Pamasich

what the primary difference is between Mastadon and Bluesky?

Mastodon is in the fediverse (like Lemmy, which you’re using), while Bluesky is not.

It’s also way older than Bluesky (2016 vs 2023). So recency bias might have played a role.

It seems like bluesky is gaining much more traction than mastadon ever did, based solely on how I literally hear nothing about it ever. If I am wrong on mastadon not being widely adopted, do tell, I am genuinely asking.

You’re not wrong at all there. Mastodon currently only has 886k monthly active users, while Bluesky is in the millions despite its much shorter lifetime.

The fediverse is just unpopular in general. Mastodon is the most popular fediverse platform though, Lemmy has only 48k monthly active users.

Yeah, I did check fedia.io with the intention of mentioning their score there too, but imo the difference between 25584 and 25332 is too miniscule for that.

Huh, I assume that only appears while logged in then. Since I checked your profile on your home instance before writing that comment and didn’t see anything (and still don’t).

It does indeed seem to not be a thing even on all Lemmy instances, as my lemm.ee account (which runs the same version as lemmy.zip) doesn’t have such a number displayed anywhere.

25332

If it is the same as for me it should be the sum of your posts and comments.

Not sure what you mean with “if it is the same as for me”, considering you’re on Lemmy which doesn’t have a feature like this.

But it being the sum of posts and comments is verifiably false. My instance knows of 6 posts and 809 comments of yours. Your home instance reports 17 posts and 2.27k comments. Either way, your karma is 8686, which isn’t the sum of either of those.

Lemmy doesn’t, but other platforms like Mbin might show your total karma among posts federated with that instance.

The instance I’m on tells me your karma is 462.

Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.

Reputation points: -216

I, uh, can see why. Mbin does show your total karma btw, even for Lemmy users.

Not a big fan of it myself, but more so because it promotes karma farming rather than “it prevents me from being toxic”.

And even then, the only reason Steam ended support for Windows 7 was because it’s an Electron (Chromium) application. They decided to upgrade their version of Electron, probably to take advantage of newer security fixes in Chromium, which forced them to drop Win7 support because Chromium already had ended support for it.

I think they’re complaining that Lemmy uses the older method of blocking instead of the more modern version.

The old way of blocking is that you don’t want to see a person, but they’re still free to do what they want. It’s just not shown to you. So they can still read everything you post and downvote or reply to it as they please.

The modern way is to prevent the blocked user from interacting with you at all, including seeing your posts.

I don’t use Lemmy, so I don’t know which it uses, but it sounds like OP is arguing that Mastodon uses the latter but Lemmy uses the former. Reddit used to do the former but eventually changed to the latter.

Lol I’d be surprised if my country (Switzerland) follows through. We keep voting down any climate proposals.

They’re referring to hate speech.

They’re not technically wrong, it is censorship and illegal speech to outlaw hate speech. But it takes malicious selfishness and a lack of empathy to actually take issue with it imo.

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that Mbin supports custom magazine/community CSS like Old Reddit did. Don’t think it’s federated currently though, so it’s local only. There’s also the ability to follow users and boost (retweet) content, which Lemmy lacks.

Judging by recent posts by Piefed’s creator, they seem to be planning to add end-to-end encryption and ephemeral content.

They do have a dedicated “Crawler” page.

And they do mention there that they use a website crawler for their Developer Tools and Network features.

I know you’re a Piefed developer, so you probably know what’s possible and what’s not better than me. But honestly, the encryption part makes me think you probably want a new protocol designed with that in mind from the start. In my opinion, it’s too destructive for compatibility with other ActivityPub software and instances running older versions of them especially.

Combating spam despite the simplified account creation will probably require the implementation of something like Reddit’s karma system. Which isn’t a very popular idea I think.

Regarding the ephemeral content… please don’t. It might sound cool on paper, but it just adds FOMO. We shouldn’t promote doomscrolling and brainrot with the addition of features which require you to quickly scroll through shit to not miss out on posts that disappear after a timer has passed.

There’s definitely still a bunch of areas the fediverse could be improved in, yeah.

I thought one of the advantages of the Fediverse was to have one account but access to many services. Is this possible just not common?

It’s a misunderstanding by you. It’s not that you have one account on one website and can login on all the others with it. Rather, you can look at content and interact with users from other websites from your home one.

Like, it’s really a lot like Email. If you’re signed up with Gmail, you can freely send emails to users signed up with other email providers. But you can’t just go to Outlook’s online version and log in with your Gmail account. The same applies to the fediverse.

That said, if your goal is to interact with the rest of the fediverse, you’re probably better off switching to Mbin. Lemmy doesn’t really care about anything that’s not a Reddit-like.

I think it’s fine to use unique platform features like this, but if you’re actually using this actively, be aware that not everyone will see your titles as you intended them. It’s only Lemmy users that can see it actually render “properly”, everyone else just sees the plaintext Markdown symbols.

Look at the instance OP is from, it’s not one of the big twitter knockoffs.

Their target audience is Mastodon users though, not Lemmy. And Mastodon requires hashtags for discovery. OP is just writing their post in a way that it can be found by Mastodon users.

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Hello from kbin.earth (mbin), I can see the post in the microblog feed. Upvoted and boosted.