Alright #CalcKey junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.
That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?
And to top off the discussion I'll add an obligatory reference to the #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process, where any dev can take the initiative and bring a particular mechanism into standard use..
Looked up someone who used to be on here (@vicki, basically stopped posting in March) and went back to their Twitter, and found this exchange. Don’t know how representative it is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it is for a number of “lost” fediverse users. I know vicki tried for a while. Don’t really know how I feel about this.
@eshep@vicki@maegul I agree with you. I think there has been some pressure, for some reason, to make the #Fediverse a direct replacement for centralized social media, and mostly Twitter. But if you're trying to convince people this is just like centralized social, then you will try behaving more and more like them. So first you may start talking only about your platform, for a more consistent experience and to not confuse users. Then you find out that having to choose a server also confuses users who want an experience just like Twitter, so you make one server the default for onboarding. Is it so hard to see that this leads to some kind of centralization, which is futile because it just goes against the very nature of this place? If you want a centralized experience, look for (or start) a centralized platform.
So many people have been trying to prove that this is better than centralized social media, which implies that they are directly comparable. This is not how I perceive this place. I mean I prefer it from centralized social a million times, but not because it's the same but better - because it's different, and I personally like the ways in which it is different.
People seem to forget that the decentralization of the #Fediverse occurs because we're essentially federated communities. We are both a wider interconnecting network, but we're also local communities. If you try to interpret the #Fediverse as only the first or only the second, you're totally missing the point, you don't see complete picture:
A centralized, "universal" network means mainstream social media: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.
Local communities are things like forums.
The #Fediverse is both and neither.
It's dialectics: first we had forums, then we had big social. The Fediverse combines and surpasses them. This is why this is the next level. We come from the future. :blobbonedealwithit:
Tengo que reconocer que he incumplido la primera parte de mi promesa de una "comunidad pequeña", pues aunque la ambición fuese poca al principio, en poco tiempo nos convertimos en el mayor servidor generalista de habla hispana :blobcat0_0:
Espero poder decir que he cumplido con la segunda parte, eso sí 🤭
Para celebrarlo, aquí van unas cuantas estadísticas extra sobre el servidor:
Tenemos 19852 usuarios, de los cuales 4188+ son activos y 1320 borraron su cuenta o se la suspendimos.
Conocemos 14463 servidores y casi medio millón de usuarios de todo el Fediverso.
Hemos resuelto alrededor de 300 informes de moderación.
Ha tenido un coste de unos 300€ hasta ahora, que se han cubierto con 400€ en donaciones.
En las imágenes, entre otras, las estadísticas sobre retención, que por primera vez están "completas".
All the movement and animations on CalcKey is kind of annoying. I suppose the good news is that it makes we want to close the browser window and go for a walk.
Can I turn off all the annimations or am I doomed to more exercise and less screen time?
@Jdreben@rudiev@stpaultim I hope not either. I’m glad there’s the option & maybe be further options down the road. Especially within the #fediverse user choice needs to always be a top priority
A follow-up that #trans techie types are just everywhere here in the #Fediverse :fediverse: :heart_trans: :heart_nb: so don't just think in #Mastodon :mastodon: terms
QT: courtesy @kainoa the main developer on #Calckey
(pic is simply in case the link doesn't work)
Have you guys seen an AI video Ad where a generated realistic woman, comes out talking about AI, and giving you comfort that AI is here to help, and not to be afraid?
Oh, and it says your name at the beginning? "Hello Felipe, I just want to show you in a few minutes the positive effect of AI...."
I watched this in Italian language, on a Roku tv, I am trying to find the video in youtube but have not been able to...
Ok so it seems that spam bots are starting to reach some users from mastodon.social once again (I'm gonna have to mute the instance once more on my other accounts since tech.lgbt already limited the big instance)
Be on the lookout Fedi, and as always...Report first and Block!
#Calckey ist eine social media Plattform im #Fediverse, wie es mit Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc. so einige gibt.
Es ist eine Microblogging-Plattform, die sich auf die User Experience konzentriert und du Nutzung möglichst angenehm gestalten will.
Noch kürzer: wie Mastodon, aber schöner/nutzerfreundlicher und weniger dogmatisch
These will be remembered as the early days of calckey.social. I think that most people who make an account for "testing #Calckey" reasons, mostly know what's going on, so they are ensuring they can participate in discussions like this in the future:
Remember when calckey.social first started?
Oh sure, I was a member back when it had less than 2000 users. Many people back then didn't even know other #Fediverse platforms existed, can you imagine? But we knew better. Heheh.
You should know that we're onto your plan and you're not fooling anybody! "Testing Calckey"... yeah right. :blobbonesmoke:
the following PSA to the #fediverse is literally dictated by my wife, now standing behind me:
That Tristan guy is right, so BEWARE. Doing the "amazing thinker" thing is EXACTLY how he tricked me into marrying, then "living in interesting times", as the Chinese proverb goes. You've been warned.
PS, still by her: but NO, he's NOT on the market. Still my problem and mine only
Is PWA the way to go for now? #Milktea seems nice but I keep getting network errors when loading the TL. Very excited for Fedilab support in the near future!
@atomicpoet@breakfastmtn I believe so as well, I have had the most stable experience with the PWA. Regardless, I am happy to have migrated here. I believe in the potential. #fediverse
@breakfastmtn I have been looking for iOS. I found some for MissKey but the fetching is insanely slow, I have better luck on the web, but even that encounters issues regularly #fediverse
The Guggenheim shared 1.2k posts and then stopped posting. Perhaps they just wanted to get share on the #fediverse posts they had shared elsewhere before.
In any case, they only have 7 followers for an account with a huge treasure of images from their collection. Why don’t we all follow them, and boost our favorite images on #followFriday.
And that’s the end of the journey, did a few sides and exploration in the beginning, but the sides feel pretty pointless to me so happy to call it with the final mission complete and 22 hours under my belt… #JediSurvivor#starwars#playstation#console#gaming#PS5Share
@darth I just noticed this and made me thing of your post about #spoilers a ways back.
In #metatext I have set my images to sensitive which does not hide the text, but I just opened ivory and realized that’s probably not a #fediverse feature. Maybe at least some of them are accidental #spoilers
Ich hab ein bißchen die Befürchtung, dass der Vogeldienst sich hält und Masto wieder in Vergessenheit gerät, jetzt wo SpaceKaren eine Nachfolgerin gefunden hat, die nicht komplett "irre" zu sein scheint - auch wenn das Einstellungsvoraussetzung war. Das werden viele als "jetzt wo er wieder weg ist, ist alles wieder gut" für sich deuten und den Wechsel sein lassen. Was schlimm wäre.
@dab Oh je - wir hatten im #Fediverse über die vielen Jahre schon jedem Menge Twitter-Wellen - Leute kommen, Leute gehen, Leute bleiben. Das #Fediverse muss keine Zahlen haben, es muss kein Wachstum haben, das #Fediverse ist nicht kommerziell. Quantität ist hier nicht Synonym für Qualität.