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actually yeah I should look at doing this myself for my parents. Let them borrow my old tower for a bit…

@gabboman

same lol. might be worth seeing what happens the next few days then just putting it in one big blog post.

i've also been muting certain keywords here just in case it puts me in that loop

Also FWIW there are/were "group instances" like gup.pe and the late chirp.social that did the community aspect better, ironically by having a central place for group members to mingle. I really do miss the Eurovision group on Chirp.

Agreed with all of this.

I think Mastodon in particular struggles with community, as it never really leaned into that to market itself, but rather going into "replace Twitter/Bluesky with us because we're ACTUALLY decentralised!" (despite the fact they never implemented migration or ActivityPods, so I disagree), but the Fediverse sucks for that, and I don't get why people are still marketing it as that. If Mastodon leaned less into "it's decentralised! it's better than bluesky!" (lmao) and more into community creation and curation, I think it and maybe even fedi as a whole would've had much less of an adoption problem.

Meanwhile with something like Wafrn, I can say that Wafrn already has a Homestuck themed instance, it's easy to understand "oh, this is like Tumblr, but for Homestuck fans!", and looking at its federated timeline there is a lot of Homestuck fandom posting from the get-go. They're still talking about other topics, but you can tell there's a proper community growing there. I think Misskey might also lean into this pretty well. I can't pin-point what Wafrn is doing better than Mastodon besides the fact it was inspired by Tumblr though.

slightly related, got reminded of douzepoints dot social (which was a Mastodon instance for Eurovision fans). Safe to say, even if the Fediverse cared about Eurovision, the Eurovision fans did not reciprocate that. Even when the Eurovision Discord were recommending alternative platforms including ones on fedi.

yup. on fedi I tried to have one account per use-case, e.g. microblogging, link aggregation a la reddit, you get the idea. You only tended to do alt accounts on social media for a topical thing (e.g. SFW vs. NSFW/MDNI, single-topic accounts), so "alt accounts" aren't really a solution to some of AP's/fedi's shortcomings.

Unfortunately with legislation like UK OSA making it harder to host forums without potential heavy fines, Discord is the compromise rn. Buncha UK-hosted forums that wouldn't host distressing content had to shut down as a result of that piece of shit act.

Though I don't think there's any excuse for using it as a wiki replacement…

the fact you did a lil blue jay AND red cardinal is great

cc @gabboman

i am so here for the volpeon bird arc

so a rust rewrite of mastodon is imminent right /j

is this about the hyprland thing, the nazi thing or yes