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@ maegul @hachyderm.io

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A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.

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  • Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better

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  • @simpleguy @fediverse

    I don’t believe so. I’m pretty sure I’ve checked it, but I could be wrong.

    It makes sense though as hashtags are a different mechanism from follows and boosts.

    You could do a quick test with the test community and the test hashtag.

  • Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

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  • @electricprism

    Yea. The basic idea feels like something that's kinda been forgotten in the wake of big-social's long dominance and vanilla-ification of online activity.

    I even once asked the dev of a popular mastodon app who was expressing interesting in making a lemmy app too ... "why not just add lemmy compatibility to the mastodon app".

    Their response was that they couldn't see what that would look like or how it would work.

    It's all just text messages ... I don't think this is hard!

  • Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

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  • @aaaa

    A useful lens I find is whether a social media system is good at creating, facilitating and hosting genuine communities.

    Alt-social right now is struggling with this I think and, IMO, has plenty of room to grow in this regard.

    The difficulty though is that it requires more features in our platforms, some likely non-trivial. That's a big ask for an open non-profit ecosystem.

    An effective means of aggregating multiple parts into a unified view could alleviate this.

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  • @aaaa

    Personally, I'm there with you I think. I only use default web-UIs on all fediverse platforms I've used, and advocate for that.

    But should multi-protocol systems and multi-platform clients become normalised, I think this goes beyond "to app or not to app". What I'm talking about could likely just be a web-app.

    The issue is more around aggregation and creating something "greater than the sum of its parts" out of open alt-social.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Is there any real or serious conversation or work around the idea of a feature-full social media browser?

  • A thought on "moderation bubbles"

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  • @fediverseProbably not original at all. But I suspect there's something to framing it around "improving the quality of internet discourse" through the emergent dynamics of a federation ... especially in comparison to monolithic big-social.

    It also repositions the internet as a broader resource to be used effectively.

    And instills independent and contentiously incompatible instances along with widely connected federation as desirable positives for social media and the internet in general.2/2

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    A thought on "moderation bubbles"

  • Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better

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  • @fediverse

    A tricky part here is that the community still needs to be followed at least once on your instance for the content to come through. I think

    So if a community isn't coming through, I'd recommend these steps:

    Search for the community and follow it like any other user. Add it to a specific/bespoke list, then remove that list from home (a setting available on each list). This removes "the firehose" from your home feed. Follow the corresponding tag as you would any other

    2/2

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Following #lemmy communities from #mastodon has gotten much better

  • I had no prior knowledge of what these #mastodon app numbers were but found myself pretty surprised at

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  • @db0

    Be sure to check out the "catch up" feature. Best thing I've seen in any social media client I think.

  • Mastodon @lemmy.world
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    I had no prior knowledge of what these #mastodon app numbers were but found myself pretty surprised at

  • Iceshrimp: A #csharp fediverse platform

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  • @mickcollins @Subversivo @fediverse @fediversenews

    I'm not familiar enough (or at all) with C#, but AFAICT, it could make an instance more stable, as firefish and misskey have struggled with handling a decent amount of users and C# could be a faster system for the server.

    Also, a re-write sometimes is a good thing. And, developers have different preferences for languages, so having a C# project around enables C# devs to more easily contribute to the fedi.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Iceshrimp: A #csharp fediverse platform

  • UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content

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  • @can

    Lemmy federates pretty well with mastodon. From mastodon you can follow a community as you would any person/user.

    There are two major problems though.

    1. everything in that community comes through as a flat firehose, including comments. There's structuring into posts with comments inside.
    2. Mastodon doesn't understand the type of object lemmy sends over ActivityPub, and so simply provides a title and a link to the original post.

    Also, you can just follow lemmy users on mastodon.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    UI differences are a big factor in the success/failure of decentralised federation of diverse platforms and content

  • Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.

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  • @technology @caseynewton

    That search/SEO is broken seems to be part of the game plan here.

    It's probably like Russia burning Moscow against Napoleon and a hell of a privilege Google enjoy with their monopoly.

    I've seen people opt for chatGPT/AI precisely because it's clean, simple and spam free, because it isn't Google Search.

    And as @caseynewton said ... the web is now in managed decline.

    For those of us who like it, it's up to us to build what we need for ourselves. Big tech has moved on

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Google's play on Search, Ads and AI feels obvious to me.

  • The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?

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  • @admin

    Some, maybe many, hope for the decentralised model of the fediverse to “take back the internet”. Each time a commercial platform “enshitifies“, there are then calls for the fediverse to replace it with a federated alternative, in part to take advantage of the moment of user agitation.

    But, IMO, resources and financial support are a touchy topic in the fediverse. If such has lead to a mismatch between ambition and opportunity, and, capability, that may be worth addressing.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    The fediverse won’t succeed at putting up a #Stackoverflow substitute and that’s a problem?

  • Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

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  • @weirdwriter @ajsadauskas @lemmyreader

    Yes, forum platforms too (incl #nodebb of course).

    I do get the (very vague) impression discourse is focusing on integrating well with masto to a good extent and so might not integrate too well with the other Reddit/forum platforms. If true, that might be a good enough reason to start with another base. OTOH, it’s a familiar platform to many devs so adapting it for stackoverflow like use could go well right?

  • Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

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  • @ajsadauskas @lemmyreader

    Yep! It seems a good Threadiverse ecosystem could be on its way with lemmy etc, nodebb and discourse. Hooking a stack overflow alternative into that could make a lot of sense of kick starting it.

    Though at some point UI differences could prove problematic(?)

  • Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic

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  • Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic

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  • @Trainguyrom

    HaAFAIU, two platforms other than mastodon (lemmy and discourse) have issues federating because at least one of them is trying federate well with mastodon (for obvious reasons). The mastodon quirk causing issues is, AFAIU, the way it kinda mangles articles and pages (long form formats in ActivityPub), which are appropriate for forums and link-aggregators like lemmy and discourse. So someone hints been done to work well with mastodon’s mangling, which hurts lemmy-discourse interop

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Reflecting on the firefish/calckey "moment"

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    People are actually on BlueSky

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    maegul @hachyderm.io

    Plugins for fediverse platforms.