How is it when it comes to other Fediverse software?
* a.gup.pe is known to only 100% working with Mastodon-powered instances.
* Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin instances are hit-and-miss with the rest of the Fediverse.
So far, the only ones that works consistently with any Fediverse software are the groups feature of Friendica (and Hubzilla).
In addition, there is also fedigroups.social which works with any Fediverse software.
The Newsmast Groups software works well with the rest of the Fediverse? I mean, not just Mastodon-powered servers, like Friendica and fedigroups.social ?
Journalist Jason Koebler reaffirms my thought that an instance of Fediverse is not difficult to sign up and use. Though he talks about Mastodon here, it is applicable for Fediverse.So, Mastodon:
1. Not difficult to sign up for
2. Not difficult to use
3. Has an app like every other social media network
4. Not owned by world’s richest man
5. Not owned by a company whose main platform has been credibly accused of facilitating genocide by the United Nations
6. Not funded by the guy who made the last place, which sold itself to the world’s richest man
7. Doesn’t have a crypto thing going on
8. Free and open source
9. Administered by a crowdfunded nonprofit
10. Decentralized, portable, and interoperableI have been contacting Indian media outlets and journalists via email and private conversations for the past few weeks, asking them to publish their work on Fediverse. They most likely know everything there is to know about Fediverse and Mastodon. Since I value their work and thought that having them in Fediverse would have been advantageous for them in the mid term, I made the requests. My requests were met with silence and nominal response. They prefer Facebook, Instagram, X and Threads since they believe that they can connect with their audience better than those few in Fediverse.
Now, after reading Jason Koebler's article, I have a better understanding of this context.Anyways, I am using Threads, and I will continue to use Threads, because I am a pragmatic person who wants to connect with readers wherever they are because my livelihood and my reporting relies on it. If Threads "wins," I will submit and use it daily, probably for the rest of my career. Right now, I feel like my brain is falling out of my skull at all times because in order to spread the articles we publish on this upstart website, I need to think about the slightly different ways in which I will share it on Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, BlueSky, TikTok, etc. All things considered, I’d like to pick one and stay there, but that will result in fewer people reading our work and not meeting our readers wherever they are, which isn’t a smart move at this juncture. So, I’ll keep using Threads, but I will not become an evangelist for one of the biggest companies in the world because it is slightly less bad than the alternative, when an actually moral alternative with none of that baggage exists.#MastodonIndians #MastIndia #India
cc: @mastodonindians@a.gup.pe
I'm becoming more and more convinced that this new rise of pooplib Bidenbot trolling is nothing more than the extension of the paid agitprop smear campaign against Leftist and marginalized critics of Biden and the Democrats from the Left into the Fediverse.
So...anything from the HOA and their boosters about *our* safety and *our* lack of protection against harassment?
I wrote something about how I'm judging people who joined BlueSky, and I've since had a number of Black friends reach out and explain to me why they feel more hopeful about finding safe community on BlueSky than in the Mastodon-centric Fediverse.
So, my judgment was unwarranted. As reluctant as I am about the business model of for-profit social media companies, I also see how little has been done to make Black folx feel welcome here. I've definitely run into the nitpicky / tone-policing aspect of Mastodon, and I barely posted on here.
@arinbasu1 @aurynn Fun story, in 2019 I got banned off todon.nl because of a blog post I wrote offsite about transgenderism. I didn’t share it on todon.nl, but someone found it privately and informed the admin about my evil views.
I was so mad. I created spinster.xyz and now there are 20,000 TERFs on the Fediverse.
So does deplatforming work? No.
My 9-year-old daughter is begging to join Mastodon.
I'm very apprehensive about this. But she wants to make friends, and is really excited about the Fediverse.
So if we're doing this:
1. She's joining my instance
2. She has no password access to her account
2. She's only using this with my active supervision
And there's going to be strict time limits on this.
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