Quality content, thanks!

If you lie on a sheltered concrete slab, they’ll install 20cm spikes, too

I figured that was just the pause before the punchline. Like, the city almost got it, but they still fucked it up a bit.

Fuck yeah, awesome :)

Makes heaps of sense, when you can. Still need something for people in wheelchairs and stuff early on though.

I’ve often thought painting lines across paths and then observing the paint wear off could tell you a lot about which paths could be removed, or where corners could be rounded off better.

Hence the cross post to [email protected] :)

Even the shadows are, just like a normal shadow

You might be right. I’m not a lurker. I’m not a heavy poster either though.

It sounds like you should just try it out, and find out if your assumptions are true

Well, it’s posted here as a link, so I guess it’s not here via federation.

Also I think different fedi apps support different AP content types, so possible that Lemmy can’t display it?

Sure, but I think that’s far less important than in a walled garden situation…

I guess this is why a lot of people insist on the focus being on the fediverse, with mastodon as just one flagship. That means if the brand goes to shit the ecosystem can just keep operating.

I also joined around 2017, but I was using twitter beforehand. Totally agree with everything you’ve said.

I do think that mastodon could benefit from some simple, transparent/open algos (not black box ad-focused ones), such as the ability to sort replies based on favourites, and a per-hashtag recently popular view. Some of those are already requested and maybe on the cards.

I think you’re making a much bigger deal of the federation issue than it actually matters in practice.

Yes, some users who run their own server with very few other users do face this issue, but it can usually be dealt with without much effort. If they go and follow 200 users on 20 different instances, then they’ll most likely get followed back by someone on 90% of those instances. It’s not that much effort. I now and then you see one of these users making a “please boost and follow for federation” post to get them kick started.

But also, that situation is for techy nerds anyway. Normy users are not going to be setting up their own instance, 99% of them will be joining a populous instance, and so will have good federation with most of the network immediately.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, but how did you choose an email provider, or a phone service? How do you block spam? Those are basically identical questions, and yeah, they can be annoying, but I don’t think anyone finds them that hard to comprehend.

Yeah, Lemmy is good because of the topic and threading focus. Mastodon seems better for exploring lots of issues. I’m finding them fairly complementary, they cover different bases.

Still need something I can pull my IRL friends in with though. Pixelfed might work for people who are used to Instagram, but I think it’s probably still a bit sparse content wise.

17 bugs detected including 4 security threats, and we still don’t even know what the programming is supposed to do

The asteroid would have wiped us out before you guys finished this long ass conversation

The app is 4 years behind schedule, and the endgame asteroid is still approaching.

Mastodon could definitely do with some more discovery methods. Hopefully something like bluesky’s starter packs get implemented eventually (but I understand why they aren’t rushing it, there are abuse risks).

Best approach for now on mastodon is to follow all the hash tags you’re interested in, and then follow everyone in your feed who posts anything interesting. Takes a few weeks to ramp up, I guess. My feed got good once I was following around 1k users. You can always unfollow if someone’s annoying.

Follow people and hashtags and interact with them and you’ll get followers. I barely post, just a few replies a day, and I have over 800 followers. I have a pinned post on my account to that effect.

I would join mastodon over bluesky because bluesky seems to be on the same mesh it to fixation trajectory as any other VC backed social network. But yeah, I get that most people won’t see that for another couple of years… Oh well. At least people are bailing twitter. And when bluesky goes to shit mastodon will still be there, and the rationale should be a lot clearer.

Man, people got used to having the whole internet in their pocket from barely knowing it existed in like 15 years. There are already cultural metaphors for federation. People will grok that shit in no time when they need to. But it will take the network effect forcing them to learn it that will get people over the hill.