I’d be surprised. They’ve actually been federating for months now. Maybe they’ve seen a rush of signups kicking the tires, and that’s expanded the firehose?

I did this a few months ago. I haven’t found replacements for everything, but I’ve found that it’s really come down to my not actually using those things very much in the first place, so I haven’t had to do the work.

When I look, I find something that works. What are you still looking for?

I find the array of installation options a little overwhelming or intimidating sometimes. If I can just do the equivalent of apt-get, that’s, of course, easy enough. But sometimes things are just realeased as tar balls, and I have to go and look up WTF I’m supposed to do each time. Nothing comes up often enough for me to internalize it.

I do find myself chafing against just the fundamental differences of the *nix environment from the DOS-based heritage of Windows. And I find it difficult to get help with certain things sometimes because the installed user/developer base isn’t super interested in supporting different modes of interaction (“just use the terminal, it’s so much faster [for me]” is a common refrain that makes me want to get stabby). But 99% of the time, it’s been smooth sailing.

At this stage, if you have drivers for everything, and there’s nothing mission critical that’s still tied to Windows, the best advice I can give you is to copy your important files over from your Windows partition, and then dump it. If you have a 2nd computer, leave that one running Windows for now. The duel booting can make it tempting to just reboot into Windows “just for this one thing”, and stay there until you next have to restart.

Ok, which one of you goobers killed the website?

“How dare there be an active world in my murder hobo wankfest?”

Most people have no idea about the fetish circles and the languaged used in relation to them. They recoil at “fediverse” not because of sex association, but because it’s a really lame sounding name.

How fucking dare they. If they were going to ruin my day, couldn’t they have at least picked one at the end of my life?

Well, see, Mastodon has had a functional monopoly on ActivityPub usage, and also Mastodon users are able to and do engage with Lemmy communities. Mastodon’s share of AP usage going down is of interest because the fediverse has a monoculture issue, and that’s a thing people on a forum like this one should keep in mind.

Misskey’s char limit is an admin setting, FWIW. There are plenty of *key servers with higher.

Yeah. I think Misskey defaults to 2000, and supports up to 7000. And Glich-soc supports signidicantly higher, and that’s a Masto fork.

Cool. You… don’t have to engage in discussions that bore you. Why waste your time?

They released an official all on the app stores

See, where this falls apart is in believing that someone buying a new SUV would buy a scooter instead, if only it was cheaper. Most of them do not want a scooter, or a bicycle, even if it propels itself.

You can’t make someone buy asperagus if what they’re looking for is chocolate chip cookies.

No. The Fediverse is access to syndicated content from a single website. Signing up at some other rando’s website is not going to give you any privileges on mine, and my account on my server doesn’t let me log into any of your computers.

The fediverse isn’t a handful of commercial services for you to demand access to. It’s a shit ton of small websites run by random individuals for niche communities, and a small number of large websites run by people with an impulsive drive toward self-punishment.

“If I eat up a ton of bandwidth and storage, I can make remote content local” is fun until you’re the one paying for the bandwidth and storage.

The thing is, the discoverability issue on the fediverse disappears if we stop treating it like it’s a centealized space. Everything looks the same, and everything uses the visual language of centralized social media. And we encourage people to “join Mastodon” or “join Lemmy”, which is like saying “join WordPress” and “join Joomla”.

We need to be promoting specific websites that people can join, for the reason of wanting to communicate with people on those websites. We need to treat federation as a value-add, not the whole damn value proposition.

Until we do, we’re just going to be navel gazing.

Search on Mastodon is annoyingly restrictive, but you’re never getting “full search across all instances”. Remote search just isn’t a thing.

Even fucking Google is local.

Cool ideology, bro!

Now do fire departments!

This.

The constant refrains of “Why won’t this public content sharing network bend over backwards to keep the things I share private?” shows a persistent misunderstanding of what’s going on here.

And also of how much privacy they actually have while using centralized social media. But that’s a whole other kettle of fish.

Yes! That’s how they can unionize now.

Instagram is, uh, Meta? It was gobbled up just as it was taking off.

Tiktok couldn’t be gobbled, and is being beat down by legislators until they sell to US tech firms.