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I feel there are lots but they’re all out of date since they’re from the last migration.


Crossposted over to reddit. Posting here worked really well last time so:

If you’re on reddit and don’t mind being a fediverse evangelist, please go hit this thread:

https://reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1i7kbvt/fed_up_with_instagram_how_to_move_your_photos_to/


This is super exciting. I think one of the things a lot of people are missing here is the potential for small wikis to augment existing fediverse communities. Reddit’s killer feature has always been the massive treasure trove of information for hobbyists and niche interests. There is huge potential in the fediverse to take advantage of that sort of natural collaborative knowledge building process.




I don’t think it’s fair to write off the entire medium like that. They all share a common ancestor in Twitter and I think it’s fair to say the toxicity is inherited from there.


mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history

Only if they squander their lead. So long as they innovate in ways befitting the fediverse form, they will probably maintain their position. That said, it seems to me like modular systems like bonfire will probably leapfrog the existing platforms pretty quickly.



This is a particularly silly opinion because Lemmy is an algorithmic social media platform. It’s just an algorithm that you happen to have access to documentation for. Almost certainly, any fediverse algorithm would have to work on the same principles as Lemmy (open and based on public interactions). Likes and upvotes are king. User similarity ranking is wildly inefficient on the fediverse due to its distributed nature and keyword systems are easily gamed (although some hybrid is possible).


This has always been the killer feature of the fediverse. Open non-exploitative content algorithms. So weird to see people against it for no reason.


Some other groups from guppe:
!histodons@a.gup.pe
!nfl@a.gup.pe
!academicchatter@a.gup.pe
!knitting@a.gup.pe
!folklore@a.gup.pe


This sentiment is so overplayed and seems especially out of place in the context of the fediverse.


Bonfire is one of the fediverse projects I’m most excited about right now. I hope they don’t get too bogged down in organizational work right now. They’re awfully close to version 1.0



Developer Rimu is also emphasising Trust and Safety, and healthy community interactions. One way PieFed does this is by adding the ability for authors to add a ‘I’ve changed my mind’ setting. It draws inspiration from Nick Punt’s work on de-escalation on social media.

Love that people are trying out different mechanisms for encouraging a less toxic social experience. Big tech has run engagement driven social for so long I think a lot of us had largely given up on the idea. That said, I really think a lot of the toxic cultural quirks that have even followed us here are a direct result of their engagement driving priorities and given enough time away from them people will skew kinder.

Here’s the article on de-escalation for anybody interested: https://nickpunt.com/blog/deescalating-social-media/


I think the Mastadon theming looks pretty good but I really don’t understand why it’s so difficult to just rebuild their frontend on top of it? Can somebody smarter than me explain why that’s such a challenge?


Does anybody know if there are significant differences in moderation or the federation of moderation actions? One of the few things keeping me from switching to kbin.



Where did this title come from? Seems like a strange editorial choice on the poster’s part.


Most YouTubers won’t switch as they are generally in the business for monetization purposes. Early experiments in monetization have been done on PeerTube but nothing significant enough to be competitive. It does have first-class support for donation links but that’s pretty much the bare minimum at this point.


Has anybody considered running a Mobilizon server?
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/3186183 > I was shocked to see that there are no English-language Mobilizon servers. It seems like it may be an ideal secondary service for certain existing fediverse communities and was wondering if anybody here had considered it. > > For those unaware, [Mobilizon](https://joinmobilizon.org/en/) looks to fill the role of something like Facebook groups for the fediverse. I believe it is compatible with both Mastodon and Lemmy through the groups actor in the ActivityPub spec but provides additional functionality dealing with scheduled events and shared resources.
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