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They’d get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.

That’s great!

It’s a nice user interface, made by @cheeaun@mastodon.social, and loved by a lot of people.

If you don’t want to trust people with your account details that’s fine - then using a third party app is probably not for you, unless you’re willing to either trust people or dig into the source code.

If you have Mastodon you can just try it?

It’s a Mastodon client. It has many neat features. I like it on desktop because it’s easy to navigate with my keyboard. It’s also great on phone. Overall pleasant, Mastodon users should try it out. But I feel like describing it at length is not really productive - it’s a user interface.

I’d say pretty much all of those are worth a look!

Personally I’m curious how Bonfire and the Open Science Network will develop. Bandwagon also seems to have a lot of potential.

Would be curious to hear if anyone have tried using Quiblr! It’s not really for me I think, but it does look like an interesting service.

The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.

I have to say I’m a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn’t be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we’re in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.

I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn’t matter much if it takes a while to get there.

On that note it would be good if governments didn’t just sometimes use Mastodon, but rather integrate activitypub into their actual web sites.

I just mentioned them because they’re microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn’t matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.

So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.

The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don’t just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don’t know anything about it.

FediDB reports that the Mastodon active user count is on the decline the last year, from more than. 1.2 million to 820k thousand. The number seems to maybe stabilize a little, but it appears as a slow decline when studying the last year.

Then again, this is following from a huge bump of new users with the twitter exodus. It’s natural that not all will stick around, so a decline in active user now is not so surprising. It does indicate a lack of ability to move the momentum, but it’s an open source project with very limited funding, not a venture capital startup. It’s not here for explosive growth.

Furthermore, the number of Mastodon users is not a perfect measure. If it was matched by a huge number of users on gotosocial or misskey, it wouldn’t really matter. The Swiss should maybe have waited for Threads to federate both ways before deciding to leave on account of limited interactions.

Anyway, they’re not entirely wrong to say Mastodon is on the decline. But they’re not entirely right either.

Then again, the only person in these comments actually using lemmy.world seemed pretty happy with his experience.

It would be nice if people had an easier way of knowing the level of moderation before joining a server. One idea could be for services like Fediverser could include an indicator of moderation level - for example “relaxed” if few instances are defederated, “moderate” if moderation is more active, and “strict” for more restrictive communities. Data from Fediseer might be useful in this regard.

That way the people fleeing Reddit because of censorship would know where to go, and the rest of us wouldn’t have to be bothered by them unless we really wanted to.

The biggest problem, I guess, is that it’s a lot of work, and I certainly don’t have the time nor skill-set required. So people will just have to read their instance rules. :)

Simple! According to this thread, it is:

• an arbitrary standard of censorship
• nonexistent
• constant abuse of power
• the Chinese Communist Party

It doesn’t even need to make sense on a conceptual level!

It’s accessibility, and it’s also sovereignty.

Another way of rephrasing this decision is “we have decided to stop publishing information on our official website, as we receive more interaction on X”. Which is pretty questionable.

The Fediverse is not one thing. It’s a bunch of different sites that are interconnected. You can join a site that has strict moderation, or you can join one that has no moderation at all.

Personally, I’m not here because I think moderation on Instagram and X is too active. Rather to the contrary.

In my case, somewhat chronological order:

1. First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
2. Funkwhale
3. Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
4. BookWyrm
5. Kbin (dead now)
6. New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
7. Piefed
8. Mbin
9. My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works

If a nodebb forum I have an account on decides to federate I might reach double digits.

Edit: I forgot I also have a Pixelfed account! So double digits already.

The positive vibe of the comments here got me checking out the comfy channel, and it’s awesome. Perfect background music for working.

The occasional interventions (“you’re listening to Radio Free Fedi”) tend to be a bit long, which can be distracting. But that’s honestly the worst thing I have to say after hours of listening.

I ended up checking out their website every now and then to follow whoever I was listening to on Mastodon. So it’s also a good way to discover independent artists.

As long as you haven’t given away intellectual property to a label, they’re yours to do with as you please.

And you cannot download music from RFF - it’s like a regular radio. You listen, discover, and move on. Submitting music to it is not the same as giving up ownership - you choose whatever license you want.

I can’t say I ever really understood what Newsmast is up to, but Channel.org looks pretty nifty. It seems like a good way for organisations consisting of several independent people to get together and present all their federated content in one public channel.

The only redeeming feature about this is that it only looks about as awful as any other social media.

Which is not very redeeming at all, of course.

The comments on the post also aren’t from Mozilla.social. It’s not like they would have been happy to see Mozilla as a successful actor on the Fediverse either.

The trolls in the comment section at least hints at the fact that creating a more positive and constructive online space proved more difficult than they imagined.

I was curious, and joined the queue for the closed beta a long time ago. Never heard back. They explored something new in closed channels, decided not to go for it, backed out. I don’t really think they need to justify the decision.

Running a social media is a huge effort, and there’s a lot of trolls out there actively targeting Mozilla. I imagine it’s just more trouble than it’s worth.

The official story is that Meta is worried about being sued by people suddenly seeing their content pushed to some random website without their consent if it’s enabled by default, so they won’t risk enabling it by default. At least not before the fediverse is huge enough that everything you post going everywhere on the internet is the expected behaviour.

Fair enough really. I wouldn’t want to be sued for that either, and they obviously cannot expect Congress to understand… anything.