Yes, I still have a #Twitter account, cause so many people who I am friends with; are still there.
It sucks that they can't go to places like #Discord. Or here, but here; things they would want. Are not present within #Mastodon or the #Fediverse.
I Roleplay / write stories with others, have been for 25+ years. So far, there is no #Roleplay area's within the Fediverse. That is why I can not wait until there is one.
@digital_wyrm0809@blissfulmun Though tags do roughly provide the same vertical silos for classification as abstract "areas" in many other social media architectures. You don't have to be on the same server as people who are interested in the same thing as you as long as you use tags which they are monitoring for more conversation appropriate to the subject.
For instance, #TTRPG is what I was monitoring and lo, here it be.
Server still affects discoverability. If you search for a tag you only see posts that have federated to your server, so if nobody from your server follows anyone who posts or boosts about that tag, you won't find it. This is especially problematic for smaller interests.
Things like mastovue help here because they allow you to tag-search other servers, and larger ones are more likely to have federated with servers with the right content.
@blissfulmun Yeah Fediverse definitely lacking in Niche topics. I would advise to give a look at Lemmy but mostly Kbin (due being rather new and more promising in future) . It's forums on Fediverse and easier to find such topics. So might find community you wanted there? Like we don't have Arknights community on Fediverse either, only after I joined Misskey.io I found out about channel(Misskey only feature) that is dedicated to Japanese Arknights players. https://fedi.directory/games/ also this.
@blissfulmun Back to forums, with no explicit Arknights community for Global players we made our own on Kbin as well as many who jumped from Reddit due Reddit following in steps of Twitter. They wanted from 3rd party apps to pay 0.12$ per request, which comes in millions for app makers due how Reddit handles requests it comes around in Millions. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754183/apollo-reddit-app-shutting-down-api as source. So after series of blatant lies from Reddit some dedicated community members left for fediverse.
@digital_wyrm0809 I agree with your points but I think you skipped part in my message and jumbled all in one. https://fedidb.org/ If you look at Pixelfields website dedicated to tracking, you will see tab Threadiverse which is Lemmy+Kbin. Know why it's trending? Due redditors aka forum loving people leaving because of #redditblackout#redditmigration . So in fact they are Fediverse forums/link agregators. Federation is a major thing as well, but it's easier to search random community posts.
@Kotking It's a cohort issue. By the time that social network software become popular, forums were dying out, so recent cohorts don't really know what a forum is where the thing that fits is Reddit.
I'm kind of done with running communities considering everyone online is extremely online and pretty much insane, but I was a person that wrote a lot of Content Management Systems, social network software, and forum software as well as was an IRCop.
@digital_wyrm0809https://kbin.social/m/arknights Here subforum that I help out with moderation. Tell me how different it is to forum experience? If it's not what is it. And I assure you I can post on Kbin/Lemmy from Mastodon, many my posts on this profile are direct replies to interesting posts from Lemmy or Kbin. Problem lies that for Mastodon it's groups @arknights while Lemmy has workaround by self boosting posts by group, Kbin doesn't have that and rather new( 5 months I think?) So it is long road.
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