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rolle, 15 days ago to random

Hello Bluesky, this is me posting from Mastodon. 👋 Bridgy.fed is finally live.

#Fediverse #BridgyFed #Bluesky #ActivityPub

rolle, 3 months ago to random

It’s funny to me that some people on Threads are saying Mastodon (mistakenly thinking it’s a one service) will always be ”small” and ”closed”. Well, soon we’ll be in the same crowd with the Threads people, perhaps with others like Tumblr too.

The Fediverse can expand unlike the other truly closed social networks. This is exactly like talking about the Internet in the 80s, ”it will be a small thing for the nerds, and always will be so”.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Threads

rolle, 4 months ago to random

My experience so far with microblogging services:

Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...

Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).

Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.

Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.

Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.

In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.

#Fediverse #SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Bluesky #Threads #Some #Mastodon

rolle, 4 months ago to random

Over the past year these are the top arguments against the Fediverse:

1. Too left wing
2. Too difficult
3. Not enough people
4. Not enough mutuals
5. Too nerdy / too niche
6. Too confusing
7. Too ugly
8. Too many different options and apps
9. Too many servers
10. Not owned by a corporation (yes, really, one person told me he prefers an oligarch)
11. There is no algorithm
12. Hard to discover people

Many of these are based on the attitude and feeling, but there is some truth to it, for example discoverability is still a bit of an issue. I personally find most of the Fediverse web UIs clunky considering the big world standards, but I’m sure they will get better over time.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

rolle, 5 months ago to random

Can't state this clearly enough: I love the Fediverse. Nothing beats it. Thank you for being here. :bunhdheart:

#Fediverse #Mastodon