I really like the ability to downvote. It enables me to say “this was badly argumented and a waste of my time” without spending too much effort for that. I’d write it anyway, but probably using impolite words that would be worse for the Fediverse than my downvotes are.

I dont remember where I’ve seen the stats, but I make about 10 upvotes per one downvote. I strongly believe at least my downvoting behaviour does more good than bad for the Forumverse.

When I was looking for a good instance for myself, Blåhaj seemed like an excellent fit, but when I noticed the downvote button was missing, I changed my mind. I would be annoyed if that feature disappeared altogether.

At least on PieFed’s Matrix chat there has been very constructive conversations about whether and how to allow downvoting. To my eyes, the solutions they came up with seem very good.

Not that I’d remember off the back of my hand what the hell they decided in the end. Maybe someone will tell? :) @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

I find that a good thing. It’s a bright red flag that tells me to direct my attention to other people who are able to behave themselves.

It’s good that exceptional-level bigots have a way to visibly out themselves as bigots!

The closest thing is Friendica, and it’s very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook’s groups.

It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is… PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.

There is a plan to “some day” add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.

Yes on Piefed those are called communities.

Let’s explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.

And Google has done the same, from scratch.

Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.

The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.

They are the same thing. They also don’t have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.

It doesn’t really work very well as that. It’s buggy and it’s difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.

This does mean you’ll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.

@116280023545064493@hear-me.social , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac

This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @fediverse@lemmy.world is not a username, it’s actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called “Fediverse” on a server called “lemmy.world”. On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.

I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!

But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you’re complaining about :)

But if you follow enough users, won’t you start getting quite a good amount of that? Plus, you can probably just browse the local of some Misskey instance and then, if you want to comment or upvote, open it from within your own instance? It won’t be perfect, but I would imagine it will do the job just fine for a student.

If it federates, what does that matter? Just read the Japanese Misskey content.

Iceshrimp and Sharkey are forks of Misskey with more features. Are they still able to federate with it? How does Misskey federation work?

Thanks! I’m now registered as living at the Itäkeskus metro station and bus terminal 🤣

It’s a place I need to visit almost no matter where I’m going. Gives just the correct amount of info about what my hoods are like.

Does the Pixelfed app then not show the grid well enough? What is the problem you are trying to solve?