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[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

I've been happily using Mastodon but most of the users I followed on the old site went to BlueSky instead. There's no other way to keep up with them without it, and it sure as hell is better than Twitter these days

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Right?

Screw these public "social media" BS.

Yes, I get the irony of me being on lemmy, but it's a different animal. I'm not here shouting to the world like shitter and crapbook.

I'm looking at self-hostinsomethinglike Friendica, just to make sharing with family and close friends easier.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't had the chance to use it myself, but I am interested in watching its development.

The AT protocol supposedly addresses some big issues with Mastodon and other ActivityPub-based services (like Lemmy). Notably, account portability and distributed identity. From the AT FAQ:

Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements. Our solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub. The migration tools for ActivityPub are comparatively limited; they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.

Having a distributed, portable identity system with built-in public key exchange is a big deal. IMO that is the single biggest problem with ActivityPub. Users should be in control of their own identity.

I follow some people on Mastodon who did the half-baked profile migration, and it's really bad from a UX perspective. Occasionally I want to find their older posts and it's difficult, certainly not search-friendly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Except profile migration doesn't exist in AT. They may make it in the future but it doesn't exist at all right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Oh. Womp womp.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What are you even supposed to do on sites like bluesky?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

you can do that with a pillow, and no phone number required...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Furry porn, as mentioned above, seems to be the selling point

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

eh not a big deal but after I weed out the big bear type guys I both furry and not I'll be a bit happier

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It took me a while to mute all the furries that kept popping up in random feeds.

And that may just be the feeds’s algorithm. But if I’m in the cats feed or nba feed, I don’t need to see furries.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Follow Ukraine news, economics, etc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I was able to get an invitation and i couldn't spend more than 10 min on it