spaduf

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spaduf,

Some other instances that have come to mind:
slrpnk.net - Seems like something of a natural fit considering they are also the home of !twoxchromosomes which is roughly the same size and number of active users
lemmy.world - This is a fairly general community and so it makes some sense to be on a fairly general instance

masimatutu, to fediverse en-gb

Mastodon has the responsibility to promote diversity in the Fediverse

I love the Threadiverse. Compared to the microblogging Fediverse’s sea of random thoughts, Lemmy and kbin are so much easier to navigate with the options to sort posts by subscribed, from local instances or everything federated. You can also sort by individual community, and then there are the countless ways to order the posts and comments (which are stored neatly under the main post, by the way). That people can more easily find the right discussions and see where they can contribute also means that the discussions tend to be more focused and productive than elsewhere. Decentralisation also makes a lot of sense, since it is built around different communities. All that’s needed is users.

Things were going quite well for a while when Reddit killed third-party apps, prompting many to leave and find the Threadiverse. However, it is quite difficult to entertain a crowd that has grown accustomed to a constant bombardment of dopamine-inducing or interesting content by tens of millions of users, if you only have a couple hundred thousand people. This is causing some to leave, which of course increases this effect. The active users have more than halved since July, according to FediDB. The mood is also becoming more tense. Maybe the lack of engagement drives some to cause it through hostility, I’m not quite sure. Either way, the Threadiverse becoming a less enjoyable place to be, which is quite sad considering how promising it is.

But what is really frustrating is that we could easily have that userbase. The entire Fediverse has over ten million users, and many Mastodonians clearly want to engage in group-based discussion, looking at Guppe groups. The focused discussions should also be quite attractive. Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse? The main reason is that Mastodon simply doesn’t federate post content. I really can’t see why the platform that federates entire Wordpress blogs refuses to federate thread content just because it has a title, and instead just replaces the body with a link to the post. Very unhelpful.

The same goes with PeerTube. There are plenty of videos on there that I am quite sure a lot of Mastodonians would appreciate, yet both views and likes there stay consistently in the tens. Yes, Mastodon’s web interface has a local video player, but in most clients it is the same link shenanigans, may may partly explain the small amount of engagement. This is also quite sad, because Google’s YouTube is one of the worst social network monopolies out there, if not the worst.

And I know some might say that Mastodon is a microblogging platform and that it makes sense only to have microblogging content, but the problem is that Mastodon is the dominant platform on the Fediverse, its users making up close to 80% of all Fedizens. It has gone so far that several Friendica and Hubzilla users have been complaining about complaints from Mastodonians that their posts do not live up to Mastodon customs, and of course, that people frequently use “Mastodon” to refer to the entire Fediverse. This, of course, goes entirely against the idea of the Fediverse, that many diverse platforms live in harmony with and awareness of each other.

The very least that Mastodon could do is to support the content of other platforms. Then I’d wish that they’d improve discoverability, by for instance adding a videos tab in the explore section, improving federation of favourites since it is the dominant sorting mechanism on many other platforms, and making a clear distinction between people (@person) and groups (!group), but I know that that is quite much to ask.

P.S. @feditips , @FediFollows , I know that you are reluctant to promote Lemmy and its communities because of the ideology of its founders, but the fact is firstly that it’s open source and there aren't any individual people who control the entire project, and that the software itself is very apolitical. In fact, most Lemmy users both oppose and are on instances that have rules against such beliefs, so I highly encourage you to at least help raise awareness on the communities. Then, of course, there’s kbin, which isn’t associated with any extremism at all. As a bonus, it has much better integration with the microblogging Fediverse, but it is a lot smaller and younger, and still very much under development.

Anyways, that was a ramble. Thanks for hearing me out.

@fediverse

spaduf, (edited )

I think one of the biggest practical hurdles here is the authorized fetch issue which prevents some Mastodon instances from correctly federating with lemmy and peertube. From what I understand the issue there is actually Lemmy-side, so that probably needs a serious look at first.

spaduf,

Is there a good general use instance? I swear I’ve looked and never seem to find any

spaduf,

Friendica. Never had an issue with finding Mastodon instances

spaduf,

A lot of people are talking about multi’s, but I think the new ground here is this idea of a fluid shifting with a change in the user’s interests. The first method that comes to mind is something like a “personal” sort, where posts are further weighted based on the number of recent interactions with a given community.

spaduf,

Honestly, I think it looks substantially cleaner than the new reddit. Also, a lot more performant, which goes a long way towards the overall vibe of the UI.

spaduf,

Well that’s exactly why I’m bringing it up here. Lemmy didn’t start as a federated service.

spaduf,

And one in the US apparently

spaduf,

It’s very possible this will change once this rolls out more broadly simply because the overall activity on smaller communities will increase substantially. I suspect a lot of people will make it a habit to check this sort but the overall size of these communities will probably not see a huge increase.

spaduf, (edited )

Looking again, I think I had overestimated the significance of lemmy.ml upgrading. I don’t think it’s quite as close to release as I had expected. Relevant post from the devs: slrpnk.net/post/4374377

spaduf,

Doesn’t look like there’s a changelog for the most recent version yet but the features that seem to be most relevant to users are:

  • scaled sort
  • controversial sort
  • instance level blocking
  • moderator timeline (shows only communities you moderate)
* lots of general performance improvements
An older Breaking Changes post can be found here: lemmy.ml/post/5711722
spaduf, to lemmy
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Just started a new Lemmy community for sharing freely available full-length college courses and lectures. You can follow from Mastodon at @opencourselectures
#lemmy #fediverse #academia #selfstudy #learning

spaduf, (edited )

I appreciate that. I’m starting to understand that while I have been hoarding these links like a dragon, most folks are not aware that this is a thing at all. That said, the community is still fairly small and following the 90-9-1 rule we should only expect to have 3 regular posters anyway. I really wish authorized fetch was working for Lemmy as I feel like some crossover with the academic circles of Mastodon would be a gamechanger for growth. This post was actually a repost so that I could pin it on my new Mastodon account and I think we saw substantial subscriber growth from it. Unfortunately, on some instances the user can follow but will not see future posts.

spaduf, (edited )

ShoeOnHead primarily produces rightwing dogwhistle content. Her videos are generally not welcome here.

EDIT: More info for those curious: rationalwiki.org/wiki/Shoe0nHeadTLDR is that she’s pretty explicitly an antifeminist and has been for as long as she’s been in the public eye (since gamergate).

spaduf,

Are her views/take fairly shallow and easily swayed, has she matured as a person and changed her politics, or is she just an online creator following where the trends are for views?

I don’t think there’s been any significant change in her content. Notable that the person posting the video was a fresh account and that was their first comment.

spaduf,

And calling her “right wing dogwhistle content” is anything but. It’s just a dishonest excuse to discredit her for not perfectly riding the approved narrative.

She’s been producing antifeminist content while calling herself a progressive for a very long time. I fail to see how that’s not right wing dog whistling that is largely incompatible with the goals of this community.

spaduf,

I think it very much matters WHY Lemmy is losing users. If it’s a fixable problem, well then we should fix it gahdamnit

spaduf,

metric FUCKTONS less toxicity

I really wish this were true but we are absolutely sliding in the direction of more toxicity and I think it’s a large part of why users are leaving. What’s more is that there’s not nearly enough actually insightful commenting to make up for it. Reddit has absolutely lost a lot of that too but you can usually still find something on the field of bullshit. Very frequently I can read 20-30 comments here and not see a single insightful or original thought.

spaduf,

I’ve been really surprised that the blanket promise to pay the legal bills of folks who may or may not be operating under fair use has not been a bigger part of this conversation. Particularly as this new line of user customized gpt products already includes PAYING the people who build these sometimes illegal products. The money incinerator continues.

NYT Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Marrying? Ask Women What Dating Is Like. (Gift Link) (www.nytimes.com)

This is a tough piece, one that I share without fully endorsing. It lays out the problems that women experience with some men, like that men are not getting college degrees at the same rate as women or the lack of emotional modelling provided to boys and young men:...

spaduf,

Locking as repost. Previous discussion here: kbin.social/m/mensliberation@lemmy.ca/t/623593

Please feel free to make a new discussion post about some of these ideas

spaduf,

Google paying them an absolute shitload of money (still pretty small compared to what Google pays Apple). It’d be pretty hard to get the donations to make up a missing half billion.

spaduf,

They were probably more swayed by the loss of their upcoming payout than any love for Altman. Increasingly sounds like Ilya just bungled the timing

spaduf,

This exactly. It’s pretty hard to imagine that a weighted sort algorithm is really so complex that it couldn’t have been implemented during the last migratory wave

spaduf,

Lurker’s Lounge?

spaduf,

Unionizing

spaduf,

This is a good idea. I’ll update the template

spaduf,

Big “there are two genders, men and political” energy

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