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Berin

@ Berin @discuss.tchncs.de

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  • Hard Hat for Rule

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  • Fall Anime Season Preview Discussion and Thread Requests [2024, Week 38]

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  • How about during the signup process(step) the user gets instance allocated randomly?

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  • Yeah, the biggest problem with this approach is different moderation philosophies. You would have to set up a vetted set of approved non-problematic instances. I've read several accounts of people who tried out fedi and left soon after, and nothing sours the newcomer experience more than unknowingly joining an instance with a toxic community/moderators

  • Fandoms - active communities promotion thread

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  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • What timconspicuous said. Make sure your instance hasn't blocked bluesky as well

  • What made everyone move to Bluesky or Threads instead of Mastodon?

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  • My perspective as someone who is mainly active in the anime/gaming fandom and gamedev space:

    • Easier onboarding overall since you don't have to bother with choosing an instance and all that
    • despite starting out with less features than mastodon (no gifs, they are only getting video in the next update wth), the UI is overall more user-friendly and similar to Twitter's
    • Customizable feeds you can easily subscribe to in-app so you instantly have some content on your timeline (+ it's easy to be found in these feeds without having to research the specific tags to use)
    • Discoverability (through features and community efforts) is so much better. As someone who mainly follows artists, the last few days my TL was full of people doing artshares via quote-repost chains or sharing "starter packs" with lists of people to follow
    • I have seen exactly one artshare post on mastodon so far (the japanese side seems to have it figured out a bit better, though. I regularly see tag-based artshares going around)
    • meanwhile, to achieve a similar experience on mastodon I had to manually build myself different feeds in phanpy in which I'm following ~30 tags I have painfully collected to find the posts I'm interested in
    • quote-retweets don't exist yet but I kind of see the benefit now
    • the stackable moderation also helps a lot

    Overall, I think the main problems on Mastodon's side are difficult onboarding and lack of actual community-building efforts. Also, the community just seems to be less welcoming for creators in general imo

  • [Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

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  • (; v ;) I get you, I get you so much...the Threadiverse and Fedi in general seem to lack female-oriented fandom-spaces. It really feels like we're pioneers trying to build everything from the ground up. The good thing is that, since the general purpose-fandom communities are still small as well, we have the opportunity to help shape them! (I have been trying that with the more general visual novel communities, for example).

    I personally have been too shy to promote my communities outside of fedi yet... (._.)

  • [Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

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  • Achievement unlocked: "The void has shouted back"!

    !renpy@discuss.tchncs.de got its first thread and comments by someone who is not me \o/

    !gamejams@programming.dev has been chugging along nicely as well. There have been several new threads by other users since I took over as a mod 🎉

  • Finally some good fucking Rule

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  • turkish flat bread filled with spiced minced meat and/or cheese and sprinkled with sesame. The pide we make have a slightly crunchy and sweet crust, are very fluffy, and taste overall amazing

  • Otome Games (again, because original instance went down)

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  • Subscribed! Let's hope that this one will last longer 😅 Thank you for all the effort you put into building this community!

  • Gentlest Rule

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  • she's adorable!

  • Electric BoogaRule

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  • [Oshi no Ko] 2nd Season • Oshi no Ko Season 2 - Episode 5 discussion

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  • I need the next episode right now aaaaah

  • [Oshi no Ko] 2nd Season • Oshi no Ko Season 2 - Episode 4 discussion

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  • Loved this episode! It was so heartwarming to see how the conflict between abiko and GOA was resolved, but then they dumped us right into ice water with aquas ptsd induced panic attack :,)

  • Final Fantasy 14: Dawntrail's 7.0 graphics update really is a game-changer—breathing life, colour, and atmosphere into the 11-year old MMO

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  • You can solo all of the main story quest except for 8-player boss battles and one required 24-player alliance raid series.

  • Weekly what have you been playing discussion - week of May 27th, 2024

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  • I played Sacrifice for Sale, a small indie comedy/horror visual novel where you're playing a vacuum salesman who tries to not get sacrificed by a cult. It has a huge amount of different endings, so there's lots of replayability despite the short length. also the girls who want to kill you are pretty cute

    Yesterday, I also finished playing duck detective: the secret salami and it's pretty amazing. The voice acting is suitably over the top and the artstyle is adorable. hoping for a sequel!