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Riley@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 3 年前

Mastodon monoculture problem

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Mastodon monoculture problem

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Riley@lemmy.ml to Fediverse@lemmy.ml · 3 年前
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Recent moves by Eugen Rochko (known as Gargron on fedi), the CEO of Mastodon-the-non-profit and lead developer of Mastodon-the-software, got some people worried about the outsized influence Mastodon (
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  • goryramsy@lemmy.ml
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    It is a little weird that everyone here seems to be a communist. Does the platform attract the mindset or does the mindset gravitate to the platform? Just something I’ve noticed…

    • Ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      It’s a bit of both, but it’s also instance specific. Most of it comes from lemmygrad, because there is a lot of cross federation between users and groups on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. On a smaller instance without much interaction with lemmygrad, you won’t see the same scenario

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      @goryramsy @koncertejo Where’s here? Maybe you’re just in the instance.

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        @goryramsy @koncertejo I might have meant ‘the wrong instance.’

    • super_user_do@feddit.it
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      On Lemmy yes, but on Mastodon (at least in Italian instances) like 99,9% of people are pro-us hegemony and American imperialism 🥶🥶🥶

    • KSP Atlas@sopuli.xyz
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      Yeah, being more politically neutral would be a big advantage, i guess being smaller means more radical people tend to be here

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    Yeah, been considering migrating to a non-Mastodon instance. Not sure where, though. Wouldn’t mind using Lemmy as my entrypoint to the Fediverse, but I don’t think, you can follow individual users here…

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      I like Calckey the most as it has the best thread view out of all fediverse software.
      Akkoma is simpler and more lightweight if you prefer that, but I find its thread UI hard to grasp.

    • butter@lemmy.jamestrey.com
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      I’m using Lemmy, and you’re right. I’m liking it though, and am considering donating to it.

      It’s very light, though.

      • casey is remote@social.freetalklive.com
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        @butter @Ephera Have you considered using the #Mastodon forms #Hometown and #GlitchSoc? Otherwise, there’s #Soapbox, #Pleroma and #Misskey

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          I used Mastodon for a brief moment, but I had a hard time with the “Twitter” of it. I’m not used to following people, I like to follow Topics.

          I don’t know any of the other hashtags you mentioned.

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            I can’t really use mastodon for the same reason… I like following interests and communities, not people.

            After I follow a few ppl that post a few times a day, it becomes a full time job just to read ppl’s posts. I have no idea how so many ppl use the twitter model.

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              @dessalines @butter Fair enough; #Mastodon and #Mastodon-adjacent software really is only for people looking for a #Twitter replacement

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              @butter, @dessalines, I’ve grown quite fond of Friendica for that very thing, following things, not just people. Not only does it let me follow topics via tags, but things like #lemmy and #guppe get added as “forums”, plus I can follow any #RSS or #Atom feed. All of these are added the same as adding any other contact (follow). All of these different ways of following things get listed in the same area of my account, as “contacts”, where they can be easily separated into to multiple groups (lists). Each followed hashtag, forum, contact group, or protocol type is always listed down the side of my page where I can simply click on it to filter my current feed.

              I know that other #fediverse / #ActivityPub interfaces such as #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #Misskey, #Calckey, #Hubzilla, and #Streams have some/all of these capabilities, each to their own extent. However, having played around extensively with all of them, I’ve come to find that #Friendica is the one that works best for me. And at the end of the day, this is the only thing that matters. It may be a bit time consuming, but trying all the things is the best (only?) way to see how they’ll work for you.

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      You can follow users using /kbin

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      Akkoma is also nice and Calckey seems to gain popularity fast.

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    deleted by creator

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      *.net *.split

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