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Huh. Seems pretty expansive - @dansup@mastodon.social, any comment?

Get them on Signal, I’d say. :)

She’s not interested in using any social media at all, she just wants a place to toot about her publications because it’s part of the job. So some Mastodon instance specific to her field is pretty much as good as it gets for her usecase. As an academic the domain-specific Mastodon instances are pretty great.

I like Mbin a lot though! :)

As an academic, there are several users on Bluesky I would like to follow. Sadly very few are bridged for now. Hopefully all Bluesky accounts will be open for bridging at some point.

Another advantage is that thanks to Bridgy I can convince my partner to join Mastodon instead of Bluesky to promote her work, as the reach is the same on either platform.

Of all the nerdy things I’m excited about, the prospekt of making bug reports to FOSS git projects through my Mbin or Mastodon accounts is certainly on the list. I have so many accounts I made just for a single bug report. This will be great if/when it takes off.

Social media needs testing like any other software. If you join Loops now, you’re basically a beta tester.

Testing social media without users makes little sense.

There’s also an argument to be made that when it is finally released properly, it’s good to have some content there already.

I am a little concerned about the future of Loops and Pixelfed though. Developing things can be fun, maintaining them is a different story.

Looking forward to the F-droid release - it’s a bit ironic that that’s the only platform where it is currently not available, considering how it seems to be the reasonable place to get the app.

I don’t judge them too hard. Much like Twitter users I think they are blndly using a product that has gotten gradually worse. Much like Twitter users I think they need to realise at some point. But I understand that it’s difficult, and much like Twitter’s social graph, Apple’s network of services keep people captive.

And yes, there are huge problems in the Android camp as well. I sympathize with users who think all alternatives are bad, but I think we need to realize some are worse than others.

Also worth noting I don’t think anyone should buy a new phone over this. Whoever has an iPhone should keep using it until they can’t. But if they care, they should get something else after.

I think using Apple products involves paying money to a company who actively hurts you and limits your rights. That you cannot install software developed by an orbganization that accepts donations is pretty insane.

I’m not much of an absolutist. One can only do so much. But Apple is putting unreasonable constraints on consumers, and it should not be tolerated.

You can still install things on your Windows PC. Apple’s control over their ecosystem is to a degree where you have no meaningful ownership over your hardware any more.

I think people don’t need to be hypocritical, it’s enough to be ignorant. But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.

a small « support us » donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a « nope » from Apple.

Christ. Caring about your rights and using Apple products is not compatible.

Thanks - it’s interesting to hear what brings people to different platforms.

It sounds like there’s a lot of potential in Hubzilla for front-end developers seeking to make it a friendlier experience - from what everyone here is saying the back-end seems pretty solid.

I interpreted TheLugal as considering the old Facebook vibes as a bad thing - but each to their own!

As you’re using Friendica - Is the old school Facebook aesthetic part of what makes Friendica appeal to you? Did you move there directly from Facebook back in the day?

And if you have been around for a while, what has the recent growth of ActivityPub felt like from your corner of the Internet?

Friendica has been around since 2010 - it is very cool to me that the content we post here might reach users of a platform that was created almost a decade before ActivityPub was specified.

Yeah, it’s the same in mbin. It’s pretty common for spam bots here to create their own magazines to post in, for some reason. It’s a bit weird, because generally nobody will see their posts at all. I guess it might have to do with SEO?

Anyway, I try to weed them out by sorting by new and local now and then, but other than that they’re hard to spot. Reports are much appreciated.

Likewise the heroic nerds of the Threadiverse coined the term months before Threads was even announced, and they would be hard pressed to give it up to some scumbag billionaire.

It’s an epic culture war being fought between two largerly agreeing parties.

Out of curiosity, what made you change your mind and give it a chance? Any breaking point on Reddit’s side, or just boredom or a sense of adventure?

In regular migration studies there’s always talk of puah and pull factores; reasons for wanting to leave where you are, and reasons for wanting to go to the destination. While I personally like it here, I guess we are currently depending more on push factors than pull factors to attract people from Reddit.

I see quite a bit boosted on Mastodon, but I’m not sure where they are all posting from. On Pixelfed I follow photographers, so I see photography.

If youwant to see more art, the first step is to follow artists. Try to search for hashtags related to art forms you’re interred in on a large Mastodon instance, and follow relevant users wherever you want to follow them from. Pixelfed might be good if you’re not interested in text posts, but make sure you display boosts. Lemmy is not good as most content is invisible.

Once you follow some, for example @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org, you’ll see what they boost from around the Fediverse. Artists generally have a decent overview over their sphere of interest, so once the ball starts rolling you’ll see content from all over.

I filled my feed up quite nicely with independent musicians very quickly after listening to RadioFreeFedi a little while and following a couple of artists. Their boosts creates a nice little window into the indie music scene.

Always happy to see Friendica users around - it seems to integrate impressively with huge parts of the Fediverse.

I remember reading about it in the early days of the project, and not giving it a shot because there’s just no way any of my social graph would come with me there. Checking in now and then through the years it always seemed like an odd corner of the Internet. It’s really cool to me that I suddenly find myself seamlessly interacting with its users, both anonymously here and with my full name on Mastodon.

Sadly not entirely accurate for Lemmy, as it does not display content from other platforms (except comments or posts from mbin, piefed, etc) unless a Lemmy community is explicitly tagged. You cannot follow mastodon or Pixelfed user from Lemmy in any meanjngful way.

Ah, yeah, that’s messed up.

I’m really happy Mastodon takes their time todevelop new features instead of rushing into things. Makes me hopeful they’ll get it right.