I’m friends with a furry artist and he wouldn’t join fedi mainly due to fears from fediblocking, unhelped by how fandom drama gets in general, not just in the furry sphere, and major drama with mastodon.art using some grifter’s block list which blocks like over 50% of the fediverse.
From what I’ve learned, being friends with him and other artists (and following ones I’m interested in), a lot of creators want a ready-made audience to advertise their artwork to, which was where Twitter came into play and why a lot of them are going for Bluesky instead since it’s recreated that experience for them. It gets hairier when it comes to NSFW content, too, since some places on the fediverse are absolutely fine with it on their timeline, and some places are definitely not. Though Bluesky has popularised CWs for adult content in that sphere, some instances don’t like users posting NSFW and will request it be unlisted if it’s allowed at all.
If the creator is SFW only, they’ll have a lot of good luck using a general purpose Mastodon instance, unless they find a community that suits them better. Joinmastodon.org has a good list, and a lot of them don’t have that networking issue except with very fringe instances.
I don’t actually get any of this 😂. Yes, I am that old 😂.
I think I’ll try to explain the working of the Fediverse in simple drawings, add a few instances recommended for certain types of creators, and make a page long FAQ section with stuff like about GDPR requests, etc.
There was a nice image, like a tutorial with Q&As, during the Reddit migration… can’t seem to recall who made it, but it was well explained, in layman’s terms, what the fediverse is. It was aimed at Lemmy, but it could easilly be remade for any other fediverse social media as well (I think the author also released the GIMP file as well). Sure, it’s not perfect, but it gives you a general idea of what the fediverse is.
If someone could remember the image and share it, or a link to where it may reside, that would be great ☺️.
Thanks for sharing! Looks like a lot of agreement and no opposition. Just a matter of getting it done. Hopefully someone who has the skill and time will get it on their TODO list someday.
I only know that one time an obscure thing I was talking about here on kbin.social, perhaps as a response to a post on some Lemmy or another, ended up being indexed incredibly quickly by Google regardless of however things are structured in URLs.
This became apparent when I tried to do further research on the topic and I found myself staring at my own comment as federated on yet another Lemmy.
As long as search engines remain as on the ball as whatever happened there, we might actually end up with a repository anyway.
Is there a name for that phenomena? It used to happen to me with reddit.
Especially disappointing for longstanding problems that I would walk away from and return to at a later date. I would of course initiate a renewed effort with a websearch containing key words. I guess in a sufficiently idiosyncratic/unique way that I would find my own thread, but not recognize it. Momentarily get excited like "this person has the precise same problem as I do!" hoping there would be a solution in the thread. Only to realize that the whole thing was a little too framiliar and it was myself, last year, struggling with the same problem having made zero progress.
Do you think that's why you found your own writing? Like if I am trying to research the present question and I do a search with keywords like fediverse repository knowledge lemmy kbin URL search reddit I could imagine finding this because it is an unusual combination of words. But if I were to use totally different phrasing I doubt I would get here.
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