Mastodon users can post to the Threadiverse by tagging a community, but since we don't have "quoted boosts"/quote posts, there's no way of including an existing thread or post when doing so.
For sure! But considering Mastodon has most of the content that would be quote posted this way and most of the users who would be subject to it, and they are working on it (at their own pace), I think it would be tactile to see how it is implemented in Mastodon first and then proceed from that.
It could for example be that Mastodon users will be able to opt out of quote posts in general or in specific posts. If so, this should be respected in other implementations as well. And in general, it's just nice to have things consistent, and when it's taking the Mastodon team so long to implement I suspect it's because they're devoted to making sure they do it right. :)
If you press the cog in the top right corner you can choose between six different themes, as well as moving the sidebar around, text size, and a bunch of other tweaks. :)
It has gotten really, really good for photography. There's a bunch of incredible photographers posting their stuff on the Fediverse these days, and they enjoy the appeal of it that it's closer to what Instagram was before it became an influencer hub.
As for random cats and dogs, I guess some people enjoy that as well.
I wouldn't say mbin is awkward to use, but microblogging is included as a bit of a second thought. It's still nice to be able to communicate with the fediverse at large.
PieFed feels faster than the others to me. It has good support for various content (like peertube channels), allows for content filtering with keywords, has combined communities, and a lot of other clever stuff.
I think it's also a bit utopian to expect everyone to make an informed decision about which small instance to sign up for right away. It could be nice to have a little overview ready for whoever has been using lemmy.world or some other big instance for a while, understands how the fediverse works, and wants to migrate to a smaller instance for some reason or another.
Personally I wasn't really sure where to go after Kbin.social, and my decision on Kbin.earth was pretty random. Happy with my decision though!
A landing page of sorts for small instances could be neat - a list of small instances welcoming new users, what their moderation policies are, software, philosophy of (de)federation, and other basic stuff.
It's easy to find the big ones, but for those looking for smaller instances they can be harder to find.
As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It's crazy to me that this is not the case.
If you're an organization looking for a platform in which to publish your videos so that they can be spread in your newsletter/social media and embedded on your website, it's probably a very good alternative.
If you're a content creator who runs on donations and has a dedicated following already, it might be good. And as the fediverse grows, it will only get better.
For a lot of the content creators who live off engagement and clicks, it's much less likely to become a viable alternative. The kind of content people will watch for hours, but that nobody would ever consider paying for.
I think it's not about one platform replacing all of YouTube, but about providing viable alternatives for specific uses.
They've fixed it now by the way, after someone contacted them about it. :)
I think it's cool that someone who knows nothing about Mastodon is even writing about this. Though I would wish journalists had the time to double check just a little bit more.
I think (!) the idea is that I could text you using your fediverse handle, and that it could somehow become integrated in other fediverse services.
It makes sense through the following storyline:
Dansup creates Pixelfed
People start texting each other using direct messages on Pixelfed, making Dansup uncomfortable as it is not at all encrypted
Dansup creates sup to provide integrated E2EE direct messaging in Pixelfed/associated platforms
I have no idea if it'll be good or if it'll be used. I struggle enough to get people on Signal. But if it can somehow provide E2EE while benefiting from the social graph of ActivityPub, it might not be the dumbest thing ever.
Of course, it's helped along by the fact that people don't have it installed already. But still fun to se the Fediverse represented in the list of popular apps. I think similar things are happening on Android in many countries.
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If Elena Rossini is indicative of the first generation of native influensers who are successful on the Fediverse, it's really just another reason why I like where this is headed.
It also has 7.4 on IMDB. I should give it a watch.
That's on the Mastodon side - having bluesky opted in by default would be less problematic, and would solve a lot of problems. The main reason it's not done yet is for reasons of scale.
I feel like a lot of what "Free Our Feeds" is trying to achieve has already been done by @snarfed.org@snarfed.org with @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. Supporting Bridgy in order to make all Bluesky accounts open for bridging by default would leap us pretty fast towards achieving these goals, by making any microblogging platform on the fediverse a genuine alternative.
Instead they need $30 million to develop yet another thing.
If Bluesky users want to fund this, it should at least safeguard that Bluesky remains committed to leaving AT Proto running. As long as they keep that running, a bridge between the Fediverse and Bluesky remains possible. Which is all I personally need, so it's all fine by me.
I make the same mistake all the time for some reason, though I know which is which. I have a theory the reason is that the X axis is often used to plot years (Y), which messes with my brain ever so slightly.
That said, I don't think the Y axis should necessarily start in zero in a graph that seeks to show the pattern of growth rather than the number of users in absolute terms. If anything, a longer X axis would have been more useful, in order to show how unusual such a growth pattern is.
Yeah, I know I shouldn't bother. I am just annoyed by the misconception that all graphs should always start in 0 on the Y axis, as if it was some law of nature. Shouldn't allow myself to get dragged in further. :)
Mastodon users can post to the Threadiverse by tagging a community, but since we don't have "quoted boosts"/quote posts, there's no way of including an existing thread or post when doing so.