retrobeetism

retrobeetism, 4 months ago

@ArtBear Lately I've also heard of several tumblr-esque software. I've tried #Wafrn (My account there is relatively active) and I know of another one in development.

There's also #FunkWhale for music and podcasts

retrobeetism, 4 months ago

@007 @ArtBear What's weird is that for me in some cases it keeps spinning and I never receive things from the group, but in other cases it spins but the content appears in my home timeline.

I haven't tried here in catodon, but in the firefish server I'm in is like that.

The problem seems to be Gup.pe because I haven't found as much as an issue with chirp, friendica forums, and lemmy communities (although it also sometimes fails with those). I do sometimes have issues following kbin magazines, but way less than with gup.pe groups and I also have issues with that from my lemmy account (while I never had any issue joining friendica forums or chirp groups from there. Gup.pe doesn't fully work with lemmy either)

Maybe the keys, the sea animals, and the cat need a feature more compatible with the group category and that can federate because forums/channels do not federate.

retrobeetism, 4 months ago

@youronlyone @007 @ArtBear Same here. Although I do seldom have trouble joining chirp, lemmy, friendica and kbin "groups" (using group as a category regardless of how each software calls them), it's never as frequent as with gup.pe.

Gup.pe only works with Mastodon, and I do not like mastodon that much.

But, again, I think misskey, firefish/catodon, sharkey, icheshrimp, etc having a federated group feature wouldn't be a bad idea while keeping forums server exclusive. That's a great feature and I've seen people on the lemmy server I'm in talking about the possibility of incorporating it there. Or either by adding level of federation (server only, "bubble", public, etc) to forums/channels as they are now.

retrobeetism, 4 months ago

@ArtBear @youronlyone @007 It sounds like Lemmy/kbin, but the threadiverse software leaves much to be desire. Maybe adding forums different levels of federation to catodon will catch the attention from those who have troubles with lemmy and kbin but want to be able to participate in communities/forums and do not like the microblog gup.pe and chirp system.

And having the possibility of adding different levels of federation to communities is something that would be unique and make catodon attractive

It'd also be great to be able to see Lemmy communities, kbin magazines and friendica forums as Catodon forums (instead of having them on the timeline).

Maybe incorporating some threadiverse features to the misskey/firefish base is a way for catadon to differentiate itself and truly offer something different than its cousin software.