Getting started with federation on https://digipres.cafe - eviltoast
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Digipres.cafe is part of the Fediverse which means that while it is itself a server, and central source of information, you can also engage with it entirely from your own Federated social media instances, e.g. Mastodon, PeerTube, WriteFreely, and so on. You’re completely in control of your posts if you do that - you’ll be able to see replies from your followers on your Fediverse instance, plus gather replies from those seeing your link through digipres.cafe.

Hopefully like other link aggregators digipres.cafe can help to generate network effect for those who have a project, blog, or something (pretty much anything) they want to show off or talk about.

Rather than asking users to subscribe to a single central website doing this, and rather than trying to own such a resource, as a Fediverse instance digipres.cafe can simply provide some extra glue between instances connecting things a little more, especially in this post-Twitter yet multi-siloed world.

Hopefully digipres.cafe is inclusive of anything #digipres, #GLAM, #Archives, and anything digital information records management; and anything else tangential to those subjects outside of the disciplines, #InfoSec, #Software, and so on.

Something you may be looking to share more widely, or seek discussion on from your own account (usually with a link to point at, e.g. blog post, podcast, new training resource etc.), can be boosted by copying in digipres.cafe.

Posting

To do this you can use one of the existing channels here (communities) or create your own. And then you copy in that channel in your post, e.g.

There are five communities on the site currently (as suggestions), to include them in your message simply add one of: @general@digipres.cafe; @web_archiving@digipres.cafe; @events@digipres.cafe; @jobs@digipres.cafe; @learning@digipres.cafe

E.g. to share a training course:

Interested on feedback on my new FRED guide at http://example.com/FRED_Guide @learning@digipres.cafe

E.g. to share a new blog:

Check out my year in review http://example.com/Year_in_Review @general@digipres.cafe

Sandbox

There’s a Sandbox to allow you to play around with federation too. Please create, delete, modify, and go wild there as you would like to understand more about what is happening when you engage with digipres.cafe.

  • @sandbox@digipres.cafe

Following

You can subscribe to channels from your Fediverse instance by searching for them using the same format as above (nb. search for Mastodon is in the top-left corner on the Desktop version):

  • @general@digipres.cafe
  • @web_archiving@digipres.cafe
  • @events@digipres.cafe
  • @jobs@digipres.cafe
  • @learning@digipres.cafe

RSS

There are RSS feeds for the communities on this site (and again for any new communities that are created):

What does Lemmy and digipres.cafe provide?

Lemmy provides other link aggregator features including up-voting and down-voting to help people to find the best posts and replies in future. You can also save posts and find them via your account (if you create one here). Regular Fediverse followers can use their favorite bookmark option.

Communities allow you to separate what you follow from the noise of other channels. E.g. maybe you’re only interested in the job postings that people may share here? Maybe you’re only interested in web archiving. It’s all good, you can subscribe to what’s of interest and use different paradigms to follow those based on whether you engage directly via digipres.cafe or, e.g. Mastodon.

It features moderation in case anything is reported or needs to be investigated. And of course, posts and links can be easily found and referenced in future, including those from your Fediverse account. Anything from outside digipres.cafe can be linked to from the original post be that on AusGlam, Mastodon.social, digpres.club, or wherever.

More on Lemmy: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

Connects you to the Fediverse: aka. but Twitter was never your thing

Digipres.cafe (via Lemmy) provides a minimum sign-up if anyone is interested (minimum of a username and password). This connects you to the Fediverse and provides you a way of sharing your links and resources with a wider audience but without the noise of a timeline. You can engage with others via here and it works on a comment-response like basis; again, no-timeline to bother you. As a bonus, links won’t enter and leave the zeitgeist at Feed-like-speed and so should stay fresh and findable for longer.

Open

Digipres.cafe is as open as it can possibly be, allowing anyone to engage with it from within the Fediverse, and create new communities and posts. We only ask you follow the Contributor’s Covenant Guidelines which will be considered given any reports or complaints.