Mars2k21

Mars2k21, 8 months ago

Saying this as somebody just reading the post, I don't know the whole context.

Being somebody who is BIPOC, you're not doing us much of a favor either by having an outrage across multiple corners of the fediverse. Take a breather. Seriously, zoom out and just consider what you are writing right now.

Hatred of politics is a transphobic, sexist, and racist trope.

...what if I just don't like seeing news that only makes me feel angry or bad on my feed. People have different things they want to participate in and see. Just because you like it to discuss it doesn't mean you should jump to accusations when someone doesn't want to. Its a sensitive topic to begin with. I just come here to see tech, cars, and art.

I started out by attempting to educate them on what politics actually means.

This comes off very pretentious. Just let this one go bro.

Look, I don't know what's going on with this blahaj place's moderation or whatever and its not my business. Just based on what I see here, you may want to take a good proof read at what you are saying and spreading around before you lead yourself somewhere that you regret. If you don't like this blahaj server's rules or anything, just leave. Its just the internet. You might find somewhere better suited for you if you just move your account to another instance. If you want to voice concerns, spreading posts like these across multiple communities isn't the way to do it.

Mars2k21, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

This is the definition of politics (Merriam-Webster).

You're taking it way out of context. If I tell somebody we should go for a walk its not anything beyond just socializing. Please stop jumping to conclusions.

I'll just leave it there. Not really here to go back and forth.

Mars2k21, 8 months ago

I always love to see attempts to see people making the Fediverse more friendly and open for all, but I can't see this one working.

I'm not really a huge fan of the name Mastodon personally, but I don't have any other better ideas. The branding right now works, there just isn't enough people actually hearing about what Mastodon is to begin with. We need to push Mastodon, the name that people may have heard of before but never bothered to look into. Changing it now won't really do a whole lot. If they wanted to get the name out there, I feel this could be done through other ways like a massive update or something.

Mars2k21, 8 months ago

/c/lostfedicitizens

do we have something like /r/lostredditors? Also, like someone else said, this is not a causation. Its just your average run of the mill correlation of something unhealthy with mental issues. That being said though, don't reach for that bag of lays when you are feeling down.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

I'm for this idea. Large sports communities could bring multiple new instances and also just a flood of active users in other communities. If we were to pick a specific community to come join, these guys and people in tech communities should be the first choices.

Communities centered around sports teams like r/chelseafc or r/lakers could warrant an entire Lemmy or Kbin instance with separate communities about that particular team (trade/signing rumors, live games, social media posts, etc). For them, federation actually has some huge benefits.

Plus as a side note, I'd love to have the regular diehard sports bickering on the Fediverse. Seriously. They'll be quite the counter to the current culture of the Fediverse, however. Arguing about Mbappé's longevity or whether the current NBA champions will win again would drown out the politics anyway, which is a massive plus in my book.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

It is social media that allows privacy and stops Corps selling your data is its USP.
If the person you are talking to does not care about the above, they have no reason to move.

Seems like the Fediverse' existence is trying to to send a message at the end of the day. If I were telling somebody about it and stopped as soon as they said the good old "I have nothing to hide" it would be kind of pointless to begin with. Might as well give the whole spill since that phrase likely is to be a given anyway.

The problem is that in all other aspects of social media: ease of use, userbase etc the various flavours of federated social media are last.

I do agree, they are behind the centralized social media. However, I don't think it would help federated social media's case if we didn't at least try to simplify it somewhat and show the appeal.

Personally, I am a bit sceptical about the long term sustainability and scalability of data storage for data intensive (images and video) federated services.

For images, I suspect that something like this would only be a major issue for federated platforms (besides Pixelfed) in the case of a massive influx of users from another platform all at once. Otherwise, the infrastructure would likely catch up eventually. Kbin, for instance, eventually scaled despite at one point being run by a single person on software absolutely not meant for that many people. Video, on the other hand, I do also feel skeptical about on the Fediverse unless a massive organization were to host an instance.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Honestly one of the most well written posts I've read. Thanks a lot, helped me understand all of this networking stuff involved with self-hosting since I literally just bought a PC to function as my home server like 2 days ago.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Going great. Got a coffee and Starbucks made my order right this time. Sat on a park bench and just relaxed there for 45 minutes. Can't complain about anything really, it's Friday.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

The ETCs with KD. Everybody has their own opinion on KD (I'm a Thunder fan), but I believe he's set up a really good podcast here along with his host. This especially rings true when it comes to episodes involving the personal experiences in the NBA and professional sports that him and his guests have. Its not the raw stats and news type of thing for the most part, but it goes in depth into what the players themselves feel when it comes to the shenanigans involved with being an NBA player. I suggest starting with the first two episodes which talk mainly about him and Kyrie on the Nets (they were both posted in September 2020; not the most up to date, but they were really interesting).

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Was literally just coming here to post about this. Ghost magazines with inactive owners and mods seems to be a real issue after the initial hype died down, and a Reddit request-esque service could really help.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Not sure if the list is supposed to only be accounts that moved from another service to the Fediverse completely, but some other notable accounts/organizations on the Fediverse that I can think of off the top of my head:

• The BBC's Mastodon instance, social.bbc
• Ars Technica
• George Takei
• Flipboard (has multiple accounts)
• Wikipedia

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Honestly questioning why I even mentioned the instance name, I should've saw this coming

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

/c/masterhacker owner pictured

Linux memes are only funny if they are shitting on Arch anyway

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

That's a pretty huge move right there, hopefully this is the first of many migrations of apps to Activity Pub software (besides Threads).

Also...the name NERV kind of threw me off for a second. Tell the anime crowd on Twitter that NERV moved to Mastodon full time and we'll probably get an extra 2 million people in the Fediverse.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

I'm not exactly sure how it works, but Kbin actually has something like this. Posts from the Fediverse can be classified and put into the respective communities (or "magazines" as they are actually called). You can commonly see this with the microblogging feature on Kbin, which has a lot of posts that actually come from Mastodon and Firefish users appearing in microblog feeds of communities. If they are unable to be classified, they end up in the void known as /m/random, which is where content from other Fediverse platforms that couldn't be classified into a Kbin magazine ends up.

If something like this were to be implemented into federation as a whole, it would definitely help with the ease of use (especially for new users and people who don't understand how federation works yet) and would be a little less hacky then just making a multireddit-esque thing. It would also bring an end to the topic fragmentation problem that plagues the Fediverse far more than it ever did on Reddit. However, is some sort of unified moderation team of users from different platforms possible from a technological standpoint? I suppose a workaround could be made by making a standard code for moderators on the communitiy and having each moderator do their job based on that, but a built in one would be ideal to reduce the load on moderators representing each platform (e.g. moderators from Lemmy and moderators from Kbin having to do their moderation separate).

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Its quite literally just people who share the same culture getting together. In this case, its mostly Black Americans on Twitter. People tend to hang around people who share their culture more. During my relatively short time on Twitter for instance, I engaged with people who could be considered part of Black Twitter because I just automatically felt comfortable with people who share my culture on there, and I'm Black and American. Doesn't mean I wasn't interacting with other people who weren't black and segregating myself, I was just able to relate to some of their content more.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I actually joined Tildes before the API changes, back in February of this year. Before that, I had been a lurker on the site since 2020, so nearly 3 years.

Tildes is...interesting compared to any other social media. Its completely its own thing and there is a heavy focus on the philosophy of the site and the Tildes docs, which is basically the constitution of the website. Long form discussion is encouraged, posting images isn't even an option, and its very focused on providing for its users a great, streamlined experience. The interface is my favorite of all the Reddit cousins, its simple and it loads extremely fast. The software is great, no bugs at all and the interface is simple and lighting fast and the voting system is really well designed in regards to maintaining activity on threads that can be days or even weeks old. The people there are friendly and I've never even seen a bad interaction on Tildes.

However, this comes because the whole site is heavily moderated and controlled by the admins and mods. Long form discussion just isn't really my thing when it comes to online discussions, so I don't talk there much. I don't really like writing a paragraph or more in response to every question online versus having a long in-person discussion or on a real-time messenger like Discord (I'm doing it now of course, but I don't like doing it for every post). I would if every topic there interested me, but that's just not the case and that won't be the case on any site. My last post was 2 months ago, and I've just been very inactive there since making my account. I like reading on there occasionally, but not contributing much. Unfortunately, that's the nature of the site. Like another poster said, its very tightly controlled. While that prevents many trolls from appearing despite the few moderators that are actually on the site and encourages long form discussion, it also hampers the diversity of the people there. Sometimes I criticize the whole "We don't want people from Reddit or other social media" take when it comes to Kbin/Lemmy's growth, but its much worse on Tildes because the site actively wants a certain type of individual. No image support on purpose already filters out a lot of people who could bring great content to the site, and the lack of an ability for users to create topics affects it more. You can't make a topic on Tildes like you can on Kbin or Lemmy, there are strictly defined ones created for you, and they are quite general. You won't see much OC as you will just links and random conversation topics, and that kind of just makes for a lukewarm experience in my opinion. If you want to talk about a specific niche, you're out of luck. Kbin/Lemmy/the Fediverse and Reddit have that, and its a large part of the appeal for me. The lack of user diversity in interests also just makes the experience a little worse. For example, I like space and anime, and the space and anime communities on there aren't the most active, maybe a post weekly or biweekly. I'm also interested in tech, and you can imagine that community is booming 24/7. Compare the ~space community to /m/space, and you'll see the difference. This issue went away somewhat while the Reddit migration was in full effect, but now its returned as activity on the site has dwindled down a bit.

Tildes cares about the users, no doubt, but it doesn't really give them much power over the site. I wish it were less controlled.

I highly suggest you just take a look at it and lurk for a few days on there. What you see is what you get. Its not ultra politically focused like you said Raddle was (I have 0 experience with any of these sites other than Tildes, Kbin and Lemmy), its has equal activity in most of the communities. However, there are only 20 or 30 to actually choose from, and if you want something niche you'll just have to post in one of the communities and see if someone knows about it. If you don't like it, I wouldn't be expecting it to change much, the site culture isn't dynamic like the Fediverse or Reddit for instance. The conversation there is unparalleled by any other platform though. You can find some truly inspiring and deep conversations on there. Its not for me, but you may like it a lot. Its a flawed approach, but the site fulfills what it intends to do very well. For me, Lemmy and Kbin, while not perfect, are the best alternative to Reddit. Tildes is open source and anybody could make an instance of it, but it hasn't happened yet as far as I know.

Ironically, that's the longest thing I've ever typed on Kbin.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

I live in a major US city, and yes they are still everywhere and being used. Here they have an actual use since walkability isn't the best, and at worse are just a nuisance with the way they block parts of the sidewalk and can be left anywhere with little consequence.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Glad more research into asteroid mining is being done, the benefits it can bring to civilization are massive. Also wonder what we could learn about asteroids from Psyche.

Although, what are you even supposed to do with $10,000 quadrillion dollars? Buy an entire continent? Things will get interesting once asteroid mining becomes available to the private sector as well.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Debian >>>>>>

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Would I be able to participate even though I'm on Kbin? OP on the announcement post says there is an authentication process.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Dang. Hopefully support for other accounts does end up being added at some point.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago

Looks great! I really like when teams take an old design and modernize it.

Mars2k21, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

I actually use trunks on android, had no idea there was a web client as well. Might try it out before dropping Mastodon to see if I like it more.