I'm thinking, y'know how Mastodon and Kbin are kind of part of the Fediverse? I've decided to use Kbin, and it's interesting.
It's smooth even on the mobile web browser (that's surprising, I rarely see that!)
Come follow me on Mastodon @CandyRushSweetest for Linux stuff and maybe some art & my @CandyRushSweetest for my "problematic fiction" takes and also my artwork! (I may repost NSFW or things that make you uncomfy - like Lolisho, for instance, so please keep that in mind when you follow me on Aethy. Other than that, mastodon.social doesn't have that stuff on there
Also, I'm on Misskey as well: @CandyRushSweetest & @CandyRushSweetest!
It’s definitely going to be interesting to see this.
I hope Threads soon becomes available in Europe since that's a HUGE audience to lose from an app. After all, Facebook and Instagram are available in EU, so for Europe to be all of a sudden having strange feelings about Meta? This is kind of strange.
They haven't done this before, have they?
I understand that with certain laws coming into effect that it could be a problem
I want to hear from people who have two ActivityPub instances running in Docker containers, on the same Docker network, and have them federating with each other.
Just FYI: You can help promote the #Fediverse by cross-posting.
There's still a sizable userbase on #Reddit and many Kbin/Fediverse users still use Reddit. That's fine. You can help in a small way by posting interesting content on both platforms, then mentioning "This post is also available on the Fediverse here:".
This will at the very least begin discussions about alternate platforms and I highly doubt Reddit can find any rule to fault you for doing so. This is also how Digg started leaking users to Reddit, so it works. Exposure is key. You may make a new user, or get a developer interested in contributing who wasn't aware of the Fediverse before, or didn't think it was significant.
@CleoTheWizard Furthermore, you can encourage creators who make OC to do the same. Many are also fed up about Reddit's actions and are likely to agree.
Btw, this is me testing the limits of kbin's microblog feature, so the following post will be long. I will post a TLDR at the end.
It has been nearly a month since I've first joined #fediverse. Even before the #reddit exodus, I was already growing tired of the site for the fact that despite how large the communities were, they were very cold and impersonal. There was also the fact that for the #queer community at least, we had been siloed off from the rest of reddit, because nearly every topic involving #LGBTQ issues were very often met with hostility by a good amount of users, often followed by a locked topic. It was even getting to the point where I didn't even feel safe in the some of the more socially liberal spaces.
The fact that mods were being stripped of some of the few tools they had to keep their communities hospitable, I knew the writing was on the wall. I tried many reddit alternatives during the blackout, including #raddle and #tildes. But once I figured out how #kbin, #mastodon, and #lemmy worked, I found myself feeling right at home on the fediverse.
I think the main reason why is because many of the people here are misfits from other platforms. Many of the users on mastodon are former twitter users who were driven off by the corporate culture of twitter, and later by Elon Musk and the poisoning of the platform. Others are former redditors like me who found platforms like lemmy, and are in the midst of trying to rebuild the community they once had on thier former platform.
Fediverse definitely doesn't feel "mainstream" like the sites that many of us come from , but perhaps that is part of the appeal, and why I have taken to it far quicker than any other social platform I have tried in the past. I'm just hoping as the fediverse continues to grow and attract new users, that it doesn't lose it's quirky and experimental spirit.
TLDR: I like fediverse. It's weird, quirky, and I feel more open here than I was ever able to be on reddit. Don't ever change.
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I hear you - when starting out, you're not presented with a front-page or /r/all, so you do have to actively look for content.
My suggestion to you would be start following folks, especially across instances, and be liberal with your subscriptions.
Once I got up to about 100 folks on my following list, I started finding a huge amount of active communities to subscribe to through their posts and threads (I'm on Kbin, so we get both Mastodon and Lemmy), which further increased the reach of my feed. Right now, with about 120 folks followed and a similar number of community subscriptions, my feed is beating the pants off of the sad stale crap Reddit is delivering.