Unblended

I love #mosstadon (do mastodon tags do anything in posts on kbin I wonder?).

I love how many mastodon posts are people taking pretty pictures of moss or mushrooms or birds.

@ono perfect, for some reason all I could see was what was on the front page.

Nah, no idea. I suppose it doesn't really matter really, just curious if it's a bug or a misunderstanding. I can't really find any documentation about it so probably best to ignore it.

Yeah, it'd just be nice if it lost all that value before going public and ended up a loss for the VCs instead of retirees.

okay by their rules (what many of us just left Reddit over)

People are leaving Reddit over their moderation rules? I thought the CEO did something with the API.

But I mean, yeah, people who have compatible instance rules will federate and the people on those instances will have agreed to those rules. I think you might be overestimating how restrictive typical rules are, unless you think transphobia being called "not okay" is too restrictive.

Doesn't that result in the general public owning shares that gradually decrease in value while the current owners make money at the current value? Seems like index funds will be paying for it unless the actual amount the Reddit owners sell it for goes down before the sale.

Satisfying I guess, but frustrating that the people that did the damage get a payout while the public holds the bag while it deflates.

I suggest that you don't worry very much about how many people read your posts, especially in early days. I've seen people super stressed about how they can't make their posts on Mastodon go viral enough. The scale here will be smaller.

Of course in a magical world all the different basically the same magazines on different instances would get merged seamlessly in the UI with posts all somehow connected.

In the real world I can't even conceptualize how you could handle moderation (or a random collection of posts vanishing from a thread) with instances that have different rules unless each magazine for different topics was a separate silo.

The natural outcome, without much active effort, seems likely to be that niche stuff is consolidated on a single instance that members aren't necessarily on in order to have enough participation while popular stuff truly just gets silo'd into different self-sustaining groups that talk about the same stuff but with different culture developed, different moderators, and a different instance.

Is there another way? We're assuming each one is self-sustaining, it will be good enough or you'll find one on a different instance...

I expect people will see there's existing local magazines for a bunch of things, and then to search out magazines for niche interests.

FTL, Into the Breach, and Slay the Spire are mostly puzzle games -- but since they're roguelikes they have a little depth. Depends on what you mean.

I find them very replayable but I like puzzle games because I have bad hands and game controllers are not an option.

I will report it if I see it (hate speech, I don't care about being edgy as long as it's not hurting someone).

So block my account ahead of time if you can't be decent. A block it not an insult, and it is way less effort all around if you block me ahead of time so I never see it in the first place.

What is a visit over time? That sounds cumulative, but is it just the total visitors over 28 days divided by 28?

... honestly confused about how you can have one day spikes. edges are surprising enough, if you things go up by 5x and then go right back down I think there's a bug in the code. Did the spike go away on June 2nd and get removed from the sum?

It doesn't really matter, this isn't a race and all the federated clients... federate... it's just a strange graph.

Okay, so I've been using Mastodon for years so I basically understand the idea of how content is propagated.

People on your instance are following someone and so you see the people they follow on your feed, or else they boost posts that they can see in which case people can see them on your feed.

I know this is using the same protocol but I'm trying to understand a few things --

It sounds like each instance has separate magazines, so this means different instances have different magazines. How does it handle it when two instances have magazines with the same topic? No real attempt at trying to merge the two? It seems impossible to do with distinct mods from separate servers with different rules, did someone figure out a way?

Similarly, if someone from @kbin.pub wants to comment on a thread in a magazine on @kbin.social or whatever (assume valid instances), how do they know that the thread exists? They subscribe to that magazine on a different instance and then see it in their own home page? Or does them subscribing to a magazine on another instance make that magazine appear to others on their own instance?

I guess I'm trying to understand how this system is handling discovery and moderation in a forum system where different instances split up a forum, it would be neat if things were somehow interleaved.