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Ah, yikes - that’s what I thought. Never imagined a French software company could lower themselves to M/D/Y haha.

Misskey is an unprecedented forking party. Sharkey is one of the many forks. Maintained by the Blåhaj folks, if I’m not mistaken.

Iceshrimp is another one to watch. Specifically Iceshrimp-NET, a full rewrite to fix the performance issues that probably play some role in why these forks often meet such sad ends.

I thought it was released more recently, but you’re right, the first version was published in September. Still, it seems like a huge bump in users for the release of an app that currently has just north of 1k downloads on Android - and it’s strange that the growth is so contained within one month. I think there’s probably something going one here related to how users are counted.

The Fedidb graph of active Peertube users shows a huge bump from September to October - an increase of more than 10 000, coming from just over 20 000 in September.

Does anyone have any idea what happened there? Did Peertube change how active users were counted?

Sadly, the nature of some of the biggest Peertube instances makes the whole thing a bit less joyful. The fourth largest instance is obviously dedicated to gore, based on its name. I’m care about my eyes too much to check out the others on the list, beyond libre.video which is fine.

According to ths post it will be opt-in, on the instance side.

So smaller instances where there-might be risks associated will be opted out by default, while large instances that might want the attention and where individual users stand out less can opt in.

People have their preferences, and that’s fine. I certainly think we would benefit from different instances making use of different user interfaces by default, appealing in return to different kinds of people.

I’ve heard some people are not into Piefed because it’s too bare bones or something. For me, that’s exactly why I love it. Besides, they have even added (optional) support for decorative drop shadows - it’s futuristic as fuck, as far as I’m concerned.

Not well - at least in Lynx, content doesn’t load at all. You basically get the sidebar.

Piefed looks great though. Obviously not the feel of a native terminal app, but seemingly fully functional and everything makes sense.

Strong agree. Mastodon already works so that your feed won’t be filled up with shit you don’t want to see.

On a personal level, I couldn’t care less.

On a professional level, I want people to be able to follow me no matter which idiotic service they are using. So I’m bridging to Bluesky and I would be happy with my content being spread on Threads as well, though it doesn’t seem to attract many academic users. I have no idea who that platform is for. But if they’re interested in seeing my boring academic self-promotion, that’s cool with me.

Oh wow. They’re taking their sweet time.

Pretty useless then. Oh well, I’m European, and I am not aware of anyone in my network using Threads. So I can’t say I care all that much.

Fediverse users are sceptical, so for now threads uses can only find users who willingly intact with people on threads. They’re taking a carefcareful approach.

I assume if threads users follow fediverse users the content makes its way to their feed as normal.

You might be slower than the rest, but still smarter than them. Hare and turtoise kinda situation. Nothing wrong with being a slow learner, the willingness to learn is where it’s at.

I like the idea of content creators pooling together to create an instance.

Viewers could donate to the instance, and the money could be divided between content creators after server costs are covered. Suddenly you have an open source payment optional Netflix alternative up and running.

In a way it’s a bit weird to me that we haven’t seen more experiments like this. But then again, I guess content creators are too busy creating content to think about crazy innovative distribution models.

Check out the app permissions for the Mastodon app vs its competitors, and you’ll get an idea.

Of course, it’s not the Fediverse as such - Threads is still surveillance capitalism, even if it gains full AP support. And 3rd party Mastodon apps can track as much as they want. But the Fediverse makes it possible, by not depending on returns on investments.

Twitter was never the town square of the Internet. The Miiverse was.

It would be way too cool if the Wii homebrew scene implemented ActivityPub in the original miiverse. I might just dust of my Wii for that.

Might have been a user error then! Admittedly I did not try very hard.

There’s also a low bandwidth mode available. It’s an impressive platform in general.

In my experience it’s very snappy, and with minimal JavaScript (if at all). Hell, it’s even somewhat usable in Lynx, though I couldn’t sign in.

I wouldn’t be quite so pessimistic. There’s a commit for #FetchAllReplies (by @jonny@neuromatch.social, I believe) that seems to be shaping up well, with a seemingly healthy debate going on. Just yesterday @Gargron@mastodon.social posted in agreement that it is a must-fix issue.

They’re moving slow, but their reasons for doing so doesn’t seem to boil down to an unwillingness to fix it.

I was surprised to learn how little the domain as user name feature actually means, after setting it up with my bridged account.

The real user names on Bluesky are called DIDs. Different URLs can point to a DID, making your profile discoverable through this URL. By default it’ll be username.bsky.app (or username.instance.bsky.brid.gy), but as long as the URL redirects to the DID it could really be anything.

Several such redirects could be active, but you choose one to be the “official” one that shows up on your profile. People don’t follow your domain though - when they interact with you, they interact with the account associated with the underlying DID.

It’s basically just smoke and mirrors for what is still a very centralized service.

It is still, of course, more decentralized than Twitter, as one can post there through the bridge without having an account. So that’s neat. But the whole domain thing is deceiving as hell.

As a general rule, try to also include a description of who you are on your profile. If you’re active people will check in, if you give some sort of description there they are more likely to actually follow you.

Usually when someone follows me I’ll check out their profile, if they look interesting I’ll follow them back. If their profile is empty I usually won’t.