VC-funded startups are one kind of owner and operator of a social network, but they're not the only kind.
The fediverse lets us have networks run by our households, clubs, churches, our cities, our employers, big tech, coops, mobile phone carriers, ISPs, operating systems vendors, professional associations, collectives.
And all those networks are connected together with simple standards, so the important thing, our relationships with people we care about, are always available.
FR : est-ce que par chance il y a des personnes sur le Fediverse qui sont / seront à Athènes demain soir pour un #mastapero international ? Je suis une cycliste française et j'arriverai demain à #Athènes après un périple de 40 jours à vélo et ça serait chouette de célébrer ça avec vous 🎉 (et j'ai encore des geowoods à distribuer 🤗)
EN : are they by any chance some people on the Fediverse who are in #Athens tomorrow evening? I'm a French cyclist and I will arrive in your city tomorrow from Paris after 40 days bikig. It would be nice to have a drink to celebrate With you 🎉 (and I still have some geowoods to distribute 😊)
If you were going to create a city committee* Fediverse account, which server would you** put it on?
(BEES, Biodiversity, Environment, and Ecological Sustainability Committee)
** Yes, I know the best answer here is one run by the city, but I don't have the time and the city ain't gonna support unless I do it as a volunteer, so please don't mention that.
Boosts welcome (if your followers are likely to follow ** requests)
I'm a historian, tutor, editor, beginning gardener & aspiring self-hoster. My research focuses on early medieval #hagiography & its function in the pastoral care of the laity, so I think a lot about the intersection of ideology, rhetoric, & praxis.
I enjoy travel & (smartphone) photography, museums, big cities but also nature. I hope to use this account to share my travels and to promote ancient & medieval studies on the fediverse. @medievodons@histodons
Bowie's album Diamond Dogs was my music of choice when I was gearing up to hit the city (Montreal) for a night of partying. I'll bet I could recite every word of it.
This year’s champion is Keef Marshall, who records as Key 13. His song, “Misaligned Ardvarks,” received 50 of the 911 votes submitted by account holders in the fediverse, a network of federated servers that are used to communicate with each other, share messages, music and more.
The top 10 finishers were announced today by FediVision organizers, who added that a more expansive write-up is coming soon (check back here for a link to that when it becomes available).
Here are the top three vote-getters in this year’s FediVision Song Contest.
In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
Neither microblogging nor forum discussion are popular in Brazil; the top contenders are video services (YT, TT), and the Meta cancer tendrils (IG, FB) behaving as Orkut replacement goldfish. So the main Fediverse services are alternatives for things that, locally, are not overly common to begin with, when people have their “motherfucking caramel” doing funny shit they beeline for TT or FB.
Another factor that I think that reduces Fediverse usage in Brazil is Anglocentrism. Brazilians are mostly monolingual; the exceptions are typically 1) from a colonial background, or 2) highly educated, and only (2) applies here. For most people in Brazil, English content is the same as nothing, or as “the skwerlficashun! throovy! afdsjkfdsa!”.
That backtracks into your OP. I believe that Fediverse success requires
diversification of the platforms widely used and available in the Fediverse
better ways to handle language that reduce the “I don’t speak it so it’s noise” issue
Even with that in mind my city has a Mastodon server. I often lurk there because I’m a verbose fuck, not suited for microblogging; but it’s comfy.
#Boston - Weekend events thread: Memorial Day 2024 Edition. There's a ton going on around town, but what's on your radar, #NewEngland?
Friday's going to be hot again in the mid 80s, but Saturday and Sunday should be cooler/cloudier in the mid-upper 70s. Memorial Day Monday might have rainy afternoon cookouts, in the upper 60s.
(Promote this weekend's events with #BostonWeekend to play along 1/?)
People who don’t want to be here, leaving, isn’t necessarily a problem until their absence begins affecting the level of activity.
As long as the total user count keeps growing, that means new people are trying out Lemmy, which should mean new people who actually want to use it, are finding it.
That that is currently happening more slowly than the rate at which people are leaving the platform, isn’t cause for alarm IMO.
Lemmy doesn’t need a billion users, it needs enough to be worth using if it’s something you want to be using, and it does.
Stuff like the Reddit API drama put it in front of a lot of new people, and I think even brought it up to critical mass in terms of user activity. But except for something like that happening again, the only “fixes” I can think of are small and slow ones.
Stuff like spreading knowledge of the fediverse through word of mouth. Or purchasing ads for it with your own money.
I’ve also been playing around with the idea of creating activist stickers that “advertise” federated social media, to place in public around my city.
I'm thinking of checking out #bluesky now that dorsey left, but I can't find a list of bluesky servers/instances. Is the federation feature too new? I just don't wanna do bluesky.social because I don't want the bs of being in a mainstream instance.
#Bluesky is organized in a very different way than the Fediverse. It's hard to compare 1:1, it's apples to oranges.
Fedi is basically a collection of "instances" that are kind of city-states. Your instance is your UI, your identity, your community and does moderation for you.
Hmm, only 26 followers after being on Mastodon since November 2022? Ok, here is my intro again: (ex) Full stack web developer with Bread and Roses Creative, full time artist (now) and food critic (currently) with Chuck Eats KC. Kansas City-based web dev since the dawn of browsers (1995). Focus these days is one creative stuff: writing, food criticism, photography, streaming, art, and making fun videos.#Artists#Intros#Writers#FoodCritics#Fediverse#WebDev
I'm bloody tired of seeing posts from people telling me I can't use this service or buy products from that company or whatever, because they do things that displease the poster.
I swear, we could power entire cities if we could only harness the energy of fediverse users focused on issues of ideological purity
Woohoo 🎉 Today, we federated another great group of Flipboard curators, adding over 2,500 Flipboard Magazines to the fediverse on topics like history, climate, culture, space and education.
And check out these five newly federated Magazines we love:
Water: stories related to water issues curated by climate diplomacy expert Anna Schulz @water
Quantum: cutting edge physics from quantum mechanics to cosmology @quantum
S.T.E.A.M.E.D.: curating stories in science, technology, engineering, architecture, math, medicine, and design @s
Spyglass: curated by M.G. Siegler, a long-time technology investor and writer @spyglass
City Life: curated by George Hahn, a self-proclaimed urban raconteur and self-made thousandaire in pursuit of sartorial stealth and effective living @city
Wondering what a Magazine is? A Magazine is a curated feed of posts about a specific topic or interest that is followable, just like a profile.
[Lateral] 86: Tricycles that lean (lemmy.zip)
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Invitation to openSUSE Asia Summit 2024 Tokyo Japan (news.opensuse.org)
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Review: Live with Yourself! (Webcomic) (www.webtoons.com)
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The countries with the most Fediverse servers are rich and former/current colonial powers. One of the best true barometers of the success of the Fediverse is how quickly we can turn that on its head. (sopuli.xyz)
In the end I don’t think internet users in rich powerful countries are the users most likely to benefit and invest their time into in the fediverse. They might be the ones with the most free time, money and privilege around computers which makes being on the leading edge of niche technologies far easier, but I don’t think...
We are now at 48,859 monthly active users vs 51,172 a month ago, decline seems slow but steady. Anything we can do about it?
Link to the graphs: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats