Wikimedia Foundation joins the fediverse
Wikimedia Foundation joins the fediverse
![[HN] The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse](https://lemdro.id/pictrs/image/88f903cd-cf7a-4682-be79-88586460570e.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
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Someone wrote “welcome home” as a reply and it has touched me more than I would admit
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Can you explain what you mean by that?
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My English is not the best so maybe there was also something lost in the translation. But what I thought about was that probably all this open source and free internet loving people from Wikipedia has to use twitter as an communication channel for so long and that it is probably pretty cool to see for them that the open source universe is expanding further more.
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Okay so this is the first time I'm actually interested in following a Mastadon account via kbin. Um....this is what microblog is for right? Is there a place I can see posts from just my followers?
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Search for their name and click/tap Follow.
A la this: https://i.imgur.com/eCRkDUH.png
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Is there any mention of this from them directly? The domain isn't verified on the mastodon profile, which is unfortunate.
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How do I follow/subscribe to them on lemmy?
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Lemmy currently doesn't allow you to follow individuals. As kbin does, it is probably a feature we will see in the future.
For now you'd need a Mastodon, kbin or Calckey account (I recommend the last one).
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You can actually browse individual profiles from places like Mastodon on Lemmy. They get interpreted as a community where each post is one "toot" from that user.
Though comments and upvotes don't proliferate back to the original platform, they live on your instance.
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@Holyginz, I would think you can do like on kbin, since it seems like the standard. Just guessing. Go to the user page on your instance then follow them.
To get to the user page go to:
https://yourInstance.social/u/@username@aDifferentInstance.social
For you go to https://lemmy.world/u/@wikimediafoundation@wikimedia.social
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Lemmy doesn't have the functionality like Kbin does. It's one reason why Kbin exists.
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Getting bigger by the hour
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Amazing to me that a nonprofit can do it, but my local police department, state forest fire service, etc etc, cannot and are stuck on twithell and fuckbook.
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The wikimedia fundation is full of money, your forest office is not.
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Sure, but using mastodon isn't exactly a bank breaker (and that's if you bother hosting your own).
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But do police departments etc really even need to be on social media?
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It's a quick way to send important information, I would hazard a yes.
Several weeks ago the only way I knew about a forest fire down the street was because of twitter.
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Awesome to see.
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