Well, on one hand, I like the far-right getting some institutional push-back. On the other hand, I’m a little concerned with both the state of democracy — that such a candidate could get so many votes — and the disregard for the people’s vote — while there may have been significant Russian interference, to what extent should the courts intervene with what seems to be a genuinely popular candidate?

I checked, and you weren’t really banned from Lemm.ee, the mod comment says you can come back in 2 weeks. Still, getting rocked by Lemm.ee means you did something wrong for sure… I can’t see what you said, but “Russian propaganda” shows up more than once.

Complaining about right-wing attitude while getting banned from Lemmygrad and Hexbear… HEXBEAR?! How did you even do that… For denouncing age-ism, you say… I wonder what you said.

What Mastodon instance did you get banned from, just out of curiosity?

What I can say is that you really need to tone it down or find an instance that has a no-ban policy. Of course, that sort of instance gets de-federated FAST… You seem to be going around causing mayhem. No offense.

They… Spoke to you?

Culture and userbase behaviour are just or even more important than the list of features or the UI style when it comes to choose the best place for you on the Fediverse.

Well, I guess that’s a factor. I haven’t really experienced this, as someone that uses mostly Lemmy and Mastodon. I don’t know, I’m speaking from a place of profound ignorance on that front.

You say that some are “gonna get culled” but, with exception of projects that were dropped due to personal issues with the devs, but that all somehow live in the form of forks, the Fediverse is expanding and the diversity of platform types is getting greater each day. In fact, there are categories where more diversity of software is needed.

Yeah I mean, if culture is the breaker then that’s that, right? I was thinking pretty exclusively thru the lens of software, and I don’t believe that there’s enough granularity in use-cases to justify all these options, especially considering they are very much evolving, adding features, improving on several fronts… Intuitively, I think they’d be converging towards a feature niche. The Fediverse is growing, so it grows in every direction and in every way, but, as it matures, I’d expect it to grow narrower. Or… Spikier, since there are several niches… I don’t know if spikier gets across what I mean, sorry about that.

If, as you say, there’s a cultural aspect to using a certain software-base as opposed to another, then that’s a whole other thing. Very interesting… I just hadn’t thought of that.

It does seem then that the less-than-great aspects of PieFed, from your perspective, are quality of life sort of things, rather than core aspects of the way PieFed works. That’s nice to hear :D

I’ve tried it out just a little, but I’ll definitely be exploring it more!

I see, I see… Thanks for the explanation, that’s exactly what I wanted to know!

this Lemmy instance which will remain single user most likely.

You’re an evil person, keeping a name as cool as nocturnal garden all to yourself… Where has compassion gone? The world… The world is falling apart, one cool server-name at a time… /j

(in all other cases beside Lemmy) can be described as shouting in the void and being happy if someone else is there too.

Yeah, I get this, to be honest.

Though, I do feel the same way with the centralized social media platforms. I mean, if I make a Tumblr post, I’m really not expecting people to see it. If I just Tweet, as opposed to Tweeting at someone, I don’t really expect engagement either… YT videos, Instagram posts… Unless my friends and family use the apps — which is another issue altogether, since I could try to get them to join — I just shouting in the void.

I think it’s the lack of theme. Lemmy makes you post with the theme of the community you post to, so it’s kind of implied that your posts will reach people that are interested in what you posted. That’s kind of how tags work on Mastodon and Twitter, I guess, but it’s not quite the same thing.

It very much is not Fediverse. They use a federated protocol, but not ActivityPub, which is the Fediverse’s protocol. They use AT Protocol instead, and they’re the only thing using ATP, by the way… That should tell you everything about how “federated” they are.

While there are different servers, there’s a dependence on central nodes. The simple existence of central nodes is antithetical to decentralization… So we’re really not talking about the same thing at all here, with BlueSky vs the Fediverse.

Well… Is that true, I wonder. Is that what decentralization means?

Software wise, these are open-source projects with strong community contribution. Just a few major players doesn’t imply just a few major servers, so no one company or project can ever truly dominate.

Additionally, just the threat of forking could be enough of a deterrent for more authoritarian services not to implement anti-user features. Say Lemmy sells out or something; Lemmy.ml might turn bad, but that means nothing to .world or .ee or any other server. They can just… Not update. Not implement the bad features. Lemmy can just be forked. That’s not like Twitter or Facebook.

Right?

I’m not a tech wizz or anything, but that’s my understanding of the spiel of the thing of the stuff.

Cool :D Thanks for the link, I’ll definitely be checking that out~

Once shareholders get their hands on something

We’ll see I guess…

which suits so many of my needs (tbf not all) perfectly

What do you think is missing from PieFed?

Discord continues going down the shitter.

How so? And what do you mean bridge Matrix to Discord?

Maybe… I do see your point.

:D That does sound nice…

I love Thunder for Lemmy, so I’m definitely interested in what you’re doing.

That being said, I think an app that could unite the threadiverse is really cool. Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, all in one. That’s nice… I do have Interstellar installed, but I don’t really like it as of now.

I’m really excited for the future of the Fediverse, with all these apps, but it’s just too much…

I’m not advocating for anything, but some of these are definitely gonna get culled.

Hmm I see.

Not sure how much use I’d get of public upvotes, personally, but boosting/re-posting seems like a genuinely nice feature.

The whole fediverse is pretty cluttered to be honest.

Truer things have been said, but not many.

There’s so many different services with similar features… The amount of Mastodon-like things is just overwhelming. The threadiverse is also a little hard to wrap one’s head around.

…And Lemmy?!