But it's also not entirely @gruber's fault because the media doesn't really talk about the Fediverse, and when they do, it's as a synonym for "Mastodon".
How would @gruber know about the massive development efforts to build more user-friendly alternatives to Mastodon?
No one in the media talks about the growth of *key apps, and how they're now the #2 most used Fediverse platform.
The main reason why I can't move from my current #Pleroma installation to anything else ( #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla or #Friendica ) is that none of them accept importing an existing backup from a different service into a brand-new account. At most you can migrate your address but not your posts.
One thing I was hoping from #Mastodon was the possibility to recycle media file. If I uploaded a GIF for a post, why would I need o reupload if I intended to include it into another post?
@oblomov#Friendica has it. In order to attach an image to a post you must upload it to your media gallery first. It is a bit devious as a procedure, but then you have the image in the gallery and you can use it whenever you want
For my part, I gave #friendica a brief try and it didn't really grab me in part because of the number of features. Not that that's a bad thing for me, I'm just a "simple interface with discoverable customisable features/complexity when you want them" kind of person, and so friendica felt like an awkward middle ground for me.
Re mastodon, guessing, I think publicity/marketing is always the annoying differentiator.
It will depend on the platform. For example, #Friendica (and to an extent #Hubzilla and #Streams), the owner of the group (and anyone else given moderation access) can block accounts. There is also chirp.social which can also block accounts.
Then there is #GNUsocial, which is a rebranded #StatusNet itself a rebranded #Laconica (the first #Fediverse software, c. 2008) have built-in groups feature; which IIRC, can also block users if needed.
Personally, services like Guppe really need to add moderation features, otherwise, what you just described will more likely happen.
@BlurTheFur yep the UI and no good mobile client yet. Theming is quite easy, but it would help if someone were modify the UI look and feel a bit - I did a video overview about #Friendica at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS6oAy7ibqc. It is really packed full of features and closer to a Facebook type network but integrates well into the Fediverse.
some servers running alternative softwares that i can endorse:
blaha.zone (Calckey server for LGBTQ+ people and their allies and accomplices)
charcha.cc (possibly running #pleroma server seeming to be aimed at #Indian members )
I would like to endorse other minor web apps in the #Fediverse, but most of them are full of UI glitches, are incomplete and downright buggy looking odd things.
From my designer point of view #Mastodon and #Pixelfed are the only effective ones, because they speak to people who are used to proper visual design language (read: Non-nerds, non-engineers, the regular people and design oriented people).
Things like #BookWyrm, #Lemmy, #Friendica and newer niche apps cause reactions like: "What is this?", they look like back end is fine but nobody is in charge of the design and the UI has no direction whatsoever. It's the general culprit in the programming world: A back end developer thinks everything is fine when we add a CSS framework and that's that.
If we just get the UI right everywhere, we get more people to the #Fediverse. I just wish there was more #CSS/design people willing to contribute. #UI#UIDesign
@rolle Unfortunately this is very true. Having tried several, they are not ready for prime time. They are buggy, too loaded up with features that don't all work, and way too busy with things like a riot of color and dancing emojis. When you spend a little time actually trying to use them, you get a real appreciation for the difficulty of clean UI design, and the importance of testing testing testing testing before rolling out capabilities. Mastodon is sort of a bulky dated UI, but it works.
Every little UI decision is critical to a platform's success, and the initial user experience is vital. It could be argued that defaulting to dark mode and 16:9 image clipping is in large part responsible for people bouncing off Mastodon, because it makes the UI look junky. That said, Mastodon works really well, and the more you use it the more you appreciate the functionality decisions.
Has anyone made contact with the people behind #Audon? I think many #blind people would like to use it, but it has a few unlabelled buttons in the room UI.
I haven’t been able to find any way to contact them but this would be a big hit in the blind community if it were a bit more #accessible.
Although the initial euphoria has died down a bit, it's still pretty fun to check in on #Fedi from #Calckey's lens. I especially like the channels (pictured in attached image), which are basically Calckey's built-in groups feature. Seems like you can't follow them from other parts of the #Fediverse like you can with #Friendica groups, but 1) the #UX is way nicer than Friendica's; and 2) I love that you can mark posts as local-only. Definitely something to watch for the long term.
So, looking at three #Misskey clients on the Mac so far, those being #Kimis#missririca (also on Android) and #Misscat, all of them if running on a Mac using #Voiceover (where Kimis is a Mac exclusive), all three of them have some issue or another at the moment.
As for #Friendica, I'll be over there as well sometime.
When that is, highly unsure at the moment. One thing's definite though, both Friendica and #Pleroma have a way set more of #Blind friendly clients for screen reader use, on all platforms.
Misskey 's new, ain't gonna go hard on them too much. I know someone among the blind community will.
@kojote Mastodon, #Pleroma oder #Calckey oder andere heissen ja "Microblogging" Plattformen. Wenn es längere Texte sind, wie bei einem "normalen" Blog, kann man #Writefreely, #Friendica oder andere nehmen oder auch Wordpress mit dem #Activity Plugin. Das #Fediverse bietet so viel!
Hier im Podcasts ab ca. Min. 15 werden auch noch mal von @Lioh einige Hintergründe zum Fediverse berichtet, an dem sie auch selbst aktiv mitentwickelt hat (auch sehr aufschlussreich in Bezug auf die aktuellen Zentralisierungs-Tendenzen im Fediverse)
Für alle Themen und Projekte gilt aber: gnulinux.ch ist ein Community-Projekt, an dem alle eingeladen und aufgerufen sind, mitzuwirken und selbst zu schreiben: gnulinux.ch/mitschreiben
Je mehr Perspektiven hier eingebracht werden, desto besser! @Kaiteki@caos
Mammoth for Mastodon is now available to download for free on the App Store! 🎉
It has the easiest way to join Mastodon with a great onboarding flow and no need to think about what server to join, it’s full-featured with complete Mastodon feature parity, and fully customizable to tweak it just the way you want and make it yours.
I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
@KelsonV I see an Atom feed button on my #Friendica profile (<host>/profile/<name>) which opens <host>/dfrn_poll/<name>. Discovery in Feeder gives another Atom feed as well with url <host>/feed/<name>/. The latter seems to work better.
To post to the group, post on Mastodon as normal and @mention this group.
Guys, it's Fediverse...so anyone could do the same thing.
How ironic that is to create an account on #Friendica promoting #Mastodon ......if you want to promote Mastodon use for that Twitter , but not Friendica.
Why Friendica? Can't you just create a group via another service? There's some....
The Friendica social network can be installed via a Docker Container
Friendica actually has its own federating protocol, but it supports others too, such as Activity Pub (Fediverse), Twitter, Tumblr, and more. So it becomes a single client app that you can use as a hub to various other social networks (including Mastodon as pa ...continues
Question for those that use Mastodon clients that allow multiple accounts logged in concurrently. Is that more like a fast switching between accounts but at any one time you are a particular user or is it merging timelines/contacts/etc. across all the accounts? As part of my Relatica refactoring I think I'm going to try to add multi-account support and the former seems to be the right way to go to minimize confusion for most workflows. #Mastodon#fediverse#friendica#relatica
Just use #friendica and you can post and interact with #activitypub and #email protocol at the same time. The beauty of the #fediverse is that not every platform has to do everything.