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A colleage of mine working in the same field recently made a Bluesky post that I found interesting. The kinda stuff I’d share on a good day.

He got four likes and two shares - one of each came from me through Bridgy Fed. I very rarely get that little on Mastodon.

He has almost 800 followers there. I have less than 200 on Mastodon.

My takeaway is that Bluesky has this potential for posts to get pushed into every feed, but if they fall through the cracks of the algorithm they might go completely unnoticed. So you end up changing how you post in order to please the algorithm, losing yourself in the process.

Mastodon just feels chill to me. And I’m bridged, so I can always go viral on Bluesky anyway, I just won’t be all that aware of it.

Dude, your concept of failure is my dream. I’m happy here.

While it’s excellent that Lemmy is getting some attention out on the capitalist web, I’m not sure I’m personally interested in hearing about what is trending on Reddit in the Fediverse community - for me, Fedibridge seems like a great community specifically for that. But I might be a minority, not trying to be negativistic! :)

1. Bridged Mbin user posts micro blog to community
2. Bridged Bluesky user comments on Bluesky copy of post
3. Profit?

It could work. If anyone on Bluesky wants to give it a shot I can make a post to some testing community - my profile is bridged. Not very interestingly so though, as I don’t post microblogs often.

Edit: I just made this post in Mbin, seen here in dbzer0’s Dylan community, and here on Bluesky. Spreading it everywhere certainly worked, if a bridged user wants to respond they can share their emotions after listening to this. ;)

One can post from WordPress to ActivityPub, which could lead to blog posts ending up in Mastodon feeds. Mastodon users can then share, like, and comment.

You cannot, however, make blog posts to WordPress using ActivityPub. It’s for distribution only, like an interactive RSS feed.

I thought for a second if they had finally made Bluesky opt-out. Sadly it looks like we’ll have to wait a bit longer for that. :)

I love ⚝! Wasn’t aware of its existence. It looks more like the full-scale Fediverse logo than ⛦, and also looks a lot friendlier. Big fan.

A star also makes sense in that one of the functions on a lot of federated platforms is to favourite posts, indicated by ☆. So using a star as a symbol for social media makes some degree of intuitive sense, perhaps. In addition to the similarity to the rainbow pentagram, obviously.

Nordmann bosatt i Danmark! 🤝

Speaking of occult meanings, in meteorology, an asterism in a station model indicates moderate snowfall. It all points back to Scandinavia!

I guess there are multiple metaphors possible, but I think it works to think of the fediverse as a constellation of multiple stars, each with their own set of celestial objects spinning around them. The pentagram kinda exaggerates how interconnected the fediverse is - sometimes instances will not be interconnected, by design.

As for my username (as well as my profile picture!), I am Scandinavian and pretty tired of nazis stealing my cultural heritage for their bullshit propaganda, so I figured if I’m gonna be an anonymous antifascist online I might as well reclaim some of my culture in the process.

Sadly that’s not quite enough to remove the association between runes and nazism. ᛟ (family/bloodline) has been completely overtaken by nazis, but I think there’s a risk using any set of runes as a symbol would attract the wrong audiences.

In either case I don’t think any of the symbols would have been well suited. They reflect priorities in Nordic society back then - like bull (ᛏ), moose (ᛉ), and horse (ᛖ). ᚷ can represent a gift, but that too has sadly been appropriated by other people we do not like to associate ourselves with.

I guess ᚹ (joy) and ᚱ (travel) would not be so bad, but they don’t immediately strike me as great symbols for a social media protocol either. Maybe they could be fused with the <> ActivityPub logo to some interesting effect.

I can see how a unicode symbol could be nice - the asterism is just convenient. It’s nice enough, and it fits the metaphor. The pentagram is good for other uses.

I personally prefer ⛧ as the Unicode symbol, but I can kinda see why it hasn’t taken off.

It seems GoToSocial comes with some reservations against being crawled, which is why fedidb had to update their robots.txt. So it might not be included here by design.

Or at least that’s the impression I get from this comment section: https://piefed.social/post/496750

It’ll be interesting to see what’s going on with today’s bump in users. I’m afraid you might be right about the reliability, but then again the GoToSocial instance you linked earlier has now been removed.

I guess there’s also Fediverse Observer: https://fediverse.observer/stats

They put the whole Fediverse at 1.38M active, so a bit lower than Fedidb. Might be more accurate.

That’s double our monthly size in a single day, ignoring all Bluesky users outside of America, and using their stats from several months that ago when they have probably grown since.

So yeah, they are way bigger than us.

Bunch of spambots there though, but that goes for Fedi as well. So making a proper comparison is impossible. No doubt they have way more users than Mastodon though.

Huh. Do you know of a better alternative?

In November last year, Bluesky had more than 3 million daily users in the US alone. According to fedidb, the Fediverse as a whole has 1.5 million monthly users globally.

Here’s a Peertube mirror, timestamped at the shout-out to Mastodon and Peertube:

https://peertube2.cpy.re/w/rq6WfwnQTiHfpoWhURLNBS?start=25m14s

I think lemmy.ca would be a great home for it!

My first thought for an alternative was Mander.xyz, but they seem focused on natural sciences exclusively, and I wouldn’t want to bother them with the discussion on whether history is a science.

I think the biggest challenge of running your own instance is not the challenge of setting it up, but to remain dedicated to running it for a long time and set up a management so that it can keep running even after you one day let it go of it. If it gains a user base but disappears after two years, it might do more harm than good compared to a community hosted at for example Lemmy.ca.

That said, I would love to see it happen!

The admins, @QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz and @Moxvallix@sopuli.xyz, might have something to contribute to this discussion!

You could PM the mods on Reddit, tell them you’re worried about the direction of the platform, and ask if they want to join the effort/let them know the door is open. That way there would probably be little drama. :)

As for moderation, I don’t think it would be a huge challenge. The biggest hurdle is in producing content to get the community going and to stick with it, which would honestly be too much work for me personally.

Regarding Bluesky: On Mbin (successor of Kbin) these days it’s possible to post “microblogs” directly into communities, and have them appear organically in Bluesky as well. I have tested this a bit, but never posted anything interesting this way. Should try with an image post to a community.

Yeah, I also started out on Kbin, which might explain my handle. ;)

I think one of the best things about this place is being able to stay with old interfaces. Sometimes what we’re used to is what’s best. I would have loved it if the old phpBB forums I used to frequent stuck around long enough to federate rather than disappear!

And we have plenty of tech nerds weighing in with their five cents, so at this point I’m more interested in hearing from “normal” users.

If you start posting history museum content I will be interested in following it for sure!