For the confused: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0hETFY67F0

Well, see, Mastodon has had a functional monopoly on ActivityPub usage, and also Mastodon users are able to and do engage with Lemmy communities. Mastodon’s share of AP usage going down is of interest because the fediverse has a monoculture issue, and that’s a thing people on a forum like this one should keep in mind.

Misskey’s char limit is an admin setting, FWIW. There are plenty of *key servers with higher.

Yeah. I think Misskey defaults to 2000, and supports up to 7000. And Glich-soc supports signidicantly higher, and that’s a Masto fork.

Cool. You… don’t have to engage in discussions that bore you. Why waste your time?

They released an official all on the app stores

No. The Fediverse is access to syndicated content from a single website. Signing up at some other rando’s website is not going to give you any privileges on mine, and my account on my server doesn’t let me log into any of your computers.

The fediverse isn’t a handful of commercial services for you to demand access to. It’s a shit ton of small websites run by random individuals for niche communities, and a small number of large websites run by people with an impulsive drive toward self-punishment.

“If I eat up a ton of bandwidth and storage, I can make remote content local” is fun until you’re the one paying for the bandwidth and storage.

The thing is, the discoverability issue on the fediverse disappears if we stop treating it like it’s a centealized space. Everything looks the same, and everything uses the visual language of centralized social media. And we encourage people to “join Mastodon” or “join Lemmy”, which is like saying “join WordPress” and “join Joomla”.

We need to be promoting specific websites that people can join, for the reason of wanting to communicate with people on those websites. We need to treat federation as a value-add, not the whole damn value proposition.

Until we do, we’re just going to be navel gazing.

Search on Mastodon is annoyingly restrictive, but you’re never getting “full search across all instances”. Remote search just isn’t a thing.

Even fucking Google is local.

This.

The constant refrains of “Why won’t this public content sharing network bend over backwards to keep the things I share private?” shows a persistent misunderstanding of what’s going on here.

And also of how much privacy they actually have while using centralized social media. But that’s a whole other kettle of fish.

Yes! That’s how they can unionize now.