An EXTREMELY Simple Guide to Mastodon (for when someone says it's too complicated to catch on) ( www.staygrounded.online )
PS- The "real" (non-joke) full guide for the Masto-curious is here.
What if You Knew What You Were Missing on Social Media? (By Julia Angwin) ( www.nytimes.com )
why are upvotes/downvotes able to sync across instances really well on lemmy, even though syncing favorites across instances barely works on mastodon?
List of Lemmy Instances Defederated From Us
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/505181...
Political Compass of the Lemmyverse ( lemmy.basedcount.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.basedcount.com/post/114721...
Is Mastodon’s strictly chronological news feed based on a wrong assumption?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4150119...
This still baffles me, but I guess it's good for federation? ( i.imgflip.com )
Context: sh.itjust.works/comment/2181865
Relaying of Mastodon hashtags to Lemmy instances
Does something like this exist? As far as I can tell, setting something similar up would require:...
Why do people downvote for no reason? ( lemmy.ca )
Every comment in this post got 1 downvote for literally no reason. Like… it’s a post about cats, nothing controversial at all. Do people just go around downvoting every post? Why?
Would you agree to algorithm-generated timelines if there were sufficient tools to check whether the timeline on an instance work as promised?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/4204288...
Mastodon's Next Major Release Enables Full-Text Search ( wedistribute.org )
It’s hard not to overstate how much of a big deal it is that Mastodon is adopting this kind of search functionality. Mastodon still makes up a vast portion of the Fediverse....
Please stop with the fearmongering, if you are a US lemmy host follow preserve and report guidelines, stay vigilant, follow ongoing discussions of fixes and solutions and you should be fine. ( www.eff.org )
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/1133610...
Kaiteki: a comfy cross platform (web app, android, linux, windows) Fediverse client ( github.com )
Pixelfed Groups Are Coming to the Fediverse "Very Soon" ( wedistribute.org )
Pixelfed, an alternative to Instagram, has matured over the years. One of its biggest, most powerful features is about to touch down - federated groups. And it will be compatible with Lemmy and Kbin.
Do you think opensource + Fediverse will develop into some kind of political force/movement in the next years?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3932795...
Fedi-fanfiction: How would a society look like in which the fediverse is established as THE social media platform?
Please be creative! Will there be more communities? Will we refer to each other based on the instances we belong to? Will there be beefs between instances? Will there be doomed romances of two peoples meeting from different places of the fediverse?
What's the word for realizing to have been sucked into the Fediverse and actually forgotten that you are using the Fediverse? Fedi-Immersion-Shock?
The last couple of days I experienced something that I never felt since I’ve been using Fediverse services. For the first time since half a year ago, I felt like actually being sucked into the Fediverse. I only realized it a couple of days later that I hadn’t looked into Twitter and that’s the crucial point: didn’t even...
Idea: fediverse of ecommerce. Time to dethrone amazon and ebay. What do you think?
Buying from an alternative ecommerce site usually sucks: you have to register for every website, enter your address, payment information and other information, they may leak data or store it improperly, you may not know the reputation of the website or business, you can’t easily compare products with other vendors and more....
Is there a fediverse software that has "trending" posts?
I realize that Mastodon is specifically intended not to have any sort of algorithm, and I understand and appreciate that, but it’s not what I want, personally. I want to have the posts in my feed sorted by the ones with the most “engagement” as those are likely the most interesting ones.
There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k) ( lemmy.fediverse.observer )
It is probably due to a number of people stopping using their alts after some instance hopping....
Transitioning /r/rust to the Threadiverse ( blog.erlend.sh )
The problems faced and solutions mentioned seem particularly relevant to !fediverse and !fediverse
New potential Fediverse-Analogy: Bird Party ( lemmy.world )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3764678...
Last Week in the Fediverse – episode 32 ( fediversereport.com )
One advantage Reddit has over Lemmy
When it comes to subreddits, lemmy communities, and lemmy instances, the people enforcing the rules are the same people making the rules. To borrow from legal terminology, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are the same. Mods and admins are judge, jury, and executioner. This gives them a lot of power and allows...