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atomicpoet

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Product, QA & marketing @ #GreatApe

I'm searchable.

Putting the sauce in awesome.

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atomicpoet, to random
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Jack Dorsey explaining exactly why no single company should own a social media platform.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediversenews
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It's beautiful 😍

The directory of https://fediverse.info just got an update!

What is that?

An opt-in search engine for topics and people. If you're looking for a fresh new way to discover the Fediverse, this is the place.

Made by @dansup, an API is being developed so that different Fediverse server software such as Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Calckey can utilize it for social discovery and recommendations.

Check it out here:

https://fediverse.info/explore/people

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atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediversenews
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Please donate to @dansup!

He's developing three important Fediverse projects:

  1. @pixelfed
  2. https://fedidb.org
  3. https://fediverse.info

All these tools are critical to the future of the Fediverse.

In particular, will be released on iOS and Android by the end of the month -- which will give people who use an easy way to migrate to the Fediverse.

Dan does a lot! Let's show him appreciation and love!

DONATE HERE:

https://www.patreon.com/dansup

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People keep bringing up the very tired “Linux on the desktop” meme to dismiss the Fediverse.

But a meme is just a meme.

In the real world, Linux dominates.

Your phone? Probably Linux. Your car’s infotainment system? Linux. Your router? Linux.

Chromebook? Linux.

Windows has a Linux Subsystem too.

Linux has won.

The “Linux on the desktop” naysayers don’t even realize it.

The Fediverse should be so lucky.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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If you want to onboard friends and family to the Fediverse, https://jointhefediverse.net is an amazing tool.

Made by @stefan, this site explains -- in easy-to-understand words -- what the Fediverse is, how it works, and what to try.

This is a must for everyone who wants to tell the world about the Fediverse!

@fediversenews

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Fast Company reviews 6 Twitter replacements, and author @harrymccracken calls Mastodon the "heir apparent".

He says the Mastodon crowd is "friendly and engaged".

And he observes that Mastodon has higher interaction even with lower follower counts.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90886959/twitter-alternatives-mastodon-t2-post-bluesky

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There's no Mastodon slump.

Sign-ups continue to increase -- albeit, not at the same rate as in November -- November was a spike.

While Monthly Average Users (MAUs) decreased since November, it's increased again this month (according to @Gargron).

But what's more interesting is that Half Year Average Users (HYAUs) is at a peak.

And we're very close to breaking 1 billion posts per month!

See chart.

https://mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats

atomicpoet, to fediverse
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Today is the day I talk about what is and what it does. 🧵

In this thread, I will explore what I believe to be the most important features of Calckey.

SPOILER ALERT: While Calckey focuses on microblogging, that's where its similarities with (and ) end.

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Sorry, the sabotage of Twitter is not a “disaster for democracy”—it’s the logical and inevitable endpoint of surveillance capitalist control of our communications infrastructure.

Those who control a message’s delivery system control the message.

Twitter was always owned by surveillance capitalists—it NEVER served democracy.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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is testing out post imports from Mastodon.

Which means that if you're migrating your Mastodon account to Calckey, you can take your posts with you.

While Mastodon post imports are currently in beta, it's available on calckey.social.

To access it, go to Settings > Export/Import Data.

See screenshot.

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“It’s not fair to compare #Bluesky to Mastodon because Mastodon has been around for years and Bluesky has just been released.”

Actually, Bluesky has been in development since 2019.

That means it’s 3 years younger than Mastodon, and 1 year younger than ActivityPub’s validation by the W3C.

There’s also the matter of BlueSky receiving $13 million in funding while Mastodon receives $32,000/month from Patreon.

All things considered, it’s @Gargron who’s the underdog here.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Meta’s ActivityPub-enabled Twitter competitor is moving ahead.

The project is called “Barcelona”.

It will be its own independent app, and it’s being pitched as “Instagram for your thoughts”.

How do you feel about Meta joining the Fediverse?

Here’s a screenshot of Barcelona.

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/metas-twitter-alternative-barcelona-is-taking-shape/648482/

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The Mastodon centralists are coming out of the woodwork today with, “But it makes onboarding easier!”

So what?

The goal here isn’t to grow for the purpose of growth. Growth, in and of itself, is meaningless.

The goal is to decentralize social media.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Opt-in search of the Fediverse was just rolled out. Here it is:

http://tootfinder.ch/

Search has traditionally been very controversial on the Fediverse, but let's see how opt-in works.

Right now, this is a proof-of-concept and very bare bones -- but we'll see if it's embraced by everyone.

See screenshot.

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atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Well, this is an unexpected curveball.

Jack Dorsey hopes that Bluesky will be “temporary”.

How likely is Bluesky to actually be “temporary”?

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atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Trying to migrate from YouTube to PeerTube?

PeerTube Companion, a Firefox extension, will redirect you to a PeerTube version of a video, when trying to reach it from YouTube -- if it's available on PeerTube.

It's under heavy development, so use at your own risk.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/

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To sum up where the Fediverse is right now:

  1. @EU_Commission backs it
  2. The @w3c backs it
  3. @fsf backs it
  4. @eff backs it
  5. Twitter Co-Founders @ev and @biz back it
  6. Web browsers like @mozilla and @Vivaldi back it
  7. Prominent 3rd party client devs like @paul backs it
  8. @gruber and @davew back it
  9. @georgetakei backs it

Am I missing anyone?

Oh yeah, YOU back it!

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Media is definitely framing and as rivals.

This is why it's so important to build bridges between ActivityPub and AT protocol.

We need to make this so-called "rivalry" irrelevant.

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2023/05/bluesky-and-mastodon-are-gearing-up-to.html

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atomicpoet, to fediverse
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For Reddit alternatives on the Fediverse, I prefer over . Here's why:

  1. Navigation: The top navbar on /kbin seems clear and precise, while Lemmy seems noisy

  2. Posts: There's clear separation in /kbin with boxes, while Lemmy posts are not segmented and therefore bleed into each other.

  3. Discoverability: Even though /kbin is used by drastically fewer people than Lemmy, it seems easier to find people across the Fediverse who discuss topics

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Lemmy screenshot in mobile mode

atomicpoet, to random
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After social media gets decentralized, I hope web search gets decentralized.

Google shouldn’t be dominating web search.

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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REMINDER: If you see abuse, don’t boost it. Report it instead.

Boosting creates more reach for the initial abuse, which makes it all the more worse.

Also, please give moderators a chance to respond to reports. During times you’re active on the Fediverse, some of us are literally sleeping 😴

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Some people believe there's no purpose to "liking" something on Mastodon since it doesn't affect any algorithm.

Not the case.

It does something incredibly valuable: it acknowledges people.

Which is incredibly powerful, and is all the more important because it's not connected to gaming any algorithm.

By liking something on Mastodon, you are doing it honestly -- without any agenda at play other than that you like it.

So go ahead. Click that like button for its own sake.

atomicpoet, to fediversenews
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Here's the problem.

Recent growth on mastodon.social is greater than the growth rate of November 2022.

But growth on other servers, like mstdn.social, has flatlined.

This has been confirmed to me by numerous Mastodon server admins.

Very concerning!

@fediversenews

Growth of mstdn.social

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Someone downloaded all 1,680,399 posts on Bluesky.

If someone did that to Mastodon, people would be pissed.

Not linking to those downloads, by the way.

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