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Welp, it just happened. [#Zuck](https://libranet.de/search?tag=Zuck) became the most followed person in the [#Fediverse](https://libranet.de/search?tag=Fediverse) with a follower count of more than 4 times that of [@Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/users/Mastodon) itself ========== Of course, those are only rough numbers. Most of the people following him are on Threads, and many do not even know anything about decentralized social platforms (or care). People outside of Threads that are following him are few (including myself, now\*). But this is more of a symbolic thing. Once other profiles enable the Fediverse integration, we'll be seeing more and more Threads profiles topping the charts. Or maybe not, who knows. I already start to see many profiles on Threads that stopped posting since quite a while, and I'm wondering if they're still active. Many people on other centralized platforms just call Threads dead already, lol. OTOH, even the overall atmosphere on Threads just seems to be... subpar to say the least. I really don't feel I could learn anything from the people out there, apart from a few dozen interesting profiles that are simply just hard to find - they were hard to find on Insta, they are hard to find there as well. If, for whatever reason, Threads were to simply turn the federation off abruptly, I wouldn't feel anything of value would be lost apart from these profiles, at least for me. I wonder how long it will take until it will be just another enshittified, ad-ridden, useless platform, just like the other two in [#Meta](https://libranet.de/search?tag=Meta)'s portfolio are, all filled with trolls, bots, scammers and propaganda accounts of the Kremlin-backed modern far-right that spread the lies and nonsense. If you have a presence on Mastodon, yet you'd also love to try out Threads, you're not missing anything. Really. This place is just way better, and it centers not around advertisers, but around **you**. --- \**you traitor, how dare you follow the Satan over this place?* well, I actually thought it out for a bit. And I don't know if I'll keep the follow on the long term either. But this is just part of my way to [#quitfacebook](https://libranet.de/search?tag=quitfacebook), as funny as it may seem. It is just one of the many active accounts/pages that I still follow on that cesspit, so I thought, why not. I also have a habit of checking my profile from various servers, and I'm having a hard time seeing even my popular posts. So I can say [#Friendica](https://libranet.de/search?tag=Friendica) keeps me quite protected from the aforementioned. Plus that Meta doesn't have any ads to serve me around this place. [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
[\#Lemmy](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Lemmy) gets a (new) search engine It already had search (with some rough edges), but people are already making their own to fill specific needs ... chiefly it seems to replace the Google `site: reddit.com` search facility. See ... [https://lemmy.world/post/963301](https://lemmy.world/post/963301) [https://www.search-lemmy.com/](https://www.search-lemmy.com/) Interesting to see a platform culture completely embrace being open and public. [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
Directing someone new to [#lemmy](https://hachyderm.io/tags/lemmy)? A "New Users" community has been started ... could be helpful as a first port of call: [https://lemmy.world/c/newusers](https://lemmy.world/c/newusers) [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
[\#Lemmy](https://hachyderm.io/tags/Lemmy) settles on its big central instance: lemmy.world ([#lemmyworld](https://hachyderm.io/tags/lemmyworld)) run by [@ruud](https://mastodon.world/@ruud) Its numbers are now big enough to be counted amongst the top 5-10 masto instances! ([https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.world](https://fedidb.org/network/instance/lemmy.world)) as [#threadiverse](https://hachyderm.io/tags/threadiverse) become the “second platform” by size. Apart from running it well and keeping up to date (recent update seems to have gone well, with a nice example of instances and admins helping each other!?), some redditers seek the big instances?? Curious how communities will adapt. [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
[@stib](https://aus.social/@stib) [@losttourist](https://social.chatty.monster/@losttourist) [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews) [@firefox](https://fedia.io/m/firefox) [@mozilla](https://mozilla.social/@mozilla) is on the [#fediverse](https://mastodon.social/tags/fediverse).
Some people are using [#lemmy](https://hachyderm.io/tags/lemmy) to build an [#RSS](https://hachyderm.io/tags/RSS) aggregator See [https://lemmy.ml/post/1513552](https://lemmy.ml/post/1513552) and their instance:[https://lemmy.link/](https://lemmy.link/) [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
Federation with [#Bluesky](https://calckey.social/tags/Bluesky) (via [#ATprotocol](https://calckey.social/tags/ATprotocol)) is getting closer. The sandbox environment has now been launched, which means you can set up your own AT protocol-enabled server. It's possible that Bluesky will finally start federating by the end of summer. However, knowing how most dev teams work, this launch is not a certainty. It always takes time to iron out bugs. How successful do you think Bluesky's federation will be? And how will it impact the current userbase using Bluesky? [https://beyondtheblue.substack.com/p/beyond-the-blue-6](https://beyondtheblue.substack.com/p/beyond-the-blue-6) [@fediversenews@venera.social](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
I'm hearing rumours that [#NodeBB](https://calckey.social/tags/NodeBB) is adding support for [#ActivityPub](https://calckey.social/tags/ActivityPub). Some folks have told me that this implementation will have group federation capabilities similar to [#Lemmy](https://calckey.social/tags/Lemmy) and [#Kbin](https://calckey.social/tags/Kbin). I need to investigate this rumour further. If true, this is huge. At the very least, I know NodeBB is *discussing* ActivityPub. [https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17117/what-s-next-after-v3/6](https://community.nodebb.org/topic/17117/what-s-next-after-v3/6) [@fediversenews@venera.social](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
Android Authority doesn't get it. Compared to #Reddit, #Lemmy sucks. And so does #Kbin. We all know that. The #RedditMigration isn't about any app being better than Reddit. It's about a company that's grown on the backs of volunteer labour now claiming ownership of that labour. Reddit didn't write those posts, draw those illustrations, make those videos. We did. And Reddit sure as hell didn't create those communities, nurture them, and moderate them. We did. I agree with tech writers who say that the average person just "wants their memes". But Reddit never made those memes. We did. Content might be king. But who makes content? We do. I have no doubt that the average person just wants content. But while we might be providing content for free, we're not dancing monkeys. Who decides why content is made, how it's made, and where it exists? We do. The Fediverse doesn't exist merely as an engine for content. It exists so that people can share what they love. Why are people coming to the Fediverse specifically? Because we rightfully see ActivityPub as *insurance* for our content -- which, again, is made by and for us. Not Reddit. Not Big Social. Us. If I'm giving my content away for free, then so long as it is *federated*, no one company can own it -- putting up gates, demanding payment for *my* work. Instead, my work is out there, living on 24,000 nodes that presently exist. Android Authority might dismiss this as "suffering the same fate" -- what fate they perceive, I don't know. But to me, the true "suffering" is when a company like Reddit claims ownership of my work, locking 3rd party developers out from API access. For this reason, I'm locking Reddit out from my work. Perhaps the author of this post, Dhruv Bhutani, doesn't consider that he's writing for a, well, *blog*. And that this blog exists on its own domain, with its own design, as its own property. He could have written this entire post on Reddit, but he didn't. Why? I suspect it's because he believes his work has value, and Reddit simply doesn't give him what he believes is his worth. Same deal with me. I'm not looking to get paid for my work on Reddit. I do it for fun -- always have. But if I'm doing something for fun, it's still going to be on my terms. Not all of us creatives are willing to be a cog in Big Social's machine. That's why I'm here on the Fediverse right now. I don't give a damn whether the average person just wants memes. I create for *me*. So yeah, Lemmy and Kbin suck. I can live with that -- they will both improve. And I have no doubt that, with time, they might prove to be better than Reddit. But this isn't about how good Lemmy or Kbin are. Nor is this about the insatiable appetite for memes. This is about *my* need to create on *my* terms -- and I'm not alone here. Decentralization is the killer feature here. https://www.androidauthority.com/reddit-alternatives-lemmy-3335429/ @fediversenews@venera.social
Signs of the [#RedditMigration](https://indieweb.social/tags/RedditMigration) in action: Three of the top 6 [#Fediverse](https://indieweb.social/tags/Fediverse) servers are not only not Mastodon.social but they are not even microblogging servers - but rather are [#Threadiverse](https://indieweb.social/tags/Threadiverse) servers. That is only seriously good for the entire Fedi infrastructure. Diversity is strength. [\#Kbin](https://indieweb.social/tags/Kbin) [#Lemmy](https://indieweb.social/tags/Lemmy) [#FediDB](https://indieweb.social/tags/FediDB) [@fediversereport](https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport) [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews) [@fediverseobserver](https://fediverse.one/profile/fediverseobserver)
For those tracking the [#threadiverse](https://indieweb.social/tags/threadiverse) ([#lemmy](https://indieweb.social/tags/lemmy) and [#kbin](https://indieweb.social/tags/kbin)): beehaw.org has defederated from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. Both have open registration and accounts have been causing problems on beehaw. Here’s the announcement [https://beehaw.org/post/567170](https://beehaw.org/post/567170) It sounds like the right call to me, at least for now. I get it why everybody wants to have open registration to make it easy for people migrating from Reddit… but without good mod tools, it’s a recipe for trolling. [@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)