There's a recent video by @canadiancivil about why people should join Mastodon and the Fediverse.
It takes a VERY different approach to other vids you may have seen.
It's, um... very straight-talking with some strong language 😱 and written by someone who found Mastodon too confusing. This is possibly video's strength though, as it may reach people that others cannot.
Anyway, see what you think, and if you know someone who might find it useful share it with them:
I subscribed to his peertube channel from my mastodon account, which is a thing you can do with ActivityPub. You can't do that with X. I don't know about BlueSky or Threads, but I doubt it works there either.
Yeah, that's to do with another issue, the boost-grouping system allows duplicate boosts after you have seen 40 other posts in your timeline. This was hardcoded a long time ago when this place had far fewer people on it, and the number is way too low for current timelines.
Channels on Funkwhale can be followed from Mastodon, anyone can start their own server.
Given the situation with #Bandcamp, perhaps Funkwhale might be a basis for an alternative? (I'm not a musician so I don't know how good a fit it is for artists and bands, but hope it is useful or could be developed?)
yes, currently i'm in a difficult economical situation and i wouldn't be able to pay for any tech service 👉 👈
but i hope i can help with fediverse and open-source as a whole internet ecosystem if things get better! 😊
for now, i will help by helping spread the word ❤️
I'm just about to start the automatic migration procedure, so it should move your follow over to the new account seamlessly, but if you want to follow the new account manually straight away you can do so (it won't mess anything up).
The new server is my own one, it's where FediFollows, FediVideo etc are already.
If there are any problems, contact my personal account at @FediThing
You may want to let people know that if they see a requested to follow notification, they should cancel it and try again to an auto follow. I was stuck in requested no-man’s land.
For people on #Friendica and other platforms not compatible with the account migration procedure, you need to follow @FediTips manually if you were following the previous FediTips account. On mobile it works like this: Long tap the blue @-address in the above sentence, wait for the popup, then click the follow icon. If the popup doesn't appear (often with new accounts), copy the @-address to search on the top of the page, including both @'s, then click Search twice with a few seconds between. You can follow on the profile page that appears, and set any groups you want the account to be in.
@AudraTran@feditips For now, I'm going to try to stay on an instance that will federate with threads.net, but if an instance thinks defederation is the best way to serve/protect their users, they should do so.
Sometimes a "net split" is the healthiest solution. Intolerance cannot be tolerated, if we are to preserve tolerance.
@feditips No, we don't need to defederate them. Defederating them undermines federation and makes it harder for people to leave Threads.
Federation is about helping people, not corporations. That's why almost all social networks refuse to federate, even "the good guys" like Tumblr. They know damned well that federation provides an escape route for their users, and they don't want that.
Meta is doing this not because it benefits from it, but because it sees the writing on the wall, it sees the EU and other organizations forcing monopoly social networks to open up.
If a user on your instance wants to follow someone on Threads, let them. Almost everyone who wants to leave Threads will find it easier to leave if they can continue to follow the people of interest to them.
Don't underestimate this. This is why, despite Musk's sabotage, people are still on X/Twitter. Because if they leave, they leave the circle of friends they've made over the years behind.
Some apps on here are offering AI/LLM for certain features such as entering an image description automatically.
If you are abled and sighted, please don't use these features.
If you are sighted and able to enter descriptions yourself, it would be better for the planet if you enter descriptions manually. Manual descriptions avoid anyone having to cause environmental damage.
"It's a tool. Working for Meta doesn't mean, everything you do can be smeared."
It's a tool created by someone who works for a company that does disgusting things. I don't trust such tools.
"it's already hard not to not miss a lot of posts."
It depends on what you want from social media?
If you want to read absolutely every post then yes you have to restrict how many people you follow. But a lot of people dip in and out of social media and aren't too worried if some posts scroll by.
Every account on Mastodon and the Fediverse has a unique account address, it will look something like this:
@ (username) @ (server)
You can find anyone's address by looking at their profile page, the address is written underneath their display name in a smaller font.
Account addresses are handy if you want to tell people about your account, people can paste your account address into the search box on their server which will make your profile appear.