According to FediDB, monthly active users on the fediverse have dropped to 1,005,573 😳 Looks like they might drop below 1 million if the downward trend continues.
@noellemitchell It's strange how #FediDB shows the numbers of users and servers going up and up, but the number of MAU going steadily down. Maybe there's a miscalculation somewhere.
I'm adding new profile fields to #Smithereen, so I would like to ask the fediverse about what kinds of contact info one would expect to be able to add to their profile. So far I've seen:
Personal website/blog
Matrix
XMPP
Telegram
Signal
Phone number
Twitter
Email
I've not yet seen these in fediverse profiles but they are mainstream enough that won't hurt to add:
@grishka
I'm not sure Iif I've got the gist of what you are planning to do, but my understanding is that you want to add dedicated fields in the user's profile for their social contact info. If that's the case, then I wonder why jot letting the user to define the field names? Something similar to what mastodon does. The benefits are:
@thisismissem there's a lot of assumptions that the domain provides a sort of namespace. Like, it would be pretty hard to share the webfinger path, or nodeinfo.
The #fediverse is probably better at building filter bubbles (showing you content you agree with) than traditional social media.
Your home feed really only shows you opinions from people you follow. Who follows people they don't like?
For sites like Twitter somebody suggested the term "filterclash", they serve content you don't agree with to increase engagement like commenting or quote posting to dunk on people.
The Fediverse is probably more similar how discussions are held in offline...
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How popular other opinions are. I Germany very very recently and a really big protest wave against racism and fat right oriented people were pretty confused on how many people attended these, how many people have a different opinion to them. In their bubble the opinion that racism is bad is just not prevalent so they expected its not.
And tbh same for me, every time their is an election I wonder who would vote for AFD or CDU. I personally know just a single person.
Supposedly there are a lot of extremest and conspiracy believes. Telegram up until very recently had no algorithm at all. (Now just small, pretty hidden recommendations for similar channels) You just follow channels and groups you are interested in and they might refer your to more.
This filter bubble behavior is probably what makes this possible.
@Mrfunkedude
To be honest, my partner would murder me if she heard me doing that shit on repeat for penny donations. It's not worth it, no matter how much the world wants to see me twerk to catchphrases.
Some of the areas where I am most critical of #ActivityPub are areas where it is clear that the design is focused around how to represent the world rather than how a healthy system behaves.
Basically the focus is almost entirely on "how do I describe what humans are doing?" Sometimes in great detail, but very little emphasis is on "what is required for a set of health distributed nodes to talk to one another successfully."
It's like if I were to develop a programming language that gave you infinite expressibility (within English, separate problem) about objects, but didn't give you any tools to manipulate those objects.
So you can say "Carl Tells Jane that Alice Wrote a Note to Bob" but you can't write a basic server because you can't confirm in a consistent way that it was ever actually sent to Jane, let alone that Jane received it.
Any other let’s plays that also publish their work as a podcast so I don’t have to hack a method of turning YouTube channels into podcasts? I know about gorillas play through but I’m looking for others. I turn all YouTube channels into podcasts anyway to avoid the ads and other cruff, but anything on #PeerTube? #Gaming#Games#YouTube#Podcasts#Podcast
The Balkanised Activitypub Federation (BAF…?) is a great source of frustration. I have a friend, @kolev , and he's having a hard time following me. I know the answer is probably "technical limitations", but why do server owners have any say on what their users may or may not read? That's abhorrent.
Eventually I would have to copy my Nostr keypair here and find a good piece of software with which to use it.
@dekkzz76 I have a suggestion - a path of diplomacy and reconciliation. You can't see it, but I am rolling my eyes. babka.social and emacs.ch can attach a dynamo and maybe create enough power to repay their shared hosting bills. What do you think?
Zastanawiam się jakim powodzeniem cieszyłoby się znajdowanie drugich połówek w #Fediverse?
Ciekawy temat, bo mimo tego, że jest tu zaledwie 5 osób (hehe) to jego lwia część ma podobne zainteresowania (technologie i inne techniczne tematy), choć różne poglądy
@mstankiewicz Z jednej strony większy nacisk na interakcje społeczne przez brak algorytmów, z drugiej strony znacznie mniejsza pula… z trzeciej strony nie ma dnia żebym nie zobaczył posta o podtekście romantyczno-seksualnym pomiędzy użytkownikami.
Ergo, trudno uogólniać w przypadku takiego projektu jak fediwersum 🙃
@lampsofgold This is a good question and I don't know the answer. I had to really compress the text here, so I want to clarify that the federal bureau named did not mishandle the mummy; the federal authorities are blaming local officials in Guanajuato.
A note on the liquor license story: historically, liquor licenses in Boston have been very restricted, and can't be changed by the city itself; it has to go through the state Legislature.
The small number of liquor licenses has left many restaurants in Boston's Black and brown communities without options to serve alcohol, which is typically very important to the profitability of those businesses.
@liaizon As adoption of the Fediverse hopefully grows from the current niche of a couple of million or so technology enthusiasts into the next phase, the language will and must change. It will change again if/when the Fediverse makes it across the chasm into the mainstream.
So IMHO it's all good.
I just want to say that one thing the #Fediverse has consistently shown me is that no matter how much time and effort I put into my accounts here, I am consistently rewarded far more than my effort both literally and metaphorically, by some of the most generous and gracious people with whom I've ever had the privilege of conversing.
@Alice, @BobWilliams, @zymenchlora, @GayDeceiver, @HCBunny, @theropologist, @JoParkerBear, just to name a few - these are just some of the people here that have stood by me and my little family, several of whom going as far back as when I arrived during the Great Exodus of '22.
@beardedtechguy@cliffwade nice! Hopefully headache-free days for you both. I’ll be enjoying my last day off until I start a new job tomorrow. Was laid off and haven’t had work for 10 months now. Tomorrow will also be the first time I have a child go to daycare. Gonna be a few more firsts tomorrow, so gonna be as stress-free today as we can be!
"Wir müssen weg von Plattformen von Milliardären und brauchen Social Media in Nutzerhand."
sagt @padeluun auf der #rp24
Das #Fediverse basiert (wie E-Mail) auf offenen Schnittstellen und ist deshalb nachhaltiger und wird bleiben.
@digitalcourage Ich kann das nicht erkennen. Für viele ist die Auswahl eines Servers schon zu viel. Alle Erklärungsversuche an der breiten Masse oder auch bei Freunden scheitern. Das selbe Phänomen wie bei Messenger-Diensten. Im Wallet-Garden ist's beengt aber für viele gemütlich. @padeluun
"The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites."
If you're not looking at @theverge and @404mediaco as social web platforms that are hosting hand-picked content creators with a publisher's infrastructure, you're not paying attention. #Fediverse
awesome. we have to stop thinking about the fedi as a bunch of decentralized alternatives to the closed platforms, but AP as a social layer on top of the open web. that's where we become a threat to the vulture capitalists. the next step is to integrate the comment handling of lemmy/kbin/reddit. mastodon should do this too.
Happy 4th birthday (first commit) to @owncast! Thank you @gabek and all the contributors for your hard work. You’ve made the web a better place. #owncast
Today I spent several hours trying to help a friend think up ways to take control of the messaging for his dance organization. It's more or less just him running it at the moment but it's on the order of 100 people who are interested and sometimes come to his dance events. Right now it's communicating mostly through Facebook and Instagram. We talked about ways to make a website, forum, blog, sell subscriptions, calendaring 1/
It quickly became obvious how much "enclosure" there is in tech. You can't even add a webcal .ics file to your android calendar! (Not directly, requires login to desktop Google calendar). And you can't export a Google calendar as an ics! (At all). In any case lots of companies want to be the middleman in your business eventually taking a huge chunk of revenues for what is essentially a trivial service.
Anyone have thoughts about what kind of tech stack could help run a sort of club/business that has regular and special events, needs a public calendar, list of members, reserve spots in limited classes, take credit cards for tickets/door fees, post pictures and let people talk about the events, maybe have discussions about lessons or techniques or videos or music playlists or whatever other dance related stuff people might want to talk about... Probably other stuff we would need.
