#Fediverse #Bookmarks
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services has:
Fedi.Tips is an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. – Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon & the Fediverse
Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon & the Fediverse
@axbom@axbom.me writes:
Fediverse is shorthand for *federated universe*. But what does federated really mean in this context? It’s important to remember that the vast majority of applications in my picture can be installed thousands of times over and each of these instances, or servers, be of many different sizes. Each of these have their own rules and ownership, and make up their own corner of the Fediverse. – The many branches of the Fediverse
The many branches of the Fediverse
@onepict@chaos.social on consent:
Some of us chose to walk away from abusive situations and abusive online networks. We want a space where we can post, laugh and find a meeting of minds. Once you have done it once, it is easier mentally to do it again. – Consent and the fediverse
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services has this:
This is a human-curated small selection of interesting accounts to help you get started on Mastodon and the Fediverse. -- Fedi.Directory
I have this:
Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse. -- Trunk
@dansup@mastodon.social has this:
Self-submit your account in less than 60 seconds! -- Fediverse People Directory
@anze3db@fosstodon.org has this:
Invite your friends to follow your favorite people on Mastodon. -- Mastodon starter packs
@supernovae@universeodon.com on Meta:
But dang I’m disappointed. I got defederated for doing what I expect other admins should do. Ooof. No winners here… Just a few thousand people with consenting relationships destroyed without any due dilligence by their admin defederating us and many other instances. – Meta – Progress and Controversy
Meta – Progress and Controversy
@gargron@mastodon.social on Threads:
Just like any Mastodon server, Threads will have their own moderation policies and tools, and just like any Mastodon server, they will be able to choose which content to block on their platform. However, their decisions can only affect their own platform. The only people who can set rules for and moderate your Mastodon server are the moderators of said server, and if you self-host, that continues to be just you. – What to know about Threads
@j12t@social.coop on Meta:
Alex Heath is reporting that “Meta is hoping for at least tens of millions of users within the first few months of availability”. The Fediverse currently has between 1 and 2 million active monthly users. So Meta is expecting at least 10× of those numbers by the end of the year. – Why would Meta implement ActivityPub? 1½ reasons are compelling, another is not
Why would Meta implement ActivityPub? 1½ reasons are compelling, another is not
@ploum@mamot.fr on decentralisation:
You cannot buy a decentralised network! But there’s another way: make it irrelevant. That’s exactly what Google did with XMPP. – How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
@deadsuperhero@wedistribute.org on Meta:
The idea of forming this question as a binary “this or that” is ridiculous, and predicated on a nebulous idea that open source communities should just roll over and be grateful that some insanely profitable entity wants to do real estate development right outside of our digital homes. – John Gruber Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
John Gruber Doesn’t Know What He’s Talking About
@oliphant@oliphant.social on blocklists:
Tiers will reflect blocklist size, with higher tiers having larger blocklists. This is purely mathematical, and pulls from trusted sources to generate this list based on common agreement. – Oliphant.Social Shared Blocklist Files
Oliphant.Social Shared Blocklist Files
A client that isn’t built on a merged timeline:
You log in and it shows you all the people you follow. You pick one of them. It shows you all their toots, fully threaded. So each thread has its own column, kind of like a newspaper. And you scroll right to see older stuff. – Yoyogi
@Elizafox@treehouse.systems writes:
I am 100% serious with the title, despite the appearance of click-bait. Mastodon has a serious structural rot that is only worsening as time gets on. I think this is for a few reasons which I will outline below. – Mastodon really is crumbling — and it will only get worse
Mastodon really is crumbling — and it will only get worse
@jbauer@merveilles.town writes:
Misskey is another bit of Fediverse software, similar to Mastodon and Pleroma, but with far more features, and a far nicer and more polished-feeling UI. It is currently developed by one person, syuilo and is supported by a small amount of corporate funding, combined with some Patreon contributions. – Mastodon Is Dead, Long Live Misskey 🍮
Mastodon Is Dead, Long Live Misskey 🍮
Alternative clients on the web:
Via @ghose@gts.xmgz.eu: Emoji Kitchen
@dimkr@hd.206267.xyz has this:
tootik is a federated nanoblogging service for the small internet. With tootik, you can interact with your friends, including those on Mastodon, Lemmy and other ActivityPub-compatible servers, from the comfort of a minimalistic, text-based interface in the small internet – tootik
@asjo@illuminant.asjo.org has this:
An ActivityPub server with an NNTP interface. – Illuminant
@liaizon@wake.st: Fediverse Iconography.
@Noupside@saturation.social writes:
The Great Decentralization — the migration away from large, centralized one-size-fits-all platforms to smaller, ideologically distinct spaces — is fueled by political identity and dissatisfaction. … Unlike centralized platforms, where curation and moderation are controlled from the top down, federation relies on decentralized protocols … that … devolve moderation … to that community level. This approach doesn’t just redefine moderation; it restructures online governance itself. And that is because, writ large, there are no refs to work. … Without centralized governance, there is no single authority to mediate systemic issues or consistently enforce rules. Decentralization places a heavy burden on individual instance administrators, mostly volunteers, who may lack the tools, time or capacity to address complex problems effectively. … What happens when divergent norms grow so distinct that we can no longer even see or engage with each other’s conversations? The challenge of consensus is no longer simply difficult, it is structurally reinforced. -- The Great Decentralization