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I hope he’s doing well. Thanks to the code he started, I’m on the Fediverse in the first place.

It’s not necessarily about competition, it’s about visibility. If I create something and I want to share it with people, that means I want people to see it. It doesn’t necessarily mean “I want people to see this more than other posts”, just “I’d rather not be posting into the void”.

For instance, I make YouTube Shorts for a game I play. I don’t post them on Lemmy anymore, because the Lemmy community for the game only has 60 subscribers, most of whom aren’t even active accounts anymore. The highest-upvoted thread in the community has 47 votes, the second-highest only has 9. This translates to effectively nobody on Lemmy seeing the videos I made, because this small, slow-paced community’s posts get drowned out by everything else.

It’s a signal-to-noise issue. There are some smaller communities I’d like to keep an eye on, but the posts from those communities get drowned out by the more active ones. I miss a lot of posts that I would have liked to have seen because of this.

Okay.

You may notice that OP never provided a link to the instance. It’s not an advertisement, it’s a warning.

So does this mean it’s in a state where people can start hosting their own instances and begin federating yet?

I thought CalcKey renamed themselves to Firefish, and then development on the whole project stopped? I know that Sharkey is a popular fork that still seems to be in development.

You can, it’s just not the most streamlined process. If you’re federated and you can find your instance’s copy of the thread, you can generally reply to Mastodon comments just fine.

At least, I’m pretty sure that’s not just an Mbin thing. I’m almost positive Lemmy can do it, too.

Music and analytics are huge news. Those, alone, bring Loops much closer to being a viable platform for users who take content creation/reach seriously.

"All means all.

Not always. For instance if you have NSFW filtered, in which case “all” means “most”.

I feel like you’ve missed the point entirely.

PDSes and relays exist at the whim of Bluesky’s corporate entity. Having all of the endpoints on the network controlled by a single agent is what makes Bluesky centralized. If Bluesky decided so, your server can be removed from their network and is functionally useless at that point. They decide who is and is not allowed to be a part of Bluesky.

For contrast, no such governing body exists with ActivityPub networks. Nobody can decide whether or not an instance should be removed from the network, they can only choose whether or not to federate with that instance. If you wanted to truly silence a Lemmy instance, for example, it would take the cooperation of all the major Lemmy admins to defederate, and is an entirely democratic process as a result.

EDIT: To clarify, ATProto is not what is centralized, “Bluesky” the platform utilizing ATProto, is what’s centralized.

I couldn’t find the rabbit on Friendica’s website, but I did find it here: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_mascots#Flaxy_O’Hare

You’re right, it’s awful lol.

What’s crazy is that all I really want out of a social platform is 2010’s Facebook. That was perfect. I was keeping in touch with friends and staying updated with their lives. I want that back so bad.

This dude has lived a post-Tubgirl life and thinks he’s tough.

im sick of mods. nobody likes mods!

Then self-host your own instance.

I’ve read the post, and I’m still unhappy with their decision. Capitulation only accelerates fascism.

It’s not an LLM, at least one of the accounts you’re referring to. The person you’re talking about has a fetish, and they like telling fake stories about unusually-sized non-sexual body parts. They have a few accounts on Reddit on 9gag where they do the same thing. There’s a few different versions of their disfigurement that they tell, but they’re all fake and by the same guy.

The “Fediverse” (capital F) refers to the social media platforms utilizing ActivityPub, specifically. I don’t believe there’s any agreed-upon name for such a network on ATProto, since Bluesky is the only platform actively using it.

This is my thought on it, too. I don’t disagree with any of the point OP is making, but I think a larger issue is people misusing ActivityPub platforms and trying to make them into something they’re not. It’s not meant to be a messenger, it’s not meant for privacy. Everything being public and transparent is part of the core design of the Fediverse. The idea of private groups/posts on the Fediverse seems counterintuitive to me.