I like the topic-oriented format of the fedi alternatives to reddit and had been using kbin.social, but that seems to have gone kaput. So I want to make an account on one of the alternatives. Looking for recommendations.
There are lots of lemmy instances and it appears there's also a fork of kbin called mbin, but not sure it's up to speed yet.
I've heard some negative feedback about lemmy, but maybe it applies only to certain instances of it, like the original one(?)
It's never easy for Fedi developers, especially if they're the ones leading a project!
Lots of respect to any dev who does any kind of work in building the Fediverse in free open source software. If they have to stop, they have still built code that others can build upon, as is the case with Mbin building upon Kbin. 👏
Quote Posts, being able to limit them, and possibly being able to limit replies, is coming to Fediverse soon enough.
I am a bit worried about these features for all the same reasons that others are, as well.
However, I have another worry that I haven't seen talked about yet, because it's a limited experience so far.
Threads added the ability to limit Quote Posts yesterday and I've already played around with it to see how it works.
I'm worried about Mastodon using the same kind of way to limit Quote Posts as Threads.
Currently, the way Threads does Quote Posts, is that whenever you post a link to a post, it automatically turns into a quote post. Therefore, when you limit them, nobody can even link your post on the site at all.
That's currently how Threads Quote Post limiting works and that really sucks if that severe limitation would come to the wider Fediverse.
My worries might be unfounded. This might be not at all how Mastodon will be doing it and everything will be fine.
@BeAware I don't pay attention to the microblogging side of things that much (I'm more of a Lemmy guy), but how do the concerns around quote posts differ from linked posts? Quotes and links seem like the same thing to me, except maybe links won't have as good a preview as quotes do?
@Die4ever To me, that's THE difference, it's a barrier because not everyone would click the link. Also, this would limit it for DMs too, I would think, because of the way DMs are, they're just a "private" post, no difference......you see how that could be a dumb limit? Maybe not, but there's way's around that I guess.
Can just tell a person the other person's username and tell them to find the post themselves or just link up off-platform.🤷♂️
Just seems dumb. Especially with the amount of misinformation this can cause. People won't get their wrong info checked if they just limit replies and quotes....that's a big yikes for me.
Some people get replies and just do not engage at all....
Like, what is the point of posting to social media if you're not even gonna be SOCIAL?!?🤦♂️
Especially Fedi, cause it's not like we have some dumb ad service that pays you for views...You ain't making money here unless you're posting off-platform links to buy stuff.
I just don't get it. It's social media. Not "shout to the void and ignore everyone" media.🙄
@BeAware non-zero amount of people are effectively a relay. dunno if that's what the people you're talking about are doing, but it's more common than it should be
Well, I have deleted the Threads app. They don't seem interested in integrating in good faith, unfortunately. Therefore I don't see any point in advocating for them further.
Federate with them if you wish, but my first hand experience with their dev team has been completely in bad faith on their part...🤦♂️
If you haven't heard, sadly, #ChirpSocial, one of the popular #ActivityPub “groups” platform, is shutting down “probably” on February 29th.
In an email they sent to admins, the owner and developer can no longer support https://chirp.social financially as they failed to find a new job after they were laid off by #Google last year.
This reminds us the importance of having a built-in groups feature, and one where the groups feature actually federates.
Back in 2008, when the #Fediverse was born, we did have a built-in federated groups in #Laconica / #StatusNet (today known as #GNUsocial). We used bang (!) instead of at (@). A built-in groups feature is more stable as established instances can host them.
Today, we have #Friendica and #Hubzilla (as well as #Streams-based instances) to fill in that, as groups is a built-in feature in those software products. It's just a matter of finding an instance that's open to hosting groups for any topic for the ActivityPub protocol.
That said, any Friendica, Hubzilla, Streams-based instances you suggest for groups?
I haven't done that in A LONG TIME. However, there's been LOTS happening and I'm very excited for the future of the platform, right now.
I am obviously still a little cynical when it comes to corporations and their intentions with Fedi, though.
If I have time, (and if I feel good enough. Anxiety is a bitch) I'll do a writing session and detail my thoughts, reasonings, and experiences with this social movement so far.
I'll also be detailing the nuances of each cross-platform integration I have firsthand experience with.
Let me know if this is a type of blog post would be interesting or intriguing to you and it might help me with motivation to pull it off. I don't want to "yell into the void". Especially with something I have so much passion for, and will take some time to complete.
If there were ever a single post that truly shows how running a Fedi instance is, that I could boost to the moon, it's this one.
People still somehow think that Fedi is "opt-in" or "privacy focused" or even "community focused". None of these things are true and I wish more people understood.
It's not a BAD thing, per se. I like it, personally. I choose who I want to interact with by blocking those instances I DON'T want to interact with, but it's OPEN BY DEFAULT is something some people can't grasp.😬