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Even so, .world will eventually enable parallel sending, and even in the meantime aussie.zone only boasts 375 MAUs. I don’t know that such a miniscule minority is worth bending over backwards for and creating further fragmentation.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for choosing instances other than .world when setting up new comms. They’re too big. But while we’re still at a point where content amount is the primary concern and we’re trying to achieve critical mass I also don’t know if endless fragmentation is well advised.

If the American Experiment produces a President Trump, can we now conclusively say that it was a failure?

Funny how that works. Wonder if not mentioning it will help remedy that?

The fediverse, also known as the open social web that includes Mastodon, Meta’s Threads, Pixelfed, and other apps (…)

Mention Lemmy for once 😠

I agree. For stuff like Mastodon and Loops I really want “For You”, not a simple chronological feed.

I know this is a contentious topic around here but what’s the news of Loops’ recommendation algorithm? Does it have one?

The Voynich manuscript is such a fascinating thing.

That’s kind of a trend on the Fediverse to be honest. Mastodon has the same problem with their chronological-only feed.

Mastodon users can subscribe to Lemmy communities I think, but it doesn’t really work very well. The Mastodon feed isn’t really made to support threaded content so all the Lemmy comments will fill and mess up your feed.

Maybe folk didn’t bother to actually click through? Idk.

Much like on Reddit, standard practice is skimming the headline, looking at the thumbnail and then voting and occasionally commenting. A rare percentage of the time something looks interesting enough to earn a click through.

I wish I could say I was above such behaviour but I have certainly been guilty of it myself.

Mastodon and Lemmy have only limited interoperability. You can’t follow individual users on Lemmy, so most of it is one-way. Mastodon users can post to Lemmy communities by @-ing a specific community, and Lemmy users can then reply as normal and their replies will show up in the Mastodon users feed.

In general I think that backlash against algorithms went the wrong way. We poured the baby with the water.

I agree. As long as the microblogging side of the Fediverse has only a chronological feed I can’t see myself engaging with it. Mastodon just demands way too much work from the user for what the payoff is, at least to me.

I can appreciate not wanting to create a new account for the purposes of creating a community somewhere else, but a lot of people outright refuse to engage in communities on .ml these days due to their moderation policies. It’s a shame, but I can understand it. Also, this type of initiative sounds like it’s made for being hosted on TTRPG.network instead.

I think mapping existing subreddits to Fediverse equivalents is a great idea and would be very helpful to have as a resource. Sub.Rehab did something to that nature, although I don’t think it’s being maintained anymore sadly.

However there’s a catch to posting to lemmy communities. It’s broken right now if there’s also a user with the same name as a community.

I’ve heard about this before and it sounds highly unfortunate. As I understand it there is no simple fix either.

I’ll keep an eye on it, thanks! I was looking at Thunder the other day actually since Sync is probably going to stop working eventually. Sadly I found it a little buggy and lacking some features, but I’ll follow its development for sure.

Piefed keeps leading the charge eh? With every new feature added I wish even more that there was a mobile app for it. Well, that or Lemmy devs taking some inspiration and implementing something similar, I guess.

I believe “Russian Bot Farm Presence” is the preferred metric of social network relevance in the scientific community.

And people wonder why users flocked to lemmy.world with it’s established, well known admin instead of “just dispersing onto smaller random instances to take advantage of the features of the Fediverse”.

Look I like decentralisation as much as the next guy but most people can’t or don’t have the time to research the trustworthiness of their local instance and its admin team before signing up.

We don’t want to put everything in one place, especially seeing as many are still waiting on Ruuds stance on Meta/Threads, bit there is something to be said for a big, reliable general purpose instance to help onboarding.