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_announcements@pawb.social 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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Furry Technologists (!tech@pawb.social or tech@pawb.social on Mastodon)
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Furry Musicians (!musicians@pawb.social or musicians@pawb.social on Mastodon)
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Virtual Reality (!virtualreality@pawb.social or virtualreality@pawb.social on Mastodon)
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Furry (!furry@pawb.social or furry@pawb.social on Mastodon)
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Game Development (!gamedev@pawb.social or gamedev@pawb.social on Mastodon)
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Transformation [NSFW] (!transformation@pawb.social or transformation@pawb.social on Mastodon)
Remote Communities
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Furry (!furry@yiffit.net or furry@yiffit.net on Mastodon)
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Yiff [NSFW] (!yiff@yiffit.net or yiff@yiffit.net on Mastodon)
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gfur / Gay Fur [NSFW] (!gfur@yiffit.net or gfur@yiffit.net on Mastodon)
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/!
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.
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.