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.

Yeah, I had heard of this, but I kind of figured I could ignore it as I’m not dealing with tremendously important stuff. But then again it would really suck to lose it. I think I’ll keep a separate backup in my office at work, running locally from the docking station. :)

Thank you!

I would get a new hard drive, so the laptop would just be in charge of managing the backups. So if it fails it only needs to be replaced, but the backup itself wouldn’t be lost.

And yeah, this is why I’m a bit reluctant to set up SSH access beyond the home network, other than of course my lack of competence to do so. I am fairly certain everything going on inside my home network is safe enough for my risk profile (holiday pictures, half baked articles, and shitty R scripts, mostly).

But the not at home argument is of course a good point, and one that I knew about but somehow neglected. I want to avoid the cloud, but I think I will set up a separate backup at work. :)

Thanks for the comment - it’s a really good checklist of things to be aware of going forward!

Thank you! There’s a lot of useful advice here.

I don’t really need remote access, as long as backups are made when I’m home. I imagine it would be difficult, both because it seems difficult but also because I have internet through a 5G router rather than a more proper connection. But I’m also just happy to keep things more local.

The USB concern is a good point. I’ll probably still go for an external hard drive, but I’ll keep it in the back of my head while setting it up.

A NAS is probably not a good solution for me, also because I want to keep things tiny and lightweight. But just running a completely local solution might not be the worst idea - I was afraid I would forget/neglect to connect frequently unless it’s on the wifi, but if I channel it all through a docking station it would at least be able to back up every time I work at my desk. And if I set up the same system at work I can keep an external backup as well, which I somehow hadn’t thought about. Would solve the house burning down problem. Well, parts of it, anyway.

Thanks again! I always tend to come up with very half-baked solutions for things, which is fun, but with this in particular I appreciate the opportunity to run it through others before making any potential mistakes. :)

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.

I guess fundamentally the problem is with the electoral system and politics - it’s impossible to safeguard anything while knowing that a party like the GOP has a 50/50 chance of getting into power in four years.

I am not hopeful that electoral reform is on the horizon, but at least I think the GOP will collapse badly once their cult leader is dead and gone. :)

Yeah, it’s impossible to tell. But time flies - with four new years a lot could happen. :)

(Or it could be reformed. One could dream)