mastodon is already the next twitter, bluesky is just a direct copy of it with nothing keeping it from going the same way. mastodon is open source (can’t be corpoed), federated (can talk to other platforms/instances so being on a small one doesn’t hurt anything), and most importantly, uses a protocol that doesn’t make self-hosting impossible due to storage requirements.
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org I think mastodon should implement a post-to-community type thing like mbin has for microblog posts. It (and all other fedi. platforms, really) also needs like a tutorial or smth to show how to actually use the federation features of the platform.
just saw that yesterday. I hadn’t updated yet when I made that comment. glad it’s there even if only in beta because switching stuff like that sucks normally.
the dev for the mobile app said he’s working on that in the matrix channel
I’ve got one of my friends thinking of switching to Lemmy or mbin.
this is my corner of the internet
that makes sense, I am on kbin.earth which as far as I can tell is mbin’s .world equivalent.
that’s the default
what do you mean adjust your filter? I’m on mbin but I’m pretty new.
nice. I don’t like that kind of social media, but that means the fediverse is getting attention and people may start migrating here instead of to progressively more privacy-violating platforms.
it does seem to have the loading thing, I’ll reply again here if it still happens or maybe mention it on matrix (same username).
using this comment to test
I’m on the latest version. I’ve only seen the null check thing on stuff from other platforms but as mbin is fairly small thats just what I use, so I doubt it’s related.
the main one I’m still having repeatably right now is that sometimes when I go to post something, especially a comment, the button does not seem to work, so I press it again thinking I missed and it gets posted twice. I also sometimes have an issue where up/downvoting makes a thing pop up saying “null check operator used on null value”. it also happened when trying to unfollow a community from an instance I had recently blocked.
I’m not sure about self-hosting (not feasible for me right now) but as a user it’s not bad. I can say I haven’t seen anyone complaining about it yet.
to anyone looking for somewhere other than Lemmy I’d like to suggest mbin. I’ll admit it’s not perfect (especially on mobile, interstellar is decent but it’s the only app and has some bugs) but it handles reddit-style content pretty much the same as Lemmy except for the lack of read-marking on posts. as a bonus, it handles microblogs so you can see those without an account on mastodon or something similar.
you are aware that you aren’t restricted to things on your instance right? what your talking about is literally what the fediverse is. also who cares how big an instance is?
no idea, I mostly use it to be able to read microblogs and reply to them while still using threads primarily all on one account. my best guess is microblog-only things don’t see the community and threads-only things see it as a regular thread formatted like a microblog.
nice. I should mention that the microblogs need to be put in a magazine (community) as well, but you can always just use the random one.
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