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:
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!
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
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.