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- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 13 hours ago:
I post on mastodon and bridge to bluesky. That way I can reach anyone there interested in following me, but I personally don't have to bother with the site at all.
As someone trying to reach an audience, it's pretty much perfect. Each to their own obviously.
- Comment on Use 'Bridgy Fed' to connect Mastodon and Bluesky 15 hours ago:
Thanks, very insightful!
Maybe elaborate?
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 days ago:
Vitamin D supplements. You're not gonna get much sunlight, and you need vitamin D not to get depressed.
The locals are used to seasonal depression. Foreigners tend to have a hard time with it.
- Comment on What should I bring to far-north Scandinavia? 2 days ago:
Layers are key. Noting beats real wool.
Use mittens, not gloves. Gloves suck.
- Comment on Do PhDs HAVE to use Dr? 3 weeks ago:
I have a PhD, the only time I use my title is when booking tickets for trains or planes with German companies.
I'm a social scientist. Nobody hears the word "doctor" and thinks of a person like me.
- Comment on Want to buy jewlery as a gift for the girlfriend, I know nothing about jewlery, where to start? 3 weeks ago:
I guess Etsy could be a good place to look. It has gotten annoying in the last few years, but sadly it's still the best place for a lot of people to sell their crafts.
She might enjoy a unique handmade piece by a silversmith there just as much or more as a high-end necklace, and unique hand-made designs can be cheaper than diamonds. Maybe you can even reach out to a silversmith and design something together.
I tried searching for #jewelry on mastodon.social, and @kosmimatis@handmade.social was the first thing to pop up. Of course you probably want to look around more, but their latest post is not necessarily a terrible starting point.
In short, I think it's possible to go about it looking for a silversmith rather than a jewellery store. What it lacks in expensive stones it makes up for by being potentially personal. :)
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
It seems it shut down over Kbin developments. I guess it could have done its users a favour by changing to Mbin, but still... Fair enough. I'm hopeful :)
- Comment on feddit.online will live on as a PieFed instance 1 month ago:
That's great!!
I love PieFed - hopefully this instance will be a success! It's nice to see something other than the flagship. PieFed seems pretty flexible, so it'll be fun to see what another instance makes of it.
I would warmly recommend checking it out!
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
I guess a large part why I liked them was that I was really only active on one or maximum two, and I was happy just embracing the community there. It was also in my native language rather than in English, which feels excotic in retrospect.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
Great post!
I would be curious to know how many people on here have found memories from BBcode-style forums.
Personally I kinda skipped web 2.0 - I had some accounts, sure, but I hardly interacted with anything else than direct messaging. However I used to hang out on phpBB for probably hours every day before Facebook took over, having been lured in by needing help progressing in Pokémon on my GameBoy Advance.
I guess I'm a minority around here in never having used Reddit much. But I'm wondering if we're, in general, a bunch of ageing nerds who are nostalgic to web 1.0, or if we're a more diverse bunch than that. ;)
- Comment on Any peertube based podcasts on the fediverse? 1 month ago:
Floorboard's Dot Social is pretty great: @dot_social@flipboard.video
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Launching in a week 1 month ago:
It's a bit hard to imagine the fediverse crowd being huge on a tiktok-like platform. I think it's an important development, even just as a proof of concept, but it would have to attract an audience from a whole different target audience, and one that might have less patience for technical hiccups.
I think video content is also fundamentally more asymmetrical - from a few influencers to a large number of consumers. Which is probably what the fediverse is heading towards as well, but it's not what it does best at the moment.
I don't think I'm the target audience of this, and I'm not sure it'll be a success. But I think it's a very interesting and important development anyway.
- Comment on What happened to Kbin.Social? 1 month ago:
Does anyone know if he has given any sign of life the last few months?
- Comment on [Opinon] With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions? 1 month ago:
Of course for the region, it is an escalation of the conflict and it's problematic as fuck.
But for the international community sitting around with their heads up their ass waiting too decide whether or not they should condemn Netanyahu, he has been committing a genocide undisturbed for almost a fucking year now. It's the one thing we all agreed we would not allow to happen again. Pretending any fear of escalation or anything at all has any moral bearing at anything at this point is just bullshit, and any politician serving pathetic non-answers mumbling about a "fear of escalation" at this point while refusing to publicly oppose Netanyahu should receive a standing invitation to join him in the Hague.
But of course, I'm not saying Israel's actions in Lebanon doesn't matter. I'm just saying people who change their mind at this point should take the opportunity to reconsider how okay they are with massacring civilian populations.
- Comment on [Opinon] With Gaza in ruins and Lebanon under siege, what defence remains for Israel’s actions? 1 month ago:
The whole point of genocide is that it is inexcusable. There's just no condition under which it can be justified.
It bothers me when people pretend Lebanon was Israel crossing some line in the sand. They've been carrying out a genocide for almost a year now. If suddenly bombing another civilian population is the point in which you are willing to accept that it's problematic, chances are we're not going to get along very well.
Of course, better late than never. But it bothers me.
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 1 month ago:
They'd get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 1 month ago:
That's great!
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 1 month ago:
It's a nice user interface, made by @cheeaun@mastodon.social, and loved by a lot of people.
If you don't want to trust people with your account details that's fine - then using a third party app is probably not for you.
- Comment on Phanpy - A minimalistic opinionated Mastodon web client. 1 month ago:
If you have Mastodon you can just try it?
It's a Mastodon client. It has many neat features. I like it on desktop because its way to navigate with my keyboard. It's also great on phone. Overall pleasant, Mastodon users should try it out. But I feel like describing it at length is not really productive - it's a user interface.
- Comment on FediForum September 2024 Demo Videos 1 month ago:
I'd say pretty much all of those are worth a look!
Personally I'm curious how Bonfire and the Open Science Network will develop. Bandwagon also seems to have a lot of potential.
Would be curious to hear if anyone have tried using Quiblr! It's not really for me I think, but it does look like an interesting service.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.
I have to say I'm a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn't be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we're in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.
I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn't matter much if it takes a while to get there.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
I just mentioned them because they're microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn't matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.
So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.
The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don't just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don't know anything about it.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
FediDB reports that the Mastodon user count is on the decline the last year, from more than. 1.2 million to 820k thousand. The number seems to maybe stabilize a little, but it appears as a slow decline when studying the last year.
Then again, this is following from a huge bump of new users with the twitter exodus. It's natural that not all will stick around, so a decline in active user now is not so surprising. It does indicate a lack of ability to move the momentum, but it's an open source project with very limited funding, not a venture capital startup. It's not here for explosive growth.
Furthermore, the number of Mastodon users is not a perfect measure. If it's matched by a huge number of users on gotosocial, it wouldn't really matter. The Swiss should maybe have waited for Threads to federate both ways before deciding to leave on account of limited interactions.
Anyway, they're not entirely wrong to say Mastodon is on the decline. But they're not entirely right either.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
Then again, the only person in these comments actually using lemmy.world seemed pretty happy with his experience.
It would be nice if people had an easier way of knowing the level of moderation before joining a server. One idea could be for services like [Fediverser[(https://fediverser.network/instances) could include an indicator of moderation level - for example "relaxed" if few instances are defederated, "moderate" if moderation is more active, and "strict" for more restrictive communities. Data from [Fediseer[(https://gui.fediseer.com/) might be useful in this regard.
That way the people fleeing Reddit because of censorship would know where to go, and the rest of us wouldn't have to be bothered by them unless we really wanted to.
The biggest problem, I guess, is that it's a lot of work, and I certainly don't have the time nor skill-set required. So people will just have to read their instance rules. :)
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
It's accessibility, and it's also sovereignty.
Another way of rephrasing this decision is "we have decided to stop publishing information on our official website, as we receive more interaction on X". Which is pretty questionable.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
The Fediverse is not one thing. It's a bunch of different sites that are interconnected. You can join a site that has strict moderation, or you can join one that has no moderation at all.
Personally, I'm not here because I think moderation on Instagram and X is too active. Rather to the contrary.
- Comment on Happy 12 million! 1 month ago:
In my case, somewhat chronological order:
- First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
- Funkwhale
- Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
- BookWyrm
- Kbin (dead now)
- New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
- Piefed
- My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 1 month ago:
Here's a GNOME blog post from a couple of years ago. But really it's about GTK4 - apps designed for GNOME are made to be adaptive. So if you're using a GNOME desktop you can experience it yourself by simply making windows of the core apps smaller, be it GNOME Web, Maps, Weather, Calendar, or a huge range of other apps. Apps like Spot (Spotify client), Tuba (Mastodon), Shortwave (radio), and Podcasts are also perfectly adaptable for mobile devices. Basically apps in the GNOME Circle should work well on mobile, and many of them have screenshots that illustrate how they look in different form factors.
Also, this.
- Comment on What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices? 1 month ago:
More than anything, the problem is apps. I installed Ubuntu Touch on an old device I had lying around (after replacing the battery to bring it back to life), and I ended up liking it more than my daily driver. It worked, the interface was snappy (no pun intended), and there's a lot of solid design choices. I found myself trying to navigate with gestures on my android phone after.
However, I could not talk to my friends, who unfortunately use WhatsApp. I could not install my banking app. There's a bunch of small thorns in the side that makes changing difficult for most users - kind of like in the early days of desktop Linux.
As in the early days of desktop Linux, the solution might lie in a compatibility layer (like WINE). Android emulation within at least Ubuntu Touch has gotten quite good, I believe. Unfortunately my device is too old to support it.
Those interested should also check out Postmarket OS.
GNOME, a major desktop environment, is also moving towards all apps being designed for all types of devices. But as long as people can't use their banks, switching is hard.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
If you want something that could actually be useful in real-life situations, pick up running.