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Millions have been using the Fediverse for years, I haven't looked back for the past two years myself. It's built on open protocols and it's multi-platform by d

Millions have been using the Fediverse for years, I haven't looked back for the past two years myself. It's built on open protocols and it's multi-platform by definition. You can even follow your Twitter accounts from Mastodon. So what exactly are you folks waiting for, and why do I have to keep hearing the "is there an alternative to social network X" question every couple of days? Just jump on any Mastodon instance, invite others to do the same, and let's stop whining.

Gordonjcp 4y ago
There are three problems with Mastodon: 1) It's hard to get on it, unless you know someone who is running an instance. 2) No-one I know is on it, and can't get on it since they don't know anyone running an instance. 3) The people who are on it all have names like xXxFuchsSturm1488xXx and think I want to see a constant rolling feed of politically-orientated furry pr0n.
- amatecha 4y ago
  Use this[0] to find an instance that has rules/topics you resonate with. No need to subject yourself to mastodon.social. [0] https://instances.social/ https://instances.social/
- blacklight 4y ago
  1. I run my own instance, and it's not that hard to set up and get connected to other instances. Those that don't want to run their own instance usually either join an existing instance (there are about 10k servers out there), or just join mastodon.social (and that's where most people are anyways). 2. When I joined I didn't know anybody either, but in a short time I connected to a lot of new interesting people. Now I have my own bots to relay content from people that are still on Twitter, and I have my own organic circle of followers - that's almost the best of the two worlds. 3. Muting profiles (and, even better, instances) is a good way of getting rid of a lot of spam/undesired content.
  - Gordonjcp 4y ago
    1) I don't have time to run that on top of everything else, and mastodon.social is not accepting new signups. I don't want to just jump on a server run by some random. 2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with. 3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.
    - hkt 4y ago
      3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on. ...is that not most experiences of twitter? As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since the 80s and hosts a variety of useful things including a fediverse client (if memory serves, mastodon).
    - blacklight 4y ago
      The closed signups on mastodon.social are only temporary. They've really had a huge spike of signups after Musk took over Twitter and people jumped boats, as well as a lot of automatically generated spam accounts that mods are still trying to prune. I'm quite confident that signups will reopen once the situation gets back in control. When it comes to muting, in my experience you don't have to mute 98% of the profiles. Spam usually comes from a handful of instances that are relayed to the instance you're registered - in the Fediverse instances can relay to one another, and tap into each other's feeds. If you have a lot of spam, that's usually because of the content from 3-4 relayed instances. Good instance admins usually intervene in this cases and mute that spam on instance level. If they don't, you can usually mute those few instances yourself, instead of muting every individual account.
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geuis 4y ago
> Millions have been using the Fediverse for years Any evidence for this? Seems like this is something a few hundred or thousand even know about. That's a far cry from hundreds of thousands of millions.
- blacklight 4y ago
  There are 6M estimated accounts, and 1.5M active users: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
  - criddell 4y ago
    So it’s basically as popular as MySpace is these days.
    - blitzar 4y ago
      29 Sept 2022 — More than 1.5m active users of DALL-E are creating more than 2m images a day.
      - criddell 4y ago
        It feels like the AI image generators got huge overnight but the hype has faded away almost as fast. In my family, we were obsessed with them for about 72 hours and I haven’t heard anybody mention them since. I know it’s still there if I ever have a need for them, but I don’t really have any interest in using them anymore.
        collegeburner 4y ago
        tbh the only time i hear about ai image generators now is with the craiyon memes and even those have tapered off. however i have seen a few articles using them to create title images and some presentations using them instead of stock images.
  - Zak 4y ago

Gordonjcp 4y ago

There are three problems with Mastodon: 1) It's hard to get on it, unless you know someone who is running an instance. 2) No-one I know is on it, and can't get on it since they don't know anyone running an instance. 3) The people who are on it all have names like xXxFuchsSturm1488xXx and think I want to see a constant rolling feed of politically-orientated furry pr0n.

amatecha 4y ago
Use this[0] to find an instance that has rules/topics you resonate with. No need to subject yourself to mastodon.social. [0] https://instances.social/ https://instances.social/
blacklight 4y ago
1. I run my own instance, and it's not that hard to set up and get connected to other instances. Those that don't want to run their own instance usually either join an existing instance (there are about 10k servers out there), or just join mastodon.social (and that's where most people are anyways). 2. When I joined I didn't know anybody either, but in a short time I connected to a lot of new interesting people. Now I have my own bots to relay content from people that are still on Twitter, and I have my own organic circle of followers - that's almost the best of the two worlds. 3. Muting profiles (and, even better, instances) is a good way of getting rid of a lot of spam/undesired content.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago
  1) I don't have time to run that on top of everything else, and mastodon.social is not accepting new signups. I don't want to just jump on a server run by some random. 2) I don't want to connect to a lot of new interesting people, I want to connect to the interesting people I'm already connected with. 3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on.
  - hkt 4y ago
    3) I don't see the fun in joining a social network where I need to mute 98% of all posts and profiles every single time I go on. ...is that not most experiences of twitter? As for where to have an account, sdf.org has been around since the 80s and hosts a variety of useful things including a fediverse client (if memory serves, mastodon).
  - blacklight 4y ago
    The closed signups on mastodon.social are only temporary. They've really had a huge spike of signups after Musk took over Twitter and people jumped boats, as well as a lot of automatically generated spam accounts that mods are still trying to prune. I'm quite confident that signups will reopen once the situation gets back in control. When it comes to muting, in my experience you don't have to mute 98% of the profiles. Spam usually comes from a handful of instances that are relayed to the instance you're registered - in the Fediverse instances can relay to one another, and tap into each other's feeds. If you have a lot of spam, that's usually because of the content from 3-4 relayed instances. Good instance admins usually intervene in this cases and mute that spam on instance level. If they don't, you can usually mute those few instances yourself, instead of muting every individual account.
- deleted 4y ago
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geuis 4y ago

> Millions have been using the Fediverse for years Any evidence for this? Seems like this is something a few hundred or thousand even know about. That's a far cry from hundreds of thousands of millions.

blacklight 4y ago
There are 6M estimated accounts, and 1.5M active users: https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/
- criddell 4y ago
  So it’s basically as popular as MySpace is these days.
  - blitzar 4y ago
    29 Sept 2022 — More than 1.5m active users of DALL-E are creating more than 2m images a day.
    - criddell 4y ago
      It feels like the AI image generators got huge overnight but the hype has faded away almost as fast. In my family, we were obsessed with them for about 72 hours and I haven’t heard anybody mention them since. I know it’s still there if I ever have a need for them, but I don’t really have any interest in using them anymore.
      - collegeburner 4y ago
        tbh the only time i hear about ai image generators now is with the craiyon memes and even those have tapered off. however i have seen a few articles using them to create title images and some presentations using them instead of stock images.
- Zak 4y ago