BeAware

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

@[email protected] not much we can do when you know they were gonna take over the whole protocol.

I'm just a single person wanting to talk to people on those platforms. Defederating them wouldn't have stopped them from doing anything they're doing or plan on doing.

 

Ugh. Threads keeps adding Fediverse features that are only benefitting themselves.

They can now see our usernames if we follow them and if we like their posts.

Still can't mention us or follow us back...which is the main part that's keeping their integration from being functional.๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฉ

I just want open communication across platforms dammit. It's not that hard. It doesn't take a whole year. One man did it for a platform that he doesn't even work for, in just a few months!

#Fediverse #Threads #Fedi #SocialMedia #BlueSky #BridgyFed

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@lonelyowl13 @pixelworld_ai if it was normal art that takes hours or days to complete, I can see wanting to earn money from it, but yeah, AI art isn't really worth that unless you do a lot of editing to make a final product.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

@pixelworld_[email protected] I got one subscriber, and that's the devs...๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I appreciate them, but I posted 1 thing there and it's just saying that I don't know what to post there.๐Ÿ˜‚

 

About to give Saturn another go for a few days hopefully.

The dev has removed the post limit for free users, which is definitely good.

Paying to post on Fediverse where everywhere else is free, is wild.

They also said they fixed the crash bug with notifications. Those two things immediately killed my motivation with wanting to use the app so hopefully it's better this time.๐Ÿคž

#Fediverse #Fedi #iOS #Mastodon

 

Maybe I should deactivate my sub.club

I don't have anything "exclusive" I want to post there.

I'm not a "content creator", I just like Fediverse and tend to ramble about it and like to try out new projects sometimes.

I would like to earn a little on Fediverse, but so far I don't think I've done anything worth earning.๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#Fediverse #Fedi #Subclub

 

There's something I've been wanting to talk about for awhile.

Quote posts, limiting of quote posts, and how those features might be added to core AP.

As it is now, the way Threads does quote posting is when a person adds a link to another Threads post, it automatically turns into a "quote post".

They also have the option to limit posts from being quoted, which in turn completely stops anyone on Threads linking to that post.

To me, that is wild, but I can see it making sense on a closed platform.

However, given the way Fediverse works and a ton of people have their own instance/website, I think it would be absolutely asinine to attempt to stop someone from simply posting a link to another post.

Links have been part of the internet for awhile now and there's no other platform that stops people from using links, AFAIK.

So, to those working on AP, please consider another route for quote posts because if I cannot link to something on my own website, I'll be pretty livid honestly.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Threads #SocialMedia

 

Well...after a few posts using Saturn, it prompted me to pay...

Guess my trial period is over in less than 2 hours.

Not much to say tbh, since I didn't get a fair amount of time with it.

Notifications crash the app, that's about all I can say....๐Ÿ˜ฌ

@[email protected], I would definitely remove the limit on posting. I'm a poster, if I can't post without paying, I'll use something else.

Also, the app crashed several times in the short time I've had with it. The most consistent being when I tried to open my notifications, it crashed every time.

Overall, I can't say much more because I was very limited by the paywall.๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#Saturn #iOS #Mastodon #Fediverse

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

@[email protected] so, it's very vague, but it's basically a foundation that's supposed to be the official "decision makers" on AP, the protocol that runs the Fediverse.

The worrying thing, is that their board of advisors are big companies like Meta and Automattic, who both have massive financial incentives to change things for their benefit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Well, immediately I noticed that once I got a notification, if I tried opening the notification tab on the bottom, the app crashes.

I can no longer open it.๐Ÿ˜ฌ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

@[email protected] that seems like it'll be normal going forward. A lot of newer apps use things in the new versions that have better optimization.๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

 

I am testing out Saturn, an iOS app for Mastodon, at the request of the developer.

After I give it a week or so of messing around in the app, I'll give my thoughts about it.

Hopefully it's good, we can use more apps with different styles and features.

Many options are always a good thing to me.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #iOS

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@pixelworld_[email protected] :lul: :pog:

Good point...but a bit of both tbh. It's quite different here lately.๐Ÿ˜”

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@[email protected] I just hope there's no major financial influence from the major companies involved like Meta.

I don't want to lose control of my own site because I am not a programmer. I have a bit of control with Mastodon right now. However, there are some gripes everyone has had like lack of moderation features.

I worry a financial influence to change certain things will lessen my control and I'd have to find another software.

My worries always come from a place of passion and concern.

Thanks for your response. I appreciate you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

@[email protected] I'm on iOS version of Firefox and it just loops back on itself to the homepage from my end.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] I'm still digging my heels into it right now. From the surface it seems very suspicious and financially motivated centralization of a decentralized platform, which is not good.

However, there may be some underlying bright side.

I'll have to get back to you with my full thoughts once I wrap my head around it all.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

@[email protected] maybe. However, I never hear that about AP. Only mastodon specifically and that's because mastodon not complying with most of AP standard...๐Ÿ˜ณ

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (7 children)

And people wonder why I don't post here that much anymore.

It's not the same as it was just a few short months ago.

Mastodon has taken over and they refuse to do anything about major issues here.

They're set to make a ton of money from this, all while their 20,000+ instance admins don't even have basic automated reporting or useful moderation tools.

You wanna know why harassment is rampant on Fediverse? Cause moderators have to have eyes on the post themselves to moderate it.

If you don't report it, it doesn't get moderated.๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Ugh!๐Ÿ˜ฉ

 

Told y'all mastodon being the majority here is not a good thing....

https://socialwebfoundation.org/

I hate this.

I hate that I was right.

Everything is about ๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿค‘. It always has been.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialWebFoundation

 

Kinda weird seeing some people on Threads say "I'm sharing to the Fediverse!" but they're totally not...๐Ÿ˜ณ

That's the major issue with Threads implementation.

People just assume posting there by default is "on the Fediverse".

๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#Threads #Meta #Fediverse #SocialMedia

 

Just a tip for any new developers in the Fediverse space:

If you're making any sort of "search" function to browse Fediverse posts, make sure that it respects people's "Discoverability" settings in the Mastodon software.

This might not be the easiest thing to do.

However, given that 73% of people on Fediverse are interacting with Fedi strictly through Mastodon, you don't have much choice.

If your project gets widely known and you're disrespecting people's privacy options, you'll be highly vilified and probably Fedi cancelled.

#Fedi #Fediverse #ActivityPub

 

Does the feature that makes posts based on hashtags come from Mbin or just Fedi.io specifically?

It's quite annoying to have people constantly attempting to dunk on you for upvotes and failing.

Might have to block Fedia.io

I suspect this will go there so hi fedia...๐Ÿ˜’

#Fediverse #Fedi #Mbin

 

I wish there was an easy way to browse threads Fediverse content.

I'm sure there's many accounts that have federated that I'd enjoy, but I don't know they're federated or even know that they exist.

Same for bluesky.

I could go there, but there's no way to tell who's federated.๐Ÿ˜ฉ

#Threads #Bluesky #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Fedi

 

Kinda weird and sus that some Mastodon instances aren't respecting deletes....

Had a post I deleted last week that just got replied to, from a mastodon instance.

And people wonder why casual users don't wanna be here...๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

#Mastodon #Fedi #Fediverse

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