retronautickz

@retronautickz@fedi196.gay

Pallas | 29

Queer | Disabled and neurodivergent | vegan |

#Hyperacusia #ActuallyAutistic #ChronicallyIll #Photophobia #Amblyopia

Proud owner of a weak-ass spine and vertebral column, and of a wonky optic nerve

Fan of vintage fashion, old films/tv series, old school visual kei and classical music

New to Kbin, but not new to the fediverse

Avatar description: A portrait of Ludwig Van Beethoven painted by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller.

Cover description: A picture of the sky

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retronautickz,

Beehaw didn't defederate from everyone else, just from two instances. the threadiverse and the fediverse are much more bigger than these two servers.

retronautickz, (edited )

You mean if the instance I'm in defederated from one of them?

Well, I have a Beehaw account, so even if this server and Beehaw defederated, I'll still have access to Beehaw-hosted content. Also, I tend to not participate in Beehaw communities from my kbin account.

I don't care much about Lemmy World, my kbin instance (this one, the one I'm registered in) federates with it, cool, but I wouldn't be angry if it didn't.

I wouldn't care either way.

But, there's no actual risk of Beehaw defederating from any Kbin instance nor did the admins cut federation completely. People are making this issue way bigger than it actually is.

retronautickz,

Most of these are alt-right/nazi and tankie instances/hubs/pods that are globally defederated and that they imported from a public list of "defederable servers".

The blocked and limited list of my mastodon server is way bigger than Beehaw's.

retronautickz, (edited )

There have been rumours about reunions between the admins of the biggest Mastodon and Pixelfed instances (including, of course, the developers of those platforms) with people from Meta, so they probably know how the platform will turn out and what Meta's intentions are. They just decided to support Meta.

retronautickz,

Tags are essential in the Fediverse because there's no algorithm here. No "suggested" follow or posts. Post ( I'm talking about microblogging mostly) appear in chronological order solely. So if you want to search for toots/posts/microblogs of an specific topic, or connect with people that share a similar interest with you (outside of communities/magazines/groups), tags are the only option.

retronautickz,

Your are the one confusing things.

1- I'm talking about the common usage of tags on the fediverse. Hashtags are used here because they allow users to search (micro or macro or photo) blog posts by topic. Some platform even allow you to follow Hashtags.

2- I specifically say I was talking about microbloggin-style platforms (although I think it also applies to macroblog and photoblog ones to), and not to the threadiverse. What Hashtags can do is make things easy for post on the threadiverse (both thread-like discussions and Kbin micriblogs) to be searchable and easier to access for users of other type of federated platforms. But they play a more important role in microblogging platforms like Mastodon, Misskey and Pleroma.

3- I know what I'm calling algorithm. There's no content algorithm here. when you follow someone the content they post appears chronologically in your timeline regardless how much you interact with them. When someone you follow likes or otherwise interacts with a post it will appear in chronological order in your timeline, regardless of the level of interaction between you, your follow and the person who tooted the content. Any content you interact with appears in your Local (server) and Bubble ("friend" servers) timelines (and your/their Home timelines) and are accessible to members of these servers in the order they were posted*.

There's no algorithm suggesting content similar to the one you interact the most with.

*Of course, this also applies also to the Global/Federated timeline.

retronautickz, (edited )

Because there's no "algorithm" in the way they exist in tiktok, twitter, etc. It's pretty clear that I'm referring to what most people call "the algorithm", not about the technical aspect of what an algorithm is.

There isn't any type of compilation of interaction that create a kind of suggested timeline, and blog posts appear in chronological order and not by how much you interact with its poster/booster.

Following hashtags on Pleroma, Mastodon, etc creates something similar to a "for you" timeline, even though the posts still appear in the order they were posted/boosted

ivy, (edited ) to random

just wanted to see how everyone on felt about defederating from any future Facebook servers

retronautickz,

@ivy Please defederate. Facebook represents a real risk for most of us

retronautickz, to kbin

When choosing a instance to join on or whatever other platform of the you want to use, take this things into account:

1- Don't register into the larger servers. I know many think that larger servers have better federation. But, in reality it tends to be the opposite; because they become almost impossible to moderate, smaller servers tend to defederate from them. Often a 100 user server have more reach to the whole fediverse than a 20000 server.

2- Go to fediverse observer, or similar sites like this one and look up servers that fit your needs and interests. Don't just join a server you don't like because it's popular. Look at the rules, the type of people they are directed to. Is it you? Is the vision the admins of the server have in agreement with what you want of the platform?

Not yet in lemmy or kbin, but in other platforms you can choose a server by theme.

3- Go to #/fediblock to see what instances and users have been blocked/defederates and why. Blocking (and if you plan to open your own instance, defederation) dangerous instances and users will make your experience better. Not only in terms of having an easier time, but also in terms of having bigger federation. If you keep contact with this kind of instances, other instances will see yours as equally bad and defederate from yours to.

4- Don't expect the biggest servers to be responsible for community/magazine creation. Open your own communities in smaller servers. It doesn't matter if a community or magazine for the same topic already exist on a larger instance, the more options the better. diversification and distribution is the key for a federated social media to do well.

5- The aim of federate social media project isn't to be replacement for similar centralised sites. It's to be alternatives. Many people choose the fediverse because it's safe to them (both in terms of security and of being free of hate speech); as such, the fediverse has a completely different culture than corporative centralised social media, and behaviour that's common or even promoted on Reddit or twitter could be seeing as negative here. Your experience here will become better when you stop seeing Lemmy/Kbin as Reddit replacements, Mastodon/Pleroma/Misskey (and their respective forks) as twitter replacements, Friendica as a Facebook replacement, etc. They aren't replacements nor they aim to be. Understanding the culture is as much as important as understanding how a given platform or the fediverse at large work.

6- Not all platforms/softwares have the same reach. Some platforms/software use only one protocol, meaning that you can only federate with people and instances based on that protocol, while other platforms/software are multi-protocol and have a larger level of federation.

7- Apart from joining communities and magazine, you can join Friendica groups and Guppe and Chirp groups.

The kbin/lemmy app is coming along. Here´s a little preview of the upcoming beta! Heavy inspiration from Apollo. The app will be available for both iOS and Android. (imgur.com)

The dev, @hariette, also has a Mastodon profile where she posts updates https://tech.lgbt/@hariette. There is also a link to the apps discord server in her bio.

retronautickz,

While Lemmy servers and Kbin servers can and do interact with each other (and with servers based on other kind of platforms of the Fediverse) because both software use the ActibityPub protocol, they're, well, different software. And Jerboa only support servers based on the Lemmy software. Just like how Tusky works for Mastodon but not for Misskey.

retronautickz,

This doesn't surprise me at all. He's getting desperate

retronautickz,

I have no intention to ever go back to reddit, I'm quite happy with both lemmy and kbin. Just like I have no intention to ever go back to twitter, mastodon and akkoma (I'm yet to try calckey) having replaced it for me completely.

I left almost all centralised social media behind, except tumblr (which has a similar culture to the fediverse) and youtube.

retronautickz,

This could only work if it's done en masse. Organized and synchronized.

Subreddits doing any of this on their own will only get their mods removed faster

retronautickz,

I don't know, I'd wait a bit more before declaring any of these new magazine/communities inactive or see any ill-intent in the users opening them.

retronautickz,

Bad moderation is a recipe for desaster and can be the death of any site.

It's not as easy as putting anyone in place of the mods that are protesting. Putting power-hungry unexperienced people in place of the old moderators may be one of the best ways to actually kill reddit (or any site for the matter)

I've seen it happen many times to count.

keet, to fediverse

Forgive my ignorance, but for those of us new to the "Fediverse", how do people use different types of instances? Is it common for people to have different accounts for different types of ActivityPub instances? Even though Mastodon can federate with, say, kbin or Pixelfed, would I need to set up new accounts on the latter services to use them?

-A birdsite and now reddit quitter...

#Fediverse #noob #kbin #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Activitypub

retronautickz,

@keet It depends on what your intentions and needs are. If you want to only interact with the content, you can just choose the platform that fits your needs better, join an instance, and interact with other intance in and outside your social media of choice through that account.

But if you want the full functionality each can offer, having accounts on each or some of the federated social media platforms may be a good choice.

take into account that sometimes intances on certain type of social media may limit certain content that are central to other style of platform. For example some mastodon/misskey/calckey/akkoma/pleroma instances have limits on media applouding. In cases like that is better (and even suggested) to have pixelfed, peertube, and funkwhale accounts where you can post images, videos and audio (respectively) and just share the links in the microblogging servers instead of saturating say microblogging servers.

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