Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (
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It is a little weird that everyone here seems to be a communist. Does the platform attract the mindset or does the mindset gravitate to the platform? Just something Iāve noticedā¦
Itās a bit of both, but itās also instance specific. Most of it comes from lemmygrad, because there is a lot of cross federation between users and groups on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. On a smaller instance without much interaction with lemmygrad, you wonāt see the same scenario
On Lemmy yes, but on Mastodon (at least in Italian instances) like 99,9% of people are pro-us hegemony and American imperialism š„¶š„¶š„¶
@goryramsy @koncertejo Whereās here? Maybe youāre just in the instance.
@goryramsy @koncertejo I might have meant āthe wrong instance.ā
Yeah, being more politically neutral would be a big advantage, i guess being smaller means more radical people tend to be here
Yeah, been considering migrating to a non-Mastodon instance. Not sure where, though. Wouldnāt mind using Lemmy as my entrypoint to the Fediverse, but I donāt think, you can follow individual users hereā¦
I like Calckey the most as it has the best thread view out of all fediverse software.
Akkoma is simpler and more lightweight if you prefer that, but I find its thread UI hard to grasp.
Iām using Lemmy, and youāre right. Iām liking it though, and am considering donating to it.
Itās very light, though.
@butter @Ephera Have you considered using the #Mastodon forms #Hometown and #GlitchSoc? Otherwise, thereās #Soapbox, #Pleroma and #Misskey
I used Mastodon for a brief moment, but I had a hard time with the āTwitterā of it. Iām not used to following people, I like to follow Topics.
I donāt know any of the other hashtags you mentioned.
I canāt really use mastodon for the same reasonā¦ I like following interests and communities, not people.
After I follow a few ppl that post a few times a day, it becomes a full time job just to read pplās posts. I have no idea how so many ppl use the twitter model.
@dessalines @butter Fair enough; #Mastodon and #Mastodon-adjacent software really is only for people looking for a #Twitter replacement
@butter, @dessalines, Iāve grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as āforumsā, plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as ācontactsā, where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the side of my page where I can simply click on it to filter my current feed.
I know that other #fediverse / #ActivityPub interfaces such as #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla, and #Streams have some/all of these capabilities, each to their own extent. However, having played around extensively with all of them, Iāve come to find that #Friendica is the one that works best for me. And at the end of the day, this is the only thing that matters. It may be a bit time consuming, but trying all the things is the best (only?) way to see how theyāll work for you.
Akkoma is also nice and Calckey seems to gain popularity fast.
You can follow users using /kbin
Something Iāve not noticed while using the fediverse that isnāt touched on in the article is the role of what Iāll call āmiddle groundā instances and communities. You might be on instance A and visit a community on instance B. Someone from instance C is also visiting the community on instance B. If no one from instance A searched for any communities on instance C, and likewise for the reverse, users on the 2 instances might not see each other anymore even if the instances are federated.
I use lemmy from lemmygrad and see accounts from instances that I might not think to search for had I not already come across them.
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