/edhelas/feedcleaner

granary.io also, and many others

> granary.io also, and many others thanks! ↺

Hello everyone !

I just translated the "#XMPP Specifications July 2024" Mastodon post to ES and posted it on Mastodon, Lemmy and Reddit

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@gnemmi/112933367479578369 https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/20701012 https://www.reddit.com/r/xmpp/comments/1eo6ck8/xmpp_especificaciones_t%C3%A9cnicas_a_julio_del_2024/

hope that's ok with you guys

As always, in case it is not, just let me know and I'll delete them right away

🙂

Also .. I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but you can always tell be where should I ask then .. but .. what would it take to have an "oficcial" Lemmy instance listed on xmpp.org?

Or, maybe, what makes the one that we already have an "unfficial"?

s/"unfficial"/"unofficial"/

Thanks gnemmi for your efforts :)

There was a Lemmy instance for xmpp stuff, but it did not get significant traction, so it was closed again.

cal0pteryx, you are super welcome! And .. no need to thank me! I do it because I *love* doing it! I just wish I could do more!!

There were some attempts to create and establish a Discourse instance, but that idea did not evolve so far

> There was a Lemmy instance for xmpp stuff, but it did not get significant traction, so it was closed again. Oh .. I understand .. and yes ... Lemmy has only recently been gaining a lot of traction ... ↺

In my opinion it would be nice to have a venue for multiple things in a central place. A venue for XSF topics, standard development and so on, then a venue for software developers as a circle for helping each other out with library suggestions, development and design questions. And then a third venue for user support of any xmpp related software

See for example the python Discourse instance

Actually .. much to my disconfort I found out that the Matrix instance has something like 2,2k follower whereas the XMPP one doesn't even make it to 300 ...

And even worse ..

Yesterday I was checking out my settings on Lemmy and found this

https://files.xmpp.social/upload/72890ba3e7e6bc7f1b993e487d3d149fd09e3184/UrggOZJM88ALeQxFH8KMRUmOqOSSJJvOBipXXdZ7/ZsenTNHTS4KSHL4tKG6Wtg.jpg

and this ..

https://files.xmpp.social/upload/72890ba3e7e6bc7f1b993e487d3d149fd09e3184/vacMvAc4TReTFIkhpbE9L2auQZnAd3hzhvPXYChT/NcjNGlLuRrmrcvdbG82C_w.jpg

😔

Checkout phpBB, where you can set a Jabber ID :D

gnemmi, I complained about that years ago. Especially promoting the element.io services and not even Matrix in general is really against the general fediverse spirit, but the developers don't seem to be willing to change this.

> gnemmi, I complained about that years ago. Especially promoting the element.io services and not even Matrix in general is really against the general fediverse spirit, but the developers don't seem to be willing to change this. I didn't know about that .. I found out yesterday and it really made me feel unconfortable .. ↺

I think for an xmpp forum/platform to gain traction it would need the support of all members and contributors.

gnemmi, honestly, the politics etc of the Lemmy developers suck, but it's still the best federated Reddit alternative.

> gnemmi, honestly, the politics etc of the Lemmy developers suck, but it's still the best federated Reddit alternative. yes .. and that's the reason why it made me feel so unconfortable. ↺

if I was to set up something completely new I would probably try Piefed

https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi

but Pixelfed is an Instagram alternative ..

not Pixelfed ;)

Oh .. sorry

Although Pixelfed is about to get a Lemmy compatible groups implementation as well

Yes ... that much I know. Lemmy grew a lot in comparison to Kbin ..

It seems to have stablished itself as "the" Reddit alternative .. and now is getting quite a few eyeballs looking at it

It's the most mature implementation, but projects like Piefed are catching up

kbin is sadly unmaintained due to health issues of the main developer. There is a mbin fork, but it seems not very actively developed either

I didn't know Piefed. I'm taking a look at it right now. Thanks for pointing it out Kris :)