https://syncthing.net/downloads/ there’s an android app. But I think I have experimented with this a few years ago and it seemed to use a lot of battery.

For me personally it can. Not sure about everyone else.

the pictues has a nice vibe though

Damn that’s so cool! Public posts are enough!

Expanded reach for users as posts are sent to all participants in subscribed relays

Is that true? Makes sense that if I subscribe it would also send, but for some reason I always thought it was just drawing in content.

I don’t think that this contradicts my statement.

Many people end up on tiny servers or spin up their own server and wonder why there is nothing or only a tiny amount of content in the federated timeline. If you already expected this, good.

It’s hard to be on a mastodon server alone, if you don’t have an established follower base. Keep interacting people and follow plenty, some will like you as well and follow back :)

Also, most fediverse software isn’t designed to be used by a single person. If you had a couple more users there then everything would be way more populated!

No, your not shouting into the void. It gets shown to your followers and to their servers (in the public timeline). If your toot is boosted it will show up on all the servers that it needs to to be shown to the people that follow the account that boosted your toot.

Mastodon basically works on a need to know basis. If I follow someone, my server will be sent all their toots, boosts etc.

This is because it’s impossible to have all activity on mastodon on a single server. Even the huge ones don’t get all toots!

My guess is that meta sees another one of their social media sites go down the drain and this time they want to try something to stop it.

I don’t see this as a good thing. I see it as a logical step after the success of the fediverse. But I am afraid of how it will develop, with more commercial participants in fedi.

Awesome, did you take this picture?

Totally acceptable around here as far as I understand!

No in theory they plan to be federated properly through the AT protocol I believe. It’s not compatible with the fediverse, but that’s not necessary to be federated.

At the moment though they only have one server and that one doesn’t even federate with the AT protocol yet. So at the moment it’s just a twitter clone, without any special features.

I don’t know if I think that they should talk to other services, I think that if they truly built a very user friendly twitter alternative that is spread out on many servers that are connected and independently run, that would be a huge goal. But I don’t at all believe they’ll even manage that.

That’s why I love the fediverse, we have that going already and even more :)

That’s a good argument against Bluesky

I really hate advertising but I guess you’re right. Let’s hope that a culture emerges of enough people donating so ads aren’t needed.

Yes I 100% agree!

I don’t understand the bluesky hype. If it ever is properly federated, I’ll try it out, but until then it’s just one of these new hip social media sites that appear every few months.

Moderation is pretty difficult, since theoretically everyone can spin up a troll server within minutes :)

I don’t think that there are islands on the fediverse. Yes, some servers block very liberally, but If their admins choose it this way, aren’t they free to do so?

Most servers only block a few troll, Nazi and pedo servers and that’s it.

I think that it’s only fair that the people providing the service are those who get to shape the content that their server provides.

Who is unfairly blocked in your opinion? Do you have an example?

You can see who is blocked, click instances in the very bottom, there is the list.