How many people actively use the fediverse?
Mastodon, Pleroma, Peertube, etc.

I have an account on a Pleroma instance to keep in touch with eroge devs banned from Twitter and one on a Peertube instance to occasionally upload larger videos.

>>2
Wanna share some accounts to follow?

i used to a long time ago but i lost the password and stopped caring about it. Been thinking of going back but not even sure what i'd use it for

I want to, but all of the instances are either exclusively far-left or exclusively far-right.

I never did for the reasons >>5 said.
I did have a Bluesky account for a bit and allegedly they're going to federate (but with a different protocol vs mastodon or misskey), and then I gave up on social media not too long after.

>>3
I don't make public posts precisely because of what >>5 said, so there wouldn't be a point.

I'd say Fedi is even worse than Twitter when it comes to the culture which is a fucking achievment for sure. Finding an instance that doesn't block, or isn't blocked by, like 2/3 of the rest of the serverbase because of petty reasons is basically impossible. It's a total failure of a protocol. I'm lucky I found a small invite-only space that is only blocked by about 100 servers because "they didn't block the nazis" I can use to keep in touch everybody I wish to but who knows how long that will last.

>>5592
No I dont use Mastodon, but do any of you anons recognize the stylometry of this users posts?

https://www.thehighersidechats.com/participant/genxgemini/activity/

Fed in the name

No thanks

I want, but I'm way stupid and lazy to make an account or host/run instance, or type captchas.
And I can't get in to i2p, web3. Barrier is to high.
I guess we left here, on outskirts, outback of their cryptoanarchocity Dome.

9

Maybe Fed is least evil, safer than

5

99,9% of English boards are infested with prygozhin farm trolls posting far alt right conservative monarchism spam or scsam.

Sometimes I think board concept as medium dead, and moving to a new medium reputation based platform in blockchain is like captcha/evolution selection.

But glowies already began criminalization of crypto.

I don't want to post in to 'shill personal sites' thread, despite this post will relate by tag there.
And I don't want to create separate new thread. (yet)
So today I discovered IndieWeb concepts of WebSub (aka PubSubHubbub), SSE, webfinger, etc that will allow publishing static website that will provide almost like FediVerse capabilities, and enable synication, custom desktop clients, ala Atom readers, with likes-replies-followers-rings. Did you knew that? Practiced?

I've tried to get Mastodon acc - only to find out it's a walled garden!
It's either 1 user - 1 server with closed regs... OR..
semi-open servers where each new reg is manually approved\activated under carefull review of owner, but that's not the worst part.
they have poopoo email hard requirements like something don't use Outlook, or "BIG" email ISP, because we don't want end up in spam bin, but then when I type in my unknown email provider I get either your email service been blacklisted or they unable to deliver/sent. cursed.

I was active during the early days of the technology, it was somewhat interesting back then, but not so much nowadays. The decision to just clone Web 2.0 SNS didn't really help their case. Very innovative stack with zero innovation being implemented software-wise.

imagine being jewish, joined net only to be scared away by the amount of antisemitic one-sided gaza propaganda propelled by moderators.
I've thought thats was only issue to some chans, but seems not.
they won't retweet there photografs of ruined jewish appartments after Iran striked Israel, or after Hezbola did.
some brainwashed western activits didn't learned history of Charlie Hebdo.

and other accounts on advertised server are commercial spam, Rx prescriptions, abortion pills, ads.
so I guess, it's like still 'Bring your own Server | Roll your own Cloud'
with one sided RSS subsription protocol, people cant push notifications to /inbox. So for both-way comms it could be PubSubHubbub or ActivityPub, or some Nostr or something else.

User was warned for this post: Rule 7. Let's not start an israel vs palestine shitstorm.

I have been on and off of Mastodon many times. I think I just don't like "microblogging" and how slow the good instances are.

>>15
You made a post almost exactly like this before a few months ago

...I am trying to remember if I posted in this thread already. I would probably be >>6 if I did, since it matches my experience 100%.
and again, even if I ended up not making that post, it matches my experience 100% lol

I will also say that I really don't want to hang around what is culturally just Twitter but for the people who refuse to use Twitter/got banned from Twitter.

Twitter/X/whatever the hell culture is already not fun to hang around, and by the time I left Twitter, the only reason I even bothered was browsing people's likes (which were made private shortly before I decided to go "fuck this" and left), which was a great way to find things that people actually liked and things that were actually interesting; when it came to someone's main timeline, people mostly just posted or retweeted shit that pissed them off.