I get where he’s coming from. As a childless dog man you’re bound to gets bit of a cold sweat when your fascist party starts going after the childless cat ladies.

Sure, for now it’s women that they hate. But he knows he’s next.

They’d get busy: The creator of Phanphy also maintains a list of github repos named after Pokemon.

That’s great!

It’s a nice user interface, made by @cheeaun@mastodon.social, and loved by a lot of people.

If you don’t want to trust people with your account details that’s fine - then using a third party app is probably not for you, unless you’re willing to either trust people or dig into the source code.

If you have Mastodon you can just try it?

It’s a Mastodon client. It has many neat features. I like it on desktop because it’s easy to navigate with my keyboard. It’s also great on phone. Overall pleasant, Mastodon users should try it out. But I feel like describing it at length is not really productive - it’s a user interface.

I’d say pretty much all of those are worth a look!

Personally I’m curious how Bonfire and the Open Science Network will develop. Bandwagon also seems to have a lot of potential.

Would be curious to hear if anyone have tried using Quiblr! It’s not really for me I think, but it does look like an interesting service.

Questionable conservativism

Is there any other kind.

Vance once admitted that working class Americans benefit from Democrat policies

Not saying it, but admitting it. They all know it; you’re just not supposed to admit it. Lol.

The EU at least is still sticking around, which is cool.

I have to say I’m a believer in slow growth here. It wouldn’t be good if one Mastodon server completely dominated; neither would it be good if Mastodon as a software was the only viable alternative. Right now we’re in a great spot where a bunch of different solutions are being developed.

I think this development is healthy, and it be depends on slower more organic growth. And it might not be a linear process, but eventually I believe activitypub integration will be as obvious as having an RSS feed. Doesn’t matter much if it takes a while to get there.

On that note it would be good if governments didn’t just sometimes use Mastodon, but rather integrate activitypub into their actual web sites.

I just mentioned them because they’re microblog sites, so in theory they do the exact same thing as Mastodon. The number of Mastodon users doesn’t matter; the number of people on Fediverse platforms compatible with Mastodon matters.

So Lemmy users are not very helpful, but Mbin users maybe more so. Or Friendica.

The point is just that the number of Mastodon users is, in theory, irrelevant, as you don’t just communicate with Mastodon users. Maybe misskey was a bad example, I don’t know anything about it.

FediDB reports that the Mastodon active user count is on the decline the last year, from more than. 1.2 million to 820k thousand. The number seems to maybe stabilize a little, but it appears as a slow decline when studying the last year.

Then again, this is following from a huge bump of new users with the twitter exodus. It’s natural that not all will stick around, so a decline in active user now is not so surprising. It does indicate a lack of ability to move the momentum, but it’s an open source project with very limited funding, not a venture capital startup. It’s not here for explosive growth.

Furthermore, the number of Mastodon users is not a perfect measure. If it was matched by a huge number of users on gotosocial or misskey, it wouldn’t really matter. The Swiss should maybe have waited for Threads to federate both ways before deciding to leave on account of limited interactions.

Anyway, they’re not entirely wrong to say Mastodon is on the decline. But they’re not entirely right either.

Then again, the only person in these comments actually using lemmy.world seemed pretty happy with his experience.

It would be nice if people had an easier way of knowing the level of moderation before joining a server. One idea could be for services like Fediverser could include an indicator of moderation level - for example “relaxed” if few instances are defederated, “moderate” if moderation is more active, and “strict” for more restrictive communities. Data from Fediseer might be useful in this regard.

That way the people fleeing Reddit because of censorship would know where to go, and the rest of us wouldn’t have to be bothered by them unless we really wanted to.

The biggest problem, I guess, is that it’s a lot of work, and I certainly don’t have the time nor skill-set required. So people will just have to read their instance rules. :)

Simple! According to this thread, it is:

• an arbitrary standard of censorship
• nonexistent
• constant abuse of power
• the Chinese Communist Party

It doesn’t even need to make sense on a conceptual level!

It’s accessibility, and it’s also sovereignty.

Another way of rephrasing this decision is “we have decided to stop publishing information on our official website, as we receive more interaction on X”. Which is pretty questionable.

The Fediverse is not one thing. It’s a bunch of different sites that are interconnected. You can join a site that has strict moderation, or you can join one that has no moderation at all.

Personally, I’m not here because I think moderation on Instagram and X is too active. Rather to the contrary.

In my case, somewhat chronological order:

1. First Mastodon account, on server that is unmaintained but still running.
2. Funkwhale
3. Mastodon with full name for academic use, on relevant server
4. BookWyrm
5. Kbin (dead now)
6. New Mastodon for hobby interests, as the server of my first account is worthless at this point
7. Piefed
8. Mbin
9. My professional website is in the early stages of federating as well. Still work in progress, but I follow myself and it somewhat works

If a nodebb forum I have an account on decides to federate I might reach double digits.

Edit: I forgot I also have a Pixelfed account! So double digits already.

I recently moved to Denmark. A lot of my stuff is from the trash, including a huge old school full wood dinner table, TV, and my stereo system (works as a charm, sounds amazing). I also picked up an amazing old cast iron frying pan.

I make sure to check the big thrash (storeskrald) regularly. Things pop up there that I would never have afforded myself if I had to pay for it.

I think Denmark/Copenhagen is a bit crazy in this regard though.

Here’s a GNOME blog post from a couple of years ago. But really it’s about GTK4 - apps designed for GNOME are made to be adaptive. So if you’re using a GNOME desktop you can experience it yourself by simply making windows of the core apps smaller, be it GNOME Web, Maps, Weather, Calendar, or a huge range of other apps. Apps like Spot (Spotify client), Tuba (Mastodon), Shortwave (radio), and Podcasts are also perfectly adaptable for mobile devices. Basically apps in the GNOME Circle should work well on mobile, and many of them have screenshots that illustrate how they look in different form factors.

Also, this.

Oh, she’s a woman. They’ve always hated her.

More than anything, the problem is apps. I installed Ubuntu Touch on an old device I had lying around (after replacing the battery to bring it back to life), and I ended up liking it more than my daily driver. It worked, the interface was snappy (no pun intended), and there’s a lot of solid design choices. I found myself trying to navigate with gestures on my android phone after.

However, I could not talk to my friends, who unfortunately use WhatsApp. I could not install my banking app. There’s a bunch of small thorns in the side that makes changing difficult for most users - kind of like in the early days of desktop Linux.

As in the early days of desktop Linux, the solution might lie in a compatibility layer (like WINE). Android emulation within at least Ubuntu Touch has gotten quite good, I believe. Unfortunately my device is too old to support it.

Those interested should also check out Postmarket OS.

GNOME, a major desktop environment, is also moving towards all apps being designed for all types of devices. But as long as people can’t use their banks, switching is hard.

They must be worried denouncing their friend the black nazi would make them appear racist. Bless them.

With the current state of the GOP, they’re probably still trying to figure out whether their voters are more concerned by the “black” or the “nazi” part of his statement.