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In the past they had jumpers for the same purpose.
In the past they had jumpers for the same purpose.
What fediverse services are set up that way? For most projects, the flagship instance is by far the largest. For Mastodon it is something like 900k difference between the next most popular instance.
It’s unfortunate if the sh.itjust.works folks aren’t speaking, their listed rules seem pretty reasonable and the problem users appear to be breaking the rules of that instance too.
Communities have moderators too.
One would hope! I can find results from lemmy instances on Google - they are definitely crawling them, but their page rank is going to start out very low.
Joining is immediate, where some Lemmy instances require manual approval even now.
The main page comes off as more approachable and familiar. They also have a ton of local communities (or “Magazines”) so people can do a lot even without the Federation. I find the Microblog stuff somewhat confusing, I think because it doesn’t have much of a UI built around it so it is less familiar than Mastodon. It is fairly centralized though, in the sense that there aren’t that many kbin instances out there.
The stats page lists users it knows about, including Federated.
Local counts can be seen at: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0
FediDB uses the nodeinfo for its stats gathering, but has a delay.
It is reporting users it knows about, which includes federated servers. The local stats can be seen at https://fedia.io/nodeinfo/2.0, under users.
Currently kbin is the only one I am aware of.
It has felt pretty toxic more recently. Often I’d see something and end up just leaving to do something else, I’ve been describing it as the “two-minutes hate” internally for a while now.
There are some good communities and I’ve done a good job of trimming what I subscribe to, but that “popular” button is too tempting.
On the flip side, I’d love if companies put up their own instance. Raspberry Pi hosts their own mastodon and I think it’s a good way for a company to have representation.
I think the Fediverse stuff is just a way of showing how open they are and differentiating themselves from twitter.
Twitter is doing stupid things but normal people find Mastodon confusing. I think Meta may be on to something here that appeals to normal people, and conveniently they can connect to the mastodon community too. Those are also the people who Meta will profit from.
Unfortunately they’re all copyrighted so won’t work for income.
For a while vendors tried to lock down the BIOS pretty hard. Dell might still, I remember having to call and get assistance when a password was forgotten and they had to generate a backdoor key of some sort. Maybe that is less of a thing now that Bitlocker is widely used on corporate laptops and it is sensitive to tampering.