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@Kierunkowy74@kbin.social

Today's social media transform us into merely numbers.
No problem for me.

Alts: @Kierunkowy74 (kbin.earth) @Kierunkowy74 (PieFed)
Polish account: @Kierunkowy74
Mastodon: @74 or @Kierunkowy74 (alt)

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Majority of these 300 instances actually are Mastodon and other microblogging instances.
They likely have imported a Mastodon-tailored blocklist at some point.

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Less like a prison. You can actually exit them and join another instance.

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Fun fact for /kbin users: sets of pages from 100 to 199, 200 to 299, 300 to 399... are called accordingly magazines 1, 2, 3...

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OP already mentioned paper.wf, which is writefreely server

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Actually, you can follow a WriteFreely blog from Mastodon or /kbin. On /kbin any blog post from e.g. paper.wf will look like native article/thread.
Check adress of your blog. If it is paper.wf/bobquasit, then its Fediverse handle is @bobquasit

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And your blog posts can be commented via Mastodon or /kbin. Comments made on one instance will be available on the other. WriteFreely simply does not show these comments to you.

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Misskey or Calckey or Akkoma - all three are microblogs (like Mastodon), but with fancy formatting. Animated text, flipped text, different sizes and custom emoji reactions

Pixelfed for photos

Mobilizon is federated software for events. They have no home feed. You can create an event, participate in another, create and manage a group (including group events, discussions, private and public announcements and resource files)

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Trivia: there is no "MapsWithoutNewZealand" community nor magazine on Fedi yet.

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MAU of kbin.social alone is 25393, while MAU of entire Lemmy is 20305
Above Lemmy in monthly users.

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Ordering of instances of Beehaw's block list (alphabetically from some point) suggests, that administration had imported one of many block lists tailored for Mastodon.

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Limited liability abuse.

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On mobile, the sidebar is actually under comments...

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Tried turning on Infinite scroll on interface settings, but the comments pagination remained.

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it's also interesting that only downvotes count for "reputation points"

Downvotes and boosts. Source: I have boosted your comment right now.

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Upvotes previously worked as boosts on /kbin, but Ernest later reversed it to be in line with Lemmy. It does not look like intended behaviour.

Long and short term, which features would you like to see implemented?

For me flair is probably the most important. I follow a lot of organized sports and being able to quickly identify which team someone supports helps the conversation move along without having to write "as a fan of..." in every single comment. And this isn't a like talking shit, sports guy thing. It's genuinely extremely useful...

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1 is doable with downvotes, as they don't propagate (there were cases of vote brigading on Lemmy). Yet I have to verify, if Lemmy upvotes propagate to Mastodon

Recommend to have the "Upvote" or Favorites list be hidden.

Currently, each thread has the "Activity" link that shows publicly everyone that upvoted/favorite a thread. This is counter norm to many coming from Reddit and newer folks that expected otherwise. I think hiding the list should be high priority in next feature update(removal?) to encourage frictionless upvoting behavior....

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Downvotes do not propagate and turning downvote list private is feasible.

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Lemmy has lemmy.directory, which tries to follow every Lemmy community and provide view comparable to r/all.
PeerTube creators (Framasoft) have made SepiaSearch, which indexes several hundreds PeerTube instances.
They obviously made the same utility to search events and groups across umpteen Mobilizon instances.

This proves that the "global" search on the fediverse is possible.

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People don't care about decentralisation, but one of selling points of the Fediverse may be pretty similar to that: interoperability.
IMHO, some separate but federated servers make sense for a newcomer more, than other. They are:

  • Flagship Mastodon server (for the "official blessing"),

  • Several very large Mastodon servers for niches - Infosec, FOSS and Gamedev communities already have got these (for best discovery of that niche communities and still good discovery of out-niche content - thanks to size),

  • At least one national Mastodon server in your language - of course open to registration - Japanese, British, German, Italian, French, Dutch, Canadian, Australian, Chinese are the largest, but any language-specific will satisfy the user (for best discovery of content in their languages or from regions - helped by language barreer),

  • Some largeish Mastodon instances with specific political leanings - anarchist, far-right and libertarian ones are the largest (for better-tailored moderation, and also for discovery),

  • Flagship/largest instances of other Fediverse software, such as Akkoma, Lemmy, /kbin, Bookwyrm, Misskey, Calckey, Pixelfed (for features of their software, being their advantages over Mastodon)

  • Some national instances of Lemmy, /kbin, Bookwyrm, Misskey, Calckey, Pixelfed in your language (combined language and feature reasons),

  • Few Lemmy instances with specific political leanings - communist and far-right ones (combined moderation and feature reasons).

We do not have to talk about "decentralised" insert app name here network, but we can rather promote "Large Infosec-oriented microblog which interoperates with entire of rest of Mastodon", "German Reddit-alternative aggregator which interoperates with fedi", "A combined aggregator and microblog instance, compatible both with Lemmy and Mastodon", "Anarchist social network with access to much of fedi", "Mastodon-compatible microblog with fancy formatting", or "Instagram-equivalent with access to Mastodon but larger photo limits per post, and filtres", etc.

This interoperability means, that any new and sufficiently promoted (or simply receiving another Great Migration) server can claim over 1 million Mastodon&co users as the potential audience.

If you were already present on both Reddit and e.g. Facebook, and recent events forced you to switch from Reddit to /kbin or Lemmy, then you started to be on the Fediverse. And any your friend from Facebook started to be able to contact with you on the Fediverse, should they switch.
If you were present previously only on Facebook and Twitter, and you friend was only on Facebook and Reddit, then, after Twitter and Reddit Migrations, both of you began to be able to talk to each other, without the need of Facebook!
Every great migration to the Fediverse sows the seed. Sooner or earlier, all your friends will be present on fedi, and the network effects will begin to work to the advantage of fedi, not against it.

DrBlues, to fediverse

OK, but what is a "microblog"?...

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@DrBlues A stream of consciousness divided into many short notes.
Mastodon and other microblogging platforms allow you to combine many that streams into your home feed.
Here, on /kbin you will rather see most popular microblog posts, with developed discussion and nested comments (that is, like on threads)

Polish far right eyes role as kingmaker after this year’s elections (notesfrompoland.com)

Poland’s mainstream opposition has this week belatedly woken up to a reality that has long been apparent: that the far right party - the Confederation may hold the balance of power after this autumn’s elections, and would therefore play a large role in deciding who – if anyone – can form a government....

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Update - after this piece was written, the most far-right MP of that party has forced abandonment of lecture by a Holocaust scholar (accused by the government of unjust treatment of Poles in research of Poles' attitude to Jews in WW2)

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